Based on the short initial scene of Act IV, is it unclear if Gertrude truly believes Hamlet is mad or not. ... The comic interlude featuring the two gravediggers at the beginning of Act IV serves several purposes for the play. ... More importantly however, this scene serves to portray a different outlook on death for Hamlet in which it is clear the both nobleman and ordinary people are the same, we all return to dust after our lives have ended. In this manner the scene also equalizes the social classes portraying how both a nobleman or a servant end up buried below the same ground, being the s...

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The full fury of the guitar is only unleashed at the interlude and when the vocals come in. In the interlude, the guitar wails were played to sound like sirens. The guitar solo had a hypnotic, cyclic riff in the interlude. ... The riff is also repeated at the interlude and at the closing segments of the song. ... "Liar- is a song derived from the angry punk scene of Great Britain and "What's My Age Again?...

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The short play has two scenes, one about a month before the murder, when Beckett returned to Canterbury from the 7 years of exile in France, and the actual murder itself. As an interlude between them stands Beckett's Christmas Day sermon from that year, and the second scene also includes an interlude in which the four knights who killed Beckett plead their case to the audience. These interludes are in prose, and the rest of the play is verse. ...

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Perhaps we assume it is the final scene, but only because it is the last option with which we are provided. Why could it not be the first scene, resulting in Lola's death, and therefore making the next two vignettes impossible? ... The director's most obvious theorising occurs in his use of red-tinted scenes, bedside interludes between Lola and Manni that occur outside the time and motion of the film's immediate action. ... Lola begins the first scene wondering aloud if Manni loves her. ... In the second red-tinted scene, Manni questions Lola's loyalty and faithfulness if h...

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Religious Themes and Symbols in "Good Country People" At first sight, "Good Country People" is nothing more than a story about a young man named Manly Pointer who, in the course of a romantic interlude in the barn, steals the artificial leg of Hulga Hopewell. ... The barn scene brings to the reader the jolting realization that it is not her virginity that Hulga loses, but something of much greater importance; she loses her faith, her carefully constructed faith in nothing, which all through the story is symbolized by her leg. As the seduction scene in the hay loft proceeds, the reader anti...

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Before the final climactic tragedy occurs, there is a short interlude, a calm moment where Emilia and Desdemona discuss the situation at that moment in time. ... Oliver Parker uses cinematic techniques to represent this scene; lighting changes amongst the interspersed cut-scenes between the two women in Desdemona's bedroom and Othello alone by the ocean, these lighting changes create a different and unique atmosphere between the two locations. ... Another example of women rebelling against the patriarchy in Othello is in Emilia's "I will not" scene in 5:2. ... During this s...

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The word "criminal" has a tendency to echo in the mind unpleasantly. It carries in it's definition cruelty, ignorance, violence, and hatred. Criminals are labeled, however, in countless numbers by all cultures throughout history. Playwright Henrik Ibsen, once accused of being somewhat "criminal" ...

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The high point of the scene comes with the arrival of Lady Brett Ashley accompanied by a group of extraordinarily handsome (and possibly gay) young men. ... An interlude occurs as Jake and Bill go to Burgette for their planned trout fishing expedition. ...

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The Flying Doctor is a tour de force for a comedian; except for one interlude when the lawyer takes over, he is in command of the stage for almost the entire play, and the part makes heavy demands on his verbal and physical agility, short though the text may be. Some critics have frowned on the urine scene, finding it below Moliere's usual taste. ...

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In the second major scene, Mr Snopes leads his son up the slope, away from the family at the campfire. ... P.176) The father's answer calms the child 's anxiety and the following scene is an idealistic one: for the first time, Abner appears human. ... But this peaceful interlude ends abruptly that evening with the mother anguished cry: "Abner! ...

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In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... This was acquired as a result of the play on the 'murder of Gonzago' (III. ii. 175-265): in Act III, scene i, the King displays his guilt to the audience of the crime committed; and after the interlude he delivers these self-condemning words: "O, my offence is rank: it smells to heaven; it hath the primal eldest curse upon it, a brother's murder.... In Act III, scene I, Hamlet delivers his famous "to be or...

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SCENE SUMMARIES AND NOTES Act I, Scene 1 The play opens late at night on a street in Venice. ... Iago quietly slips away from the scene. ... Act I, Scene 2 In this second scene, Iago reveals his scheming and treachery, as he applies it to the unsuspecting Othello. ... Roderigo and Brabantio soon arrive on the scene, with a number of armed followers. ... Act II, Scene 1 The scene shifts to Cyprus, about two weeks after the last scene. ...

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"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play," she tells the reader. ... In including these brief interludes, Bronte presents Jane as a real person, free from her "story ", which is in reality simply a narration within the larger context of Jane's speaking to the reader. ...

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Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven throughout the majority of the novel and is mainly the instrument of satire. In Captain Corelli's Mandolin, humour is used mainly to defuse situations of their threatening implications, providing the reader with breathing space when needed between certain events. Their main differences are ...

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That this was accepted by many, was partly because the war was seen as an adventure, and perhaps because the last war where there was mass recruitment was almost one hundred years previous, the majority of those fighting in the interlude being well-trained career soldiers. ...

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Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely ...

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