‘Viola is one of Shakespeare’s most sympathetic and resourceful heroines’. To what extent is this interpretation supported by Act 1? Watching the first scene of ‘Twelfth Night’‚ it seems quite obvious that Viola‚ shipwrecked with nothing‚ resourcefully survives and flourishes under Count Orsino’s court‚ successfully using her brilliant wit and intellect to maintain the disguise that she has adopts. Yet does this resourcefulness undermine the extent to which we feel sympathy for her and is there
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fantasy or ’makebelieve’ as she suggests herself in Scene Seven where she clings on to her past of wealth and comfort. Nonetheless‚ Stella has a privileged access to her sister’s personal heritage: she can sympathise with Blanche’s past and thus makes allowances for her‚ as she encourages Stanley to do‚ also. This is important in dramatic terms as Williams encourages his audience to take comfort in this sympathetic relationship
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16 and 17. The purpose of repetition in Line 3 is to show that sacrificing yourself for war is not worthwhile as nobody will bother about you‚ despite the mental and physical burden you have been through‚ and is also to allow readers to sympathise with soldiers in war. This repetition contributes to the message of the poem‚ which is anti-war. The repetition in Lines 9‚10 and 11 is to show the love of the wife for the soldier‚ who is the husband‚ and to emphasize that soldiers are
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Steinbeck presents disadvantaged characters to us using a number of techniques. The author does this to encourage us to sympathise and begin to understand the characters‚ in order to show the problems with prejudice and the various types of it which were endemic in American society in this time. Lennie is firstly presented to us through the author’s use of animal imagery in the description‚ and the readers first impression of Lennie is how animal like he is when phrases like ‘snorting…like a
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Compare the ways mood is presented in ‘The Laboratory’‚ ‘My Last Duchess’‚ ‘Hitcher’ and ‘Salome’. Mood is a state of feeling stimulated by a particular apparatus or situation. It can also be a distinct emotional characteristics/ theme of a particular item. Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction‚ language‚ alliteration etc‚ in order to display a certain message to the audience. The poem ‘Hitcher’ refers to the environment
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process? The causes of the disease and how it impacts the body. This would help ensure the treatment is accurate and suitable in order to effectively help the patient in management. Understanding the science of breathing makes it much easier to sympathise with the patient and also visualise what the patient is going through. What elements of the
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is extremely emotive and graphic with the images it invokes upon the mind of the reader. You can feel the beatings and torment she suffers on an almost daily basis. With this being a true story it feels all the more real to the reader as you can sympathise for this poor girl and the ordeals she is confronted with‚ it would be hard for a lot of people to empathise with her as it is an extremely harsh and dire time in her life and maybe through this work she has maybe helped people who are in a similar
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The poem “Flower Fed Buffaloes” by V. Lindsay is a short text set on the prairies of America in old days. It is about “Flower Fed Buffaloes” where the old days take pass and that the buffaloes did not live there because locomotives has taken over the prairie‚ where buffaloes were. Three key techniques used by the poet were alliteration‚ metaphor and repetition. They were effective because they helped me understand the theme. The theme is the buffaloes prairies have been taken over by the modern day
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possibility that Mr Birling perhaps had an uneasy upbringing‚ occasionally indicated by his faux pars‚ which his wife readily berates him for (‘(reproachfully) Arthur‚ you’re not supposed to say such things-‘)‚ Priestly leaves no room for the audience to sympathise with Birling because in doing so‚
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alienation. This makes her unreliable as the reader experiences the narrator’s life from her dysfunctional perspective. This makes it hard for the reader to connect to Esther‚ therefore limiting our empathy with her tragedy. In contrast‚ the reader sympathises with Leo as we see his youth and enthusiasm for life being destroyed‚ which enhances the tragedy. It could be said that Plath’s use of a simile to portray incongruity foreshadows Esther’s growing fear of “the bell-jar”. At the start of the novel
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