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Mr. Jones –  The often drunk farmer who runs the farm before the animals stage their Rebellion and establish Animal Farm. Mr. Jones is an unkind master who indulges himself while his animals lack food. He represents the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas Romanov Il and Adolf Hitler, who forged an alliance with Stalin in 1939 but who then found himself fighting Stalin’s army in 1941.

Napoleon –  The pig who emerges as the leader of Animal Farm after the Rebellion.He is based on Joseph Stalin, Napoleon uses military force (his nine loyal attack dogs) to scare the other animals and consolidate his power. In his supreme craftiness, Napoleon proves more treacherous than his counterpart, Snowball.

Boxer –  The cart-horse whose incredible strength, dedication, and loyalty play a key role in the early prosperity of Animal Farm and the later completion of the windmill.

Many of these characters and events of Orwell’s novel parallel those of the Russian Revolution.

Lots of events in the novel are based on ones that happened during Stalin’s rule. The Battle of the Cowshed parallels the Civil War that occurred after the 1917 Revolution.

The Battle of the Windmill desc the U.S.S.R.’s involvement in World War II specifically the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, when Stalin’s forces defeated Hitler’s forces.

Then

When I first started school I was in Year 7 and I thought that the school was big and our headmaster was Mr Dastigir. My mum used to show me how to get to school because I didn’t know how to get there . I used to play in the playground then In Year 8 I started to spend my time in Miss Shaw’s room.When I first started LNS (London Nautical School) my uniform felt very itchy. I never spoke much back then and other boys didn’t as well because they were to scared to talk or bring out their phones out. In Year 8 and in Primary School Sports Day was a competitive competition with some winners and losers, I always liked to take part in one of the events and hearing the cheers.

Now

I getting everything now I think the school is getting smaller because I know where all the rooms are and and I know my way around the school. I feel more confident going on my own and talking to other people. Now I feel more independent and I’am use to my own jumper. This year we’ve got new teachers and a headmaster Mr McGregor.

Fate is the main theme of the play Romeo and Juliet, are destined to meet love and eventually die together. In William Shakespeare’s play he uses metaphors to communicate his ideas about fate. In an example Romeo tells God to direct him “He that hath steerage of my course, direct my sail”. Shakespeare describes Romeo as a ship and God as the captain of the ship. God controls Romeo’s path. Romeo is letting God control the path he follows and what it leads to.

Shakespeare uses “star-cross’d lovers” to show that their lives are already planned because their families hate each other and there is nothing they can do to stop this. Shakespeare makes the families the Montagues and the Capulet’s go against each other, their fate is from the start of the play and this shows that they will never be happy together and their relationship will end in tragedy.

Romeo and Benvolio are approached by a serving man who doesn’t know that they are Montagues who invites them to a party at the Capulet’s house. “This quote shows that Romeo has a feeling that something terrible will happen to him at the party.  Romeo is worried but still wants to go when he sees her and falls in love with Juliet thinking she is beautiful, Juliet’s feelings are the same as his for her.  She thinks he is handsome and even when the Nurse tells that he’s a Montague she still loves him. “Prodigious birth of love it is me I that must love a loathed enemy” This quote shows that even though he’s the enemy Juliet still loves him and doesn’t care what her family think.

Juliet from the start of the play is aware of the fate that lies ahead of her when she first meets Romeo she instantly falls in love with him and says if he’s married she will die alone. “My grave is like to be my wedding bed”.

Friar Lawrence is an important character in the play because he is the one that marries them even though there not suppose too. At the end of the play he fears that there wasn’t a solution to prevent them from dying, when he realises that Romeo didn’t get the letter saying Juliet isn’t dead, then he thinks she really is gone. Friar Lawrence doesn’t want to be responsible for the deaths and either God or fate has ruined their plan.

Romeo has more belief in Fate than the others after he kills Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin) he says “O I am fortune’s fool” This quote shows that he is to blame for the murder of Tybalt. Juliet loves Romeo so much that she would give up her family and marry him “be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”. This shows that she doesn’t want to be with her family anymore and wants to live her life with Romeo. When Romeo kills Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin), Juliet takes his side over her cousin that has been killed by her husband.

