Many people might have something that represents the nativity when baby Jesus was born. The scene is the figurines of Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus. Joseph was the earthly father of Jesus and Mary was the mother of Jesus. Also, the houses can be decorated with Christmas lights and verses of the Bible. Major theater and film shows are great ways to celebrate during Christmas too.
As there is such a huge supernatural element to this scene and it is so carefully attached to Lady Macbeth in this scene, it makes me question how the Elizabethan audience would have reacted to her character. As we know they were such a deeply religious, superstitious audience, I imagine that the idea of becoming possessed by ‘spirits’ would have made a huge impact on their psyche and their own moral judgement towards the characters and their behaviours. Even a modern audience is shocked by the graphic imagery of the ‘knife’ and the ‘wound’ in this passage but the Elizabethan audience would have been particularly disturbed because James I, King on the throne at the time believed ‘sit upon God his throne in the earth and have the count
Functioning societies can be thrust into turmoil over an imbalance in these factors as evidenced in King Lear by William Shakespeare and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. By examining King Lear and The Handmaid’s Tale one can see that sexual desire, the need for more power and the desire for violence are causes of serious corruption but must be satisfied to maintain balance in any society.
Priestley had witnessed the horrific events of both wars and realized the people in upper classes were still snobby and pessimistic when it came to changing their views in the class system. In creating Sheila's character, Priestley was hoping the audience would take on board his powerful message. Priestley uses a range of interesting techniques in order to present Sheila's change, the most obvious methods he uses is language techniques to convey certain messages. At the beginning of the play, Sheila is presented as a stereotypical middle class young woman - immature and spoilt. Priestley brings this out through Sheila's character through her childish language such as "I'm sorry Daddy and "go on Mummy".
Jarret McCallister Ms. Smith W131 27 February 2013 Critique: “A Mother’s Day Kiss-Off” In “A Mother’s Day Kiss-Off,” author and editor of Vanity Fair, Leslie Bennetts, starts out criticizing society, specifically men, for being unsympathetic towards the sacrifices women make. She makes generalizations about the resentment that all women feel when it comes to being a housewife. Bennetts then contradicts herself by shifting the blame over to women for accepting the domestic role. She goes on to provide suggestions as to what women should be doing differently to advance their social status and gain more independence. By changing the main focus of her paper and making over-generalizations about the way that all women feel, Bennetts takes away from the effectiveness of her argument and weakens her overall credibility.
In the play, Mary’s announcement was a scene that presented how radical and out of hand the accusations of witchery had become, imperative to the lesson being taught through the story. Emotions ran high when Abigail, and the other girls following her queue, turned against Mary to preserve their
The Christmas tree in “a Doll’s House” symbolizes the mood of the play. In Norway, Christmas is an important family celebration, but the focus of the festivities and the opening of presents occur on Christmas Eve. So Christmas day is something of an anti-climax, which is paralleled by events in the play. The Christmas tree is a minor object of the play; it hasn’t any direct link to the plot of the play. However, the presence of the Christmas tree within the play is used by Ibsen as an instrument to symbolically express an intense personal experience, which cannot be expressed directly.
This can be shown in the ‘Proof of Marriage’ source as the phratry must accept that a child is legitimate, otherwise property will not be given to the son. However it can also be said that it is in fact wives who fear their husbands and not the other way round. In the Eurastophenes’ murder case, Euphilites laughed at his wife when she suggested he ‘mauled the maid which could indicate women were in fear of how sexually controlling their husbands could be and how they could still get away with it. In the Naerea source is also shows men can be abusive to women with little to no consequence as Phrynion gets away with his abuse towards Naerea. You could also view the violence as a cry of fear and other controlling behaviour could emphasise that.
Her boisterousness and hostility is epitomised in the stage direction [She strikes him]. This indicates that Katherina employs physical abuse as a self defense mechanism against Petruchio. Such violent behavior was classed as shrew-like and highly unorthodox in the Elizabethan Era, particularly towards a male suitor of a high social class. Thus, Katherina challenges the values of courtship and marriage, in a way that is relevant to her society. Correspondingly, in 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat rebels against the social expectations of the permeating values of courtship and dating.
In the 1690’s, the character of Abigail Williams would be dreadful and obnoxious. Her actions of adultery would deem her imprisonment not only for herself, but for John Proctor. It is her latter actions of perverting the court of Justice which would sentence her for imprisonment in the 21st century. Her criminal offence and her personality of being malicious and wicked, however powerful and mature, allow the audience to appreciate the story and realise that she is pivotal in the play. She is a character who appears in critical parts of the play, and adds crucial information by her language, gestures and actions.