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    Tension In Macbeth

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    How does Shakespeare Build Tension During The Murder Scene? Shakespeare is able to create a sense of tension during the murder scene in Act Two, Scene Two. This is indicated by the use of concise utterances, the repetition of stage directions and the use of sibilance. Tension is a vital component of a Shakespearean play as it is used to engage the audience. Shakespeare makes his play accessible to all audiences, even the working class in the Elizabethan period, through the atmosphere he has created

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    Tension In Ww1

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    (836). The Triple Entente, which included Russia, Britain, and France would become enemies with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. With Germany pressuring Austria-Hungary into war, Europe would never be the same again. Diplomatic efforts to resolve tensions and differences between Austria-Hungary and Serbia were rejected and war had begun, which pleased a war-hungry Germany who was looking for anything to begin a fight with its European neighbors.

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    Tension In Southpaw

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    Tension. That is what makes or breaks a movie. For a film to create tension, to keep a viewer at the edge of their seat. To reduce them to tears. To highlight a way of life so foreign to them. To find redemption in the most broken of characters. That is the mark of a great film. "Southpaw" re-introduces the world to Antoine Fuqua the creative mind behind films such as "Training Day" and "The Equalizer", in his newest undertaking he crafts a redemption story so visceral and raw in its execution,

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    Tensions In Catalonia

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    There has been rising tensions in Spain as a region of it wants to secede putting economic growth in jeopardy. Harriet Alexander points out that Catalonia initially was an independent nation, with its own set of language, laws and customs. However their prosperity lasted till the reign of King Philip V. where, The War of Spanish Succession declined with the defeat of Valencia in 1707, then of Catalonia in 1714, and ending with the last of the islands in 1515. The conflicts that it inflicted promoted

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    Racial Tensions

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    Racial tensions are high in the United States currently. Donald Trump’s campaign has put Immigration policies on the hot seat. Some of the decisions the Obama administration has made has come under attack by many media outlets— for example, Fox news. Known for its conservative bias, Fox news constantly releases articles that contain very blatant attacks against immigrants in the U.S.. One such article, released on October 3rd of this year by author Joseph J. Kolb, headlined US immigration policies

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    Tensions In Trifles

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    band together as a counterbalance against the men conducting the John Wright murder investigation that leads to Mrs. Wright. Glaspell creates an empathy between the female characters for the disproportionate role women have. As the play progresses, tensions begin to surface, the men critiquing Mrs. Wright’s housekeeping abilities, the women gradually start to defend her, and eventually covering up evidence that would likely lead the men to her committing the murder. Mrs. Hale appears to be on empathetic

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    Tension In The Help

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    Skeeter went ahead and wrote a book with her friend her friend who was a woman of color. Kathryn Stockett uses historical events to reflect the racial tension in Jackson during 1962. One example of an event used would be the assassination of Medgar Evers. Medgar Evers was an activist. He died on June 12, 1963. "Someone has been shot and all the black people have to get off the bus." (14.) He was assassinated

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    Tensions in Villette

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    Tensions in Villette Villette is a narrative that seems constantly at war with itself, fraught with tensions of reason versus feeling, nature versus art and reality versus imagination, as I will attempt to illustrate. Lucy is anything but a one dimensional character and it throughout the novel, her emotional growth is charted. The important elements in the narrative seem to resist a one-sided reading. Read in context, perhaps Bronte recognizes that in the Victorian world, tensions of the aforementioned

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    Tension In The Exorcist

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    The Exorcist tells the story of the young Regan that is presumably possessed by the devil. Her mother reaches out to a priest for help after many dokters failed to help her. The Exorcist: Spidercrawl. Up towards this point in the movie, Regan has been showing signs of an evilness lurking inside her and many dokters have been trying to pinpoint the cause of her behavior, without success. Mother has been showing her first signs of helplessness because of the lack of understanding in the behavior

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    Tension In The Crucible

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    Alternatively, it could have represented her growing suspicion of her adulterous husband. This use of symbolism helped me understand the anger and frustration the characters felt therefore allowing me to sympathise with them and further enhanced the tension between the couple. What I thought was exceptionally effective was the lightning sound effect alongside flashes of white light as pathetic fallacy to further emphasise the intensity of the

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