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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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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• Grade Level: High School