Hamlet’s first soliloquy7 prominently displays deep distress‚ even emotional fragility. He stands in the castle after having a long conversation with his mother and uncle-turned-step-father. This conversation has left him agitated and contributed to his unstable emotional state. The argument recounts his feelings toward his mother’s actions and the current state of his country. All of these things put him in a state of distress. The death of his father is a heavy blow‚ and his mother’s quick
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The film begins with the birth of Paris‚ and Cassandra’s prophecy that he would be the cause of Troy’s destruction. Worried‚ his father King Priam leaves him on Mount Ida‚ where he is found and raised by the shepherd Agelaus. When he is an adult‚ he judgesAphrodite as the fairest of the three goddesses‚ Hera‚ Athena‚ and Aphrodite. After awarding her the golden apple she promises him the love of Helen of Sparta‚ the most beautiful woman in the world. Meanwhile in Sparta‚ Helen sees in a pool Paris’s
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THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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RANSOM BY David Malouf Characters Make brief notes in your workbook to describe who each character is Agamemnon Peleus Patroclus Achilles Priam Briseis Hermes Hector Hecuba Thetis Iris Somax/Idaeus Myrmidons Neoptelemus Polydamus Automedon Helenus Cassandra Background Homer’s epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ first started as an oral storytelling tradition dating from about 1100 BC‚ after the Trojan war. It is part of the great oral tradition of storytelling in the English language
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The Illiad Book 1: Summary: The Iliad begins with the Trojan War already in progress. Greek audiences would have been familiar with the background of the story‚ and here a brief summary of events is necessary to help the reader to put these events in context. It is important to remember that these stories had a life outside of Homer: he did not invent his characters or the main events of the epic. He did make key choices regarding which events and characters were to be emphasized and reinterpreted
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Hamlet Trial Response The aspect of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that is most interesting to me is the playwright’s intimate depiction of Hamlet’s daily struggle againt the world. Through soliloquies and characterisation‚ we see that Hamlet’s world is a cold‚ political one‚ unreceptive to his grief‚ and this fundamental incompatibility is ultimately what creates and drives the play’s great drama behind his struggle‚ his murderous plot‚ uncertainty‚ and finally his thoughtful‚ accepting resolve at the end
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Lines 540 – 588 Saving Cassandra Lines 589 – 626 Aeneas continues to describe the fall Lines 627 – 648 Pyrrhus (Neoptolemus)‚ Achilles’ son‚ breaks into inner room of Priam’s palace Lines 649 – 679 Pyrrhus‚ Agamemnon‚ and Menelaus find daughters‚ Hecuba‚ and Priam in palace Lines 680 – 750 Death of
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A Mighty Cleaner and Soldier “You’ll stop paying the elbow tax‚ when you start cleaning with Ajax!” was the first commercial jingle to air on television in the United States. In 1948‚ this jingle was used for Ajax Cleanser. Colgate-Palmolive popularized this manufactured cleaner in 1947. The mythological entity Ajax helped the company come up with their original and most popular catchphrase‚ “Stronger than dirt!” Ajax All-Purpose Cleaner with Ammonia was made as a current seller in 1962‚ and became
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Silhouetted against the backdrop of a war-torn Troy‚ David Malouf’s Ransom explores the inner conflict and grief caused by the loss of loved ones. The rage of Achilles‚ so central to the dramatic structure of the Illiad‚ is portrayed by Malouf as an expression of the most deeply instinctive‚ primal emotions‚ unmediated by cultural or social code‚ an innate human response in its most raw “animal” state. The depths of Achilles’ rage‚ his refusal to be consoled after the death of Patroculus is mirrored
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The people Priam ruled over were deeply religious. Priam himself believed that “the gods made [him] a king”. When he tells Hecuba that there might be “another way of naming what we call fortune and attribute to the will‚ or the whim‚ of the gods”‚ he goes against centuries of tradition. Malouf uses Hecuba’s reaction to emphasise the shocking nature of this suggestion. She can’t
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