“The enormity of it [World War I] was quite beyond most of us‚” writes George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) in the preface to his extraordinary Heartbreak House‚ one of the playwright’s most important pieces. The play is the featured work this year at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake‚ Ontario‚ celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011. Written and set immediately prior to the First World War‚ Heartbreak House is a quasi-Chekhovian dark comedy about a society on the edge of a precipice. Shaw delayed
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This passage‚ from the epilogue of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan‚ introduces King Charles’ viewpoint of Joan. It occurs twenty five years after the execution of Joan. Charles is having a dream and talking to Ladvenu who is a holy man that has dedicated his life to clearing Joan. In the epilogue‚ Charles represents the government and Ladvenu represents the view of the church. Ladvenu says “I think of what it means to her” when Joan’s name is cleared. However‚ Charles says that he cannot think of what
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intolerance and discourages education‚ which in case is the key to hope. In short we contaminated Pakistan. But there is still hope‚ hope in promoting education among the youth. The Irish playwright and co-founder of the London school of economics‚ George Bernard Shaw‚ once said: “what we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge‚ and not knowledge in pursuit of the child”. He believed that learning brought a person out of darkness through the gate of knowledge to the orbit of life. Only then could
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Knowledge comes‚ but wisdom lingers. Lord Tennyson Frailty‚ thy name is woman! Shakespeare In the end‚ everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin The best love affairs are those we never had. Norman Lindsay Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers Fortune favors the brave. Virgil I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short. Blaise Pascal Great works are performed
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Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose‚ thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night‚ In the howling storm‚ Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy‚ And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor "If all the world’s
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The Creation of Johari Window The Creation of Johari Window Ever since the creation of life‚ humans have fought with one and other‚ bickering‚ and talking behind each other’s backs. This is especially true in the workplace‚ who has not had an argument with a coworker? It seems like no one has anything nice to say about each other. Maybe people do have nice things to say‚ but the problem is finding a way to say them. There must be a way to improve this everlasting problem‚ which two men set out
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Review”: TDR 13.2 (Winter 1968) Griffith ‚Tony(1991) . Scandavia‚ Wakefield press. Ibsen ‚Hernia(1906) . A Dolls House‚ Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen‚ William Heinemann. Myers Michael (1987) .Strindberg Oxford University Press‚ Oxford Shaw ‚ Bernard Roberto D.Pomo. New York: Pearson Longman‚ 2001.
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the author My Fair Lady was originally a stage musical based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Alan Jay Lerner adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play for the musical My Fair Lady. Alan Jay Lerner’s words for the songs use many of the spoken words in Shaw’s play. This was partly because Lerner‚ by law‚ had to stay as close as possible to the original. The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856 –1950) was born in Dublin‚ but moved to London when he was twenty‚ and soon began publishing
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- Anatole France “Reach high‚ for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep‚ for every dream precedes the goal.” - Pamela Vaull Starr “You see things; and you say‚ ’Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say‚ ’Why not?’” - George Bernard Shaw “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” - Thomas Alva Edison “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein “He is able who thinks he is able.” - Buddha
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The limitations for Women “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”‚ written in 1893 by George Bernard Shaw‚ is a play that centers around the relationship between Mrs. Kitty Warren‚ a brothel owner‚ and her daughter‚ Vivie‚ an intelligent and hardheaded young woman. The women in this play are underpaid‚ undervalued‚ and overworked. A good comparison that explores women in the Victorian era is Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ written in 1846. Wuthering Heights goes in depth about the social classes that
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