Month: October 2015

The hypnotic rhythm of waves beating against the terrain conquers all sound other than its own, echoing outwards into the all-encompassing darkness. Behind the cover of darkness and locked in confrontation, the waters are thrown against the dense vegetation hemming of the icy lake, which struggles against the immense might of the lake as it…

In act 3 scene 2, Antony sways the crowd’s loyalty towards him and away from the conspirators, by discrediting Brutus and his attempts to brandish Caesar as overly-ambitious. After Brutus’ speech at Caesar’s funeral, Antony switches the crowd’s allegiance back to the side of Caesar and stirs them to mutiny. ‘We’ll burn his body in…

Task Two: Personification is used to portray the sun in two different tones, which highlights the shift in tone between the first and second stanzas of Futility. In the first stanza, ‘the kind old sun’ is shown to be gentle, as shown by the line ‘Gently its touch awoke him once’. The term ‘gently’ has…

Screams filled the darkness, echoing through the abyss. Situated at the epicentre of the fearful cries, sat Vaudevue, alone and cold, as the moonlight glistened off the shimmering cascade of black hair flowing from her head. The surrounding terrain had been eroded by the tides of war and the trees razed by the constant battering…