Ruth feels unwelcomed and out of place when she returns to Vienna after the war. She says that, “The other survivors of my Viennese childhood irritate me like a powerful itch, and I prefer to avoid them” (p. 19). She does not associate Vienna with the alluring essence that tourists and post-Nazi residents describe.…
In the theater version of Cyrano de Bergerac, Director Robert Kelley faced several problems in thoughtfully expressing the theme of the play. Because the play involves a love triangle around three characters with different quality of appearance, one theme can be that appearance prevents one from realizing the true identity of a person. In a small theater, the director had to devise an efficient plan that successfully conveyed the theme with limited space and a few actors. The director also had to modify some scenes in order to fit the whole play in a short amount of time. Despite some miscasts in the actors, the director managed to emanate the meaning of the play through appropriate stage props and script.…
Cheryl Swope begins her book, Simply Classical, by introducing the reader to her two children, whom she and her husband adopted. It was not long after adopting the children, who were twins, that Swope and her husband realized they were different. Both children suffered from a multitude of handicaps that made it impossible for them to develop on their own like normal children. These first chapters describe the effort, as well as the various methods, that Swope employed to help her children lead lives that were as normal as possible. Many times throughout the book, Swope lauds Classical Education, as the key to all her children's successes, but the time and effort that Swope put into training her children…
Barry Fife tells Scott that Doug ruined his own dancing career because of his crazy new steps. Scott believes Barry and agrees to dance with Liz at the Pan-Pacifics.…
Born in 1929, she remembers the Nazis terrorizing her home for fun, smashing their china, for fun. She saw the soldiers as “devils in the flesh.”…
Although Speer claims “I was allergic to any political commitments”1 the students of Tessenow (who never agreed with Nazism himself) apparently coaxed him into attending a Nazi Party rally in a Berlin beer-hall on 5th December 1930.…
We watched the Breakfast Club. One of the main character's name was Brian. He changed throughout the movie. At the beginning of the movie he was picked on a lot and no one cared about what he said. It was hard for him to talk to other students or try to say something, but they didn’t listen to them or tell them to shutup. When he was in the car his mom wanted him to study constantly. He was trying to be funny and did a weird pencil thing to be funny. People in his class did not laugh they just looked at him strangely.…
After Madame Morrible then tries to recruit Elphaba, Glinda, and Nessarose to work for the Wizard as spies, Elphaba heads to the Emerald city to work in an underground secretive business against the Wizard. Elphaba has a great motive to rescue the Animals from the Wizards evil plans thus she aims to kill the Wizard and his accomplices. This may seem wicked to some, however logically, Elphaba is not aiming to hurt innocent people. Therefore, the definition of wicked: commiting unrighteous and offensive acts, can still not be placed on Elphaba. After she fails in killing Madame Morrible in the Emerald City, she practices being a maunt, then travels back to Kiamo Ko. On the way, the cook suddenly disappears and there's a great chance that Elphaba and her peculiar animal friends killed him "Something told those bees to kill the cook," said the Princess Nastoya, with a glitter in her eye. Elphaba felt herself go pale. "I didn't!" she said. "No, it couldn't have been me! And how did you know?"You did, on some level. You are a strong woman." In this case, Elphaba does a wicked act where she kills a person ethical reason. In addition, Elphaba's motive in killing Dorothy can be classified as wicked too since Dorothy wasn't probably going to kill her. However, in general, throughout the story, Elphaba aims to protect animals, kill the Witch, and apologize to Sarima. Elphaba is a very deep thinker who tries to analyze every detail in life, which drives her to commiting few "wicked"…
Cabaret takes place in the years 1929 to 1930 Berlin before Hitler’s appointment as chancellor. The play follows Cliff Bradshaw, an aspiring American writer, and Sally Bowles, a performer at the Kit Kat Klub and their friends through the trying times before the Nazis. The story shows the struggles of those torn between what they want, and what is acceptable and how blind some were to the problems staring them right in the face. In the words of the emcee: “Leave your troubles outside! So-life is disappointing? Forget it! In here, life is beautiful-the girls are beautiful-even the orchestra is beautiful! Willkommen im Cabaret!” As the story unfolds, we see how this blindness affects those who…
