The structure of Abigail's Party is formed of two acts, opposed to Shakespeare's five acts. This reflects on the fast-paced development of different time periods. In modern days there is no need for as many breaks, so understandably Abigail's Party will not consist of as many; this suggests that society nowadays has a shorter concentration span. This structure is also very important in the contrast of social structure from Shakespearian times, to modern days. Back in the 1600s Shakespeare wrote plays that would specifically please the Monarch, as there was more pressure to gain acceptance; his comical plays would restore Social Class in the form of marriage.
Choices affect life style. What is the purpose of Macbeth? In both Macbeth and Great Expectations, we are presented with a character whose choices shape the plot and direction of the story. In Macbeth, it can be argued that Shakespeare uses Macbeth’s choices in order to deliver a moral lesson – that crime does not pay. It can be suggested that Shakespeare presents this character in a negative light throughout the play in order to have the audience view his choices and actions negatively too.
Explore the ways disturbed characters are presented in Shakeapeare’s Macbeth and Browning’s My Last Duchess, The Laboratory and Porphyria’s Lover. This is essentially a “use of language” essay, you need to show HOW the disturbed natures of the characters are conveyed, not just say how they show themselves. The essential point of this essay is to demonstrate what Shakespeare and Browning DO to convey the disturbed nature of the characters – not just saying what disturbed things the characters say or do, but what poetic and dramatic techniques the authors use to show their distrurbed natures. You MUST use quotations to back up every point you make. If you are hoping for the highest grades (B and above) you must make comparisons between the characters in the poems and Lady Macbeth.
Find out the meanings allotted to the murder of a king in the plays of the time. We are helped to understand his actions and motivation by his soliloquies and some things which he tells Horatio. • A SOLILOQUY is an introspective speech, usually in blank verse, delivered when the speaker is alone on the stage. It is used by the playwright to reveal a character's innermost thoughts. (soliloquy means “speaking alone”) Study Questions The causes of Hamlet's desire for revenge At the start of the play, Hamlet's
Both Macbeth and The Destructors explore the theme of desires. However, the structure of Macbeth and the Destructors are very different as Macbeth is a play and The Destructors is a short story. William Shakespeare uses soliloquies to tell us what Macbeth is thinking so we always know what his desires are and what motivates him, this would have made it easier for the audience to follow Macbeths train of thought during the play. In The Destructors we never know what T is thinking because Grahame Greene has written the story in the third person. This makes it harder as a reader to infer what T’s desires actually are and what his motivations are.
However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself. When Nick and Lucy denounce him for doing a play about love, by declaring that ‘only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity’, Lewis is able to realise that love and friendship is more important than politics. He learns about the importance of friendship, clearly evident, that he attends the moratorium, helping the patients prepare for their performance with an additional rehearsal. Lewis also finds strength later in the play, which he was devoid of to begin with . At the start, he is overwhelmed by the patients such as Cherry, Doug and Roy by their 'crazy' behaviour.
This means that men were more dominant then the women and this is reflected in the play. This may put off some modern readers as the role of the female characters within the resolution would be problematic for them. Richard Ornstein (1986) summarised the play by saying it “is warm as well as witty, and compassionate in its view of human frailties and limitationsWith all that said is much ado still a good comic resolution? Much Ado’ has a good comic resolution the audience feels much happier at the end of the play than the reader finishing the book. The reason for this is the fact that you feel a part of this little world that is on stage and you watch each scene on stage being performed instead of imagining it in your head whilst reading the play.
The play Macbeth, a Scottish tragedy written in the 17th century by William Shakespeare demonstrates that guilt cannot be lessened by alternative action nor by even the most determined effort to erase the essence of conscience by actively seeking denial and change. Macbeth constantly misunderstands his conscience and guilt as a case of fear. Thus, his way of dealing with his guilt and conscience is to face it openly by committing more crimes, and this only produces added disgrace. On the other hand Lady Macbeth is fully aware of the basic difference between fear and guilt, and she attempts to prevent the onset of the latter by first denying her own sense of conscience and then by focusing her attention upon the management of Macbeth's guilt. These acts of internal repression do not work, and, once her husband has departed to the field of combat and she is left alone, Lady Macbeth assumes the very manifestations of guilt that have been associated with Macbeth.
As the play progresses, it is evident that Macbeth is tempted by the witches and has become evil by the catalyst of their powers. The reader recognizes the mental weakness Macbeth really has even though he has power in ambition. The varying points of view of a play give the author more power for audience to become involved with the actions on stage. For example, Macbeth in one of his soliloquies says whole heartedly, "I am his kinsman and his subject," about the thoughts of killing Duncan only to be later plauged by vision of "thy blade and dudgeons gouts of blood." This first person point of view allows the audience to know Macbeth's thoughts that no other character in the play can.
Automatons and the Pursuit of Happiness Throughout his most acclaimed play Our Town, playwright Thornton Wilder accused the American population of “sleepwalking” through their lives, and losing touch with their true passions. Wilder even admitted that his Pulitzer Prize winning play was “an attempt to find value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.” Many criticized the play, saying that Wilder never achieved his venture. However, if one looks closer at the underlying themes of the play, you can see that Wilder did indeed write something of a wake-up call to the automatons of the post World War 1 America. Thornton Wilder does accomplish this through the use of daily schedules for his characters, the quickness of life, and the abruptness of death. Thornton Wilder first approaches repetition of schedule in the very beginning of the first act, with such references to time: “…it’s about dawn” (Wilder 6), and the