King Lear • William Shakespeare’s King Lear introduces the importance of the hero figure. A hero is called so because they dominate the story. In this play, there is a literary element called tragic flaw, when the hero has inevitably made a mistake. It shows in the play that the hero has gone too far; went way beyond his limits. Another device that Shakespeare used during his plays were soliloquies. It is when the speaker directly talks to the audience—something directly said only to the audience. The purpose is to bring dramatic tension. On an extra note, an aside is also used in the same way but only with a couple of lines. Shakespeare always makes sure to give each play a variety of differences with techniques to keep the audience entertained. • Shakespeare often performed his plays at the Globe Theater. The theater was meant for anybody thus it included high levels of vocabulary, cheap sexual puns and even violence. The audience consisted of multiple levels of class even those at the bottom class whom sat on the grass. They were referred to as the groundlings. Shakespeare’s plays were realistic having the …show more content…
The novel portrays their coming and residing as sort of a sneaky act, for it happens when Okonkwo is not present. He is one of the characters with a very strong personality and during the time he was no present, it seems that the Englishmen took their chance. The white people are seen as a threat with a purpose of staying for goof. With their new technology, the village is constantly on alert, even mistaking a bicycle as a contraption that could do harm. The people show innocence and are being naïve. These people show a sense of vulnerability in which the British ultimately take advantage of. However, the white people do not only know harm. The missionaries have also made their way into the village as well. It seems as though the white people also show new hope for a new