english - tempest and hagseed

paragph 1 - revenge (tempest)

thesis

human tendancy towards revenge can be overcome through compassion, demonstating the transformitive power of mercy. shakspere explores how mercy is the force that surrumounts revenge reflecting reniassance ideals of morality and order

1. [tempestous noise of thunder]

• pathetic fallacy and stage direction

• creates omnious tone, foreshadowds prospers consuming desire for vengage

• stemming from his brothers beytrayl and overthrow of his rightful positive as duke

• cautioning the audience of the destructive consequence of revenge

2. ‘my high charms work, mine enemies are all knit up’

• metaphoric declaration

• illustates how his control over the supernatural enables him to orchastrate revenge againts Antonio

‘plauge them all, even to roaring’

• his threat

• extent his pursuit of vengange begins to overshadow moral integrity, reduced his authroity to curelty rather than justice

• assertions positions in god-like role, relfect jacobean belifs of divine authority, simutaniously relfect danger of misuse

‘nobler reason’

• shakspere reoritents desire for revenage towards

• resonate wit christan values mercy and redepmtion

‘ rarer action is in virture than vengance’

• promoted by areials ‘human’ compassion. prospero declares

• where virtue and vengage emphasises how forgivness posivdes self fulfulment over revenage

‘ ill break my staff.. drown my books’

• change is further symbolises

• reflect humanisnt movement indicated peak character arc as he renounces revenge and embrances divine morality thereby exemplifying to audiences the restorative power of mercy.

PARAGRPAH 2 - revenage (hagseed)

thesis

conversley, atwood reimagines revenage throughugh a modern selcular lens, in Hagseed atwoods portrays revenge as a consequence of greif and self intrest highlighting how power can comprimise moral jutsice within a modern context to engance with contemporary audeinces

[suddent tempest]

• preserves the symbolism of the storm, but reimagines felixs revenage as pschologically driven

• embodies the emotional instability, creates a chaotic setting contrasting properso meticlously orchastrated revenge

‘enormous black cloud boiling’

• further, imergary of

• symbolising the destabilising force of greif and resonating w contemporary cocerns mental health issues

‘ shove it down the throat of that twisted bastard tony’

• felixs loss converts to vengage, evident in voilent metaphor

• dark humour exposes how greif manifests a destabilising desire for revenge, illustrating how profound loss correptions emotional pain into cruelty

‘tony you dont want to be in the news do you?

• felixs desire for revenge culminanites in his confrontnaily with tony as he used blackmain gathered from their elaborate prison performance to corerce tony to comply

• rhetorical question

• reveals psychological manipulation and dominanice, mirroing, yet subverting properos merciful approach.

PARA 3 - marginalisation tempest

thesis

depictions of marglisanlised individuals often reflect previalin systems of power while later persectivies invite the audience to critique the foundations of such heirachies.

second setnence (context)

influenced by the ‘age of discover’ era shaskpere frames caliban as a native figure highlightin imabelnce of power between colizer and colinized, reflexcting early colonial attitudes.

‘poinsinous slave got by the devil himself

• prosperos ephitet

• in repsonse to calibans attempted assult to miranda, degrades him to a dehumanised barbairan, rerived from racal anixities and mistrust.

‘slave’

• the label slave

• exposes the power imbalnece that deprives caliban of his automony, reflexting aurocentic colonical ideolhy which objectifed indigenois peoples, in line with the african slave trade

‘devil’

• the biblical allusion

• metaphorically depicts caliban as evil and corrupt, cirtqueing colonial tendancy to overlook the intrisic worth of the ‘other’ even when dissmised as primitive.

‘ moster’ steroytype

however, shaskpere complictae calibans ‘moster’ steroytye endowing hm with emotional complexity

‘isle full of noises sound sweet airs’

• the auditory imergery

• gains peotic resinaise as in iabic pentairor, form traditionally reserved for nobility, which ablified calibans voice shoawcasing his nuanced apprecatio for nature

link setence

this complexity disrupts prevailing assumtions of savergy and proviokes the audience to critique the binary of civisation and barbarism.

PARA 4 - marginalisation hagseed

thesis

atwood reconcepuaises calibans margilisation, ciritiqing shaksperes colonial endorsment of inequality, promting humanism throughugh prisoners engagement with the play

prisoners context

reflecting atwoods advocy for reform of prison systems in canda where she belived inceration should be prioritsing rehabilitation over purepunishment, resonating with candas 2013 prison refore debates

‘ hes poxy hes awesome, we get him’

• the psionsers enthusiastic remark

• forges an empathetic intertexual link drawing parallels to the shared marginalisation and echosing atwoods critique of the systemtic inqualities within incarceration systems.

‘ for once if tey lived, they loved themselves’

• felxs hyperbolic remark

• demonstates the trasformative power of poerfomancr and post colonial mentorship empwers the prisonerswith self worth and identity

• contrating properos opressive control of caliban

link

dissocance highlight how felics involvment cultivates empathy for the prisoners alighing with atowoods advocy for reform.