ACT I Questions 1. As the play opens‚ you find the witches casting spells‚ chanting "Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair./ Hover through the fog and filthy air." This paradox will occur many times in the play. How can something be fair and foul at the same time? Situationally‚ I think this makes more sense when you consider it in the sense of an outcome. War can be foul‚ but the outcome fair…depending what side you are on. 2. The reader ’s first impression of Macbeth actually
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QUESTIONS FOR ACT ONE OF THE CRUCIBLE 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? Salem‚ 1962‚ in the upstairs bedroom of Samuel Parris’ house 2. Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? To discover if there is witchcraft in Salem‚ Massachusetts 3. What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams’ connections with the Proctor family? We learn that the events in the forest are evil and that the devil does his work in the forest and that evil
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Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene I This scene takes place in Verona‚ Italy‚ on a public street. Gregory and Sampson‚ who are part of the Montague household‚ are looking for some trouble. Abram and Baltizar‚ part of the Capulet household are there also. Due to fact that the Capulet’s and Montague’s are enemies‚ they start fighting. The prince comes out and interrupts the fight. He warns them if they keep fighting they will be persecuted. Romeo‚ the son of Montague‚ cannot be found. Montague ask
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the role of women in society at the time‚ and this concept became one of the main themes of his play. Although this was one of the prevalent notions‚ other significant themes include the unreliability of appearance and the notion of heredity. In act 1‚ Ibsen immediately portrays the protagonist’s‚ Nora‚ status as a woman in the household. She is a symbol of the women of her era‚ who were believed to be content with just the business of the home. She has been buying presents for Christmas‚ and is
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The Role of the Witches in Act 1 The play Macbeth starts with the meeting of the three witches in a "deserted heath". One reason why Shakespeare starts the play in this way is that in his time people believed in the existence of witches and blamed them for all unnatural events that happened. The people believed that witches had contact with the devil and animals‚ that they could fly on broomsticks‚ cast spells by chanting and making potions and that they had the ability to fortell the future.
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA - ACT ONE STAGING P1 – chiaroscuro lighting state establishes atmosphere and non-realism from the start. A stylised tableau allows the audience to see the cast in its entirety. Michael‚ as an adult narrator‚ is a Brechtian device P2 – lighting is used for mood – probably straw and pink state to connote Summer. Props and set is organised to allow for cast to break from tableau into small-scale action representational of character eg ‘AGNES knits gloves’. P7 – the
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Curtis Caldwell Broken City Formal Analysis Scene 1 Dir Allen Hughes Writer Brian Tucker Editing Cindy Mollo Dir of Photography Ben Seresin Sound Design Keith Bilderbeck Genre: Crime Thriller Cast Actor Character Mark Wahlberg Private Eye William “Billy” Taggart Russell Crowe Mayor Hostetler
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Scene 1 The gravediggers scene shows a great deal about the character of hamlet. Hamlet questions their frivolous nature when the joke about the dead. As they unearth skulls‚ hamlet ponders who they might have been and if they though highly of themselves and were pompous during their lifetimes. When one of the skulls is identified as Yorick‚ Hamlet becomes very thoughtful and ponders about life and death. He says no matter how high a person might be in life‚ in death‚ all are equal. Death is the
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no such thing‚" he climbs to the king’s chamber. Analysis The opening dialogue sets the scene: It is past midnight‚ the moon has set‚ and the "candles" of heaven — the stars — cannot be seen. Symbolically‚ the airy lightness that greeted Duncan’s arrival at the castle in Act I has completely vanished‚ to be replaced by brooding darkness. In this opening scene of Act II‚ as in the later Porter scene‚ the audience feels momentarily suspended from the action but in no way removed from the intensity
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star-crossed lovers‚ Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet‚ who belong to enemy families. They first meet at a Capulet house party. When they see each other from across the room they instantly fall in love‚ and are married the next day. However‚ in Act 3 Scene 1‚ the day after the marriage‚ Romeo’s best friend Mercutio is killed by Tybalt; a member of the Capulet family. Because of this‚ Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. After Romeo leaves Verona‚ Juliet’s parents tell her she is to marry
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