Pride and Prejudice 3: laughing and teasing

Number 3 in a series of analyses using the iPad app ShowMe to examine key ideas in Pride and Prejudice. 

Here, we see one of Elizabeth's characteristics, the ability to laugh at and tease others (and herself), a quality which is one of the key ways by which she attracts Darcy.

Pride and Prejudice 2: observing eyes

Number 2 in a series of analyses using the iPad app ShowMe to examine key ideas in Pride and Prejudice. 

Here, Elizabeth is unaware that she is being observed by Darcy, who is discovering she is more interesting than he had first admitted to himself.

Pride and Prejudice 1: quick judgments.

Number 1 in a series of analyses using the iPad app ShowMe to examine key ideas in Pride and Prejudice. 

This looks at the way people are immediately and hungrily judged in this society. Here, Bingley and Darcy arrive on the scene for the first time.

Macbeth 18: Act 5 scene 2 - 'dwarfish thief'

This is the 18th in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Here, Caithness and Angus give us images of Macbeth as he approaches his inevitable doom.

Macbeth 17: Act 5 scene 1 - 'Unnatural deeds'

This is the 17th in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

In the sleepwalking scene, the Doctor expresses one of the central ideas of the play.

Macbeth 16: Act 4 scene 1 - 'Be it thought and done'

This is the 16th in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe. 

Macbeth decides to slaughter Macduff's family, and not to 'think' any more, but to act without conscience or rationality.

Macbeth 15: Act 3 scene 4 - 'Strange Things'

This is the fifteenth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Macbeth decides to seek out the 'weird sisters' and to learn more, as well as to do more.

Macbeth 14: Act 3 scene 4 - 'Blood hath been shed'

This is the fourteenth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe. 

Here, Macbeth expresses his horror at how the dead are returning from the grave, and nothing is at 'an end' any more.

Macbeth 13: Act 3 scene 4 - 'cabined, cribbed, confined'

This is the thirteenth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Here, Macbeth finds out that Fleance escaped the murderers, and he expressses his sense of being 'bound in to saucy doubts and fears.'

Macbeth 12: Act 3 scene 2- 'restless ecstasy'

This is the twelfth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Here, while Macbeth plans to have Banquo murdered, we see his sense of the nightmarish 'torture of the mind' from which he is suffering.

Macbeth 11: Act 3 scene 1 - 'the worst rank of manhood'?

This is the eleventh in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Macbeth meets two killers who will murder Banquo. Perhaps there are some similarities between these low-life characters and the new King...

Macbeth 10: Act 3 scene 1 - 'To be thus is nothing'

This is the tenth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

This is the beginning of Macbeth's soliloquy in III i, in which he expresses his fear of Banquo and of 'nothingness', and continues his precipitous moral decline.

Macbeth 9: Act 2 scene 4 - ''Tis unnatural'

This is the ninth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth using the iPad app ShowMe.

Here, Ross and an Old Man talk about the disturbing things happening in the natural world following Duncan's murder.

Macbeth 8: Act 2 scene iii - 'the wine of life is drawn'

This is the eighth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth via the iPad app ShowMe.

Macbeth expresses in public his horror at the sight of Duncan's body.

Macbeth 7: Act 2 scene 3 - 'expectation of plenty'

This is the seventh in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth via the iPad app ShowMe. 

Here, the Porter's language hits on some of the deeper themes of the play.

Macbeth 6: Act 2 scene 2 - 'a little water'

This is the sixth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth via the iPad app ShowMe.

Here, Macbeth is horrified by the sight of the blood on his hands. Lady Macbeth says that 'a little water clears us of this deed'.

Macbeth 4: Act 1 scene 7 - 'If we should fail?'

This is the fourth in a series of analyses of key moments in Macbeth via the iPad app ShowMe.

This is the moment when Macbeth is 'lost', fatally weakening on the idea of murdering the King.

Hamlet 15: Act V scene ii - 'the readiness is all'

In the final annotation of interesting moments in Hamlet, Hamlet explains to Horatio his sense of 'readiness'.

This is a series of fifteen key moments in Hamlet via the iPad app ShowMe. These moments are interesting and important ones, though not the most obvious, and the series avoids such crucial speeches as the soliloquies; for more on those, and much more, go here for our general Hamlet resources.

Hamlet 14: Act V scene ii - 'perfect conscience'

Hamlet tells Horatio that the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not on his conscience, and that it is 'perfect conscience' to kill Claudius to prevent his 'canker' spreading.

This is a series of fifteen key moments in Hamlet via the iPad app ShowMe. These moments are interesting and important ones, though not the most obvious, and the series avoids such crucial speeches as the soliloquies; for more on those, and much more, go here for our general Hamlet resources.

Hamlet 13: Act V scene i - 'noble dust'

Here, Hamlet comments on how all people, however powerful, eventually are levelled by death and return to 'dust'.



This is a series of fifteen key moments in Hamlet via the iPad app ShowMe. These moments are interesting and important ones, though not the most obvious, and the series avoids such crucial speeches as the soliloquies; for more on those, and much more, go here for our general Hamlet resources.