The film opens with an announcer on a TV set describing the situation as we enter the film it's almost like the opening of a popular TV show: "last week on Dawson's Creek." ... William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona Beach; a violent modern city of guns, money and greed. ... Although it will probably not be considered a classic at par with the Zeffirelli version, I liked this film a lot more than the stiff, Coles Notes version the Italian director served up. ...

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The conclusion of the play serves to highlight that acts of deception have severe consequences as all injustices are resolved through poetic justice. ... In King Lear justice is served when the punishment of the characters exceeds the crime; whether that is death or torture, the knowledge and compassion that the character gains has an everlasting effect on their life. ... Upon these eye's of thine I'll set my foot... ... It is also a clear example of a spiteful act of anarchy where justice is yet to be served to Regan and Cornwall. ...

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This final impacting speech serves as the climax of the play and supports the suspense of Hamlet's actions, and the excitement of Claudius" well-deserved death. ... This is contributed mainly to the set-up of the play. ... Shakespeare creates this suspense by the set-up of the play. ...

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However, through the use of violence, Shakespeare not only serves the purpose of lending the play to the gothic genre, but the quantity of violence works as an effective catalyst in order to unease the audience. ... Shakespeare purposely uses violent imagery to set up the audience for future events in Macbeth: King Duncan's death. ...

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Both these plays involve a shipwreck, and the storm that causes the shipwreck also served to redirect central characters into fresh lifegiving pathways, the same role the storm in Away played. ... This technique is demonstrated by Gow as his play is set in the summer of 1967/68, The Vietnam War. ...

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They begin taking buggy rides together, despite the disapproval and gossip of the town's people, who set the cousins on her. Why a Yankee, well wouldn't that just serve her father right for leaving her alone in this cruel world. ...

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Shakespeare sets the speculation of the audience further adrift by having the second murder occur off stage as well. As Macbeth expresses false reasons for killing the guards, the elaborate words he wields serve to sway the spectators views again, "Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruins wasteful entrance; there, the murderers, steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers unmannerly breached with gore. ...

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Foil- contrasting person or thing, sets off, enhances another. ... Setting: Wearing Elizabethan attire but set in pre-Christian Britain. ... Kent comes to Lear in disguise asking to serve him. ... Cornwall gives Edmond right to serve 4 him, his trust. ...

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Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot- (3.7. 71-72). ... In the end Goneril and Regan pay for the damage they have done and justice is served. ... The end of King Lear was a very dramatic tragedy but justice was served and everyone in the play went their separate ways gaining something out of the whole story but losing a lot also. ...

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In "Titus Andronicus," playwright William Shakespeare creates a political system paired with a delicate social order, dictating the story's set hierarchy. ... When Tamora's son Demetrius admits his feelings for Lavinia, Titus' daughter, Aaron berates him saying that it seems all he needs is "certain snatch " to "serve his turns ". (2.i.95-96). ...

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The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamletcharacter. ... The ghost ask Hamlet to seek revenge for the Kingdeath and Hamlet is thus propelled to set into action a series of events that ends in Hamletdeath. ...

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The conversation between the ghost and Hamlet serves as a catalyst for Hamletlater actions and provides insight into Hamlet character. ... The ghost ask Hamlet to seek revenge for the Kingdeath and Hamlet is thus propelled to set into action a series of events that ends in Hamletdeath. ...

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Oedipus, however, does not even think twice that it is himself who he wants to serve this punishment. ... His play is so beautifully crafted that it coincides the rules set by English standards even today. ...

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The jealousy sets him on a destructive course where he betrays the trust of his half brother and father. ... Due to the fact that he is utterly compelled to serve the King, Kent disguises himself as Caius, in the hopes of serving his friend once more. ...

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I follow him to serve my turn upon him (Act 1, Scene 1)". ... Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice. ... Set you down this, and say besides that in Aleppo once, where a malignant and a turbaned Turk beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcisèd dog, and smote him, thus (Act 5 Scene 2)." ...

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" ( II, i, 69-71) Macbeth murders Duncan in the darkness at night to hide the crime, since night serves as a blindfold. ... It is set at night, in the dark where all of the evil, bloody actions occur. ...

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For instance, when he first finds out that his uncle Claudius murdered his father, Hamlet responds with the thought of immediate vengeance, proclaiming, "The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,/ That ever I was born to set it right!" ... When Hamlet finally serves justice by killing Claudius, the deliberation of the thinker and the rashness of the doer, are finally united in an action both wise and virtuous. ...

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She was seen as the symbol of goodness and mercy set against a background of moral decay. ... It served to emphasize the difference in knowledge and experience between Miranda and her future husband. ...

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