Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Touching the void – Chapter 1 (Beneath the mountain lakes) Summary
The chapter starts off with two climbers (Simon and Joe) on the foot of the Peruvian Andes, ready to start climbing the mountain, we are introduced to their friend Richard who they met in Lima whilst on their travels, Richard was invited by Simon and Joe so he could look after their belongings whilst they…
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Controlled Assessment – How do the studied poets and Shakespeare use literary techniques to show how people respond to forces in the world over which they have no control? (Complete)
The key question of how do the studied poets and Shakespeare use literary techniques to show how people respond to forces in the world over which they have no control is quite an interesting question to ask seeing how it allows the reader (Myself) and others to think deeply about not just what the characters…
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Do Not Go Into That Gentle Light By Dylan Thomas – Comparrison with Hamlet Soliloquy
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage…
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Comparison between Hamlet’s Soliloquy & “On My First Son” by Ben Jonson
Hamlet Soliloquy HAMLET: To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep– No more–and by a sleep to say we end The…
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What is “On My First Son” By Ben Jonson about
Original Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy. Seven years tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now! For why Will man lament the state he should…
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Drama – How does “This Flesh is Mine” relate to Greek Tradegy
I believe that “This Flesh is Mine” relates to Greek tragedy mainly due to its ending and the amount of people who die in the end, Mainly the guard while trying to rape Briseis and Achilles when he is driving away in his car and the car bomb inside kills him. The piece is also…
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Drama – Mine and Dillon’s Performance
Hello Everyone Mine and Dillon’s GCSE performance is now available to watch at http://white10d.teacher.edutronic.net/this-flesh-is-mine-final-performance/ You can also find other great performances by other students in my Drama GCSE class here aswell
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Drama – Reflection of my performance
When I look back at my drama piece I believe it was quite successful in a number of different ways, including the symbolism of the old versus the new approach to the piece which when I look back at the performance was very easy to look at and make a connection which meant that when…
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Drama – My Change in character
In the piece I changed my character quite late in the process of the work due to unfortunate circumstances , However I believe this worked in my favour because I found that by changing from Act 1 Scene 1 to Act 2 Scene 5 and Achilles to Agamemnon who as a character I understand more…
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Drama – Use of Props, Lighting and Sound in our piece
In the performance the main props was the mobile phone which was in the original script and we decided to keep in as it worked with the whole semiotics of the piece, it rings twice at the beginning which shows that Agamemnon is getting annoyed at his phone going off while he is working and…
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