Describe Act 1 Scene 1 Othello The scene opens on a street in Venice at night time. Iago and Roderigo are two friends (or so Roderigo thinks)‚ and they are arguing about a ‘deal’ made between the two of them. Iago‚ a soldier in the Venetian army‚ promised Roderigo that he would help him win over the beautiful Desdemona‚ the daughter of a Venetian senator called Brabantio. Instead‚ Desdemona has fallen head over heels in love with a black Moor called Othello‚ who is very senior in the Venetian
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How does Alan Bennett present education in The History Boys? In Alan Bennett’s play‚ The History Boys‚ education is a presented as prominent yet ambiguous theme. Each character presents a distinguishing view of education‚ perhaps reflecting Bennett’s experiences with education as a whole. Within the very first page‚ Hector’s impression of education is set‚ wherein he refers to his subject as “useless knowledge” and “A Waste of Time”. This immediately suggests to the reader Hector’s general apathy
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Frodo Baggins is the main character of the Lord of the Rings‚ he is the centre of attention‚ even when he is not in the scene. He does not share the characteristics of traditional heroes‚ for he is presented as an ordinary Hobbit‚ neither fast nor strong nor particularly smart. He is not adventurous as he himself admits to Gandalf at the beginning of the tale. ‘I do really wish to destroy it! cried Frodo. ‘Or‚ well‚ to have it destroyed. I am not made for perilous quests. I wish I had never seen
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F. Scott Fitzgerald said of The Great Gatsby that it ‘contains no important woman character’. How are women presented in The Great Gatsby‚ and how can this be compared with the presentation of women in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men? Initially‚ it appears that the women characters are seen as inferior and are significant only in the relationship to male characters. A distorted view could be shown as both texts are written by male narrators. F.Kerr said that Fitzgerald felt “women are
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sympathetic to him. Steinbeck achieves these two feats by creating a protagonist who earns the reader’s sympathy because of his utter helplessness in the face of the events that unfold. Lennie is totally defenseless. He cannot avoid the dangers presented by Curley‚ Curley’s wife‚ or the world at large. His innocence raises him to a standard of pure goodness that is more poetic and literary than realistic. His enthusiasm for the vision of their future farm proves contagious as he convinces George
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In this essay‚ I will explore the ways in which Villainy is presented in “Frankenstein” and “Othello”. I will also highlight and evidently explain who the greater villain is in both texts‚ and show clear comparisons to them both. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein inspired and whole generation of books on horror that still continues today‚ and William Shakespeare’s Othello was just one of his many tragedies interlaced with the theme of Villainy. Throughout the play of Othello‚ and the Novel of Frankenstein
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How are dreams presented in Of Mice and Men? During the 1930’s in America‚ at the time of the Great Depression‚ John Steinbeck‚ an ordinary migrant worker wrote perhaps the shortest but well known novel – Of Mice And Men. I think Steinbeck was influenced by the poem “To A Mouse”‚ because the novel and poem are slightly alike. They both have dreams and determination but in the end‚ both are destroyed. In the novel‚ Steinbeck shows us that dreams are futile. You only have the dream because you are
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In what ways is Caliban presented as hideous in The Tempest? Through the exploration if the play‚ The Tempest by William Shakespeare‚ we are introduced to the character of Caliban and almost immediately we are encouraged to view him as hideous and monstrous. Shakespeare makes us identify Caliban as some kind of sub-human freak through the horrific appearance‚ malicious background and low social status in which he is allocated. However‚ although we are encouraged by language‚ and the other characters
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Word Count: 1152 How does Shakespeare present the character of Romeo at two different moments in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ William Shakespeare is arguably the most famous English writer to have ever lived and completed a total of thirty-seven plays‚ all of which despite having been written over five hundred years ago‚ are still relevant to this day. Some of his most noticeable plays include that of ‘Hamlet’‚ ‘Macbeth’‚ and ‘A Mid-Summer Nights Dream’. However‚ some say that his most jarring and successful
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HOW LANGUAGE CALLS TO THE CHILD Nerve cells (centers) in the brain enable us to speak. One cell is concerned with the hearing of the speech (sensorial center) and the other with the production of the speech (motor center). The last mentioned center develops more slowly than the sensorial center. Possibly because the sounds heard by the child provoke the movements to re-produce them. Children must hear the sounds of speech before they can repeat them. NB: Speech is produced by a natural mechanism
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