live on the fringes of their communities and rarely speak with their fellow townspeople. Such outcasts include John Proctor from The Crucible and Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter . They are viewed as outsiders in their respective communities because of how set apart they are from the rest of their communities‚ although this happens for very different reasons. The main character of The Scarlet Letter ‚ Hester Prynne‚ was ostracized by the people for her sins and confined to isolation on the outskirts of town. Proctor
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Allah (1936)‚ swashbucklers like The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939)‚ or musicals like Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)” (203). However‚ despite this new technology‚ a film did not have to use color in order to be considered of quality. Orson Welles’ 1941 Citizen Kane‚ for instance‚ was shot in black and white‚ despite the advent of color film in the previous decade. While it is possible this decision was made for budgetary reasons‚ the use of black and white dramatically accentuated the shadowy‚ mysterious
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The prison door is important to the Puritan social order‚ whose unbendable certainty condemns and confines Hester. Like the door (oak is among the heaviest and most grounded of woods)‚ the Puritans are fearless in their moral quality and along these lines‚ unsympathetic in their judgements. The iron spikes reinforce this delineation‚ drawing in thought with respect to the gathering’s merciless judgements and reformatory character. The usage of oak in the line emphasizes the centrality of the prison
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making Charles diminish in size and distance while still the focus of the shot. The low-angled shots reveals the ceiling‚ showing more extreme foreground and background. As Roger Ebert (2004) points out in his article “In almost all movies before Citizen Kane‚ you couldn’t see the ceilings in rooms because there weren’t any. That’s where you’d see the lights and microphones. Welles wanted to use a lot of low-angle shots that would look up toward ceilings‚ and so Toland devised a strategy of cloth
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films primarily he gained a lot of praise for his radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds. Besides this Welle’s filmography is probably what he is most well known for with such films as Touch of Evil‚ The Magnificent Amerbsons‚ and of course Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane to this date is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made however the film itself and Welles only received a best screenplay award. Welle’s was essentially a director ahead of his time who utilized the art of mise en scene to add
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Cosmopolitanism The era of globalization has brought about a new wave of integration and interaction on a global scale. Contrary to common belief‚ globalization is not a new phenomenon as examined by Karl Marx. For thousands of years people across the globe have been doing business‚ similar to Central Asia’s Silk Road‚ which connected Europe and China. Contemporary globalization however encompasses a technological infrastructure through the use of the Internet and other modern devices. This sophisticated
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adulterer and adulteress--or at the very least‚ severe public corporal punishment. Indeed‚ even if the husband wanted to keep his wife alive after she committed adultery‚ the law insisted that she would have to die for it. It is in this environment that Hester commits adultery with Dimmesdale‚ but we come to see that the public shaming cannot begin to account for all the complexities of the illicit relationship--or the context of it. What Hawthorne sets out to portray‚ then‚ is how the private thoughts
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John Houseman and together the pair made the Mercury Theatre in 1937. A year later in 1938 the two produced "The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Their radio show became most famous when it broadcasts it’s version of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds." Citizen Kane was his first of his films of Welles to be seen by the public eye. It was known as a huge loss for RKO losing about 150‚000 for the studios. Although ironically the film is known as the best film ever made today. Many of his films that continued
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child to suicide. (Citizens Voice) About twelve percent of teens have depression in the United States. (It’s something as parents you should be looking for in your children when their normal daily interaction takes a drastic turn. The fact is most teens in this timeframe have an enact ability to hide their real emotions from their parents. Our family teachers and sometimes friends think it is a phase and we will get over it in time. In some
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In The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the use of public shaming has an everlasting effect on a woman named Hester Prynne after she commits adultery within her Puritan society. She was sentenced to stand on a platform in front of her entire community‚ and she must wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life. Public humiliation is the dishonoring showcase of a person for everyone in a community to see. To this day‚ some judges still use public humiliation to punish people for their
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