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    Alex Kell 12 Winchester English Standard Speech Distinctive Voice Pygmalion and Rain Man Distinctive voices give us a small insight into how we‚ as people‚ perceive and make judgments about each another. Good morning ladies and gentlemen‚ In any relationship between two people‚ there will always be one who takes on the dominant role through Voice. It’s their choice of what they say and how they say it that gives insight into their character. Some characteristics of voice that

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    The Tempest: Caliban

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    As an actor‚ select one character from ‘The Tempest’ and discuss how you would create the role‚ bearing in mind its function in the plot and its relationship to other characters. I have chosen Caliban to discuss‚ since‚ as an actor‚ I find him the most interesting character and thus the most enjoyable to discuss. Caliban’s function in the plot is one that is difficult to define. He is not the key protagonist‚ since this title belongs to the treacherous Alonso in his usurpation of Prosporo

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    Staging of The Tempest It is clear that The Tempest depends for much of its success on a wide range of special effects such as sound‚ lighting‚ and fantastic visions of the natural and supernatural worlds. Ariel‚ the mystic spirit‚ and his cohorts provide some eerie and some wondrous musical sounds‚ painting pictures with their voices of settings the audience saw. For example‚ when luring the spellbound Ferdinand towards his future wife‚ Miranda‚ Ariel and his fellow sprites caress the shipwrecked

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    Determines Your Status? The strangest‚ yet most intriguing relationship in Shakespeare’s play‚ The Tempest‚ seems to be the one that is shared between Prospero and Caliban. Through their constant interactions‚ the audience is able to explore the important motif of master-servant relationships‚ which is one of the major themes that the entire play seems to be built upon. In The Tempest‚ although it seem as if one’s status and background plays a big part in affecting one’s position on the social

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    Usurpation In The Tempest

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    Usurpation of Power in The Tempest Usurpation is one of Shakespeare’s favorite themes: he utilizes it in his tragedies to mark a notorious rise to monarchy‚ namely in Macbeth and Hamlet. However‚ in his romance The Tempest‚ Shakespeare employs usurpation of power as a double-edged sword in which those who seek power are also subject to exploitation by others. In addition to accounting for the shipwreck‚ usurpation manifests in various bands of characters on the island; nearly all characters are

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    Apart from being problem plays ‚ Pygmalion and A Doll ’s house deal with the common theme of transformation of individuals . In Pygmalion‚ Shaw explores the idea that if a person is born in a low class and gets the opportunity to be trained in the ways of correct speech and manners then he or she can easily come to the social and intellectual level of the higher classes . He proves this by transforming Eliza Doolittle‚ a poor flower girl from the slums‚ to a sophisticated woman by changing her speech

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    Miranda In The Tempest

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    possibilities are opened up to women because life does not revolve around the brothership of man. Men‚ however‚ still think that they are superior and have power over women‚ and they do not like women thinking for themselves. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest‚ Prospero wants to have power over his daughter Miranda‚ but realizes that he can no longer dictate what Miranda thinks and feels by simply telling her to think and feel a certain way. By using magic‚ he feels like he can control her completely‚ but

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    Giorgione, the Tempest

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    UNIVERZITA KOMENSKÉHO FILOZOFICKÁ FAKULTA‚ KATEDRA DEJÍN UMENIA Giorgione – The Tempest Odborná angličtina 4 Letný semester Linda Hobinková Ak. rok 2010/11 2. ročník Girogio da Castelfranco Founder of 16.century Venetian painting‚ who has

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    The Tempest Colonialism

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    new geographical places and then take political control over those lands. In addition‚ Colonization in America started when Christopher Columbus discovered it in 1492. Therefore‚ when viewing The Tempest‚ by Shakespeare‚ a reader can agree he was inspired by the colonization of America. While The Tempest offers a variety of themes‚ it tells a story of a usurped duke named Prospero‚ and how he arranged a shipwreck to extract revenge on those who wronged him‚ allowing him political control over everyone

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    Feminism & The Tempest

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    Bradley ENG-3U1 December 10‚ 2007 Feminism in the Tempest Feminist theory aims to understand the nature of inequality and focuses on gender politics‚ power relations and sexuality. To do Feminist Research is to put the social construction of gender at the center of one ’s inquiry. Feminist theory is about seeing gender as a basic organizing principle which profoundly shapes/mediates the concrete conditions of our lives. In the play The Tempest‚ by William Shakespeare Miranda is a perfect example

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