The play itself is not about reality, but it is about the insights that form the shape and style of the play. The play itself is a representation of how little they can peer out their curtains to the outside world. Ruby herself is occasionally referred to in the play as the curtain girl. This could be a sublime reference to the little Ray and Sylvie can interact with the outside world. When character Dawn says “I’m not a real person, but I’m going to become one” reinforces the discrepancy of the neighbours, and in their desperation for the truth behind their daughter’s disappearance, they construct a personal reality to solve their scarring mystery. The concept of this being a play within a play is one of a popular opinion. Ruby being the curtain girl could also alludes to the physical curtains of a performance and the idea of the world of Ruby Moon is an invitation into the world of the imagination: that of the director, the plays two characters and alternately our own personal experiences. The way Ruby Moon shapes and styles the play, makes is an absurd piece of theatre, and this amplifies the exclusivity of Australian Contemporary…
In other words, she sees the looks teachers give her, and it inspires her to do better in her school work and prove to them that her image does not define her personality. Her mother tries to get her to act like the rich kid she is, but the more her mother tries, the more she rejects the idea and rebels. She wears black and dyes her hair unnatural colors to hide where she really comes from, a rich family. She also hides her love for playing piano because she does not want to be classified as a rich kid, but doing so gets classified as a punk or a goth. Antonia, the other main character, is classified as smart or a teacher’s pet, so a teacher’s pet and a punk; that is not usually the types that are best friends. In the beginning of the book, they did not even want to be seen together. By the end of the book , that did not matter anymore because they were proud of each…
Within this drama Blanche’s life is the very depiction of how one single tragic event can play a major role in one’s future. However, in Blanche’s case, a series of tragic events spark a new lifestyle. Blanche’s sexual needs were never satisfied. She met and fell madly in love at a very young age. At just sixteen years old, she fell in love as well as eloped. After investing time in what she saw as a blissful marriage to her husband, Allan, he admitted to her that he was homosexual. She felt betrayed. She felt used and taken advantage of. Instead of…
At the start of the novel, Scarlett is a high spirited girl concerned mostly about her looks and holding the attention of everyone. She does not really appreciate the little things in life because she has so much available to her. She feels the need to make herself seen by everyone and heard by everyone. There is one encounter where she is talking with two of the handsome boys in town; however, the boys begin to diverge from the topic of her to the topic of war. This angers Scarlett because the attention is no longer on her. She continues this child like behavior for most of the novel. However, her first encounter with Rhett Butler changes Scarlett's life forever.…
The character that seemed to be the boldest in this story was Mary Anne Bell. She went through so much change and transformation in one small excerpt of the novel. It seemed as though she lost her innocence and took on a new identity over time. Being Mark Fossie’s girlfriend, nobody was sure how to feel about her at first. When she got there, she was as innocent and sweet as can be. She was attractive with a bubbly personality and a happy…
The adolescent narrator has a thirst for the love of Raheem. An illustration of how much she loves Raheem is how she is always tolerant of the unfaithful things he does; she doesn’t deserve Raheem; wholeheartedly giving herself to her to Raheem and constantly doing everything for him; the narrator does all these things for him. She will literally do anything for him as long as he is her boyfriend. However he can’t even do as he is continuously unfaithful to her. To sum up, this narrator is a sadly truthful portrayal of a bad girl and her…
The use of mise-en -scene in this clip shows us the negative stereotypes of these people. The women are portrayed as shallow as they are covered in orange fake tan, have massive false eyelashes and false nails. This make us see that the all they are self absorbed and obsess over how they look. This reflects negatively on the characters as we think they only care about appearance and nothing else.…
This scene plays with the light hearted tune, this influences the value of fun in the Bra Boys life and their value of belonging as they do what they want and what they believe is right. That is the idenity presented as a Bra Boy. To have fun their own way.…
In reading Levy’s article she discusses raunch culture and how women feel empowered by it. Women feel like being sexy or sexually stimulating men makes them feel more in control. Levy gives a different outlook on the women that partake in this lifestyle. Levy feels that women are close-minded when discussing sexual things. Levy gives an inside look on certain women that partake in this industry by showing that its way more than just “sex”.…
Ariel Levy starts out by writing about her experiences with the crew of Girls Gone Wild and the girls they met during a night out taping. The women practically threw themselves to get a hat or a t-shirt. If they did not, the guys they were with would volunteer them and the girls would more often than not give into the peer pressure. The simple act of all the guys circling girls at the club or the beach and shouting at them to flash the cameras as if they were vultures and the girls are the delicious meal exemplifies the gender inequality society is used to. Guys are not pressured into taking off clothing and they are not pressured into doing anything sexual that they do not want to do. The message that scenes like that exude is women can be told to do anything and everything men what them to do. It goes back to men holding any and all power, while the women’s job is to be quiet and look pretty.…
For her they show the conflict she feels between her emerging sexual attractiveness and her wanting to be free.…
Notably, is the first time that Roxane sees Christian. Roxane does not know Christian at all, she has never seen him before. Yet still by only setting eyes on him from her balcony at the playhouse, falls in love with ‘his bright locks, like D’Urfe’s heroes’ (Scene 2, Act VI, 97). From that first glance, she believes herself to be madly in love with him. Although they have not spoken, Roxane insists that ‘eyes can speak’ (Scene 2, Act VI, 96). Roxane has no other means of making an opinion of Christian, she does not know what he is like as a person, yet based off of beauty, she perceives that Christian is worthy of her undying love. Roxane is a prime example of how she lets beauty influence how she perceives everyone around…
In the beginning of the story, Roxane is portrayed as a beautiful woman that is loved by many men, including three major characters of the story. As soon as Roxane sets eyes on Christians in Act I during the play scene, she is automatically breath-taken by his extravagance and beautiful appearance. Roxane falls even…
Firstly, the two main characters in this story, Kitty and Stew, are crucial elements of the story to present its theme. When Kitty was a child, her and Stew were intimate. She would laugh at her father's jokes about playing with the hairs of his nose. (Gaitskill, 290) This intimacy did not last as Kitty hit her teenage years which are known to result in big personal changes. She now despised her father's jokes. This period of her life is when the intimacy with Stew is lost. Later, she "turned into a glum, weird teenager that other kids picked on. She got skinny and ugly."(Gaitskill, 290) The situation gets more complicated when Kitty tells her parents that she is a lesbian. Stew is so ashamed of her that he no longer knows how to be close with his daughter. When she is twenty-two, she visits her parents for Christmas and she is beautiful again: "It was a beauty that both offended and titillated his senses."(Gaitskill, 293) Stew wants to be intimate with Kitty but the fact that she is so different holds him back. By writing the article in the magazine Self, Kitty explains how she would like to be close with her father again but it is hard for her to speak her thoughts: The article went on to describe how Kitty hung up the phone feeling frustrated and then listed all the things that she could've said to him to let him know how hurt she was, paving the way for "real communication."'(Gaitskill, 295) By putting emphasis on the relationship of Kitty and Stew, Gaitskill manages to convey the theme without…
"At first the two sat down to write a light-hearted teen comedy, but as Hardwicke (director) probed Reed (who played Evie, and helped write the script) for specific details about what teen life is really like now, a much more riveting story emerged. Reed began revealing a world fueled by confusion, anger, rebellion, and fear of not fitting in; a world rife with sex, high fashion, eating disorders, shoplifting, self-mutilation, and drugs. Hardwicke was floored."…