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
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeares most famous plays and was written in the Elizabethan times Macbeth explores how power can effect people and ultimately lead to their downfall A range of themes are portrayed including guilt ambition and conscience However the key element in Macbeth is the theme of the supernatural Elements such as Macbeths hallucinations and apparitions and the involvement of witches are all stereotypical things to include when working with the supernatural The theme of th
In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade
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
F R Leavis claimed that a habit of self approving self dramatization is an essential element in Othellos make up Do you agree with this description of Othellos character Many critics have disagreed over whether Othello ever actually experiences a catharsis and acknowledges his own culpability This debate dates back to T S Eliots view of Othello as only cheering himself up and not thinking about Desdemona only himself and although Eliots argument is focused on Othellos final soliloquy Leavis ech