How does Steinbeck present Curley’s wife to us as the novel develops? Of mice and men’ is one of Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbecks most poignant. ‘ Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression it features two farm workers called George ad Lenny. The travel around together in search of work sharing a dream of a place of their own- a small ranch where they can live and work for themselves. It tells the story of how violence may erupt to destroy those dreams. Curley’s wife- as she is
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How does Shakespeare present disturbed characters? Othello is a tragic hero whose jealousy is cleverly manipulated by the maleficent Iago‚ transforming him from a noble figure to a disturbed murderer. In keeping with the tragic genre‚ Shakespeare depicts a sequence of events through which bring about Othello’s decline. The playwright slowly escalates the emotional intensity of the play as Othello becomes more obsessed and less rational. The audience experience a range of emotions as the emotional
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characters. Whereas‚ Marlowe presents the master/servant relationship as a mutually beneficial deal out of choice‚ rather than against the will of the servant. However‚ while Prospero is clearly reformed at
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angry that people have been placing such a heavy emphasis on material happiness and greed. He is upset with mankind and sends Death as his messenger to end the sinful lives that the people on earth have been living. Death approaches Everyman who begs fore more time on earth. However‚ death denies him and Everyman is faced with a problem. Death explains to the well-dressed Everyman that: “On thee thou must take a long journey:/ Therefore thy book of count with thee thou bring;/ For turn again thou can
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manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke…his ear heard more than was said to him”. Furthermore‚ in the full entirety of Steinbeck’s description of Slim he repeatedly emphasises these almost unbelievable attributes about him. He does this in such a way it has the effect on the audience of thinking as Slim as this superior human to all the others and it is explicit to us he is the antithesis of
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Within the play of Macbeth‚ Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as ambitious and vicious when she is first introduced in Act 1 Scene 5. Lady Macbeth is the one of the main reasons the play played out like it did. Although‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth treat each other as friends‚ they both have an equal say in what happens‚ but Lady Macbeth seems to contribute more opinion than Macbeth does. When her husband writes to Lady Macbeth about the witches‚ she was excited‚ she wanted to be queen and she did not
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General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales‚ author Geoffrey Chaucer introduces his character through brief descriptions of their lives. He offers information on things such as their occupations‚ personalities‚ and even appearances. For the majority of the characters’ descriptions‚ Chaucer maintains either a negative or neutral opinion of the characters. However‚ as he describes the Wife of Bath‚ it is clear that Chaucer thinks differently of her than he does of the other characters in the General Prologue
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when he decides he wants Ariel to cause a shipwreck he makes sure that nobody is killed and the people who do not need to be involved are put into a slumber and the ship is hidden in a bay on the island. While this shows that he is fair because he does not wish to punish those who do not deserve it or have not wronged him in any way‚ but his daughter Miranda asks him to save anyone from harm. Prospero replies "No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee- Of thee my dear one‚ thee my daughter"
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How does Frayn explore the theme of time and memory in the novel Spies? The maintenance of memory and the passing of time are ideas that one often ponders upon. “Spies” is a bildungsroman type novel that describes the reconstruction of memory by the protagonist Stephen. Through this recollection‚ Frayn explores the ideas of fluid memory and the passing of time‚ using language and form to present these ideas across to the reader. The author uses a frail narrator to show how memory can be unreliable
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Imagery: Imagery is the ability to form mental images of things or events. It is words or phrases that create a vivid image in the readers mind. Authors use imagery to try to get readers to see what the author sees. Example: “The woods were no longer woods and every little tree now seemed like a world in itself. The tiniest twig was like a fairy-tale world about which a thousand stories could be told” (375-376). Gaarder‚ Sophie’s World In the book‚ Sophie’s World‚ a girl named Sophie‚ who
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