Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How have the 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? Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in his lifetime, in this essay I am going to talk about his first: Titus Andronicus.…
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English lit: GCSE Controlled Assessment – Shakespeare
How have the 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? Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in his lifetime, in this essay I am going to talk about his first: Titus Andronicus.…
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Ok, so lets write a Poetry Analysis – Wilfred Owen
Just some – Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen, born march 18th 1893 was 21 years old when World War One broke out. Ironically he was author of this morbid poem. He died; 4th of November 1918, seven days before the end of the war which he wrote so much about. This fact gives a…
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Plan for Shakespeare – Poetry
Plan Section 1 Intro – Name all texts and authors explicitly. Describe the central themed emotion of the anthology and Titus Andronicus. Play being performed, both arise in strength through speech; the poem not usually being performed. Poetry sticking to that of a simplistic nature in choice of words whereas Shakespeare uses the full power of…
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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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