‘I just want to be perfect’- Nina Sayers. But who decides what perfection is and when you have reached this goal? Seeking perfection is a disease of our time, a modern disease unobtainable and unrealistic. In his tragedy, Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky manipulates the traditional tragic character conventions of hamartia, peripeteia and anagnorisis. He does […]
Scene one: In the British camp near Dover, Regan asks Edmund if he loves Goneril and if he has found his way into her bed. Edmund responds in the negative to both questions. Regan expresses jealousy of her sister and beseeches Edmund not to be familiar with her. Abruptly, Goneril and Albany enter with their […]
Scene one: Edgar talks to himself on the heath, reflecting that his situation is not as bad as it could be. He is immediately presented with the horrifying sight of his blinded father. Gloucester is led by an old man who has been a tenant of both Gloucester and Gloucester’s father for eighty years. Edgar […]
Act one: A storm rages on the heath. Kent, seeking Lear in vain, runs into one of Lear’s knights and learns that Lear is somewhere in the area, accompanied only by his Fool. Kent gives the knight secret information: he has heard that there is unrest between Albany and Cornwall and that there are spies […]
Scene one: Act II begins with a return to the secondary plot of Edmund, Edgar, and Gloucester. In Gloucester’s castle, Gloucester’s servant Curan tells Edmund that he has informed Gloucester that the duke of Cornwall and his wife, Regan, are coming to the castle that very night. Curan also mentions vague rumors about trouble brewing […]
Inciting indecent: Splitting (King Lear) his kingdom into three and stepping down from the role of king (but wanting to keep his title. And then getting angry at his daughter Cordelia for not confiding to his methods then banishing her. “Nothing will come of nothing”- King Lear Old King Lear has decided to retire and […]
Exposition/protasis: a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. (The beginning of a story) Inciting Incident: The inciting incident is an episode, plot point or event that hooks the reader into the story. This particular moment is when an event thrusts the protagonist into the main action of the story. (Key event that starts the story off) Rising Action/epistasis: […]
The cotton stands tall and hopeful as the manor house slowly sucks the last of the auspicious light from its landscape. The house stands there worn and tired from generations of oppressing the white budded paddock that hides within its shadow. Alas it has no choice. Its feet are cemented to the ground, it can […]
When we process the ideas around prejudice the ideas that form in our brain are around sexism and racism. And very seldom do we consider the prejudice around refugees even though this prejudice has existed since the beginning of time. And just as people cant chose the colour of their skin or the gender they […]