and drama throughout the play. He is not the most complex villain among Shakespeare’s villainous characters‚ however he has a purpose. The thinness of his character teaches us about the knowledge people have of him in society: he is just seen as a ‘bastard’ and people don’t even want to be associated with him so don’t bother to learn anything about him. The fact that we don’t learn much about Don John also reminds us that the play isn’t meant to be a tragedy; it is supposed to teach us about the misunderstandings
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easily become tragic highlighting the idea that good comedy is tragedy narrowly averted. The play opens with a lighthearted relaxed scene‚ setting the play as a happy comedy. This is contrasted to Act 1 scene 3 where the audience first sees ‘the bastard’ Don John. Having such opposing scenes together structurally‚ show that comedy and tragedy go hand in hand. The comedy in MAAN is often created when the audience can see that something could go horribly wrong. The audience are presented with Don
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Explore the way violence is presented in the poem ‘Havisham’ by Carol Anne Duffy Carol Anne Duffy bases her poem ‘Havisham’ off of a repulsive character from ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens. Miss Havisham is introduced to us in the story as a spinster who was left at the alter after being deceived by her brother and her ‘lover’. Since the day‚ she reveled in her grudge against them for breaking her heart and she became dominated by her obsession of a perfect marriage‚ perfect partner
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He was well-aware of all the complications Olivia and Alexandal had had with trying to conceive a child. Alexandal was twelve years older than Olivia and he had been married to another woman before she died at the sack of Illyrium. Together for four years‚ the couple had never been able to conceive. This tribulation had not been an isolated event. For years‚ the number of pregnancies across the land had been declining. It had become harder and harder for families to grow and multiply. Before
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eyes on the daughter of the Governor of Messina‚ Leonato. Don Pedro‚ however‚ offered to woo Hero on behalf of Claudio (Shakespeare‚ p. 32). One cannot help the great efforts that the men in this story have put for the sake of women. Don John‚ the bastard brother Don Pedro makes Claudio believe that Don Pedro is in fact wooing Hero form himself and not for Claudio as agreed (Shakespeare‚ p. 24) In The Odyssey‚ Odyssey is believed to be dead after he failed to return from war. His wife Penelope has
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This novel uses different elements to foreshadow future events in the story. The biggest and most important use of foreshadowing in the book is the life of Mariam. Right of the bat‚ her mother Nana calls her daughter a harami (bastard) and a disgrace. This foreshadows that Mariam’s life throughout the novel will be terrible one and she may not get her happy ending. The use of suspension is to draw the audience in and to have the audience wonder in their mind what will happen next. Those uncomfortable
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away from God for a man who she considered to be her first love. Because of this‚ the harsh words Richard speaks against Jesus alters her spiritual mentality. When speaking of the love she has for Jesus‚ Richard states‚ “You can tell that puking bastard to kiss my big black ass” (Baldwin 192). One can only imagine how it feels to have someone you love speak such hateful words against the one you love‚ especially the almighty and powerful Jesus Christ. This act destroys her
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GENERALS DIE IN BED – Charles Yale Harrison JR’s TEACHER NOTES Explain and speculate what the title of the novel is inferring about the Generals. A. The title is a pun or is having a go at the generals. Generals die in bed while the soldiers die on the front lines. Generals don’t fight. Instead they command soldiers from a safe distance behind the frontlines The title suggests that there is a total lack of respect for generals or for people in positions of power/ authority. If this happens in
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industry‚ who Vyas went to see‚ could do nothing to help his one time protégé. In the end‚ the former MD would find his office sealed when he arrived to collect his things‚ leading him to kick the door in frustration‚ shattering a glass panel. An inglorious exit for a man who had spent 40 years with the organisation‚ 17 of which were as managing director. The Amul moppet was surely accumulating some bad karma. Nine months later‚ Vyas is back in a new avatar‚ as a director of Parag Milk Foods‚ owner
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Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip. Austria-Hungary saw this as an opportunity to take hostile actions against Serbia to get rid of the Slavic Nationalist movement. What started off as a minor dispute in the Balkans ended up as one of the most inglorious wars in history including all major European powers. Now the main question is: who is to blame and what triggered this minor event to lead into the outbreak of World War 1? After the War‚ Germany was accused as being the main trigger of the war
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