The Importance of the Comic Sub-plot in The Tempest The comic sub-plot has various uses for the play. It brings light relief&ndash without it‚ it would be a very dramatic play‚ if not boring.As because Prospero controls the whole island we know that nothing can really happen that he doesn&rsquot want to‚ so the play is lacking tension and the comic sub-plot prevents it from being a very boring play. Drunkness is amusing anyway‚ they fall about and say stupid things which is entertaining for
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01.08 Macbeth Plot Analysis Graphic Organizer Plot Elements Element Definition Act in the Play Exposition: a device used to introduce background events. The prophecies by the witches. Rising Action: a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward thepoint of greatest interest. Macbeth and Banquo’s encounter with the witches Climax: the most intense‚ exciting‚ or important point of something; a culmination or apex. Macbeth’s fight with Macduff when he realizes
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This story takes place in an unnamed coastal city in India during 1975-1984. This novel is told in third person and is about a chain of circumstances that tosses four very different people together into one small apartment. A college student‚ Maneck Kohlah‚ rents a room in the apartment of Dina Dalal‚ a widowed seamstress in her forties. Dina also has two additional boarders; Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash; tailors fleeing low-caste origins. They do not get along but as a series of unfortunate
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1. Find 8 adjectives to describe Scrooge. The eight adjectives that I found best describes Scrooge at the beginning of the novel would be greedy and unfriendly‚ even though he donates‚ I still feel that he is somewhat greedy at the beginning of it. Following would be grumpy‚ miserable and cold hearted. As the novel progresses‚ he definitely begins to be more thoughtful and friendly. By the end I feel he is a happy old man and glad those ghosts came to him. 2. How does Scrooge live despite enormous
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The Nine Guardians �Nine Guardians� takes places in the State of Chiapas‚ in Mexico‚ where from the remains of the Mexican revolution came the presidency of Lazaro Cardenas. His presidency takes places between 1934 and 1940‚ during the time this novel takes place. Cardenas expropriated foreign-held properties‚ distributed land to peasants‚ and instituted reforms to benefit indigenous people and Mexican workers. Cardenas found it unfair for the Indians to not be treated as equals‚ so he demanded
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Most children would agree that their parents are their biggest supporters and motivators; although‚ that is not the case in the short story‚ “The Wallace Playlot.” The determination comes from within each and every character. Lombardo uses characterization to develop the idea of there being multiple different factors that play into the creation of a strong passion in which somebody holds. Throughout the short story the reader sees everything through the eyes of Petey. He is not the strongest player
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Element Definition ACT in the Play Exposition What you need to know. Background information is presented‚ main characters are introduced‚ and the conflict is established. Macbeth’s encounter with the three weird sisters. Lady Macbeth’s reaction and response to the news of Macbeth’s predicated rise to the crown. Rising Action The conflicts and challenges encountered by the characters. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plotting to kill the king. King Duncan is murdered. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s
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The backdrop of World War II in A Separate Peace emphasizes the microcosmic war that is occurring in Devon. Military language that is used emphasizes the parallelism of the actual war and Gene’s war throughout the novel. Man’s destructive actions portray man’s inhumanity to man; eradication and killings of the war depict how cruel man can be. Finny’s inability to cope with the cruelty of this world causes him to become oblivious to what’s actually happening. Gene’s constant hatred and envy leads
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Using the plot design element in A Family Supper‚ Kazou Ishigurd depicts a meaningful story. A son’s mother past away through eating a Fugu two years ago when the son was in California. Two years later‚ the son decides to come back which makes his father feels so cheerful. So the father decides to prepare for a family meal‚ includes a special fish. Unfortunately‚ the son knows his mother’s death. At the supper‚ the son knows his father was retired because of a failed firm. And worse still‚ the seventeen
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The story starts in Montreal with an unnamed soldier of 20 years old who is getting ready to leave with the Canadian army to go fight the Germans in Europe‚ mostly in France and Belgium‚ during World War I. He already starts to build close relationships with some of the fellow soldiers: Brown‚ Cleary‚ Fry‚ Broadbent and Anderson. Soon after‚ the story shifts to the trenches‚ where the conditions are unsanitary with lice and fat rats. The narrator (which is still and will stay unknown) changes his
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