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    Shakespeare‘s As You Like It is based on a work entitled Rosalynde written by Thomas Lodge (Verity 2000 : xiii) The play is often categorized as a pastoral comedy . The term .pastoral. refers to the life of the shepherds or rural folk and their ways of living‚ manners and customs. However‚ pastoral poetry does not reflect the realities of country life and that from its beginning it created an imaginary landscape which was actually a projection of the poct‘s feelings and ideas. Hence the word ’pastoral‘

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    Did Shakespeare’s characters get what they deserve? To what extent? The majority of Shakespeare’s characters did not get what they deserved in the end‚ there definitely is a strong scent of injustice that hangs in the air around Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. This‚ however‚ does not mean that it made life harder for his characters. In quite a few cases‚ it actually leaves them better off. Nevertheless‚ this is not to say that they are not punished for their wrong deeds‚ sometimes in ways that are completely

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    Stand-up comedy From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer

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    After Eliezer’s father was beaten by Idek‚ a Kapo‚ Eliezer says‚ “I had watched the whole scene without moving. I kept quiet. In fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more‚ any anger I felt at that moment was directed‚ not against the Kapo‚ but against my father. I was angry with him‚ for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s outbreak. That is what concentration camp life had made of me.” Eliezer’s complete outlook on life has changed since things started

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    John M. Murry describes Twelfth Night as having a ’silvery undertone of sadness’ - this view is held by other critics alike. Kiernan Ryan states how "the spectre of death haunts the romantic protagonists’ lives and loves from the start." This can be seen right from the beginning of the play with Orsino’s speech. He describes love as a kind of illness which is ’killing’ him in a sense; "The appetite may sicken and so die." This in itself gives the play a melancholy atmosphere right from the start

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    No Place to Be Somebody Review The show‚ No Place to Be Somebody: A Black-Black Comedy‚ took place in the Pavilion Theatre on October 4th at 7:30 pm. The show was written by Charles Gordone in 1967. The show takes place during the Civil Rights era and basically consisited of an african american bartender and a white mobster being at conflict. The show was very powerful and played out extremely well. The three main things that made the show wonderful were the actors‚ the objects used in the show

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    In Elie Wiesel’s book “Night”‚ uses eyes and/or night to demonstrate people’s humanity within the camps and throughout the book. I will be talking about Moche the Beadle‚ Elie and the little boy who was hanged. First‚ Moche the Beadle. At the beginning of the book‚ his eyes were described as being dreamy. He would be a representation of innocence and heavenly wisdom. He was later deported before the rest of the jews in the area. He saw infants being used as targets.When he escaped and came back home

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    In the play‚ Twelfth Night‚ Shakespeare illustrates the traditional merry-making and social disorder‚ which occurred upon the Feast of Fools‚ or the Twelfth Night of Christmas. It is during this time that the normality and social roles of status was reversed‚ and thus‚ overturned‚ in that servants would become Masters‚ and Masters‚ servants. In short‚ this day was a time‚ where the usual flow of laws‚ rules and class difference was generally ignored‚ and therefore‚ led to a lapse of disorder.

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    Full Circle – from Sin to Salvation Great works of literature have been written throughout history. However‚ The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost have the inept ability to stir the soul and cause a person to examine and re-examine their life. The brilliant descriptions‚ use of imagery‚ metaphor and simile give a person a vivid picture of the creation of man and the possibilities for life in the hereafter. This is done‚ as a person is able to see‚ full circle‚ from the beginning of time to the

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