Level 3 15-22 Uses specific details, chosen appropriately, to address the question directly. Demonstrates a focused understanding of how the characters of Romeo and Juliet are affected by fate and destiny in the play. A clear, personal response will be evident. May offer a confident analysis of how fate and destiny are explored in this play. Spelling, punctuation and grammar used with considerable accuracy; there are few errors.
Once again…use examples to justify throughout the paragraph. Mood: What is mood? Why is it such an important element of drama? What mood/s were created throughout the play? Consider the audience and style of the play in this paragraph.
Charles Lamb states that Malvolio “becomes comic by accident”. His criticism portrays Malvolio as a tragic character. Lamb describes Malvolio’s dialect as “that of a gentleman, and a man of education.” Predisposed with Malvolio’s dialect and seemingly noble manner is hubris which leads to his downfall in the play. In Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’, Malvolio is not a tragic character but, the fool of the play in that he is a scapegoat for mockery and entertainment. Aristotle in ‘Poetics’ defined comedy as “an imitation of inferior people-not, however, with respect to every kind of defect; the laughable species of what is disgraceful.
* A description of the intended audience. B. The rhetorical précis is an effective note taking strategy because * It answers the basic who, what, where, when, how, why, and to whom about a piece of writing. It also summarizes the content and analyzes the circumstances leading up to and informing a piece of writing. It clarifies how someone else chose to say something, in a particular way, for some purpose, to certain other people.
is laid upon your hate That heaven finds means to kills yours joys with love” (V, iii, 291-293) “For there never was a story of more woe, then this of Juliet and her Romeo” (V, iii, 309-310) Tragedy- Reinforced by the death of Mercutio as it is seen by Levin as quite an ironic end, as he has been the satirist- “represents the play moving from Romantic comedy to Romantic tragedy.” Comparing Comedy & Tragedy- Tragedy tends to isolate where comedy bring together, to reveal the uniqueness of individuals rather than what they have in common with others. Examples have been shown with the progression of Juliet whom begun in tragic settings as an only child mother “But one, poor one, one poor, and loving child” (IV, v. 46) whilst Romeo friar reflects on then as “two in one” (II.iv.37) yet again when taking the potion “my dismal scene I needs must act alone.” (IV.iii. 19) reflected in the setting of each of them dying
Orsino depicts love as an “appetite” that he cannot feed. At another point of the play he names his desires for love “fell and cruel hounds”. In act 1, scene 5 Olivia says “Even so quickly may one catch the plague?” She’s using this metaphor to relate love to a disease saying if you have too much of it, it can make you sick. Love throws the characters and the play out of order, however that order is quickly put back into place when Shakespeare creates a Deus Ex Machina by making the character Sebastian turn up and fix everything. This reflects the times in Elizabethan society when they had divine order and a strict hierarchy.
Shakespeare and Bythewood explore the thematic preoccupation of family in the artificial world. In the court familiar relationships are artificial, they are broken by betrayal and the realisation of others values. "To burn the lodging where you used to lie", the use of past tense demonstrates the need to leave at the present tense. Adam warning to Orlando of his brothers betrayal, for wanting to be his equal. Mentioning where an individual sleeps conveys their innocence when an individual sleeps they are no longer in control and their mind takes over, they are innocent of their actions.
We must tell him, it will cause more damage if we don’t tell him soon. Come Stylistic Techniques Shakespeare uses personification in line 78 with “his doublet all unbraced”, though unbraced is referring to his shirt it can also be directed to Hamlet himself unbracing reality. A strong image is used in line 83 when Ophelia refers Hamlet to being “ loosed out of hell” this leads us to believe that not only is Hamlet insane but now angered. Syntax is used in line 84 when again Ophelia says that Hamlet “is to speak of horrors”, this again is trying to show Hamlets hostel intentions.
Question: Select a scene or passage from Shakespeare’s play Macbeth that you find to be BEAUTIFUL or MOVING. Then discuss the nature of the beauty or force that you find in your selection. One could comment on the power of image created and its effect, the impact that the language (diction) has on the scene and/or audience, the creation of mood, the development and enhancement of motif, the development and enhancement of them, the interconnectedness and reinforcement of the scene to the rest of the play, or perhaps the inherent truth that your selection reveals about the human condition. MACBETH, [aside] Time, thou anticipat’st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o’ertook Unless the deed go with it.
What is equally as important is how this has been achieved through Shakespeare’s command of various dramatic and language techniques. In Hamlet, Shakespeare mirrors Hamlet’s situation through his employment of Hamlet’s foils; Laertes and Fortinbras, effectively demonstrating