‘Macbeth’ is a play written by Shakespeare in 1606. It is about a brave‚ noble soldier called Macbeth‚ who won a battle against the Norwegians’. On his return he meets three evil witches who tell him prophecies‚ claiming he would be the next King of Scotland. Macbeth then broke the Divine Right‚ murdering Duncan‚ innocent women and children. Eventually‚ Macbeth is attacked and killed by the English. Malcolm becomes king and helps Scotland recover. When Shakespeare wrote ‘Macbeth’‚ people believed
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The poem‚ Little Boy Crying‚ written by Mervyn Morris is mainly about father and sons relationship. Poet shows the two main themes through this relationship; fathers love towards his child and his effort to lead his child into a right world in life. Mervyn Morris explores the child and parents relationship by using second person narration and language techniques such as allusion and emotive words. The important messages behind the poem are: parents love us and they will do anything to lead us to
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FOA Martijn Outline: 1: Introduction: Structure and content/part Task division Learning outcome 2: Body (2): Compare writers Writers; Background Age Stature and credibility Conclusion writers How do age‚ background and nationality of writers influence language and meaning? What are the consequences of this influence? 3: Conclusion: Effects Noor‚ Martijn‚ Joos and Nadine on language and meaning Compare gravity of different aspects’ effect Introduction: [Slide 1.] Sociologists
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heart of the reader. Simple‚ yet effective‚ he expresses fear through these many different themes and motifs. In many of Poe’s works he describes the evil drive in men to kill and commit sin. He likes to focus on the downward spiral of the human race instead of romanticising them. The guilt of the narrator is a major theme in ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’’ The major symbol is the beating heart. Poe chooses a heartbeat because it is human and maddengly persistant. The thematic subject may be guilt‚ but the
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In the first extract (Huckleberry Finn) Twain shows the theme of escapism by describing how Huck fakes his own death in an attempt to escape from civilization. In the second extract (Catcher in the Rye) Salinger shows the theme as escapism as Holden is running away from Pencey to go into a Hotel for a few days. Salinger shows that Holden is emotional about staying and leaving Pencey as he had got the ‘ax again’. ‘It made me too sad and lonesome’. This quote shows that Salinger is trying to portray
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establishes Hamlet’s sensitive moral nature by pitting it against his sovereign need for revenge by using the theme of reluctance and inaction in the play. Hamlet’s actions throughout the play display that Hamlet is rather immature in the way he goes about enacting his revenge plan. His immaturity which is portrayed throughout the play could be from a social detachment from his family. Seeing as how Hamlet has no mention of other siblings it is easy to assume that he grew up alone around private scholastic
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Explore how Hardy so powerfully expresses the theme of resignation in the poem ‘The Pine Planters’ The poem ‘The Pine Planters’ by Thomas Hardy presents the theme of resignation‚ nature and time passing through reflecting upon shock‚ despair‚ resignation and reconciliation. The poem is about Marty South’s unrequited love. It is written as a persona which allows the reader to sympathise with the character. It is a poem of lamentation and has elements of being an elegy‚ as Marty seems to be in
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• How does theme help structure the play? Julius Caesar T he structure of the tragedy is chronological‚ in the sense that the different situations that take place are in order‚ despite the fact that Shakespeare‚ in some cases‚ cuts the time between an event and the other so as to be able to cover from the time the conspiracy is planned until the death of Brutus. However‚ the different themes of the play contribute to its structuring‚ in various ways. According to Marvin Speavock and other critics
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happiness can be different than others. The pursuit of happiness is what inspires true happiness and that is something indescribable. In Charles Mungoshi short story‚ “the setting sun and the rolling world”‚ he describes two different perspectives of happiness. The perspective of old Musoni and his son‚ Nhamo. Mungoshi’s most important theme is that one’s pursuit of happiness can give someone pain. Three important examples support this. The first is Nhamo and his father‚ old Musoni‚ arguing about Nhamo’s
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How does Auden explore the narrative of fear in ‘O what is that sound’ In his poem ‘O what is that sound’ Auden explores the narrative of fear using language devices. The poem is in the form of a ballad where two people have a dialogue and are speaking about the current situation in which they are in. The first speaker shows aspects of fear as they’re constantly questioning what is happening‚ in contrast‚ the second speaker is restful and answers the questions swiftly as there are no pauses and
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