common‚ Viola’s decision to cross dress inevitably causes misunderstanding‚ alongside the appearance of her identical twin‚ Sebastian. It was especially effective for Shakespeare to incorporate twins‚ as Eric Weitz describes them as a ‘kind of human pun’ ‚ especially as this double identity heightens the comic value‚ as well as it being a deliberate evasion. Furthermore‚ another main concept of misunderstanding is through Malvolio becoming the unconscious victim of the irrational spirit of holiday
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The first stanza contains a description of a winter’s dawn in a cold country house. The house is beside a dug garden. The poet is aware of the mixed smells of clay and stale bedroom air. As dawn occurs‚ the lamplight fades. He interrupts dressing himself to shave. He begins to daydream about some favourite image‚ maybe a sexual fantasy. Then he catches a disturbing reflection of himself in the mirror. As he dries himself with a towel‚ he notices his tired looking eye‚ his twisted mouth. He is shocked
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10 kata terbaik tentang buku "A great book should leave you with many experiences‚ and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." William Styron • "In the highest civilization‚ the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." Ralph Waldo Emerson • "There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Joseph Brodsky • "To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself
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Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Sir Walter Raleigh created "The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd" as a response to Christopher Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". In "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"‚ the Shepherd used puns and other hidden sexual images in an attempt to trick the Nymph into performing sexual acts with him. The Shepherd attempted to persuade the Nymph into believing that he would give her the various presents and pleasures that he described‚ but in reality
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Knock-knock. . . Who’s there? Wooden... Wooden who? Wooden you think telling a knock-knock joke would be easy. Mankind has been telling knock-knock jokes since the second grade. The art of telling a knock-knock joke is a delicate one indeed. As a whole‚ mankind has been striving to perfect the timing and delivery of the joke for many centuries. Although the art of telling a generic knock-knock joke may seem simple and maybe even trivial‚ there are a few things one must know before undertaking this
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“Those who feel isolated‚ feel it but are not always alone.” Discuss this statement in relation to your understanding of belonging as represented in the three poems that we have completed. The famous poet‚ Emily Dickinson is known to have lived her life as a recluse and a number of her poems‚ such as “I gave myself to him”‚ “This is my letter to the world” and “A word dropped careless on a page”‚ from Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson by James Reeves‚ focus on the feelings of isolation she experienced
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Explore the use of Duplicity and Deception in the Importance of Being Earnest The themes in Oscar Wilde´s “Importance of Being Earnest” such as hypocrisy‚ manners‚ dual identity‚ duplicity and deception are all closely linked throughout the play. One can see that the use of witticisms and hyperbole‚ combined with the themes Wilde commonly associates with Victorian lifestyle subtly‚ lightheartedly deride the audience. The effect of the theme duplicity and deception is essentially the criticism
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Significance of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ every character has their purpose in the play. For example‚ the side character‚ Mercutio‚ is essential to the play. He is a relative of Prince Escales‚ but mostly‚ he is Romeo’s friend and confident. He is an influential character to Romeo and the directions of the play takes. Mercutio has a significance influence to the play because Mercutio’s existence brought more drama to the play‚ his actions have often
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Appropriation is the process of taking one composer’s themes‚ techniques‚ and language features and re-contextualizing those features to address similar concerns that are relevant in a different context. The taming of the shrew is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies. Although it may have appealed to the audience in its time‚ an appropriation of the play into a film may have been essential in order to reach a modern‚ 21st Century audience. Since film has the ability to reach a mass audience a more
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is the dictator of the Galactic Confederation (not to be confused with the Galactic Empire from Star Wars) who 75 million years ago brought billions of his people to Earth and stacked them around volcanoes and killed them using hydrogen bombs. No pun attended‚ this is straight from their religious
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