Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 1 scene summaries
Act 1 scene 5: This scene takes place after midnight and directly after the previous scene (Act 1 Scene 4). Hamlet gets to speak to the ghost of his father, in the darkness of the early morning. ” I am thy fathers spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night and for the…
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Act 1 Scene 2 ,Act 1 Scene 3 and Act 1 Scene 4 summaries
Act 1 scene 2: The scene takes place the morning after the ghost/apparition was sighted by the men. The king (Claudius) gives a speech, in which he explains the marriage between him and the queen (Gertrude), who is his the mother of Hamlet and the widow to his brother. ” with mirth in funeral and…
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Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1 summary
The scene starts off with two sentinels or guards . They are called Bernardo and Francisco , in this first part of the scene both of these men are apprehensive, not just because they cannot see each other, but also because they believe that there is an apparition around that area . The quotes “who’s…
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Now and Then
Thousands of footsteps are going past every minute. The tip-tapping fills the air. The voices fill the short period of rest in-between each foot hitting the ground. The sounds resonate for metres upon metres of this place and start to merge into each other. Walking down the alleys and paths you can hear snatches of…
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Out of the blue poem anthology
This poem is telling a story of a man on the 80th floor of the north tower during 9/11. the poem was written on the 5th anniversary of 9/11 . The north tower was the last tower to fall and the first one that was hit . The extract we are using is towards the…
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Mametz Wood Poem anthology ( not finished )
I am going to start with the historical context of this poem (and biographical information about the poet) .Mametz wood was where a battle or engagement happened during the first Battle of the Somme in 1916 . The 38th welsh division were the division in the British army that fought in this Battle, this battle…
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Satire
The police : Everybody loves them, they’re like one those good ol’ friends that punches you in the face, for no reason, possibly making you bleed and probably knocking you out. They are notorious for being some of the fairest, least racist people around. It’s rare to find a better, more honest person than a…
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Improving the practice question answer ( NOT FINISHED )
harper lee presents miss maudie’s viewpoint by using speech and the semantics of those words . Miss Maudie shows a religious or Christian view of Maycomb , she also says the people of Maycomb helped, which jem at first does not agree with.we can tell he disagrees with by using this quote “who in this…
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how does harper lee satirise the white community in chapter 22 ? ( not finished )
I am starting with how both communities react after the trial and how certain people react . The black community leaves food , lots of it the morning after the trial , eventhough they . This was the way that the black community could show their gratitude . They could not give money as it…
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who’s a mockingbird (classwork )
Tom Robinson – the reason why he is a mockingbird is because he helped Mayella ewell , without any reward or expecting anything in return , but was then taken to court for “raping” her. On top of this it was mayella trying to kiss him , not tom doing anything to her . A…
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