Act I, Scene I Location: Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Characters: Barnardo, Francisco, Horatio, Marcellus, Ghost of Old Hamlet. Events: The guards Marcellus and Barnardo ask a wise friend of Young Hamlet’s: Horatio to join them at night to see a recurring ghost that has appeared at the battlement two nights consecutively, hoping that he […]
Speech – Equality
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Combining sentences using subordinating conjunctions “The ecology of the planet collapsed” “The Thames finally ran dry” “All hope was lost” “The citizens ignored the warning signs” All hope was lost after the ecology of the planet collapsed. Now that the Thames finally ran dry, the ecology of the planet was lost. If the citizens ignore the warning […]
Simple Sentences: “The man walked down the middle of the road” “He beckoned me to join him” Relative Clause created from simple sentences: “The man who was walking down the middle of the road, beckoned for me to join him.” Other: “The lonely duckling, who longed for company, waited for what seemed like […]
Through miserable clouds like these, not even the strongest rays of sunshine have the power to brighten my city or my day. Beyond the gate of dusk and doom, my darkest fear awaits.
An example of fear and lack of trust and shown in Macbeth. An aspect of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth that is worthy of recognition and exploration is Lennox’s use of irony when expressing his beliefs of Macbeth’s guilt in Act III Scene VI. Lennox starts to piece the recent murders together by discussing them with the […]
Shortened version of “To be thus is nothing” “Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If ‘t be so, For Banquo’s issue have i fil’d my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I […]