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               One of  Act one’s main purposes, in terms of the characterisation of Coriolanus is to showcase the aspects of Coriolanus’ personality and the context that it brings up. Shakespeare portrays Coriolanus as a decisive and effective battlefield commander in the battle scenes, by having Coriolanus give rising and encouraging speeches, “Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight With hearts more proof [strong] than shields” -Act 1 Scene 4, lines 33-34 and in lines 58, where Coriolanus calls on his men to follow him. The fact that Coriolanus is able to capture Corioles and hold his own against Aufidius is contextual proof of his skill as both soldier and commander. Shakespeare also details both the inner and physical strength of Coriolanus, through quotes such as: “The blood I drop is rather physical Than dangerous to me.” -Act 1 Scene 5, lines 20-21 and “…why cease you till you are so?” (context is Coriolanus is asking if they have captured the area yet) Act 1 scene 6

2. “I imagine them hearing spoken English as the oppressor’s language, yet I imagine them also realizing that this language would need to be possessed, taken, claimed as a space of resistance. I imagine that the moment they realized the oppressor’s language, seized and spoken by the tongues of the colonized, could be a space of bonding was joyous.” The text I’m analysing through the selected Bell Hooks’ quotation is in an academic paper-style format, on the topic of “Variation and Change in English” http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/439/1/studying_language_2a.pdf Pages 3-4, Section 1.2.2: “1.2.2 The Ebonics Debate  In December 1996 the Oakland School District Board in the American State of California passed a resolution which gave official recognition to Ebonics, a separate language and distinct from English. Ebonics is a compound word made up of from the two words ‘Ebony’ meaning black and ‘phonics’ meaning sound, As a consequence, schools in the Oakland District were requ