Journal Entry #1 Integrity is a virtue that has always been around and it is an important characteristic to have. In the play‚ The Crucible‚ Tituba finally confesses to who all saw the devil. When she fessed up‚ Betty‚ Abigail and Parris all joined in and were being honest to Mr. Putnam. This started a whole other issue in now punishing those who encountered the devil. The virtue of integrity is still so present today in society. Integrity is to be honest about something even though it may hurt
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Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare‚ the play is based on forbidden love and deathly consequences. The beginning of the play starts with a prologue‚ the main point of this is to get the audience’s attention and set the scene but to also explain the whole outline of the play. By doing this Shakespeare is also acknowledging one of the main themes of the play‚ which is fate. In the prologue Shakespeare chooses to use a lot of violent language- “Their death...Civil blood makes civil
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Hamlet’s Act of Revenge The act of revenge is often regarded as a deed of positive justice that serves to restore balance in the respectable order of nature‚ and is therefore not portrayed as an act of evil‚ but rather as that of a brilliant return. Likewise‚ a general reading of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ is understood to be about a young prince’s attempt to restore balance in nature by avenging his father’s murder at the hands of his uncle. When one gets into the textual context of Hamlet’s
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ambitious‚ flawed character that is stronger than her husband and knows it. She has both feminine and masculine characteristics which allow her to literally get away with murder-she is manipulative‚ ruthless and cunning. It is very clear from the act if you have read it. Lady Macbeth is full of evil‚ and is well aware of that. She is evil and she wants to be evil. She wants to forget every connection to humanity and womanhood she shares. That’s why she wants the spirits to unsex her - "fill me from
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The major plot lines of the scene (1 paragraph). How does this scene fit into the rest of the play (what is the function of this scene?)‚ in terms of character‚ plot‚ and theme? Act 5 Scene 3 In William Shakespeare’s Act 5 Scene 3 of Macbeth‚ a complete different side of Macbeth is revealed. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is a man who cannot even stand up for himself‚ and a man who completely relies on his wife to make major decisions. Then the very next day Macbeth becomes a man
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In Act 1‚ Scene 5‚ Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Macbeth‚ telling her of the witches’ prediction that he will be king. Lady Macbeth’s first reaction is to say "shalt be what thou art promis’d". She then says "yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way". By this she means that she fears that he is too kind to do what he needs to do to become king‚ by killing Duncan. Her use of the word milk is interesting as it is a very feminine word‚
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marry Romeo. Act 2‚ Scene 5 is an important aspect of “Romeo and Juliet” because it is an essential part of the rising action and introduces the characters personalities. This scene is crucial to the audience because it gives characterization to Juliet and makes her disposition clear to the audience. An example of the important characterization is when the scene shows the extreme impatience of
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Hamlet’s first soliloquy strikes a note of despair and reveals his feelings towards life and the hasty marriage between his mother and his uncle. Hamlet wishes to "thaw and resolve [...] into a dew" but is restrained by the canon law that condemns him to eternal suffering in hell if he were to do so. Hamlet is disheartened and full of sorrow because he continues to mourn his father’s death‚ but the primary source of his sadness is his mother’s wedlock with his uncle. Hamlet’s tone is one of anguish
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How Shakespeare Makes Act 1 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet Dramatically Effective At the start of Act 1 Scene 5 the guests at the Capulets’ ball have just finishes dining and Sampson and Gregory‚ the two head servants‚ are complaining that a number of the servants‚ especially Potpan‚ are not helping to clear up: "Where’s Potpan that he helps not to take away?" Most of the servants are trying to clean up quickly because they want to have their own party later. The scene then moves on to Lord Capulet
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of creating tension for the audience like in Act 1 of ’Romeo and Juliet’ it introduces the theme of love and hate between the two families Montague and Capulet. There is also a fight between the two family’s servants because they hate each other but Tybalt (Capulet) turns up and the fight becomes even bigger than before. The reason Shakespeare kills off Mercutio and Tybalt in Act 3 is that now all the action can focus on Romeo and Juliet. In the scene were Mercutio is slain‚ this point is often looked
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