Early on in the play (Act 2 Scene 3) the audience enjoys the jovial atmosphere alongside the characters until Malvolio abruptly ruins the mood. “Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?” Malvolio seems to relish scolding Sir Toby and the others as he includes the simile “gabble like tinkers” which proves he has taken the time to select the right words to insult them with. The audience dislikes him for disrupting the fun of the scene whilst it provides a specific motive for the conspirators to plot his deception. Shakespeare uses one detail about Malvolio to instantly turn the audience against him: Malvolio is a puritan. At the time the play was written, puritans were not popular with the general public because of their miserable rules against most forms of entertaintment.
‘Is Così more about love than madness?’ Sarah Smith Louis Nowra’s play Cosi focuses deeply on the madness of each character, what makes them mad, how they are truly insane, but throughout this play we unfold a side to each of them that shows the audience how much love is incorporated in their lives. It may not be the typical type of love as in love for another person, but it just may be the love they have to something they care about in Roy’s case the theatre and performing, In Cherry’s case it was love at first sight between her a Lewis and for some it is definitely the love that each shares with another person. Cosi is beyond doubt about more than love than madness. Roy seems to be the over the top, dramatic, mad man that he is. But through madness
This, to the audience, will seem ridiculous and unnecessary creating a subtle sense of humour. Nearing the end of Act 2 we learn about Viola’s plans for her disguise in order to appear less vulnerable. She then goes on to say ‘thou shalt present me as an Eunuch to him’ which will yet again appear an overdramatic act to the audience. In act 3, Sir Toby Belch is introduced into the play. Shakespeare’s wit and word play used even for simply just the names of the characters can build up laughter.
However, the most incredible of all these passages is found in Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 164-177, where Macbeth contemplates his inner thoughts to himself. Here, Macbeth speaks to time, providing the audience with a more in depth image of its importance. Also, Macbeth’s diction is short and fierce, further pushing the play’s theme of insanity slowly taking over Macbeth’s mind. Lastly, the passage faultlessly illustrates Macbeth’s fatal flaw of ambition slowly ruining his inner being. With these things taken into account, it will be effortless for one to show just how lovely this passage is
Cleopatra's character is constantly being questioned throughout the play and we never are able to fully grasp her nature. During the Jacobean period, the people would have had many preconceptions about the characters of Antony and Cleopatra, and Shakespeare plays with these to shock the audience. Even today, the same methods are used as many people are familiar with the historical story. What Shakespeare has done, is to romanticize the story and include numerous stimulating and exciting twists. At the beginning of the play, we get an introduction which fulfills the audience's previous views of Cleopatra.
While the settings and theatrical elements of the two plays may differ, one thing that I found particularly interesting was the amount of similarities between John Proctor and Willy Loman. Since both plays are tragedies, one can expect to find themselves connecting with the main characters to the point of having a sense of pity towards them when the final curtain falls. The main purpose of both Death of a Salesman and The Crucible was to showcase some major problems within American society. In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller attempted to show the impossibilities of the “American Dream”. In The Crucible, he illustrated society’s disgruntlement towards others and its proneness to hysteria.
His outfit is full of color and his hat has bells on it, like such of a jester. It is very ironic that he looks like a jester because Montresor is treating him like a fool. It is very evident that Poe took a lot of time to consider where ironic aspects could be put into the story so that the reader would understand what was happening. All of these ironic traits where part of background information of the story, they are all dramatic irony because the characters were unaware of them. Verbal irony is also a very important part in “The Cask of Amontillado”.
The blame for these events could be placed upon Cypris yet when reading the play Euripides uses the gods yet paints them to be cruel and petty. The reason for Cypris’ plot in the first place is because he “spurns sex and keeps clear of marriage” and converts her sister, which could be considered petty and jealous actions when the Gods are meant to be higher than mortals. This could be Euripides having a silent jab at the Gods existence as he wouldn’t have been able to do it openly because of the very strong religious beliefs in the ancient world. On the other hand he could be exploring human nature using the Gods as a medium for expressing how power overwhelming passion is for Phaedra that the only escape she feels is death and then later on Theseus’ grief over Phaedra makes him theoretically kill
In the play Hamlet acts mad. He is not crazy however but is merely pretending to be. Before he begins this act he tells Horatio and Marcellus what he is about to do. Polonius notices that there is too much sense in Hamlets charade for him to be truly crazy. Hamlet makes sure his uncle is guilty of murder before enacting his revenge.
Trincelo and Stefano seem most obviously to be buffoonery , and to have the sole purpose of providing comic relief following the intensity of act ii scene I. indeed We meet Tricelo as he attempts to seek shelter from a brewing storm which may be interpreted as pathetic fallacy reflective of the growing dramatic tensions of the play . However for large marjority of a jacabein audience these two charcters are not only comedic but the most relatable. Trincelo sees Caliban and is both repulsed as well as curios of him unsure weather he is “ a man or a fish” . For modern critics who debate the role of Caliban tricelos reaction provides light into how Caliban may have been prevised at the time. This is becoue Tincelo and steffano are to put it simply ordinary people with ordinary views yet within extrodinary circumstances .