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    person must deal with through their lives. Macbeth is arguably the most complex character within the play‚ Macbeth‚ by William Shakespeare. Macbeth is a play about Macbeth and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ who together plan to murder King Duncan so Macbeth can become king. Macbeth receives information from three witches who tell him he will be king one day‚ but Macbeth cannot wait and wants to be king now. So in order to achieve this goal Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to kill Macbeth’s cousin Duncan. Due

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    How does the director use various techniques to contrast the control of the Comte and the effect of Vianne’s influence on the town? Individuality versus conformity is a fine line that people in society walk along. This has been shown in Chocolat‚ released in 2000 and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Where Vianne and her chocolate shop represent individuality and the Comte represents conformity. Hallstrom uses various film and dramatic techniques to convey this idea to the audience. In Chocolat

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    device used to create suspense in the dramatic irony that keeps the audience on edge. In Romeo and Juliet ‚ the author William Shakespeare has a way‚ of using his words to make the audience interested. This funky wordplay is called dramatic irony.For instance‚ in Act 4 scene 5 line #15‚ they all think Juliet is dead but she is not dead /Lady‚Lady‚ Lady/Alas‚Alas/Help‚Help/My lady’s dead/. Above all the quote is suspenseful because the reader knows she is not dead but the nurse does not.Another

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    How does Shakespeare present good and bad in the play Macbeth? This essay will study and confer the vast number of contradicting ideas of good and bad evident in the play Macbeth. To commence this‚ the first scene to be examined is Act one‚ scene four lines 50-51. Here‚ Shakespeare intentionally presents Macbeth for his true colours. His objective of becoming king is exposed to the audience when Macbeth remarks ‘stars hide you fires‚ let not light see my black and deep desires’. This personification

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    A Character in Her Own Right Behind all the great men of Shakespeare‚ there is a women close behind‚ who is often over looked. These women are just as crucial of a character as the men they follow. In William Shakespeare’s MacbethMacbeth is a mere tool‚ there to carry out orders for his wife‚ both of whom desire nothing more than to rule. Together they will do anything‚ including murder‚ achieve their goal. Lady Macbeth proves to be a tragic figure and possess every capability that a man

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    In his metafictional novel Atonement‚ Ian McEwan utilises narrative techniques to develop the central ideas of truth‚ war‚ and the desire to attain atonement. McEwan uses narrative structure to explore the nature of guilt and the courage required by one to atone for their wrongdoings‚ while he uses the interplay between narrative voices to explain how people have different interpretations of the truth. The narrative perspective of the character Robbie Turner is additionally employed to explore the

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    1.Analyse the use of camera techniques‚ with reference to specific scenes and shots‚ and the impact made on the story. There where all types of camera techniques like extreme wide shot‚ very wide shot‚ wide shot‚ mid shot‚ close up and many more. Somewhere used when Amon goth was shooting off his Bocconi and he was looking through the scope and the camera was moving like you were looking through the scope‚ it made you feel like you were shooting the gun. The camera shot that showed you through the

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    Williams creates dramatic tension in ’A Streetcar Named Desire’ through the interactions between the important characters in the play‚ such as the conflict between Blanche and Stanley‚ and their contrasting styles of communication. The first instance of this occurs in the second scene. Blanche is bathing‚ whilst Stanley questions Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ referring to the so-called "Napoleonic code". As an audience‚ we sense the tension being created when he says "And I don’t like to be

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    emotions that Macbeth feels regarding the murder of King Duncan. The performance occurs after Act 2‚ Scene 1. In this scene‚ Lady Macbeth poisons the guards to provide Macbeth with a window of time to trespass into King Duncan’s chamber and kill him. It is a very significant scene in the play as Macbeth performs his first act of treason‚ the one that leads to all the other acts of violence by Macbeth. The theme of immoral ambition is very evident because by killing King Duncan‚ Macbeth is setting himself

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    from a popular‚ successful soldier‚ quote "What he hath lost‚ noble Macbeth hath won"‚ who has received great honours for his loyalty‚ his courage‚ his bravery and his nobility. At the end of the play the only respect he has is because of the fear that his subjects have of him. "Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies // some say he’s mad‚ others that lesser hate him." I will go through Macbeth’s soliloquies and chart his character as it changes. A soliloquy is a speech

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