... not, you elements, with unkindness". He started to get mad and calm himself. This can be seen that Lear could not control himself anymore; the sadness starts to tear his mind apart. In Act 3 Scene 4, when Kent asks Lear to enter the hovel, Lear replies that he can not feel the storm, his senses ... in a rage, in the hovel. Lear's curiosity turn to compare his own fine cloth to the mostly uncovered Edgar's body. "Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.-Is man no more than this? Consider him well.-Thou owest the worm no silk, the ...

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... 's inner thoughts and feelings, whereas in the film we hear and see the reactions. This is seen through the character's facial expressions, gestures and body language, this cannot be seen in Shakespeare's text MACBETH, as it left to imagination of the reader. Despite this contrast both Shakespeare and Polanski have ... . Once the King arrives at Macbeth's castle, Lady Macbeth tells her husband what to do. She spurs on macbeth and renews he goals even after he starts to question their plans "Looks like th"innocent flower but be the serpent under "t." (I, v, 65-66) This also shows Lady Macb...

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... like the rose, an object of beauty and desire that soon begins to wither and die. Faulkner, through great use of imagery, paints a vivid of a dying rose, Miss Emily. Faulkner starts the story by vividly describing the way in which Emily's family was revered in the town. Emily was given the highest respect in a time when " no Negro woman should appear ... highly respected to one that is seen as one to be pitied. After the death of her father and the desertion of her sweetheart, the town starts to "feel really sorry for her." Like a rose she starts to wilt from lack of nutrients. There wa...

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... easy to distort the nature of his experience, presenting in an organized and coherent form insights that in fact come to Lear in fits and starts. Lear gains many insights in act 3, but we cannot grasp what he is going through if we do not see how deeply unsettling and disorienting ... the heath at least momentarily unfits him for rule. Lear is agonizingly wrenched back and forth between images of the lowest degradation of the human body and images of the highest development of the human soul. Obsessed with his insights into the extremes of humanity, Lear understandably loses sight of th...

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... there is some sort of tension between the two main characters. Another important aspect in this first sequence is the body language. Body language is used in spoken language to aid in communication and in the film 'O', body language helps the veiwer to detect the darkside in a character. The veiwer obtains a clear understanding that Hugo is ... and wants to get back at Othello. The use of tone to emphasise darkness in a character is also evident when Othello turns onto the darkside and starts to become abusive. An example of this is evident in the sequence where there is a basketball shoo...

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... question next, say "a grave- / maker": the houses he makes lasts till doomsday" (5.1.56-59). After this point, Shakespeare has pretty much equaled out the negative with a positive. Still lightheartedly, he starts to move the play to a different mood. While the "gravediggers" working and chatting in a carefree manner, Hamlet and Horatio are eavesdropping on them. As "Clown 2" exits, "Clown 1" remains singing. Hamlet ... this fellow no feeling of his business? / "a sings in grave-making" (5.1.65-66). The reader has probably already thought about how the men could be talking so cheerily ov...

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... gives his kingdom to his daughters but still wants to be respected as king. Blind to truth about his daughters and Kent. Dies of stress and old age over Cordelia's body. Cordelia: Lear's youngest daughter. Disowns her after she doesn't flatter him. Married to France. Heavenly good. Contrasted by Goneril and Regan. Reunites with Lear, all forgiveness. Is killed, hung, in ... with Kent, giving up land, and Cordelia. G mad about crazy knights, gets rid of some. Strips Lear of more power. Lear curses G, goes to R's (3rd letter, "I"m coming to you"). Lear starts regretting banishing Cordelia...

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... an anti-hero who has no strength in mind and relies on Lady Macbeth. He may be a soldier on the outside but on the inside he is a coward. The play starts with three witches, of whom foretell the future of Macbeth, saying he would become "Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king of Scotland" (1.3.47-49) Macbeth is speechless, and ... well. He is now in a position of honour and people respect him. He is a lot stronger than he was, but he does not use this strength in good use. Paranoia starts to tease and play with Macbeth's conscience, he and his wife feel constant guilt and fear so th...

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... well and gives the reader a good understanding of the poem right of the bat. "Why is it/ just as we begin to go/ they begin to arrive." (line 4-6) Then Olds starts to compare the daughter to the mother. "The fold in my neck/ clarifying as the fine bones of her hips sharpen." (line 6-8) This image is important because it signifies that ... daughter is blossoming into her youthful stage of womanhood. Then Olds continues to describe this through the next image. "As my last chances to bear a child/ are falling through my body, the duds among them,/ her full purse of eggs, round and/ firm as...

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... Capulets. Romeo the son of Montague was friends with Mercutio, his cousin Benvolio and also his servant named Balthasar. Juliet who is the daughter of the rich Capulet. The play starts in a street in the city of Verona, Italy where Tybalt (nephew of Capulet) was starting to annoy Benvolio so they ended up fighting in the street until the prince came ... his because he wasn't going to let Paris stop him from sleeping with Juliet. Romeo slays Paris and enters the tomb to find Juliet. As soon as He finds her body he lays beside her and drinks poison to kill himself. Just as Romeo drank the...

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... ends tragically, usally with the death of most of the major characters. The death of who is thought to be the tragic hero, usually starts with the death of the soul then the death of the human body. We are introduced to death when we find out Brabantio has died, because of the love shared between Desdemona and Othello. Soon after finding ... in a bloody rage tries to kill Iago, and Iago in turn kills Emila. Othello's passions lead him to his bodily death. He killed himself and with the death of his body, the completion of the three levels of becoming a true and total tragic hero was com...

