How does mise-en-scene create meaning and provoke response in the opening of American Beauty? The opening scene of American Beauty shows a teenage girl lying in a bed‚ venting her feelings towards her father. In this‚ the audience sees her in dull clothing and colours‚ minimal make-up and has greasy-looking hair. As she sits up‚ her hair falls around her face and she stares directly into the camera‚ giving a sense of unease to the audience. The next shot is an establishing shot‚ showing the
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Academic Essay Comment on Shakespeare’s stagecraft in Act 3 Scene 5 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. William Shakespeare‚ the celebrated playwright‚ wrote many famous plays. Yet few are as renowned as his ‘Romeo and Juliet’‚ the tragic love story about two star-crossed lovers from feuding families‚ denied their chance to be together and died rather than be apart. Act 3 Scene 5 is a crucial scene in the play‚ one with the most dramatic tension and the turning point of the story where things take a turn for
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Act 2‚ Scene 3 Romeo travels to the cell of Friar Laurence‚ who has been out in the fields all morning gathering herbs.. Cheerful and excited‚ Romeo greets the Friar and tells him of his new love and plans for marriage. Friar Laurence‚ who has been Romeo’s friend and confessor for some time‚ is confused and concerned about Romeo’s sudden change of heart. He exclaims "Holy Saint Francis‚ what a change is here!/Is Rosaline‚ that thou didst love so dear/So soon forsaken?" (II.iii.65-8). But Romeo
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Scene 8- The Mountains of Ignorance (Milo drives into the Mountains of Ignorance and met the demons but he escapes from all of them) Milo: Well‚ is this how creepy it is on the mountains of Ignorance. I’ve got chills. (Rubs his skin and looks like he is feeling cold) (Loud crow cawing sound) Humbug: What’s that sound? It’s terrible. (Everpresent Wordsnatcher runs out and sits on a tree trunk) Everpresent Wordsnatcher: It was me who is making all that infernal racket. Tock: (To Milo and Humbug) Let’s
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To begin‚ one notices that all three scenes demonstrate different language elements‚ but only one version is unsurpassed. That version is directed by Mckellen. Macbeth is portrayed as an insane man while delivering this soliloquy. He talks exceptionally fast and at this pace he sounds nervous‚ shaky and out of breath. With Macbeth begins anxious then changes to being confident. The audience may predict that something fatal is bound to happen. Mckellen’s version reflected the original text‚ kept
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This extract has taken place in Act III‚ Scene I and occurs in a public place of the town. Benvolio‚ Mercutio‚ Tybalt and Romeo are having an argument‚ which turns in to a sword fight‚ Tybalt kills Mercutio and for that Romeo kills Tybalt. At the point in time where Romeo kills Tybalt they are actually cousins by marriage although Romeo and the audience the only ones aware of this‚ creating dramatic irony. Mercutio’s death is the climax and turning point for the play and is the beginning of the tragic
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rather through the situations he involves her in‚ she develops‚ moving from a selfish girl lashing out in defence against her father’s favouritism‚ to a more mature woman who finally sees adult life is made of compromises. Many critics see Act IV‚ Scene 5 as marking the point of Kate’s defeat. In reality‚ she is not defeated at all. The game which she has played expertly up until the time of her marriage (getting her way through ranting and bullying) has changed and become far more sophisticated.
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Samantha Supsky Noren English IV AP 20 December 2012 Hamlet Explication In Act 1 Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the audience is formally introduced to the thoughts and feelings of main character: Hamlet‚ through a soliloquy describing the current situation in Denmark. This includes the usage of mythical allusions‚ metaphors and tone to portray Hamlets feelings. The time between Hamlet’s fathers death and his mothers second marriage is demonstrated in the sentence‚ “But two months dead: nay
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The play Edward II reaches its emotional climax in scene i‚ Act V. It is in this scene that the king’s image as an irresponsible and weak person undergoes a total transformation‚ and he emerges before the audience as a tragic figure in his understanding of the worthlessness of a king stripped of power just like the King in King Lear. Historically Edward II might not have shown this kind of tragic understanding of life. It is here that one has to look for the poet in the dramatist who expressed the
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In Scene I‚ Act I‚ of Romeo and Juliet‚ Romeo bitterly complains to his cousin and friend‚ Benvolio‚ about being “in love” with another girl. However‚ I think he is being dramatic about his love for this person. Romeo repeatedly describes how beautiful this person is‚ but has not stated more rational reasons as to why someone might love another person (ex – his or her personality). Romeo also said‚ “She will not stay the siege of loving terms‚/nor bride th’encounter of assailing eyes‚/nor ope her
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