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
In the Novel The kite runner courage is portrayed through the characters and how the value each other as family and friends Through the book courage is a quality that is shown by many of the characters in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The characters are brave in their effort to protect physical well being personal values their reputation and sanity In the novel the characters exhibit genuine bravery in order to guard the things important to them Firstly the characters in the nove
Exploring The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Many critics have explored the complexities and controversial themes of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Most critics point out obvious themes of truth and honesty as well as the important theme of slavery and racism Upon exploring Huckleberry Finn the reader is brought into view two outline articles that relate to most of the important controversial themes presented in the novel In addition the reader is presented an article dealing with the impor
Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines both the horrific and the romantic elements which intertwine and present the reader with a sense of escapism that is as pleasing as it is terrifying When gothic novels first emerged in the eighteenth century upper society looked down upon them labeling them just as they did novels in general as trashy sensationalist forms of literature for they merely existed as a form of entertainment while more serious types of writing such as historical o
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
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
Beatty and Mildred Alike or Different Everyone is different from each other In the book Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury Captain Beatty and Mildred have many differences but are still similar Beatty was once educated and Mildred was never educated Both of them suppress something they do not want other people to know Beatty and Mildred may seem like they are similar but they are different on many levels Beatty may look and act like a normal person but he is a completely different person on