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    may find it offensive. People must be careful of how they use humor. Some may find it offensive because the joke makes fun of their culture or their personality. We experience comedy in our everyday lives‚ or when we sit down to watch a funny movie. In modern day most comedy targets a certain group of people or race. Humor is the quality or being amusing‚ however it is funny only to some extent otherwise it may become a form of bulling‚ and comedy is in our nature so people should laugh to stay

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    The Comedy of Hamlet

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    The Comedy of Hamlet Shakespearean plays are often known for their outstanding entertainment and classic comic conflict. In his masterwork‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses these aspects to serve his thematic purpose. He has used comedy throughout many of his historic plays‚ but in this play‚ comedy is the drawing point that makes it fun and entertaining‚ yet clear and intuitive. Generally‚ his tragedies are not seen as comical‚ but in reality‚ they are full of humor. However‚ these comic elements don’t

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    How has Donne used characteristics typical of metaphysical poetry to convey his ideas in “Holy Sonnet: ‘This is my playes last scene’?” This is my playes last scene is one of Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnets’ embodying spiritual pain and struggling faith in Christianity. Numerous biblical allusions and morbid tone that are typical of metaphysical poetry‚ convey Donne’s fear of death and religious scepticism. The opening four lines depict the last moments of the speaker’s life through metaphoric comparisons

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    when he writes in the first paragraph‚ “The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.” This choice of words seem very foreboding and signal that death is about and that this story will not be a happy one. Once Billy enters the B&B‚ he tells the Landlady‚ “I would very much like to stay here‚” to which she responds with‚ “I knew you would.” This choice of words in the dialogue is made to make the reader think‚ specifically about whether she somehow knew Billy would

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    occurrences to happen‚ maybe something pleasant. In this style of suspense‚ the writer is interested in engaging the audience in predicting what is bound to happen in the story. The setting of The Mousetrap is an inn in Monkswell Manor‚ an English

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    careful selection of words‚ weaving an intricate of scene‚ using complex and elaborate setups in order to create a suspenseful moment. Whether it’s a horror scene in a cheesy movie to an epic final battle that decides whether evil or good shall prevail. Suspense is an integral part of modern literature around the world and is manipulated perfectly by Harper Lee‚ in the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”. A particularly excellent example of this would be the scene of Jem and Scout attacked when walking home from

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    Break Up’ I am writing about the genre of ‘Romantic comedythis genre has been around for a very long time since the silent era and the storyline and expected endings to these have stayed the same until 2006 which was the release of ‘The Break Up’ starring Vince Vaughn and Friends star Jennifer Aniston which is devoted to lots of romantic comedies. The audience must be able to connect with‚ and relate to‚ the characters in a romantic comedy. They need to be likeable and down to earth‚ so that the

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    How does the director make the opening scenes in Mulan effective? The first scene is set at night time at the Great Wall of China and gives out a feeling of sinister and danger. The only characters which appear are Shan Yu‚ his eagle‚ the Huns that attack the great wall‚ as well as the Chinese guard who tries to escape and give signal. The music and sound effects also helps creating this more creepy and dangerous scene; the second scene moves to the Emperors palace cleverly and gives out a very

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    about a narrator having an urge to kill the old man because of his vulgar eye‚ but when the deed is done‚ not everything goes according to plan. Poe creates fear and dread throughout the story with the charters‚ build up of suspense‚ and the explicit details. Poe creates fear and dread within the two main characters‚ the narrator and the old man. He creates fear through the narrator with his voice and repetition‚ his insanity‚ and his deceitfulness. Throughout the story‚ the narrator has continuous small

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    In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck tells the story of two best friends living life on the run‚ struggling to keep a steady job working as ranch hands. George and Lennie are faced with many obstacles throughout the course of this book‚ beginning with Lennie and his slow mindedness‚ George is always side by side with Lennie‚ practically holding his hand to coach him through life. The story begins with the two men running away from Weed‚ the ranch they were previously employed at; we later

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