Hamlet has a vast understanding of the circle of life and how to achieve and not achieve certain goals‚ and he illustrates this constantly in majority of his soliloquys. However‚ this is contrary to his actions and gestures because he is hesitant and indecisive in his actions. Thus‚ Shakespeare uses diction to convey Hamlet’s state of mind rather than actions alone. For example‚ he uses choppy and long sentences in Hamlet’s diction and eventually as he comes to a decision and becomes more self-assured
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Shakespeare uses Death and the Afterlife in Hamlet to serve many purposes: to provide a means of shaping and defining characters‚ determining them to be strong‚ fearful‚ etc.; to provide the major conflict in the play‚ an internal conflict that ultimately psychologically surpasses the breadth of the external conflict; and to present cerebral discourse on a recurring theme throughout all of Shakespeare’s works‚ playing on mankind’s inability to understand Death and what comes after. Death appears
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Literary analysis of an unseen extract: how does the author engage the reader through the use of literary devices in your given extract? The first line " In the middle of nowhere..." grabs the readers attention because it gets the reader wondering why this person is in the middle of nowhere‚ It gives the reader something to think about creating different feeling and emotions towards the reader. As you begin to read on you are given the weathers description "left behind its feeble breezes‚ but the
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referencing a witch in similar position and how the witch didn’t fare well when the witch rebelled. Prospero said “Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax‚ who with age and envy was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?”([1.2.256-59]‚ The Tempest) Prospero proceed to detail what happened to this witch and eventually Ariel gave in and said “Pardon‚ master. I will be correspondent to command and do my spriting gently. “ ([1.2.296-298]‚ The Tempest) Prospero uses the witch to show Ariel that even someone
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John Steinbeck‚ the author of the novel Of Mice and Men‚ wrote this Nobel Prize winning novel to ‘challenge his readers sense of values and morals and also to increase their awareness of the horrible things that people are capable of doing’ (John Pinder‚ Wiki Answers [online‚ accessed 14th March 2010]‚ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_steinbeck_write_ ’Of_mice_and_men ’). Steinbeck has enhanced the plot and characters in the novel through clever use of animal imagery foreshadowing certain events
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which Malcolm describes Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Describe the way in which these two characters changed during the course of the play. At the beginning of the play Macbeth is seen as a courageous soldier who is loyal to the King but is corrupted from the witches prophecies and by his and Lady Macbeth’s ambition. This is because of the weakness of Macbeth’s character and the strong power of Lady Macbeth and how she is easily able to influence him. Her strength motivates him at the start but after
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Pigs walking on two feet‚ horses and sheep talking. This is how George Orwell satirizes human nature in his classic novel Animal Farm. Animal Farm is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The title of the book is also the setting for the action in the novel. The animals in the story decide to have a revolution and take control of the farm from the humans. Soon the story shows us how certain groups move from the original ideals of the revolution to a situation where there is domination
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left is the deep grit of the soul inside us all; all that’s left is character. So what exactly is character? According to dictionary.com‚ character is defined as "an account of the qualities or peculiarities of a person or thing; mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual." Once we understand what character is‚ we must ask ourselves yet another question. Why does character matter? There are many attributes of character‚ but there are ten that most people are familiar with: citizenship
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McCarthy uses language in the road to stir readers emotions. The Road is a story of a father and son fighting to survive in a post apocalyptic world where the basics of humanity have disappeared. The writing is fragmented‚ sparse and‚ from the beginning‚ reflects the barren and bleak landscape through which the father and Son are traveling. McCarthy abandons quotation marks in dialogue‚ he dispenses minimal punctuation. His toying with the rules of grammar and punctuation in effect emphasises the
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How and why has the rule of Oliver Cromwell been interpreted differently? There are lots of opinions about Cromwell and they have differed a lot. Historians still disagree about him even today! ‘His cruelty and ruthlessness have left a mark and a memory that the last 300 years have not been able to wipe.’ C V Wedgwood mentioned in the 1950’s-60. He wrote many books about the life of Charles I and this shows that his opinion of Cromwell wasn’t a very nice one. He has stated that Oliver Cromwell
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