St. Crispan’s Day The famous playwright William Shakespeare‚ in his version of a speech‚ St. Crispans Day Speech‚ he gives King Henry a motivational tone when speaking with his army. ShakeSpeare’s purpose is to make Henry get his point across by saying he will not fight with anyone who doesn’t fight for the English. Henry and Shakespeare adapt an enthusiastic‚ ambitious‚ and patriotic tone while speaking to his army about defeating the French in the battle. In this situation pathos makes a great
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untrodden ways – William Wordsworth A Minor Bird – Robert Frost War and violence Charge of the Light Brigade – Lord Tennyson Anthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred Owen Where have all the flowers gone – Pete Seeger Anne Frank huis – Andrew Motion Life Leave Taking – Cecil Rajendra The Seven Ages of Man – William Shakespeare Paying Calls – Thomas Hardy Mid Term Break – Seamus Heaney Society Wedding Photographs – Jean Arasanayagam The Garden of Love – William Blake A Worker Reads
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Dear Mr. Shakespeare Wins as a Visually Striking Cinematic Poem By Joseph Reilly Shola Amoo’s 2016 film Dear Mr. Shakespeare takes a monologue poem referencing Shakespeare’s Othello and matches it against thought provoking scenes. Dear Mr. Shakespeare is sure to leave viewers talking as the spoken word film taking racial concepts from Othello raises historical questions on race relations‚ Shakespeare’s owns views‚ and puts a different twist on the classic story. The film is just as discomforting
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also jealous of Othello because Othello just promoted Cassio who Iago thinks is a "pretty boy". He tells this to the audience as Shakespeare is using dramatic irony to engage the audience‚ as Iago is jealous himself‚ and he is trying to make Othello jealous. The thought that Othello has slept with his wife eats him "Like a poisonous mineral that gnaws my innards". Shakespeare is using dramatic irony predicting the tragedy
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Shakespeare ’s Plays Within Plays and Characters Within Characters In A Midsummer Night ’s Dream‚ Shakespeare creates in Bottom‚ Oberon‚ and Puck distinctive characters who represent different aspects of himself. Like Bottom‚ Shakespeare aspires to rise socially; he has ambitions‚ and interacts with the queen‚ however marginally. Through Bottom‚ Shakespeare mocks these pretensions within himself. Then again‚ Shakespeare also resembles Oberon‚ controlling the magic we see on the stage; unseen
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Shakespeare Can Be Funny Too! In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare‚ the Mechanical Bottom portrays character comedy whenever he is interacting with other people throughout the play. Character comedy is using a well known character‚ like Bottom‚ to create comedy. It is usually used to exaggerate a character’s features while showing the audience their personality. An example of this would be when Peter Quince‚ head of the Mechanicals‚ was giving out parts for the play that they were
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Julius Caesar Is there a person who is entirely good or entirely bad? No‚ humans are not like that. Life is not a Hollywood movie where there is a good guy and a bad guy. Humans are more complicated than that. Depending on the situation‚ they can be good or bad; they can’t be all good or all bad. That is one of the reasons many people like Shakespeare’s plays‚ because characters are not moral absolutes. They are complicated and psychologically similar to how people would react to situations in real
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Sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare differ greatly in form‚ tone‚ content‚ meaning‚ and persona. Shakespeare begins with a rather unflattering attribute; "My mistress’ are nothing like the sun" while Spenser‚ praises his love by wishing he were a book she was reading. Sonnet 1 by Spenser follows a rhyme scheme of his own devising (ababbcbccdcdee) that combines interwoven thoughts. In this sonnet he praises his wife’s beauty and attempts to flatter her through conveying
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The text Othello was a play written by Shakespeare. The main themes in this text were; appearance vs reality‚ honesty as a weapon and jealousy. These themes were strongly portrayed by the interaction of the main characters Iago and Othello. Iago was the one behind all the chaos that occurs in the text‚ yet nobody realised that he was to blame until it was too late. Iago plays the role of “the perfect villain” by using honesty as a weapon against Othello by gaining his trust. Once this was achieved
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Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest English writers in history because of his use of figurative language writing skills. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar‚ Shakespeare uses figurative language multiple times throughout the play. Shakespeare uses figurative language in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to create a special effect or feeling for the reader. Some examples of figurative language that Shakespeare uses throughout the play includes: verbal irony‚ personification and metaphors
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