Throughout the whole movie, I was kept on my toes. I always thought that Garcia Lorca’s murderer would have been Maria Eugenia’s father, the Colonel. The Colonel always struck me as shady and suspect. I did not understand why finding out who killed Garcia Lorca was such a big deal to Ricardo, but once it was revealed that Ricardo’s own father was the murderer, I was shocked. I felt that the movie started off abruptly; I would have appreciated if they took a bit more time to speak more about the…
Scotland. And he was a man who had a hidden ambition for power and fame. He was both noble, and brave in his war between the King and the opponents in the battle. He was rewarded because he made impressive performance in the battle. After the war, three witches showed up in front of him, it was the point where he changed, in a bad way. The witches showed him his future by prophecy; he becomes obsessed with speeding up the anticipated coming into power.…
As indicated by a source, “conflict is the essence of dramatic storytelling. Conflict may manifest as external or internal. External conflict usually involves the protagonist and the antagonist. In fiction, it is helpful to include a strong bad guy who offers opposition to the main character's drive”. In shakespeare’s play Macbeth, there was both internal and external conflicts. The essential topic of the way of insidiousness was tended to in both. The fundamental inward clashes…
Merlin clapped his hands together, but somehow, his hands coming together caused a deafening crashing sound, louder than the most stunning thunderclap Perceval had ever heard. The ground beneath Perceval’s feet shook, and with an upward glance, Perceval saw all of Morgane’s men were frozen in place, too. Now, Merlin and Morgane were the only people left with the ability to move. Merlin approached Morgane, and Perceval wanted to cry out for the man to stop, that Morgane would turn Merlin to dust…
Shakespeare begins the play introducing the dialogue of the 3 witches that plan to meet with Macbeth. Their conversation plant in the mind of the reader uncertainty and suspense. That beginning can be considered a wonderful way to catch the attention of the audience due to the fact that we start to question what the witches’ words all about are. Consequently, the reader learn about the personages. Once that characters are presented; conflicts are introduced as well. With every complication, we…
In the poem The Tragedy of Macbeth the three witches play a big part in the story. The witches are important figures that predict Macbeth’s fate and signal to the reader what is to come. After the witches told Macbeth that he would become king one day, Macbeth started to take matters into his own hands. The story of Macbeth is a poem written by Shakespeare in the early 1600s. The Tragedy of Macbeth is about Macbeth finding out that he will soon become king, then after he finds out he kills the…
Stage Directions are instructions or guidelines that inform the director and the actors how to perform pieces of a play in order to give it meaning, action, and emotion. These directions include how a character feels throughout the play as well as necessary facial expressions like sticking the tongue out or sobbing in tears or just watery eyes and even picking the nose. An illustration would be, a character mother telling her son, “Take that finger out of your nose,” and if the child isn’t…
In Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth, Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth after killing Duncan. He is traumatized by what he had done and tells Lady Macbeth of his fears about the guards awaking. In Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth there is almost no set or props, which makes the choices of the actors even more vital in being able to express what Shakespeare wanted conveyed by the characters. In Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Macbeth, Sir Ian McKellen’s use of volume and tone in his portrayal of Macbeth conveys Macbeth’s…
Vampires, first introduced in 1897 have traveled an extensive path into the modern world of 2015. A blood thirsty monster, avoiding garlic and sunlight, only being able to be killed by a wooden stake driven through the heart are all characteristics of the vampires found in 1897. Now a days vampire don’t burst in to flame at the touch of sunlight or have uncontrollable blood lust for human blood, but instead sparkle in the sun and “diet,” which entails that they feed on animals instead of humans…
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”, Eleanor Roosevelt. Throughout the story, the characters puts responsibility into their own hands and have guilt eat at their souls. Lady Macbeth is equally responsible as macbeth of the murder of king Duncan. “When Duncan is asleep...who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?(pg Act 1,scene 7,pg3) She makes the entire plan up to…