The moment that Romeo and Juliet meet is exactly the same moment they died because their showing their love for each other which is proved to be unbreakable, because neither the Montagues nor Capulets can stop them from being in love with each other.

Fate is continued to be shown is the fact that the Montagues and the Capulets don’t like to be involved in their children’s lives, when they are more involved than they can imagine. Towards the end of the play it is shown that Fate has settled all of the events in order to bring the two families together, Fate is the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death and their families’ new beginning.

Fate can be seen in the start of the play in the Prologue when it talks of “death-marked love”which shows that their relationship was going to end sadly. The prologue predicts the fate of Romeo and Juliet being unhappy because they can’t be happy together, and fate stops them sadly being together.

Romeo talks about fate more than any other characters because he understands the consequences of fate and what will happen to him, if he lets fate get in his way. Fate scares many of the characters but mainly Romeo because he is worried about the future and whether he will have romance with the person he falls in love with or will it end in tragedy without love.

“What happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death or defeat” In conclusion this definition of fate shows that fate can happen to us all and is very hard to stop once it starts, I think William Shakespeare used the theme of fate to get the reader to realise Fate happens to everyone and the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were the only thing to make the families realise to stop fighting.

Introduction

“How does Shakespeare present Macbeth’s deteriorating state of mind?”

Shakespeare presents Macbeth’s deteriorating state of mind by using different language devices.

In Act 1 Scene 4 King Duncan declares Macbeth to be in the next row to the throne but also to Malcolm

In Act 1 Scene 7 Macbeth is thinking a way to kill King Duncan and says “return / To plague th’inventor” this means that so whoever kills a king to gain the throne teaches his bloody a rule the kingdom. Macbeth knows that if he kills the king for the crown, another, hungry for power,  when he becomes king this will surely do the same to him.In his state of in this scene he feels greedy but at the same time feels confident about being king. In Macbeth’s state of mind of this scene is that he doesn’t think that killing Duncan was a bad choice.

Shakespeare uses metaphors to reveal Macbeth’s state of mind.

In this script this is how Macbeth feels when his wife was dead . He says that life is but a walking shadow he means that life fades away very fast.In his soliloquy Macbeth says “The last syllable of recorded time” which is the last word of a person’s life. These metaphors reveal that Macbeth’s state of mind is that he feels discouraged about life and hopeless,it flies by so quickly.

Shakespeare uses metaphysical features (Banquo’s Ghost) to reveal Macbeth’s state of mind.

In Act 3 Scene 4 when Macbeth and Lady Macbeth become rulers of Scotland they had a feast and then Macbeth suddenly sees Banquo’s ghost and he’s the only one that sees this and everybody else can’t. “Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockery, hence!”, This quote means that Macbeth realizes that the ghost isn’t real and tells it to leave him alone. In Macbeth’s state of mind in this scene is that he feels really guilty for killing Banquo and that his ghost his haunting Macbeth of guilt. another example of his hallucinations is when he sees a dagger before he killed Duncan.Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. He is saying that he is about to grab the dagger when he realizes that it was just a vision. This point in the play is that he isn’t sure about killing Duncan and the dagger is the way of showing him how to do the deed. Shakespeare also shows us on Macbeth’s mind is getting worse when hear the news of his wife dying. He thinks that life is empty, depressing, shallow, and filled with pain.

MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Pathetic Fallacy
the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

Example : Thunder. Enter the three WITCHES

Dramatic Irony. – When the audience knows something that the characters don’t.

MACBETH Act 1 Scene 7

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly: if the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases we still have judgement here; that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor: this even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice to our own lips. He’s here in double trust; first, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
deep damnation of his taking-off; and pity, like a naked new-born babe, striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed upon the sightless couriers of the air, shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, that tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’er leaps itself and falls on the other.

First I am his kinsman and his subject, so I always tried to protect him. Second, I am his host, so I should be slapping his murderer’s face, not trying to murder him myself.(How Macbeth regards King Duncan.)

Duncan has been such a good leader, so free of corruption, that his legacy will speak for him when he is dead, as if angels were playing trumpets against the injustice of his death. (How he sees himself for contemplating his murder)

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