... intelligence or ignorance simply by how they speak. When Shakespeare writes dialogue for an intelligent character such as Hamlet, he writes with a vast vocabulary and proper grammar. "It goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave overhanging firmament, this majestically roof, fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me ... but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors."" Hamlet is shown, through Shakespeare's diction, as an intelligent and well educated prince. He uses words like disposition and promont...

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... that when one observes something in contrast to its opposite, it exaggerates the characteristics of both. Oftentimes in literature, characters are presented as complete opposites or foils to one another to highlight both characters' traits and to enrich their impact on the reader. In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus and Cassius are opposites or foils to one another ... with Cassius at the Feast of Lupercal and Brutus is asking Cassius why he is asking him if he fears Caesar: " But wherefore do you hold me here so long? What is it that you would impar...

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... of his personality. Shakespeare's writing is very clever here and it is a very powerful way in which to introduce Antony as Shakespeare is giving the audience clues to the type of person Antony is but will unravel how the clues piece together later on in the play. Cleopatra seems to give Antony the opportunity to let himself become changed as you can tell by the quick change ... in Rome like he has lost his wife there and so realises that he should start to appreciate it. When Fulvia was alive, Antony often wished her dead. Now she's dead he wishes her alive once more "we wish it ours a...

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... created tension that truly enhanced the emotional intensity of the situation. The bitter and callus tone of Hamlet as he uttered; "That ever I was born to set it right", revealed a side of Hamlet that had not been seen before. Shakespeare's way describing the situation in the dialog conveyed the extreme hatred felt by Hamlet. What made this moment in the play so powerful was ... provided some insight about them. Gertrude, when at the funeral of her first husband, wears all black, formal clothes. However, when she is with Claudius, she wears younger-looking clothes, like those that a you...

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... In act three, scene two, of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" the indignant people of Rome want to know why Caesar has been killed. Marcus Brutus has just given the people a legitimate excuse for his murder indignant, but, as it is clearly shown in "Julius Caesar," it is always not the man who has ... Antony, convinces the emotion driven crowd that Caesar is a wronged hero. By stating his personal view as if it was fact and the conspirator's views as though they were nothing more than misguided opinions. He delicately approaches the fickle crowd by addressing them as "friends" (line 73), and...

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... the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she means. Thus, in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as "honorable men- he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be trusted. Dramatic irony occurs in a play when ... Rex, in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, a fact the audience has known all along. PART II 1. In chapter one, Forster describes the Pensio...

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... not even notice. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is one of the most famous plays ever. It is a story about all the conflicts that came along after the murder of the famous Roman emperor Julius Caesar. Whether to do good or bad is the main conflict. Friendship and flattery are used as a mask for ... not do so good and loose many men. Cassius finds out that one of his best men has been killed and kills himself. Brutus feels like his army has been defeated and throws himself onto his sword and kills himself also. The battle is over and Antony obtains victory over Brutus ... blood in many pipes...

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