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1. When Rebecca nurse says this it gives Mr Hale an ominous feel, so straight away you feel as if he is a bad person or maybe even evil or wicked because the fact that someone just fears his entrance is worrying.

Love and hate can be shown in various ways throughout poems like Robert Browning’s and the William Shakespeare. In my opinion, I believe that Robert Browning and William Shakespeare present love and hate similarly. They both show love and who how it can be affected so easily by hate in one way. To back up my argument I will show quotes from the Robert Browning poems and the Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar which is written by Shakespeare is a play that is known by many that showed us how mutual relationships can ruin a leadership. Brutus was always cared for by Caesar and Brutus always saw Caesar. Caesar was spitefully slayed by the conspirators fairly early on in the play. He was murdered because of his ambitions but for the love of Rome as said by Brutus in his colloquies. The conspirators were worried that Caesar was going to become too powerful and use the citizens as dolls as he sits in the rafters controlling them. We know this from Brutus’s colloquies after he killed him in Act 3 Scene 2. Brutus stated ‘had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?’ This quote portrays his love for Rome to the readers and the people of Rome. However we also know that part of Brutus did love him but his love for Rome overshadowed his love for Caesar and Brutus hated the way that the people of Rome were being treated which caused Brutus to make his decision.

This is the scene of Caesar death Shakespeare uses Caesar to show the final feeling of love from Brutus. ‘Et tu, Brute? – Then fall, Caesar!’ Caesar  asked Brutus this after the Conspirators struck their spiteful blows. wIf Brutus wants to deliver the final blow, then he is willing to die at his feet. From this one show of love from Brutus, we can observe his love for Rome and Caesar but also the hatred of his ambition and ideologies. This is why I believe that Shakespeare uses just one way to show how love can be affected by hate.

In my opinion,Browning’s writings show love and hate in a similar way to Shakespeare.‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is a poem that shows a mixture of combined emotions, including love and hate. The poem is set in a mysterious but little house near a small body of water. A man was resting in his chair when the most beautiful girl named Porphyria gently stepped into the room from the chilly outdoors. She sat next to the man and was portraying her utmost love for him. We as the readers know that the man has the same amount of love as she does,however the man’s love for Porphyria was too much, he was scared that he may not be able to keep her all for himself as she was so beautiful. ‘For love of her, and all in vain.’ he decided on the place to choke her with her own locks of long hair so he could have her forever.

‘Let death be felt and the proof remain: Brand, burn up, bite into its grace— He is sure to remember her dying face ‘ Browning uses the narrator to express harsh verbs such as ‘Brand, burn up, bite into its grace’ to allow the reader to develop a vivid imagery of hate. The  verbs describe to us that she wants this horrible death, to demolish all her “grace.” Not only because she wants to hurt her, but because she wants her former lover to remember his new girlfriend’s agonised “dying face.” The connotations of the verbs are clear – they bring a sense of evilness and hate and you would expect a quite cold-hearted person to exclaim these things. These verbs used, create a vivid imagery of hate and pure evil to the audience because they connote very harsh meanings of death, and when she states to ‘bite into its grace’ it means that she wants the girlfriend’s elegance to be ravaged and poisoned. However, some may argue the fact that there is love and hate shown but there is unrequited love shown towards the narrator. This is because the narrator wants pain to be felt to her former lover by creating a poison to kill his new girlfriend, although she still loves him there is less love shown towards the narrator.

A poem also written by Browning called “A women’s last word”,In this poem Browning shows a slightly off structure from his usual poems,in this case hate leads to love instead of visa versa, in a women’s last word hate has led to love. In the poem the women is trying to turn all the hate standing in-between her counterpart to become love and grow. Their is a quote in the poem , “what so wild as words are? I and thou in debate, as birds are, Hawks on bough! See the creature stalking while we speak! Hush and hide the talking, cheek on cheek!”. The speaker is making clear to her counterpart how all their arguments and disagreements are as wild as birds are, “hawk on bough”.