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... as an "excellent wretch". After Iago tells Othello about Desdemona's infidelity, Othello says: "I had been happy if the general camp, | Pioneers and all, had tasted her sweet body," (3.3.347-8). This comment reveals how Othello has transitioned from seeing his wife as an entity of desire and divinity, to seeing her as a sexual object. This language seems to ... says: " an old black ram | Is tupping your white ewe." (3.3.88-9). As Othello is caught in Iago's web of lies, he too falls down to Iago's level and starts using animal imagery to express his perverted outlook. The plummet in Oth...

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... to be rid of anything human-like or womanly or "too full o' th'milk of human kindness" (Act 1Scene 5 Line 16) so she could help commit something that starts the circle of death. "The devilish wife of Macbeth, whose ambition helps drive her husband toward the desperate act of murder." (CliffNotes Hardbound Literary Libraries: Shakespeare's Macbeth Page ... nothing but males." (Act 1 Scene 7 Line 72-4) Macbeth can see clearly that the way her heart is set up, that she should not have an once of estrogen in her body. Her verbal abuse is the base of the deaths that follow that of King Dunca...

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... and true love against them and lead(s) them to their gloomy deaths. In Macbeth, Shakespeare tells a story of how greed and superstition can lead to destruction and despair. The play starts off with three old witches talking amongst each other. They speak of how foul yet fair a day it is and how the next time they meet will be in the ... him in his sleep. Afterwards he would plant the murder weapon on Duncan's chamberlains and in the morning they will be blamed for the murder. The next morning when Duncan's body is discovered, Macbeth kills his kinsmen and easily obtains the position of ...

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... by being caring for her husband in his time of need? The first sign of weakness in Lady Macbeth's character is the morning after the murder of Duncan, when his body is found. When Lady Macbeth is told of Duncan's murder, in the presence of nobles and thanes, she exclaims in horror, "What! In our house!" all the while in complete ... . After the banquet scene Macbeth goes from strength to strength again, and having Macduff's family killed is a sign of this. As Macbeth progresses with his evil acts, however, Lady Macbeth starts to go mad. The final act Lady Macbeth is in is the fifth act. ...

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... his ear while he lay asleep. The ghost then instructs Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (1.5.25). This is the point in the play when Hamlet first starts thinking about carrying out the revenge. After much thought and debate Hamlet devised a plan to tell if his uncle actually did murder his father or if"...It is a damned ghost ... to be poisoned. The swords in turn were switched and Hamlet ended up with the poisoned sword meant to end his own life. Hamlet stabbed Laertes sending poison throughout his body but not before Laertes was able to stab Hamlet with the same ...

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... while he was talking to his mother in her room after the play. Hamlet heard something from behind the curtain and having so much rage built up inside him brutally starts stabbing Polonius, who he thinks at the time is Claudius, in hopes of avenging his father's death, to death. Then when Laertes hears the news about his father's death he ... father's death and at the same time Claudius can save his own. He has Laertes sword fight with Hamlet but on Laertes sword is poison that if injected into the body will cause immediate death. The two men then begin to sword fight. Hamlet is winning ...

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... the conspiracy in the first place, is at first hard to figure out if he would take action in good will or in greed for power. On one hand, he starts out by saying he doesn't want Caesar to have the power because it would turn out like the kings of past. He even convinces all of the other conspirators, including ... the crowd of citizens. Finally, when it appears that all is lost in battle and he finds his partner Cassius dead, he also runs upon his sword. Over his dead body, even the evil Mark Antony declares him to be "the noblest Roman of them all". Of all of the people involved in Wi...

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... true nature and characteristics of each individual character. They were able to see and at the same time sense the characters role in the play. Through the facial expressions and body language of the characters the audience was able to diagnose each scene and conclude the importance of the character in it. For example, in Act 2 scene 3 in the book, the ... when the play was written, witches, ghosts and anything that was paranormal fascinated audiences; therefore Shakespeare included these obsessions in his play. For example Act 1 scene 1 in the book, Shakespeare starts his play with the...

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... not even entered his head and the evil had no effect on him until he hears that he is Thane of Cawdor and the first prophecy had come true. Macbeth starts to think that if one came true then the others could to. However he tries to deny this and calls the thoughts "horrid image" ,"horrible imaginings". This shows that there ... more evil by the second and so it should come to no surprise to them that by the end of the play there is not an innocent bone in his body. The next scene shows Macbeth attending a formal occasion at Duncan's castle. Here he finds out that Malcolm is heir to the ...

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... truly conveyed the emotions that Shakespeare himself tried to communicate in his writing. "Zeffirelli's screen interpretation centres on Mel Gibson's deft portrayal of the intense emotions throttling the mind and body of this melancholy Dane" (Brussat, Spirituality and Health). Branagh, in his version flatly regurgitated the soliloquy as he stared at a mirror expressionlessly. The most important speech in the play deserved ... both movies, and Zeffirelli made the right choices. In fact, even the acting of the two actresses was quite different. Winslet was shown as completely lunatic in ...

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... it" (III, I, 79). This statement is saying that Brutus called Caesar ambitious, and if it was true it was a grievous fault. Before the funeral speech, Antony gives a speech to Caesar's body vowing revenge for what has been done "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man ... his point to the people in his speech by saying Brutus was wrong for calling Caesar ambitious and that the murder was not justified. It is a great speech and it starts the war between Mark Antony, Octavius, and Brutus, Cassius. It ...

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... makes the line noticable. I think that "from forth the fatal loins of these two foes" means that both Romeo and Juliet came from the loins (side and back of the body between ribs and hip-bones) of their parents, who are the foes of each other. The loins are fatal because in the end it is the parents who are the ... . The two rhyming lines at the end of the prologue are typical of a traditional sonnet. I think the ending to this prologue is extremely effective as it simply says the play starts now and this is simple enough for the audience to understand. Overall I think that that the prol...

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