Review of Rupert Goold’s Macbeth I’ll admit, though it may get me beaten by some theater lovers, I’m not the biggest fan when it comes to Shakespeare productions. However, this rendition created by Rupert Goold with Patrick Stewart as lead man playing Macbeth, left a good taste in my mouth. The film opens in what seems to be a hospital ward in a time of fascism and violence; probably around the 1930’s if I had to guess. There’s enough blood, screaming, and morbidity to go around in what is just the preamble to the production which really sets the tone for is what to come. The actors speak Shakespeare’s dialogue eloquently and beautifully which I can personally deem as poetry in motion.
He refers to the tortillas as “language, history, cultural views, and themes of our literature” (Anaya 69). This symbol of tortillas is very effective in his arguments against censorship. He describes how eliminating the “tortillas” takes away from the ethnic value of the writing leaving many authors hardship by conforming to write accepted texts. He then goes on to say how being forced to conform to the accepted principals does not allow people to understand the diversity that is here in their own multicultural country. Before Anaya tells the reader how censorship has affected him, he goes into detail on how it has affected other writers.
Logos is used throughout this issue because they incorporate facts about Hot Cheetos and its addictive ingredients. According to Dr. David Kessler he further explained that, “Chain restaurants carefully calibrate fat, sugar and salt to trigger the brain's reward system, leading eaters to consume more.” Monica Eng from the Chicago Tribune examined the potentially addictive properties of the product. She further explains the ingredients, “Flamin' Hots, also known as Hot Cheetos, deliver high levels of salt, fat and artificial colors with little nutrition or fiber in return.” Ethos is also used in this post
In the end of this great tragedy, Creon is left in distress and great sorrow. 2. a. The section of the play I would like to focus on is the part of the play where Tiresias warns Creon that he must change his mind and give Polyneices a proper burial. I would like to start by noting that I thought this was a very clever thing that Sophocles did in writing this play. I thought it was ironic that he chose to have a “blind prophet” try to change the ways of Creon.
Shakespeare has chosen to insert comedy into his play as it reliefs the reader from the very depressing scenes that happened through out the book and changes the reader’s perspective on the characters. Comedy was added to the play it two main parts and many small sections in different scenes. One of the main Scenes that had a big role in the comedy in Hamlet is Act 2 Scene 2, the scene where the first meeting that happened between Polonius and Hamlet. Hamlet enters the room, and he immediately insults Polonius by calling him a “fishmonger”, then Hamlet says directly after it “Then I would you were so honest a man”, complementing him by calling him an honest man. Hamlet was trying to be clever with Polonius as he kept asking him questions that he already knew the answers to such as “…have you a daughter” pretending that he does not know that Ophelia is his daughter.
Using a lot of irony makes it easier for the reader to under stand the story, irony also makes you think of the things that the characters’ are saying. It’s like if the irony makes you part of the story. Chaucer used irony in the story perfectly, he didn’t use it every where. Chaucer used all three types of irony, dramatic, verbal, and situational. I really like the one were the rioter was buying bread, wine, and other supplies.
I love Daniel Day-Lewis and his superb acting but I am not a big fan of Winona Ryder and they unfortunately cancel each other out to make a passable movie. As for representing the Salem Witch Trials, it seemed to stick with the story even though it had to dramatize and add love triangles to make sure the audience does not fall asleep. I learned much about the Salem Witch Trials, such as, that a man was hanged and not just women, and that another was pressed with stones until he died. I would consider it good history because it gives you the events and in order of which they happened. I would hope after seeing this film that the audience was intrigued with the lies, deceit, and hysteria that it showed and will go out and do their own research and not take any Hollywood historical film at face value.
In this essay I will be comparing how power and control is portrayed in Shakespeare and heritage poetry. The play I will be using from Shakespeare will be Macbeth and the two heritage poems I will be using are Hawk Roosting and Ozymandias. William Shakespeare presents the ideas of power and control in Macbeth through Macbeth’s ambition to attain power. Macbeth acts as his own adversary shown through his paranoia and insecurity that ultimately leads him to be a corrupted individual because of his greediness to obtain more power. Shakespeare uses a good range of language devices to show Macbeths shifts in power throughout the play.
Comic Relief Date: 25/07/2011 Course Code: ENG4U Shakespeare often adds some comedy to his plays. It is generally known as ‘comic relief’ because the tragedy is so overwhelming with murders, ghosts, suicides and anguish. It gives everyone some breathing room before the intensity of the next act. Comic relief is a humorous scene, or incident occurring in the middle of a serious or tragic selection and intentionally designed to relieve emotional stress. At the same time to increase, and emphasize the tragic plot.
The Victimization of Cassandra and Hedvig For centuries, writers often have progressive ideas as to how innocent character(s) in their stories should suffer; however, it is with their creativity that they are able to convince us to see how pathetic these suffering characters are. Aeschylus and Henrik Ibsen are very similar in that respect. In his play, The Wild Duck, Ibsen choose Hedvig to be the innocent victim in the play’s conflict. Similarly, In Agamemnon, Aeschylus convey the same idea by having Cassandra as his play’s victim. Likewise, both Hedvig and Cassandra share common consequences, torture (not just physically but mentally) and in the end both walk hopelessly toward death.