All of Browning’s poetry is written about love and they are all portrayed as dramatic love ie;soliloquies, they also are just showing love from a single point of view and exploring the extremities of love and the points that it can take us to in life. In Julius Caesar love is also shown in the same way and Shakespeare shows us how when people are pressured love can become juxtaposed , turning it into a black and white  situation, where Brutus has to decide between his love of Caesar, and his love for Rome.  The language of the poem may confuse some people in this context because the subjective point of view means that that the reader or watcher realizes that love and hate are too complex to easily categorise.

In conclusion I believe that even though there is a time gap between Browning and Shakespeare both authors use a very similar way to show the themes of love and hate through the writings of poems and plays. Both authors have went into depth in order to explore the great extremes of these two emotions and the language they have use has had a large impact on the audience in a way where some sort of imagery is portrayed. Although, they both came from completely different eras and the themes of love and hate were both perceived differently due to the morality they lived by, the two authors used language and literary devices to push the boundaries of the concepts of love and hate taking us into a sphere of challenging our assumptions about these themes.

Before he is assassinated Caesar is shown as a cocky person he said in the text ‘I am as constant as the northern star’ this is a very well known star, as in the bible it is said that Mary and others followed the star, Caesar is saying that people will follow him and that he is great he also says ‘wilt thou lift up Olympus’ he is asking if anyone else will lift up Olympus other then himself, the way I see it as being said is that he is laughing as he says it, asking a very sarcastic question almost belittling anyone who he asks, he appears very egotistical and unapproachable, this is very smart as Shakespeare needs to show why they would kill him so showing him in this way gives us all a vendetta against him.

Shakespeare shows the Intentions of Brutus by allowing him to show his emotions and describe his game plans or the murder of caesar, and when it’s proposed to him the chance of murdering one of Caesars associates he turns down the deal due to the fact that he didn’t believe in the conspiracy and says ‘mark Antony, this not of him, for he can do
no more than Caesars arm when Caesars head is off’, Brutus is saying that he is just an accessory of Caesar and once Caesar is dead he is no longer a threat, he totally dismisses that chance of killing Antony because he just wants Caesar and not to kill Caesar like a savage but to as quoted ‘let us be sacrifices, but not butchers’ and also lets carve him as a dish fit for the gods.

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‘ ‘fore I knew it he was on me’

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In chapter six of To Kill A Mockingbird, the importance of concealing the truth in order to maintain social contracts becomes clear. Jem tells his father, Atticus, that he lost his trousers during a game of strip poker with Dill and Scout, when in fact he lost them squirming beneath a fence in the Radley’s garden. Jem lies for fear that breaking the social contract between he and his father would harm their relationship, and even risks his own well-being to protect the lie. This reinforces the vitality of social contracts in Maycomb’s society

Jem and Dill are gathering a stronger friendship while Scout begins to feel left out of their friendship. Because of this she spends more time with the neighbours then Jem and Dill.She tells Scout that Boo is still alive and it is her idea that Boo is the victim of a harsh father, a “footwashing” Baptist who believed that most people are going to hell. Maudie adds that Boo was always polite as a child. She says all the rumours are false. During this the other two (Jem,Dill) try to get a note to boo trying to meet him,but are caught in the act by atticus.

Summer Arrives , Dill,Scout, and Jem begin their games again.The first things they did is roll ew other in a tire.Scout rolls in front of the Radley steps, and Jem and Scout panic. , and because of what happened Jem got the idea for their next game called boo Radley.As the summer passes, their game becomes more diverse and deep into the game they act out the how Easley family.EventuallyAtticus catches them and asks if their game has anything to do with the Radely family. Jem lies to Atticus and He goes back inside.The kids wonder if it’s safe to play their game anymore.

To the children boo is seen as spooky yet shady character. In chapter one he is described as a ‘malevolent phantom’ but is also referred to as an ‘unknown entity’
But I would choose ‘malevolent phantom’ because it links more to my point of him being spooky.