Actors play multiple characters Affects the consistency of the play Audience must be active in recognising the difference Staging - must have a costume change to symbolise the changed role ACT ONE SCENE ONE A school performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is coming to a close. The Mendelssohn soundtrack blares from a tinny loudspeaker. Kids dressed as fairies scurry about in garish light. The music ends and the fairies strike a tableau. One of them‚ TOM‚ steps forward and addresses the audience
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Hamlet Quotations Act 1 INSTRUCTIONS: For each quote: (a) Identify the speaker‚ to whom it is addressed‚ and the situation‚ (b) Explain (in detail) the significance of the quote in terms of all that apply: themes‚ character revelation‚ plot development‚ dramatic devices (irony‚ foreshadowing…)‚ poetic devices (simile‚ metaphor‚ alliteration…)‚ etc. (c) Upload to turnitin.com EXAMPLE: “This bodes some strange eruption to our state.” (a) Horatio is speaking to Marcellus; Horatio is referring to the ghost of Hamlet Sr
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How does Shakespeare explore Macbeths struggle with his conscience in Act one‚ Scene 7 and Act two‚ Scene 1 In this essay I am going to focus on how Shakespeare explores Macbeths struggle with his conscience and what he says to support this. I’m going to explore the different frames of mind Macbeth was in at different points of Act one‚ Scene 7 and Act two‚ Scene 1. At some points Macbeth is feeling like he wants to kill Duncan‚ at other times he is not sure and at other times he is feeling discouraged
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in spite of Shaw ’s own pronouncements and in spite of all the evidence in the play‚ readers and audiences still continue to sentimentalize over the outcome of the play and refuse to recognize the anti-romantic aspect of the drama. The opening scene of the drama captures many of the diverse elements running throughout the play. Brought together by the common necessity of protection from a sudden downpour‚ such diverse types as the impoverished middle-class Eynsford-Hills‚ with their genteel pretensions
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Act 1 Quotes |1.) |This quote has a metaphor in the first line. The effect of the | |“To you your father should be as a god; |metaphor is to show how powerful a father is. The father’s power is | |One that composed your beauties‚ yea‚ and one |shown lines 49-51‚ where it says a father is your maker‚ and he can | |To whom you are but as a form in wax
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Nat W. A Christmas Carol: Act One Analyzing Visuals 1. The Scrooge character‚ from the 1843 book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens‚ is an established archetype. What traits spring to mind? The Traits that spring to mind when I look at this picture are that he doesn’t seem like a very pleasant person‚ and is angry at something. 2. Read the sign in this photograph. Scrooge’s partner‚ Jacob Marley‚ is dead when the drama begins. How do moneylenders make money? Moneylenders are someone who
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The exposition is setup in Act 1 where the characters are introduced and Nora getting a loan to help with his illness that he is not aware of. The inciting incident is when Torvald talks of becoming the bank president and the raise he will receive has Nora thinking she will be able to pay the loan off early. The rising action starts when Korgstad tries to blackmail Nora to help him keep his job at the bank by saying he would not let her husband know about the loan she had if she would help him to
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Act I. sc. I Setting: deserted heath; storming Summary: * Three witches chant * First witch asks when the three witches will meet again. * Second witch answers that they will meet after the battle is over. * Third witch says they’ll meet Macbeth tonight. * They all cackle that things are not as they seem and fly away. Act I. sc. II Setting: army camp near King Duncan’s castle Summary: * A sergeant comes from the battle to report to King Duncan how the war is going
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The Crucible Summary _________________________________________________ Act 1 Portrayed in Massachusetts - 1962‚ the play begins with the prayers of Reverend Samuel Parris in his house‚ next to his daughter’s bed. His ten-year old daughter - Betty‚ who became ill and unconscious ever since Parris found her dancing in the woods with Abigail – his seventeen-year old niece – and Tituba – his slave from Barbados – with some of other girls in the village. Worried about Betty and her
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In Act 2‚ scene 1‚ Iago’s comment that Othello and Desdemona "are well tuned" is a metaphor of harmonic music in which he uses to indicate the current harmony of Othello’s marriage. However the comment is then followed by Iago’s vow "to set down the pegs"‚ which show his intentions to disrupt the harmony between them. When Iago and Roderigo are left alone together‚ Iago sees this as an opportunity to manipulate Roderigo by telling him that "Desdemona is directly in love with him" (him being Cassio)
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