play he uses the character of Mr Arthur Birling‚ a self important business man‚ to mock typical capitalist business men. In this play Mr Arthur Birling is given the characteristics of a typical capitalist business man being confident and self assured. His (Mr Arthur Birling’s) attitude changes when an Inspector Goole (who voices J.B. Priestley’s views)‚ appears and challenges his views on society and community responsibility. In Act 1‚ Mr Arthur Birling makes a speech regarding his views on business
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Into The Wild Chris McCandless‚ fool or hero? I say fool. What was he thinking? What could drive a man to abandon everything‚ his family‚ friends and even possession to pursue an Idealism that eventually led to his own death? What can I make of this tremendous tragedy? His confused mind pushed him into sad solitude. To travel from here to there with the most extreme case of stubbornness. Even when he had no good knowledge of how to fend for himself he still wandered "Into The Wild". The wild that
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Arthur Birling and InspectorGoole’s philosophies on life and society contrast throughout the play. For most of the play Sheila‚ Eric and Mrs Birling are fully behind Mr Birling and his philosophies‚ but towards the end of the play‚ Eric and Sheila effectively switch sides and begin to back InspectorGoole’s philosophies on life and society. Mr Birling is a strong believer in stratas and classes in society; he believes he is in the upper class. In act 1‚ Mr Birling says "I’m still on the bench. It
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’King Lear’‚ the Fool is a character of dramatic importance in the play. The Fool helps the reader‚ and in Shakespeare’s time would help the audience‚ to understand what lies beneath the surface of certain actions or verses. He equally strives to make Lear ’see’. The Fool may be a very intriguing character and very often a complicated one but his role is necessary in ’King Lear’. The Fool plays three major roles; one of these roles is that of an ’inner-conscience’ of Lear. The Fool provides basic
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“In du Maurier’s novels the men are often bullies & cheats‚ the women fools for love.” Compare and contrast a Streetcar named Desire and Rebecca in the light of this quotation. Men and women are perceived in different ways throughout ‘Rebecca’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. Arguably some of the male characters particularly Stanley Kowalski and Maxim de Winter can be identified as bullies and cheats‚ however in the two texts‚ these traits can also be associated with Rebecca and Blanche‚ respectively
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Arthur Birling says: “If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with‚ it would be very awkward wouldn’t it?” How does Priestley present ideas about responsibility in An Inspector Calls? In An Inspector Calls‚ one of the main themes is responsibility. Priestley is interested in our personal responsibility for our own actions and our collective responsibility to society. The play explores the effect of class‚ age and sex on people’s attitudes to
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Everyone has morals. The usual ones are: Don’t lie‚ cheat‚ or steal. The swipe in "I’m a fool" by Sherwood Anderson does not seem to possess these morals throughout the story‚ although he does seem to feel remorseful at the end of the story. He lies‚ cheats‚ and steals‚ though not in a way most consider normal. In "I’m a fool" the swipe lies. He lies about who he is‚ where he is from‚ and what he does. He tells Miss Elinor Woodbury‚ Mr. Wilbur Wessen‚ and Miss Lucy Wessen that he was "Walter Mathers
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‘That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world – a beautiful little fool.’ In the light of this comment‚ compare and contrast representations of femininity in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby As A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby were both written by men‚ it is to be expected that they meet the generalised representations of women found in most famous texts‚ the vast majority of which were written by men. However‚ these two texts also explore the ideas of femininity
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Observation: Your neighbor added a farmer’s porch to his house and painted the ceiling of it blue. When you asked him why‚ he told you he had read that the sky blue ceiling would fool wasps into thinking it was the sky and they would not build any nests under the eaves of the porch or along the ceiling. Question: Would a blue ceiling really deter wasps from building nests on the porch? Introduction: There are many colloquial stories about blue painted porch ceilings. In particular‚ southerners
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This question is looking at trying to understand who and what factors led to the 11 years personal rule by Charles I. The relationship breakdown between Crown and Parliament began in 1603 with James I and ended in 1629 when Parliament was dissolved. To fully understand the causes of the breakdown we need to look what inherited problems James had to face. Elizabeth had created a debt of £400‚000 which was passed onto James‚ so already he faced severe financial problems. On top of this was the
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