Month: March 2016

In chapter 26 Jaggers goes to dinner at his home alongside Pip and a few other students. The students then started to show off their muscles to show their power. Jaggers then called in his servant and told her to show the students her wrists which were slit. He was trying to impose to the students what real power was, which he possessed.

In the execution scene we created, we used semiotics to symbolise how King Lear felt when his daughters told him not to kill the “spy”, and that they were going to marry the Duke of the North and the Duke of Cornwall. We decided to repeat what the daughters were saying to King Lear in the script which was,  “I’m going to marry the Duke of the North” and “My father is ill”. This constant repetition of the words caused the King Lear to clench his hair in frustration which showed the audience how he felt in the scene. He got angry to the point, where we cover the “spy” with a black cloth away from the audience while repeating the words and the King killed the “spy” with his bare hands. The dead suspect falls and we cover him with the black cloth to symbolise death while our repeating words slowly faded away as he became satisfied that he was dead.