STORY-TELLING THROUGH FILM: Comparing Interpretations of a Scene from Macbeth Film‚ like novels and plays‚ is a form of narrative or storytelling. However‚ image (and‚ to a lesser extent‚ sound) is the main ‘language’ film uses to tell the story. Some of the elements of this language include: ∙ ‘shots’ (where the camera points‚ how it moves‚ focuses etc.) ∙ editing (how shots are put together to tell the story) ∙ sound design and editing ∙ artistic design (including
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Compare and Contrast Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare In this essay I am going to highlight the comparisons and contrasts between William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 and also give my opinions. A similarity between the two poems is that they are both about a man’s love for a woman. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Meaning that the woman that Shakespeare loves in Sonnet 18 is ‘more lovely’ than
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Linking Sonnets From The Portuguese to The Great Gatsby 1. The Theme of Love Sonnet 1. Love enters and transforms our life as totally‚ as unanswerably as Death. Like Death it is a presence we have almost no say in. In Fitzgerald’s novel how does love transform Gatsby? But does it transform Daisy? Does it enter into the loves of Nick or Jordan Baker? Sonnet XIV “If thou must love me‚ let it be for nought Except for love’s sake only. Do not say I love her for her smile – her look – her
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know exactly what love is and where it comes from‚ but one thing is sure; we are nothing without love. There are times when we feel shy and timid‚ when we are afraid of expressing the love we feel. Some people can speak about love through the use of poems. Some poems tell a story; some illustrate what love should or shouldn’t be; some poems express the separation of two loved ones. There is no limit to explaining what love really is. The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Valentine’ by
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The “Virtuous” Mind Sonnet Comparison Essay William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser are two of the most prolific poets of their time. Both support a different vantage point on the way a woman should behave and the way love should be. At the time‚ love was conventionally defined as a woman who knew her place and was pure. However‚ there were women who spoke their minds and talked out of turn. They were considered to be shrews. Shrews were not married‚ and if they were‚ the person who married them
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From the House of Magic The poem From the Houses of Magic is one‚ that raises many questions. What is the true meaning of this piece of literature that has been around for so long? Many speculations have been made‚ and another is about to arise form the depths of a young mind. This poem is one that reveals the heavens as well as the deep depths of hell‚ and the journey one takes in life. When the poem first starts off it explains the magical being coming down and embodying an animal with antlers
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THE SONNET ________________________________________ A sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines‚ following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes. Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications‚ but to all essential purposes two types only need be discussed if the student will understand that each of these two‚ in turn‚ has undergone various modifications by experimenters. The two characteristic sonnet types are the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean). The
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Sonnet 130: Imperfectly Perfect The secular world is increasingly fixated on the concept of beauty and the pursuit of perfection‚ however this preoccupation is not unique to the 20th century. While traditional love poems in the 18th century generally focused on glorifying a woman’s beauty‚ Sonnet 130 written by William Shakespeare goes against the conventional culture of love poems and instead describes the realistic nature of his object of affection. In Sonnet 130‚ the idea of love and is intensely
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SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds‚ Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark‚ Whose worth’s unknown‚ although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool‚ though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ But bears it
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SONNET #19 by: William Shakespeare D EVOURING time‚ blunt thou the lion’s paws‚ And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws‚ And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood; Make glad and sorry seasons as they fleet’st‚ And do whate’er thou wilt‚ swift-footed Time‚ To the wide world and all her fading sweets‚ But I forbid thee one most heinous crime: O‚ carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow‚ Nor draw no lines there with thine antique
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