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    written by Shakespeare leading to the outcome of two lovers death due to lack of decision making. Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet come to many points in where story changing decisions come into play in which Shakespeare relates them to faith. In Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare implies that when making decisions take your faith back from the stars and make a true decision that you believe in because Romeo takes his faith back from the stars and makes a decision of his own. Although Shakespeare may utter

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    How does Shakespeare use language to show the change in Macbeth and lady Macbeth’s characters over the course of the play? William Shakespeare was born on April 23‚ 1564 in Stratford‚ England.  His father worked selling leather and grains‚ and was a town official.  He was the third child out of eight children.  His mother‚ Mary‚ came from a family of prosperous farmers and landowners.  During Shakespeare’s time‚ most people were very superstitious believing in witches‚ ghosts‚ and other supernatural

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    William Shakespeare is very intentional about character choices and their personalities. Each character plays an important role in setting the tragedy in motion. For this essay‚ I have chosen to analyze Tybalt‚ the Friar‚ and Benvolio’s personalities and explain how they contributed to the tragedies. Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin. He has a fiery temper and is always looking for a fight. Because of this Tybalt starts most of the fights seen in the play. He killed Mercutio and fought Romeo. Romeo killed

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    This idea is present in the case of two characters. Brabantio and Emilia never used Othello’s name (Berry 322). Brabantio is oddly strange since Othello became the man’s son-in-law. It shows that he never truly accepts him into society. The fact that Othello’s name was not utilized by most people shows the racial tendencies of the Venetian people. Lastly‚ Othello’s race and the racism around him made him an easy target to be manipulated by Iago. Othello walked right into Iago’s trap by doing exactly

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    St. Crispan’s Day The famous playwright William Shakespeare‚ in his version of a speech‚ St. Crispans Day Speech‚ he gives King Henry a motivational tone when speaking with his army. ShakeSpeare’s purpose is to make Henry get his point across by saying he will not fight with anyone who doesn’t fight for the English. Henry and Shakespeare adapt an enthusiastic‚ ambitious‚ and patriotic tone while speaking to his army about defeating the French in the battle. In this situation pathos makes a great

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    The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ took place in the 1500’s. The play is about two feuding families‚ the Capulets and Montagues‚ daughter and son who fall in love at first sight. In the end‚ Romeo and Juliet take their lives because their love was destroyed by their families hatred towards each other. In this story‚ Shakespeare uses a proliferate amount of irony to show that love is a strong bond that can bring peace and defeat enemy feuding. Shakespeare’s play is full

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    time period‚ and then instill them back into its audience‚ frightening them even greater than they were before. Above all‚ Shakespeare valued a good story‚ and the witches‚ traitors‚ and deceit that was prevalent throughout the play all served to captivate the audience and touch on topics that everyone would be aware of. By opening his play so such a wide audience‚ Shakespeare was able to impact everyone from the royals to the peasants. Within the plethora of independent battles in the play itself

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    Dear Mr. Shakespeare Wins as a Visually Striking Cinematic Poem By Joseph Reilly Shola Amoo’s 2016 film Dear Mr. Shakespeare takes a monologue poem referencing Shakespeare’s Othello and matches it against thought provoking scenes. Dear Mr. Shakespeare is sure to leave viewers talking as the spoken word film taking racial concepts from Othello raises historical questions on race relations‚ Shakespeare’s owns views‚ and puts a different twist on the classic story. The film is just as discomforting

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    and deception are key elements of comedy.” How does Shakespeare present these ideas in Twelfth Night? Confusion and deception are two key elements that occur often in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and they seem to go hand in hand with one another- where one occurs the other is slowly behind. As in most comedies‚ Twelfth Night celebrates different forms of confusion and deception in order to make the play more entertaining and comical Shakespeare incorporates the confusion and deception throughout the

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    untrodden ways – William Wordsworth A Minor Bird – Robert Frost War and violence Charge of the Light Brigade – Lord Tennyson Anthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen Where have all the flowers gone – Pete Seeger Anne Frank huis – Andrew Motion Life Leave Taking – Cecil Rajendra The Seven Ages of Man – William Shakespeare Paying Calls – Thomas Hardy Mid Term Break – Seamus Heaney Society Wedding Photographs – Jean Arasanayagam The Garden of Love – William Blake A Worker Reads

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