Category: Communication
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Wilfred Owen – William Shakespeare – English Controlled Assessment draft
How have extremes of emotion expressed in Titus Andronicus and selected WWI poetry been effectively created by the writers’ craft and performance of the drama text on stage, on screen and in the classroom? Poems and Shakespeare are two sides of the same coin; both crafted to be performed vocally producing high amounts of emotion…
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Notes on Emotion: Titus Andronicus &
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. ! No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,— The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling…
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Exam preparation: Question 3 H/W
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Exam preparation: Question 2 H/W
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Theme study speech V1
“Hi my name is Soren and I am here today to talk to you about reality. But before I get on to that I’m going to state my goal in this presentation. My goal is to even at the slightest get you to doubt something, that you knew once to be true. Your goal in…
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Act 4 scene 1 and 2
Young Lucius flees from his aunt Lavinia, fearing that she is crazed. In fact, she merely wants to get to the book he is carrying, Ovid’s Metamorphoses. She turns through its pages until she reaches the story of Philomela and Tereus (Tereus rapes his sister-in-law Philomela and then cuts off her tongue so that she…
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Titus Andronicus Quotes
Key Quotations Act 3,Scene 2 – Titus in his house With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine Is left to tyrannize upon my breast, Who, when my heart, all mad with misery, Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, Then thus I thump it down. To Lavinia. Thou map of woe, that…
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Summary of Act 2
Away from the hunting party, Aaron buries a bag of gold under a tree. Tamora finds him and urges him to make love to her. However, Aaron is ruled by vengeance and asks her to deliver a letter to Saturninus. The couple is spotted in their physical intimacy by Bassianus and Lavinia, who proceed to…
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Act 2 scene 1
Aaron speaks his thoughts to the audience in the form of a soliloquy. The soliloquy is about the fact of Tamoras rise to power in Rome. Aaron tells of his secret love relationship with Tamora and how her position in the Roman hierarchy is his rise to power however he also speaks of Tamora as…
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Titus Andronicus Question Aaron’s Soliloquy
What does the figurative language that Aaron uses in his soliloquy at the beginnings of Act 2, Scene 1 suggest to us about his underlying motives in the play? In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. – LEO TOLSTOY, The Kingdom of God Is Within You In Act 2, Scene…