How does Miller present the character of Gellburg in the opening 3 pages of the play?…
It is a mixed blessing to be able to see the movie version of a popular book. In most cases, Hollywood veers from the text and the viewer is left with a watered down version of the original. In the case of the Princess Bride, the cinema version is very close to the book. One such scene is Inigo and Fezzik’s visit to Miracle Max in search of a miracle. Setting, conflict, and dialogue are three points of high congruency.…
Shakespeare uses various methods to make the “taming” of Kate comical. For example, when Petruchio and Kate first meet in Act 2, Petruchio toys with Kate by doing the complete opposite of what she wants and says. For instance, when Petruchio calls her “Kate”, she replies with “They call me Katherine that do talk of me” (2.1.180) After Kate has stated that she does not wish to be referred to as “Kate”, Petruchio continues to disobey by calling her “Kate” a further 10 times. A modern audience may find this scene amusing as Kate has not been physically hurt, but teased and mocked which is common within modern comedies.…
Discuss the importance of the character of Elizabeth and consider how Miller makes us respond to her throughout the play (30 marks)…
2. In what ways is Miller’s use of dialogue effective in the first two pages of this scene to…
The first question to address is what captivity narratives are. “Captivity narratives are stories of people captured by "uncivilized" enemies. The narratives often include a theme of redemption by faith in the face of the threats and temptations of an alien way of life.” (Wikipedia 2011). Women such as Mary Rowlandson, Mary Jemison, and Hannah Duston we are all held captive by the natives and Indians and managed to live to tell about it.…
Miller often foreshadows his characterizations with a descriptive phrase in the stage directions just before a character's first entrance. In the stage directions, what does he suggest about each of these characters: Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, and Mercy Lewis? How do the dialogue and actions of each character in this act bear out Miller's suggestions?…
Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker, helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America's attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day, her accomplishments affected the philosophical, sociological, and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her societal contributions, culminating with the winning of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.…
In this literary analysis piece I will be breaking down the popular play by Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman, is a very riveting story that follows Willy Loman, a retiree-aged working class business man living in New York. Who deals with troublesome denial, and uses the events of the past to deal with his problems of the present, this begins to create more problems for Willy as he becomes unable to separate past events with current events. Along with intense financial strain as an ageing business man in a new era of business. Willy feels pressured to be very financially successful and well liked person by himself, and the people around him like his brother, Ben, and his neighbor, Charley, who has a very successful son who is a lawyer. Willy, along with many people in the real world, suffers…
Throughout the book, Kate, the main character is constantly changing her emotions and the way she acts showing her different sides. When the main character, Kate appears, She is said to be 'silent'. This tells the reader, that she does not want to confront the terrorists, which also brings us to the point that Kate is not a very brave person. When the reader first meets Kate it had said that," She regarded then in shocked silence, mouth agape, eyes wide open with disbelief." This tells the reader that she is terrified and scared.…
The recreation of Irene Ruddock’s character in Lady of Letters relies hugely on maintaining the quality of her idiosyncratic ways. Her prejudices and her naivety amongst other things are all relevant traits, and in my recreative piece I found that keeping with Bennett’s structure, form and use of language ensured that Miss Ruddock’s character remained unhampered with.…
Dramatic monologues are significant in that there is only one point of view expressed throughout. In Victorian times dramatic monologues were very popular; Browning was seen as the innovator of this style of writing along with other eminent Victorian poets such as Rossetti and Tennyson. The dramatic monologue takes its style from Shakespeare’s soliloquies were a character speaks their thoughts and feelings aloud. This idea and style has been extended to the preset day, with Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads.’…
Throughout the opening stage directions of Act 1, despite the structure and tone being very factual, composed of short, clear sentences, Miller hints at underlying themes and messages through a range of stylistic devices, preparing the audience for the play, and setting the scene. As the play is set in Brooklyn, New York some years after the great depression, many references are made already at this early stage to idealism and the American dream; the desperate and yearning vision of many Americans at that time of a better life. This permeating theme becomes apparent formerly even to the introduction of the characters, as the mere scenery and props act as symbolic elements, which reflect this motif. Miller however subliminally makes it evident that this dream is purely an illusion, through emblematic phrases in his stage directions such as ‘rising out of reality’ and physical representations, for instance the broken boundaries where ‘characters enter or leave a room by stepping through a wall onto the forestage’ which create an aura of delusion.…
The musical Annie is based on the strip cartoon Little Orphan Annie which began in New York. It was created by Harold Gray, who came up with an idea for a comic strip called Little Orphan Andy. But the New York News didn't want one more strip about a boy so he it.So, Andy became Annie. The first strip appeared in August 1924. The cartoon strip proved to be so successful that it was almost immediately picked up by the Chicago Tribune. Within a few years, the strip found its way onto the pages of another five hundred or so American newspapers, all across the continent. Annie had become a cherished national institution. One day the Chicago Tribune accidentally omitted their daily instalment of Little Orphan Annie and chaos ensued. The paper's…
crumble in this instance, later it is rebuilt by the love that she and Maxim…