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Outside the bleak notorious walls stood a bridge- the only way to get into the gates and once through that, the building. On top of the bridge, impassive soldiers stood carelessly of what or who wanted to pass through. Underneath the bridge, the drop would kill you before you hit the frigid water.

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Outside the bleak notorious walls stood a bridge which was the only way to get into the gates and once through that, lay the remains of the deserted factory. Inside the building was no ordinary factory, but where peoples dreams were made. Besides the fact that it was deserted now since the new technology came in, and ruined not to be touched again. Up above in the gray sky was a strange pig shaped cloud, and I knew something was going to happen. Besides the police on the bridge, a car cluttered along the pavement, but the faces inside of it were hidden. Still, it kept driving and through the rickety old gates and into the factory that hadn’t been touched for years.

Regret

Theme: regret

Whats done is done, and i can’t go back. My thoughts transported back to the day that everything would elapse. It was a monday morning on August the 28th, the day i would finally leave my mistakes behind. We walked down to the gate, with her trailing behind me. Beyond it stood my gateway to freedom; the plane that would lead me to a new life. I was stupidly heedless of what i was doing- time is a theif, but then so was i. I was leaving all i had behind, i was leaving her, leaving everything just for one mistake that i was running away from.

 

Senses task

English senses task 

Instructions: Write down five things that happened on the way to school.

  1. Got in the car
  2. Ignored the sibling arguments
  3. The car started
  4. School grounds
  5. Whanau

 

As i opened the door i instantly felt goosebumps from the cold air, wishing i was back inside in my bed. I truged along the gravel driveway and hear my siblings behind me, ignoring their debate about who was in the front seat. I opened the door and slumped into backseat of the car. As they finally climbed in with my eldest sister haley in the front seat and my irritating seven year old brother, William and the dog beside me. The car started with a rumble and we set off for another day of school. I looked out the window to see students walking into school, me too just about to meet the same fate, and walked to whanau.

 

Romeo and Juliet essay

 

In the famous play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote, “These violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story using the idea of the hand of fate by William Shakespeare. The story is about two families; the Montague’s and the Capulet’s who have an ancient grudge between them and the only way to fix it is the inevitable death of one of their children. This essay will go into more detail about how Shakespeare portrayed fate in multiple ways such as the use of coincidence, premonition, prologue, and metaphor to help the reader or viewer get a better understanding of the play.

One way Shakespeare displays the idea of fate is by using coincidence’s throughout the play to show that the characters believed that God made things happen for a reason. One of the most common coincidence scenes is in Act one scene two when Capulets servant, Peter goes out into the streets of Verona and coincidently comes across Romeo and Benvolio. He asks them if they can read and Romeo reads out the list of names to go to the party. Peter says “My master is the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house of Montague, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry!” Romeo see’s Rosaline’s name and Benvolio convinces him to go because there are other girls better than Rosaline. At the party, this is where Romeo met Juliet so if Romeo and Benvolio weren’t in the street they wouldn’t have gone to the party and Tybalt hadn’t have seen Romeo, so the feud wouldn’t have begun. Ultimately, this was the start of the end for Romeo and Juliet.

In Act one, scene four, Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are walking towards the masquerade at the Capulets mansion. Romeo tells them he had a premonition the night before and suggests not to go. Romeo says ‘for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars…” Romeo means that God is steering him in the wrong direction and his consequence is death. Mercutio dismisses Romeo’s caution and calls it a “vain fantasy” This ending up happening. How did Romeo know? We leave answer that to fate. The prologue of the play also displays fate.

The prologue of the play tells the audience or reader what is going to happen to the characters. The idea of the hand of fate comes in at the very beginning in the prologue when Shakespeare says “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;” This line suggests that Romeo and Juliet were going to die, and the events that occurred was their fate set out by God. The events that happened was already set out for them before it even happened and the audience or reader knows it is going to happen, they just don’t know when; this is called dramatic irony.

Another way Shakespeare portrayed fate in Romeo and Juliet is by using metaphors. In Act two, scene three, Friar Lawrence says “Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, and vice sometime’s by action dignified”. The Friar is referring to a flower, suggesting that within a flower lies both poison and medicine; similarly to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Something has the potential to make a situation for better or for worse and in this case, the two lovers deaths were tragic but at the same time brought relief and peace to Verona by bringing their two families together.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story using the hand of fate. Shakespeare demonstrates fate by using multiple methods such as coincidence, premonition, metaphor, and prologue. These show that Romeo and Juliet’s fate was controlled by God and that small actions can have a big outcome.

Act 5, scene 2, romeo and juliet

Summary- act 5, scene 2

Frair Lawrence discovers that frair john who was the messenger he sent to mantua with a letter to romeo that said juliet is actually alive, hasn’t been delivered because of a plaque outbreak.

Romeo and Juliet, act three, scene five

Summary, act three, scene five.

Juliet is confronted by her parents who are telling her to marry Paris. She doesn’t want to, so this makes her dad angry and he threatens to throw her out and never see her again. Juliet tells her mother that if she doesn’t delay the marriage then she will kill herself but her mum doesn’t really care. Her parents leave the scene and she asks the nurse to comfort her and give her advice, but the nurse says that she should marry Paris. Juliet says; ” Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy; If all else fail, myself have power to die.”

 

Romeo and Juliet, Act three scene one.

Summary- Act three, scene one

Benvolio and Mercutio are chilling out on the street and then Tybalt and his mates come along and asks for Romeo, Romeo turns up out of the blue and Tybalt wants to fight Romeo but Romeo says he doesn’t want to. He says “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none; therefore farewell, I see thou knowest  me not.” Tybalt insults Romeo and so Mercutio says he’ll fight him. They fight but Romeo steps in and because he did Mercutio gets stabbed and dies. Tybalt leaves but then he comes back and Romeo kills him. The prince turns up and says Romeo is banished from Verona.

Romeo and Juliet Prologue

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.