Texts to use: Macbeth, Gattaca, The Little Mermaid and Legally Blonde Ambition. Everybody contains ambition. It is in every person in this classroom, at this school, in New Zealand and throughout the whole world. It’s the drive you have to win that race or to achieve with excellence on that essay that you have to […]

Question: describe at least one important technique used in the written text(s). Explain how the use of the technique created an impact. Note – Techniques could include figures of speech, syntax, word choice, style, symbolism, structure or narrative point-of-view. Introduction: William Shakespeare, a playwright in the 1600s, wrote a tragedy called Macbeth which was about […]

The action of ambition – ruins their lives, too much ambition, leads to sacrifice = humanity, morals, friendship, loyalty and honour. They lost their minds = sanity, lack of sleep, anger and paranoia. Symbolism – Blood = guilt. Dagger = Evil intentions. Stars = heave/god/fate/morals, light/dark. Golden round = crown being too big for Macbeth. […]

The action of ambition – ruins their lives, too much ambition, leads to sacrifice = humanity, morals, friendship, loyalty and honour. They lost their minds = sanity, lack of sleep, anger and paranoia. Symbolism – Blood = guilt. Dagger = Evil intentions. Stars = heave/god/fate/morals, light/dark. Golden round = crown being too big for Macbeth. […]

SCENE IV. The same. Hall in the palace. A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH, ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants MACBETH You know your own ranks, so you know where to sit. Sit down. From the highest to the lowest of you, I bid you a hearty welcome. Lords Thanks to your majesty.  MACBETH I […]

LADY MACBETH SOLILOQUY Lady Macbeth, while speaking her soliloquy, brings such thing as an evil liquid into context many times. When Lady Macbeth is speaking to the Witches or the “murdering ministers” in her soliloquy, she says ” That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe […]

Scene 1 Act 1 Characters – Witch 1, 2, and 3 Meter in Language: Shakespeare has made the witches in the very first scene different to the rest of the characters in the book as he has them speaking in trochaic tetrameter. This is different because Shakespeare normally has the characters speaking in iambic pentameter. […]

MY HYPOTHESIS: Text communication is more similar to speech than formal language MY QUESTION: Is text communication more similar to speech than formal language? Linguists have estimated there to have been over thirty-one thousand languages to have existed since the time that humans had first learned to communicate to one another. To communicate, people did […]

V1 – yeah V2 – Oh fanks for answerin ‘ geezer know what I mean? V3 – gimme dat. where you be fool making us rinse out our credit leavin’ messages and dat V2 – ay’ Mr Dawes is well on the warpath with you bruv yeah V1 – cause of da bag and dat […]