Directions: Open and save this document to your computer. Look for answers as you read‚ but finish reading each scene before you compose your responses. Type and save your answers here; the boxes will expand as you write. SCENE I How are the actors going to keep from scaring the ladies when Pyramus kills himself or when the lion roars? Would you say Bottom’s suggestions are practical or fanciful? Explain your answer. How are the actors going to manage the setting/scenery such as the moonlight
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Kate Chopin: Woman Before her Time “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all‚ even to suffer; than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” These are some famous words of a woman ahead of her time‚ Kate Chopin. Kate wrote many stories about women and their sexual appetites and cravings for independence‚ which made her stories taboo during her time. Her stories focused mainly on the lives of sensitive‚ intelligent women. She simply wrote life as she saw it. According to her website‚ she wrote
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Romeo and Juliet‚ even though their love is fatalistic and they are star-crossed lover‚ have fallen in love too fast and carelessly because of lust and the wanting of love. The marriage between Romeo and Juliet is unacceptable due to the fact that both parties are confused about what they want‚ it is a hasty relationship‚ and their family rivalries. Firstly‚ when Romeo goes to Friar Laurence for his approval to marry Juliet‚ Friar Laurence is in dismay when Romeo had told him that he loves another
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How does Shakespeare use conflict in Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 1? In this essay I will address how conflict is successfully used in Act 1 Scene 1 to prepare the audience for the rest of the play. It will firstly show how Shakespeare uses physical conflict between the two feuding families. Secondly I will demonstrate the idea that Shakespeare introduces emotional conflict through the character of Romeo‚ and his outpourings of love for Rosaline. Finally I will show that the character of Romeo demonstrates
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Romeo and Juliet: Act V‚ Scene 3: Questions Study Questions 1. Why is Paris at Juliet’s tomb? - Paris is sad that Juliet is dead‚ because he was supposed to marry her. He thought Juliet killed herself of the sorrow‚ knowing Tybalt had died. He was there to bring flowers to Juliet and weep. 2. What is Paris’ last request? - “thou be merciful‚ Open the tomb‚ lay me with Juliet”. (p.4‚ l. 4). Paris’ last request last request is to be laid next to Juliet. 3. Why does Paris think Romeo has come
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Shakespeare- A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 3 Scene 1 summary The craftsmen meet in the woods at the appointed time to rehearse their play. Since they will be performing in front of a large group of nobles (and since they have an exaggerated sense of the delicacy of noble ladies)‚ Bottom declares that certain elements of the play must be changed. He fears that Pyramus’s suicide and the lion’s roaring will frighten the ladies and lead to the actors’ executions. The other men share Bottom’s concern
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Ginsbury Act Four Scene One: Explore the significance of this extract in relation to the tragedy of the play as a whole This extract is from Act Four‚ Scene One of William Shakespeare’s tragic play‚ Othello. In terms of the five-act tragic structure‚ it is part of the fourth act- the ‘falling action’‚ during which the conflict of the play unravels‚ and the direction of the ending is made clear. In this extract‚ an arguable turning point is reached when Othello slaps Desdemona‚ and his hatred of her‚ and
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Act 1 Summary The scene starts with two servants of the Capulet’s‚ Sampson and Gregory. They are discussing how they will fight the Montague’s and be civil with the women. They use violent language and when they see a Montague servant they act threatening and rude. Sampson‚ being daring bites his thumb at Abram‚ a rude gesture in Shakespearian times and he is verbally intimidating. Tybalt and Benvolio enter. Tybalt is a more violent character‚ full of hatred‚ the opposite of good willed Benvolio
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Why Live? The soliloquy “To be‚ or not to be: that is the question” appears in Act 3 Scene 1 in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet. In today’s life people live with a struggle. Suicide takes the lives of one million people a year and on the rise. The weight of one’s mortality and the complexities of life and death are introduced from the beginning of Hamlet. In the wake of his father’s death‚ Hamlet can’t stop pondering and considering the meaning of life and its eventual ending. Many questions
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David Beer What does a comparison of the way the characters and their relationship are presented in Act One‚ Scene One with the way the characters and their relationship are presented in Act Two‚ Scenes One to Three reveal about the development of Rita and Frank and their relationship‚ in Educating Rita? Educating Rita was written in 1980 by the playwright Willy Russell and is one of his most famous plays to date. Since the play has many similarities to Russell’s life‚ it is viewed as a semi-autobiographical
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