For the live theatre show, I decided to watch “A Christmas Story, The Musical” directed by Valerie Easton at Vancouver Arts Club Stanley Industrial Aalliance Stage. The show focuses on a child named Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas.Valerie’s production captured the happiness and cheerful atmosphere during Christmas and also focus on emphasizing Ralphie’s desire of a BB Gun as his Christmas present. During the show, I was impressed by many design and technical production elements. For example, the quick changes, the adequate use of theatre stage and also the use of sets to change from fantasy and reality. However, the most striking elements to me are the set piece of Ralphie’s house and the sufficient use of rigging system.…
John Steinbeck provides a variety of different attitudes towards women in the novel ‘Of Mice and Men.’ I will explore these attitudes in order to represent the portrayal of women in the book; in which there are many different women with different attitudes respectively. Steinbeck uses the portrayal of Curley’s wife, who is the main female protagonist to show how women were treated during the 1930’s ‘Depression era.’ The women I will analyse are Curley’s wife, Aunt Clara, Susy, Clara, The woman in Weed and Curley’s wife’s mother.…
The self published novella 'A Christmas Carol' was written by Engligh author Charles Dickens in 1843. It sold all 6,000 copies within 9 days of hitting the stands and was met with instant success and critical acclaim. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his reluctant jouney to find the Christmas Spirit guided by supernatural visitors Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The effect the Charles Dickens writings had on this rapidly waneing Christian Festival was so far reaching and well received that many refered to him as 'The Man who Invented Chrristmas'. While Dickens didn’t technically come up with Christmas, he couched its spirit in a philosophy and centered it on an image that compelled people to see it and feel it as he did. “There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas,” writes Dickens, when “petty jealousies and discords are forgotten.”…
In the speech, “The Crisis,” by Carrie Chapman Catt is portraying the empowerment of women and urges women groups to join the fight for equality and the fight for Women's Suffrage. Carrie Chapman converses of a sexual bias in the society that lives even in the modern day. From having our first female candidate stand for election for the post of President to a President that is that opposite of everything good in America. We live in the society where we think the society has got past the racial & sexual discrimination but deep down in this vicious societal norms demons still haunt over the bright light. Many women acquiesce because of the gender role they play in an abhorring closed in earth The speech uses an abundance of rhetorical devices imagery, metaphors, parallelism to impasses on the point she wants to convey.…
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values” says Thomas S. Monson. This is one intricate message that Ebenezer Scrooge failed to grasp. Ebenezer Scrooge is the narcissistic, avaricious protagonist in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. To start off, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of Christmas past, the ghost of Christmas present and the ghost of Christmas yet to come. Each of these three spirits exemplifies a different time in his penurious life. As an attempt to change Scrooge, all of the three spirits…
1) How does Dickens set up a contrast between Scrooge and his clerk, Bob Cratchit?…
The novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ written by John Steinbeck was set in the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was difficult for everyone, especially women who were treated by contempt by men. One of the main characters of the novella is a woman who is referred to as ‘Curley’s Wife’. She is a misinterpreted woman who craves attention and this eventually leads to her death. Curley’s wife is important in this novella because as this character develops, we find that she is a complex character with more than we first perceive.…
Although it is a ghost story, A Christmas Carol is an uplifting tale. To what extent do you agree?…
“The beginning of the feminist movement in the 1960s changed her attitude toward a self-destructive mindset that she later labeled a "post-Romantic collective delusion” (“The Handmaid’s Tale”).…
In the Christmas carol, by Charles dickens, Marley, scrooge's dead business partner, made chains for himself to show what he was in life. He had stuff like money business, and greed on his. If I had a chain it would three things it would probably have sports, vegetarian, and music.…
Introduction-Sometimes the things you do can affect you on your future and make you get marked again from them. On the act of “A Christmas Carol”, we read how one of the main characters (Scrooge) was the man that no one didn't like and when he changed. He was a completely different man and, could take care of anyone. Scrooge had a lot of problems in his life that he had regret but, the most effective problem was that he'd lost the person he'd truly care about and the people that made him go forward.…
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles dickens first published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December 1843 and adapted for film in 1938. The film tells the story of bitter old miserly protagonist Ebenezer scrooge who does not give to others and is only concerned with his own money and affairs. The film tells of his transformation resulting from ghost visits by Jacob Marley and the ghosts of Christmases’ past, present and future. As the years go by, he holds true to his promise and honors Christmas with all his heart.…
Analysis: Prior to the war the men only saw them as pure and sweet although the women are able to change. As the women are put into a new lifestyle the women are calmly able to make the needed changes. In this they acknowledge that the women are capable of changing to fit the current situations and how drastically the change was.…
Essay 1: The idea that social reform begins with moral transformation in the individual is demonstrated through Scrooge by his miraculous change in personality and thought. In the beginning of the story, Scrooge is a cold and selfish individual that sees Christmas as a time of bills rather than celebration. He is a heartless man who thinks only of money and practically ignores humanity. For example, on page 10 of the book, two gentlemen visit Scrooge at his office and kindly ask him to donate money to the poor. They tell him that many people would rather die than go to establishments such as shelters. Scrooge shrewdly answered, " If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." This statement portrays his inhuman feelings towards those less fortunate than he.…
The Christmas Carol is the best movie to watch this holiday with the family. The story is about Ebenezer Scrooge an old cranky, miserable and evil old man who gets a visit by the 3 Christmas ghosts. The first visit is from his deceased employee who warns him about his ways. The ghost warns Scrooge that he must change his ways if not he will have a miserable afterlife. The first Christmas ghost that visits Scrooge shows him the Christmas past in which he had sad and happy moments. The past sad moments shows the reason why Scrooge hates Christmas. The 2nd ghost the Christmas present shows him how many people are celebrating Christmas. The ghost shows how many family that hardly have anything are very happy to celebrate with what little they…