counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this motif. everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice. who hides and what is hidden? how does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on life in general? a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes.
Compare how the Character is created in the poet ‘Medusa’ and ‘The Clown Punk’ In the poem Medusa and Clown Punk the characters have many similarities and big differences. Both poets have a sense of violence/threat but also sympathy and pity. Medusa is a dramatic monologue, a jealous, angry woman who is comparing herself to the Greek myth of Medusa. The Clown Punk is seeing this ‘clown punk’ in another perspective, a more close up way. Medusa can be related to the Clown Punk because although she was once accepted amongst people; beautiful and in love.
Cherry seems to become more nutty when she falls for Lewis. But that’s what the audience wants to see, the normality of people turning mad because of love. Nowra is trying to cut out the fact that these people are really insane and hid it with the fact that love is what is important in this play, for people to understand that love makes you mad whether you are or not. As Julie says ‘Love is hallucinating without the
Throughout Macbeth, Shakespeare shocks audiences with violent language, the supernatural witches and evilness. The nature of evil, in the context of this question, means ‘profoundly immoral and wicked’ which is true to most of the play especially after King Duncan’s murder. The nature of ambition in this context portends ‘a strong desire to achieve successes’. Based on these definitions, I agree with said view of this play to some extent. Evil is first inferred in Macbeth when we first meet the Weyward Sisters (witches) and they cantillate something: ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair.’ This juxtaposition of words indicates an unnatural feel which creates the feel of imminent evil from a possibly supernatural perpetrator.
Because people are making fun of his nose he is able to provide witty humor that makes the book become a comedy. Valvert says “Ah…your nose…hem!...Your nose is…rather large!” “Rather” “Oh well” “Is that all” “Well of course.”(35-36 Act 1) But Cyrano does not leave it like this he replies by insulting Valvert and ultimately making him angry by telling him all the better insults that he could have had. He threw it right back in his face by making it a joke. Throughout the story comedy like this occurs and that is why I believe it is a
Miller creates a situation of irony in this chapter with the arrest of Rebecca Nurse and Elizabeth Proctor. These characters are the most innocent in the play, yet are accused of witchcraft by two of the most arrogant, untrustworthy people, Thomas Putnam and Abigail Williams. He also makes the audience feel a sense of helplessness as the play unfolds and how characters seem bound by the law but also the superstition and this is one of the main points that Miller is trying to get across. Laws should not control you if they are corrupt. In this scene we see how desperate Abigail has become and how far she will go to poses John Proctor.
Henrick Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is a play that takes it’s readers on a ride, showing them that a marriage, though on the outside looks healthy, really can have many flaws and can be full of deceit. It also shows how money really is, or can be the basis of many relationships, which is still true today. Throughout this play, it seems as if one can’t really choose which character is the antagonist and which deserves to be the protagonist, although each character shows qualities of both. It can be argued that Nora is the antagonist because she is constantly lying to her husband, Torvald, and doing things he tells her not to behind her back. Also, it becomes clear that most of the things she does, for instance, anytime Nora shows affection it is only to receive some kind of payment.
They fall in love rapidly, however can't communicate well as their families don't know and are meant to be sworn enemies. I will be discussing how poor communication leads to the tragedy and how communication varies with different people. The chosen scene, which fits best in describing poor communication, is scene 3 acts 5. This scene is important because it helps us understand the lack of communication. The audience sees this play as a play filled with verbal irony, dramatic irony, however it is most... Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 5 Act 3 Scene 5 is a crucial factor in the entire play as it symbolizes the change which takes place in so many relationships.
9/19/12 Madness in Literature Several authors utilize the aspect of “madness” to emphasize a point, to warn of a maleficent force, or to simply entertain. Two such examples of this technique being used are “Macbeth,” by William Shakespeare, and “Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Bronte. Within these stories, one main character of each story, Macbeth and Catherine Earnshaw, respectively, undergoes a change in nature to become “mad.” The madness of the characters illustrates an argument for the “unnatural” impetus yielding “unnatural” results. In both of these two works, the impetus that leads to each character’s madness involves a deviation from their natural state or behavior that is never resolved, but instead is allowed to compound, causing
The connotation of love usually involves happy times, friendships, and smiles. However in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë portrays love in a negative sense. The misinterpretation of love between all of the characters proves that love is corrupt and tainted, and is shown through paradoxes. The female protagonist Catherine and her relationship with both Heathcliff and Edgar is an antithesis, because the two men contrast each other. Heathcliff and Catherine's story reveals the darker side of love and obsession.