The fate of Romeo Montague is predicted in the chorus of the play The audience is immediately informed that Romeo and his love will take their lives and thus they are immediately aware that a great ordeal will happen at some point in the play However they are not informed of the dramatic changes that he will undertake as the play carries out its course Romeo seems to be a rather complex character a character of many layers Is he the highly romantic soul we meet in Act 1 Or perhaps his darker si
Throughout Death of a Salesman time switches are used continuously typically to present the audience with the Loman familys background and show deterioration In act one we see the first flashback at the beginning of the play As the play starts to go into flashback the backdrop changes from the present Apartment houses and the surroundings become covered in leaves This is the first sign of the Lomans happy past Willy is talking sense and telling Biff to watch his schooling giving him good advice
Topic Explore the theme of religion in the play Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play written in 1962 by the American playwright Edward Albee The title sets the tone of the play with on one side the intellect and the drama with Virginia Woolf who was a famous writer who committed suicide And on the other hand a childish atmosphere with the allegory of the nursery rime whos afraid of the big bad wolf As a result whos afraid of Virginia Woolf offers a great deal of emotions During the 1950s wor
Explore the ways a central character is affected by external influences in the texts you have studied In both texts I have studied Macbeth and A Christmas Carol both central characters are affected by a number of external influences which in turn leads them into drastic characteristic changes What is meant by this is that the plot and story of each texts would not have unravelled if it wasnt for these significant and controlling influences which caused and put pressure and emotion on these Char
The extract from Great Expectations is a scene where the character Pip is giving his perspective of the other character Jaggers who is a lawyer and his office and Pip very much sees Jaggers room as synonymous to Jaggers character The atmosphere of the room is best described by the repeated descriptive adjective Dismal Dickens writes from Pips perspective through 1st person His impression of Jaggers room is not a positive one and as Pip searches through the room it develops and this little world
How Fitzgeralds Life Influenced the Novel In the novel The Great Gatsby there are similarities between Fitzgeralds life and Gatsbys Gatsbys life revolves around Fitzgeralds real life experiences Their motivation to do well in life and become wealthy both comes from their desire to please the women that they love and live the American dream of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Fitzgerald and Gatsby sacrificed their moral values their integrity and their honesty to create a perfect life t
Lazarus of Bethany is the subject of a miracle recounted in the Bible where Jesus restores Lazarus to life after four days of being dead Plath sees herself as the female Lazarus who has been raised from the dead three times and thus a miracle Like the sense of miracle Plath sees her deaths like Lazaruss for they dont fall into the category of usual deaths Sylvia Plath completed her masterpiece Lady Lazarus in the days before her suicide in 1963 while in a condition of disturbance suffering and
Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury about a society where the people dont have any concerns for others Everyone is only after the materialistic things in life which supposedly brings them happiness However if everyone is so happy why do voluminous people try to commit suicide every night By portraying many figures who never even wonder about their lot in life Fahrenheit 451 seems to imply that apathy is a very important element in the decline of Montags society Fahrenheit 451 is a novel a