Cleopatra Vll was born in 69 BC‚ in Alexandria‚ Egypt. Despite what people say today‚ that she was glamorous and beautiful‚ she was far from it. She is shown on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and masculine features. Although she was not beautiful she was clearly a very seductive woman‚ and she used this to further Egypt politically. She had a beautiful musical voice. It is also said that she was highly intelligent. She spoke nine different languages‚ and she was the first Ptolemy pharaoh who
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In this short play we are taken into the world of 1920’s life of a black woman. The play is divided into 2 major parts. The first three scenes are set in the past‚ 1900 and the last scene is set in present day 1920s. In short manner it depicts a life of a black woman troubled by her extensive jealousy and deep hatred for her dark skin color. Scene 1 is when we are first introduced to the main character of the play‚ Emmaline. She is a dancer and she is headed‚ with the rest of the crew‚ to a cake
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OTHELLO ACT 1‚ SCENE 2 Shakespeare’s Othello is a play about love‚ jealousy and racism. Othello is a Moor‚ who is kidnapped as a child and brought to Venice‚ where he grows up‚ becomes a mercenary and through his bravery rises to the rank of General of the Venetian army. Othello is in love with the beautiful Desdemona‚ daughter of a senator and is secretly married to her. Iago‚ his junior‚ jealous of his success attempts to destroy Othello and Desdemona and through his machinations obliterates
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Discussion‚” illustrates a time during my lesson that I engaged students to construct meaning from two film adaptations of the same scene‚ Act 3 Scene 4‚ from Hamlet. I engaged the class by asking questions to draw inquiry‚ and it initiated a class discussion‚ where students were drawing on their initial reactions and interpretations that they had from just reading the text and comparing them to their interpretation now after watching both clips. I wanted the students to understand that analyzing an
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Eng Paragraph On why Miller cut act 2 scene 2 from the play In Act 2 Scene 2‚ 2 the main characters are john Proctor and Abigail Williams. They meet in the woods at night‚ with Abigail wrapped with her nightgown‚ and Proctor with his lantern raised. As they got over the awkwardness and silence‚ john pleads with abigail to withdraw the accusations she made. Abigail makes it quite clear that she is irrational as she clings to a belief that the accusations were true and that after everything
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Comment on the significance of Iago in Act 1 Scenes 1 and 2. Iago is presented as a vicious villain‚ and through his representation of evil‚ results in the surfacing of key themes such as light and darkness‚ racism‚ and rank and power. Thus‚ by carrying out the role as a villain‚ he highlights the animalistic traits evident within people of the Venetian society. Although Iago is a white man who holds a fairly high status within Venetian society‚ he is crude and uncouth‚ often swearing and making
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first chapter of The Scarlet Letter‚ the author’s detail‚ diction and point of view set the tone and setting for the novel. Through the use of these literary elements‚ Hawthorne conveys an ominous tone but hopeful tone and a shift from a dreadful setting to a beautiful setting. The opening passage does not only warn and hit to the reader that something isn’t right‚ it continually displays an unknown that is feared. The author’s diction intensifies the feelings toward the jail‚ and shows the shift
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How does Shakespeare present love and hate in Act 1 scene 1 and Act 1 scene 5? Shakespeare wrote the play of two lovers’‚ Romeo and Juliet. Thought to be‚ one of the greatest‚ tragic love stories of all time‚ however‚ throughout the play‚ Shakespeare contrasts love with hate at every possible moment. The two themes‚ love and hate‚ are like twins separated at birth‚ brought up in different backgrounds‚ a totally different society. Combining these two themes‚ creates curiosity into how ’a pair of
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Father by killing his uncle. Throughout the play we see Hamlet in ideal situations to carry out his revenge‚ but choosing not to do so. In Act III Scene II we see Hamlet using the play that has been set up to try to test the innocence of his Uncle and king by gauging his reaction to a staging of the events of how he supposedly murdered Hamlets father. In this scene we see the so called ‘Mousetrap’ being played out as Hamlet witnesses Claudius reaction to the play and witnesses his reaction‚ from this
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Q. Comment on Act 2‚ Scene 1. Ans: this passage is an extract from Shakespeare play “as you like it” and this scene takes place in the Forest of Arden. The scene begins with the entrance of the exiled duke and lord Amiens who are dressed foresters. The change in clothing immediately signals to the audience a change in environment and is also a direct contrast to the previous act in which everyone is dressed as courtiers. The duke begins to talk about pastoral life which is a major theme in the
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