Despite the vast change in context‚ purpose and audience‚ both Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice (1984) address universal and timeless issues within society in order to challenge perspectives and understandings of them. Each explore the values and attitudes ascribed to marriage and women‚ and through an intertextual reading of both Austen and Weldon‚ a contextualisation of both constructs grows. The exploration of the construction of values regarding marriage
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time and to reinforce the value of freedom and women’s rights held by the younger generation in the 1960’s. The value of freedom is largely supported in this TV drama by a range of visual and narrative conventions. This is evident in Vivian’s characterisation‚ she’s not afraid to break the rules in the name of freedom. Soon after arriving at
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Enders Game Enders Game‚ written by Orson Scott Card is a “classic novel of one boy’s destiny among the stars”. The representation of Ender as the typical hero partaking on a hero’s journey is shown through the language devices and the characterisation of Ender. Card presents the conventions of a traditional hero‚ namely qualities of bravery and wisdom‚ leadership‚ responsibility and the tragic or traditional weakness. Card explores the idea of a traditional hero’s weakness‚ through the
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In the context of your critical study how do relationships embodied in the extract (the one that you choose) resonate with your understanding of loyalty in the play? Through a critical study of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet and the many-faceted relationships that occur throughout it‚ we are able to identify the underlying idea of loyalty and understand how it’s different aspects affect the protagonist Hamlet and all his relationships in the play. Culminating in the line “I have sworn it”‚
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Through the use of characterisation the main character Holland is portrayed as a county loving bushman. This such characterisation reveals the outback farmer and agricultural driven perspective of the Australian identity. Like the multiculturalism and diversity of the Australian society‚ the common ground that links our nation
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successfully uses the power struggle‚ along with characterisation‚ conflict and key scene to enhance the audience’s appreciation of both the character of Eddie Carbone and the themes within the play such as love‚ code of honour and justice within the law. At the beginning of the play‚ before Marco and Rodolpho have arrived Miller does not make it obvious to the audience that Eddie is in a power struggle with his conscience. Through the use of characterisation Miller paints Eddie as a honourable‚ decent
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Stanislavski and ‘The Method’ “To become a successful actor one must erase personal experience and emotions and build their character from nothing.” – Lee Strasburg. Konstantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev was born in Moscow‚ Russia in 1863. He was first seen on stage at the age of seven and at the age of twenty-one he changed his stage name to Konstantin Stanislavski. He was founder of the first acting “system”‚ co-founder of the Moscow Theatre (1897)‚ and a renowned practitioner of the naturalist school
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Through ‘The Tragedy of King Lear’‚ Shakespeare represents a distinctive voice in which influences the way we perceive the role of power play in our world as it broadens our understanding of the universality and complexity of power play. Compared with the 21st century film ‘Brassed Off’‚ we are presented with an insight into the various means of attaining power and its ability to uncover the true nature of people within their struggle for supremacy and control. Shakespeare presents ’The Tragedy
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold This passage from Marquez’ Chronicle of a Death Foretold displays numerous elements that through careful analysis‚ can reveal the society in which the characters live and throw some light on the character of the puzzling Santiago Nasar. The extract is taken from the first few pages of the . It presents the first instance in which the reader is exposed tochronicle Santiago Nasar’s darker side‚ and gives a number of accounts of the series
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money. Through the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio we learn about the love of one friend for another and how they would sacrifice anything for one another. Shakespeare uses many techniques including: tests‚ plot incident‚ passionate dialogue‚ characterisation and emotive language to express his idea of love and friendship to the audience. Plot incident and passionate dialogue are used in the merchant of Venice to convey the friendship and the almost brotherly love between Bassanio and his best
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