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    most English people‚ the Irish were seen as terrorists or‚ at the very least‚ co-conspirators. Therefore‚ Hare saw it as crucial that he set the victim of the play as an Irishman‚ with the middle-England judiciary being the abusers. As we see in Act 1 Scene 4‚ Gerard McKinnon is being admitted to jail‚ with Beckett the prison guard guiding him. As mentioned before‚ it seems to be that Gerard is being guided by Beckett. This is his first time being admitted to prison‚ as he readily admits‚ and seems

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    Themes for hamlet (Three major themes in hamlet through Act 1-3) There are a lot more themes in hamlet but there are three major themes. Shakespeare made the first 3 acts of hamlet very good and when you think of themes there are more than three. From 2015 SparkNotes LLC‚ ALL Rights Reserved “In the aftermath of his father’s murder‚ Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death‚ and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives”. But every act has their own theme to

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    Shakespeare‚ Act I and II show the development of the character of Iago and his manipulative and treacherous deeds. It is through Iago and his ways that he works gradually at destroying Othello‚ defaming Desdemona and deposing of Cassio. In this‚ we are able to see Iago’s spiteful scheme in which he creates havoc and seeks motives for his malice. A famous English poet‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ depicts Iago’s actions as “the motive-hunting of motiveless malignity This is seen in Act I and II as

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    his scheme worked‚ Hamlet experiences a sudden surge of confidence which prompts the first half of this short soliloquy. Hamlet is now sure that he could easily complete the "bitter business" of revenge; sure that he could murder his uncle without hesitation. However‚ Claudius is out of reach for the moment‚ and so Hamlet turns his attention to his mother‚ revealing in the second half of the soliloquy his intentions to force Gertrude to make a full confession. Although Hamlet still loves his mother

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    Lady Macbeth’s character is painted in the segment of her reading of the letter in Act 1Scene 5. She is presented full of lust for power and manipulative‚ using her cunning to get what she wants.In the letter. Macbeth writes to Lady Macbeth of his promotion to thane of Glamis and Cawdor‚ the Weird sisters‚ and the witches prophecies of him being king. She knows he is too moral and ethical to act on his ambition and chance to be king. She vows he will get what is rightfully his and will go to any

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    Essay Question : Explore the ways that Shakespeare makes Act 1 Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet dramatically effective. In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare explores the themes of love and hate. It is ultimately a love story between the characters Romeo and Juliet that ends in tragedy due to the ongoing feud between their families‚ the Montague’s and Capulet’s. Before Act 1 Scene 5 where the main characters would meet for the first time. The audience were aware that Romeo was madly in love

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    Act 4‚ Scene 2 may be one of the most dramatic and deathly scene in the play‚ having to deal with the death of our main protagonist the Duchess and her child‚ and as well as Bosolo’s switch of sides because of his morality and free reign of choice. It also deals with themes of duty‚ morality and ethics. The language used in this scene can also be graphic‚ and horrific as they swiftly execute them with no second thought. And the comparisons of the Duchess and her maid of accepting death and being

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    How do Lady Macbeth’s words and actions in Act 5 Scene 1 contrast with her comments and deeds in Act 2 Scene 2? In Act 2 Scene 2‚ Lady Macbeth is strong‚ confident and cold. She knows that her husband Macbeth has killed King Duncan‚ and that she smeared his blood on the guards to make it look like they killed the King but she acts as if everything is fine. When Macbeth is panicking‚ Lady Macbeth says to him “these deeds must not be thought after these ways. So it will make us mad.” She is saying

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    American History | 1) The evolution of the institution of slavery from the Colonial Period to the 1860s. | 1860-1865 | Slavery was necessary to southern colonists after the introduction of the cotton gin. The cotton gin was a way to make cotton worth a lot but the machine required a lot of manual labor which brought along the plantation system. Prior to the cotton gin slave trade was done most by the New England colonies‚ this was called “Triangle Trade (Wikipedia‚ n.d.).” | 2) The socio-cultural

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    Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes the scene by portraying

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