... Most Schools teach his work most drama groups perform his work and you wonder is Shakespeare's work that brilliant. Many people carry around great expectations of how his masterpieces must be absolutely the best there is in its field and without having been in contact with any of his ... seen ever. Depending on how a person's taste is oriented or how the performance is understood it would change the perspective completely. My personal expectations were probably looking at a masterpiece something that would just blow me off my chair and stay as a memory forever. b) The set and during the...

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... experience, she is able to act out her cross-dressing character perfectly. She knows how to adjust her body to the different characters. The chemistry between Paltrow and Fiennes is great. Paltrow speaks like a British heiress, and the constant close-ups accent her expressive facial expressions. In Se7en, she plays a Tracy Miller, a gentle housewife who is not able to cope with ... Freeman show us how close she is to falling apart. Paltrow plays the frail character brilliantly. In sharp contrast to her role in Se7en, is her depiction of Estella in Great Expectations. Paltrow seems right...

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... duplicity undermines innocence. In Othello, Shakespeare demonstrates how a loss of pride develops jealousy which impedes reason and rationality. Shakespeare discusses this concept as a response to the pervasive influences of the Great Chain of Being, a social paradigm which dictated hierarchical order for all forms of existence and pressured individuals to retain their status in the chain. Othello's eloquent, poetic language as he ... 'so much duty as my mother showed to youso much I challenge that I may profess due to the Moor my lord' in defence against Brabantio's anger demonstr...

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