harmonious union. The ending frequently involves a parade of couples to the altar and a festive mood or actual celebration (expressed in dance‚ song‚ feast‚ etc.) A Midsummer Night’s Dream has four such couples (not counting Pyramus and Thisbe!); As You Like It has four; Twelfth Night has three; etc. Frequently (but not always)‚ it contains elements of the improbable‚ the fantastic‚ the supernatural‚ or the miraculous‚ e.g. unbelievable coincidences‚ improbable scenes of recognition/lack of recognition
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Shakespeare‘s As You Like It is based on a work entitled Rosalynde written by Thomas Lodge (Verity 2000 : xiii) The play is often categorized as a pastoral comedy . The term .pastoral. refers to the life of the shepherds or rural folk and their ways of living‚ manners and customs. However‚ pastoral poetry does not reflect the realities of country life and that from its beginning it created an imaginary landscape which was actually a projection of the poct‘s feelings and ideas. Hence the word ’pastoral‘
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wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life” (Faulkner 54). Time represents the ultimate decision maker throughout a person’s life‚ allowing for an individual’s triumph‚ but also for one’s downfall. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ As You Like It (1994)‚ this time that destroys and grows may appear to freeze as the characters move into the Forest of Arden‚ without use or knowledge of time‚ but it most certainly does not. The fact that time‚ at least in the long run‚ will eventually destroy
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Introduction to As You Like It summary Duke Ferdinand has been forced into exile from the court by the usurping Duke Frederick. He takes refuge in the Forest of Arden with a band of faithful lords. Rosalind‚ his daughter‚ is kept uneasily at court as a companion to her cousin Celia‚ Frederick’s daughter. Orlando de Boys‚ the youngest son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys‚ has been kept in poverty by his brother Oliver since his father’s death. Orlando decides to wrestle for his fortune at Frederick’s
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Related text to whose life is it anyway? – Power and the individual What ideas of power are represented in “whose life is it anyway” and the related texted material you have chosen and how does the related text link to the prescribe text? There are many ideas and reasons why My Sisters keeper and whose life is it anyway have similar relations to the power and the individual. For one the battle of individual rights‚ Both Anna and Ken fight for their individual rights to their Body and life. Ken
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truly learn something you have to do it yourself‚ but we don’t have the time to go on enough journeys to quench our cravings for answers. That’s why literature has offered us the chance to learn something‚ without actually doing it‚ so that we can learn the message from a journey‚ without actually going on it. Two excellent examples of literature doing this are in the texts stopping by woods on a snowing evening by Robert Frost and City of beasts by Isabel Allende. The texts have elements of physical
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In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar‚ characters keep aware of their own develop through all the play‚ so in this way they are also conscious of their own nature. Julius Caesar’s characters are constructed in such a way that they never seem to loose track of their own behavior‚ because what they said or did in a determined moment always keeps present with them. They are individuals that are fully aware of their past and because of this‚ they are also capable of understanding themselves better. However
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greater sense of connectedness and identity. This is firstly evident in Shakespeare’s As You Like It whereby the ideas of love are used to reveal how relationships are fundamental to one’s sense of belonging. Act 1 Scene 3 explores belonging and not belonging through love and nature as it establishes the plot at the mark of separation from court and country by Rosalind and Celia breaking the sense of belonging to place. Celia and Rosalind convey a strong bond evident in Celia’s plea to her father
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Lawson’s short stories and one other related text of your own choosing. In your answer‚ make detailed references to at least two short stories set for study. Composers in everyday situations use distinctively visuals through the use of elaborate techniques and complex word choice. These visuals are vivid and very clear; so it helps the responder visualise the text and therefore relate to the texts and also deepen their understanding of the short stories. Two short stories composed by ‘Henry Lawson’
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AS Language Unit Two – Creating Texts What to do: Candidates should choose their own writing focus to suit their individual skills and interests in consultation with their teacher(s). This should be led in centres by use of ‘style models’ to encourage candidates to experience a wide range of writing styles before the writing process begins. In preparation for this module candidates need to study: • the use of register and style • characteristics of genres and sub-genres • the impact of language
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