cted the "logic" of nineteenth-century rationalism that had, in their view, led to a morally corrupt society and culminated in widespread death and destruction. At the Cabaret Voltaire, which became their headquarters, these artists and writers initiated a provocative series of exhibitions, poetry readings, and performances designed to take place in a frenetic and chaotic atmosphere. Many of their most outrageous activities were influenced by the Futurists, particularly Marinetti, who introduced "noise music"- a chorus of rattles and pot covers, kettledrums and typewriters- to simulate the "bruitism" of the real world. (In his book Dada: Art and Anti-art, the artist and writer Hans…
The participants in the studies view the years of the Third Reich as positive and stable, free from political upheaval and economic uncertainty. “The Guaranteed pay packet, order, KdF [Kraft durch Freude, Strength through Joy, the National Socialist leisure organization] and the smooth running of the political machinery…Thus ‘National Socialism’ makes them think merely of work, adequate nourishment, KdF and the absence of ‘disarray’ in political life”. (Bessel, p. 97)…
Beauty, written by Jane Martin in the mid nineteen hundreds, is an ironic play about two successful women, Bethany and Carla. Both women were the same age yet complete opposites. They also had completely different personalities and were unhappy with their lives. Martin casted and characterized them this way to illustrate a few themes. The drama was mainly centered on the theme that no one is ever happy unless they get their wishes granted. However, in these two women’s cases, getting what they wanted caused them to realize there is nothing wrong with being different. These two themes can be seen through the two character’s success, jealousy, and a genie.…
Launched in 1975, the musical Chicago, created by a talented pair of composers and producers that included both John Kander and Fred Ebb later known as Kander and Ebb. Kander was born on March 18, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri. His exposure to music began at an early age as a result of having had tuberculosis as a baby. During this time, Kander was cut off and not allowed to be around other people, that separation developed his ability for sound. Kander started piano lessons at the age of six. His parents and brother would often spend evenings playing the piano and singing. Kander’s first successes came while he was a student at Oberlin College, where he attended with James Goldman, a lyricist he had known since childhood and together produced songs. In 1956 Kander started his Broadway career by filling in for another pianist who was on vacation, from that point on he became a pianist on many musicals and his career continued. In 1962 he met Frank Ebb, who was also a lyricist, together a great songwriting partnership started that lasted over forty years, together having several successes and becoming the longest Broadway partnership for music and lyrics. The most successful musicals include Chicago, Cabaret, Zorba and New York, New York. Kander had a career in the film industry as well as having written multiple scores for a wide variety of films over many years. Kander and Ebb worked for forty years producing music for Broadway. (allmusic.com; songwritershalloffame.org; galegroup.com)…
Characters lead the story in realism stories. They focus more on what the character does and how they interact with their environment rather than following a major story line. A character by the name of Aunt Georgiana in the story “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather revolves around the pigeonholed story line. I view Aunt Georgiana as a dynamic, relatable, and fragile character that undergoes major memories that give her a wake to reality.…
“Into the world” is about individuals making big decisions and choosing new pathways. They choose these by their own determination, support and experiences which allows them to break out of their cocoon and transition into a new world with different experiences. These pathways can offer us possibilities or problems. “Billy Elliot”, a film directed by Stephan Dauldry portrays the difficulties of growing up whilst dealing with a variety of social issues such as poverty, rigid gender expectations and class. The protagonist, Billy faces these problems to gain possibilities. These problems and how they are overcome are shown in the film through the use of the motif of doors and windows, dialogue, music and close-up camera shots. The allegory of the “ugly Duckling” also serves as a motif throughout the film that parallels Billy's transition into a “swan”. Tracey Chapman's song “fast car” shows the difficulties of moving into new worlds and the lamentable fact that people are not always able to succeed into their transition. The simple language and intimacy of the song, repetition and the metaphor of the “fast car” are used to convey these differing experiences of a young women's attempt to escape from her world.…