Writers craft
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- Created on: 12-01-21 12:03
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- Writer’s craft (language and dramatic devices)
- P1
- “Enter Bosola with a dark lantern” (2:3)
- “He … seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the lightbulb … she cries out as if the lantern was herself” (Sc11)
- P2
- “Me thinks ‘twas yesterday… I should dream it were within this half hour”(3:1) -acknowledgment of supposed passing of time (comedic)
- “My birthday’s next month”... “Honey, it’s Blanche’s birthday” (Sc7) -shows a passing of time
- P3
- “Alas, you shears do come untimely now to clip the bird’s wings that already flown”- act 3 scene 2
- “power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens”
- P4
- Use of echo in (5.3)“Oh, fly your fate”“Thou art a dead thing” Foreshadowing of Antonio’s fate, which cannot be changed. Heightens tragedy as Antonio, embodiment of the Renaissance man, meets a cruel end
- The streetcar (Sc1)“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called cemeteries and ride six blocks to get off at - Elysian Fields!” Representation of Blacnhe’s journey and therefore, the tragedy that awaits
- P1
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