Author: beast

  • How does Shakespeare present intentions of Brutus and Cassius ?

    Shakespeare has used figurative language and verbs to show Cassius and Brutus intentions ‘To CUT the head off and then HACK the limbs’ This quote shows Brutus as a brutal and aggressive character. however from this I can infer that the character might not want to kill Caesar after all. This is because during he’s…

  • The what is the poet saying about love and pain? How does the poet present their ideas?

    ‘O the unrivalled stench of branded skin’ The use of O suggests that the event is dramatised or retrospectively. Looking back maybe in pain. 1st person This might mean the the poem is a little more personal and meaningful. Feeling the extreme of emotion ( love and pain ) the last stanza ( my butterfingered…

  • How does lee use details in this passage to present Miss Maudie’s view of Maycomb?

    Miss Maudie believes that Maycomb society is the ‘safest’ place in the world. I get this from the quote ‘We’re the safest folks in the world’. I put the word ‘safe’ in bunny ears as I believe that she is not truthful and on honest in what she says. I believe that she thinks that…

  • The Yellow Palm

    Task one: The poem has a very dark tone due to the topic it talks about. The poem talks about a war that is happening in Palestine and inexplictly implies that a bomb had hit the city and it’s dreadful impacts Task Two: The use of repetition in the pronoun ‘I’ and adverb ‘as’ creates…

  • How is hyprocrisy shown in ch.24

    In chapter 24 reveals a new character by the name Mrs Merriweather. She is a prime example of hyprocrisy in this chapter ‘The poverty…the immorality…the darkness (towards the Mrunars)/ Oh child, those poor Mrunars’ ‘That DARKY’S wife. Tom’s wife, Tom-‘ These two quotes where taken from different points of the chapter, they show the two…

  • Ch.22- How has Harper Lee shown the change in the childrens after the trail?

    Jem starts to realise how racist and unfair the Maycomb society is. He begins to see the ugly truths come out as the place he thought was home begin to torment and abuse his father mentally and physically. There are many signals to the change in the childrens characters ‘ I used to think that…

  • How does Harper Lee influence our feeling towards Mayella

    In chapter 18 we are introduced to the victim, Mayella. She is put up on the stands after her father. Harper Lee gives off little hints that Mayella is smarter than her family; she can read, she is the eldest of the chirldren. And because of this we begin to feel a little sympathy for…

  • How does harper Lee prepare us for the trail Ch.16

    Harper Lee prepared us for a unfair and brutal trial for Atticus , Tom Robinson and the black community. This is done through many different characters and metaphors ‘Roman circus’- Ms Maudie (the day of the trail, description of the courthouse) this quote is said as Ms Maudie justify’s why she will no be attending…

  • How is Calpurnia’s identity shown in Ch 12 of TKAM?

    Calpurnia is shown to be a woman who has lost culture or her identity. This is shown throughout the chapter as we begin to discover more about her personal life. She has a son, Zeebo, and grandchildren, as well as her lack of knowledge of her own birthday. We begin to feel sympathy for her…

  • How does Harper Lee present courage in Ch.11?

    At the begin of chapter we are introduced to a new character called Ms Dubose. Harper Lee uses this character to show courage throughout the chapter but at first we do not realise. This is because at the beginning of the chapter. Jem and Ms Dubose have a bit of brawl between each other (…