The Great Gatsby cover Commentary The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a detailed account of a summer that Nick Carraway‚ the narrator spent in West Egg‚ long island‚ living in a house next to a colossal mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was known to throw many “little parties” which were anything but “little”. The story includes many influential characters such as Daisy Buchanan‚ who is Nick Carraways cousin‚ Tom Buchanan‚ who is Daisy’s husband‚ Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s
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circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to point out that ‘aristocratic life is brutal and corrupt’.[2] The focus of this commentary will be concentrated on marriage and to what can lead one to fall apart. The first scene (Act I)‚ deals with the characters of the play’s main plot: Leantio‚ Bianca and the Mother. In this scene‚ the readers come across with the insulting
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Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors By Andrey Levchenko One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen‚ either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors‚ but with time a got used to it‚ and now I know how to do it easily
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legally freed‚ but not exactly in practice‚ from the atrocity of slavery. Twain shows that many of those stereotypes that the whites believed about slaves had not been broken. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Mark Twain utilizes Jim to make social commentary on the oppression of colored people in the nation. Mark Twain comments on the racism in the country by exposing the language used by Jim differently‚ the racist words used towards Jim‚ and challenging America’s societal norms by making Huck and
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Running head: EFFECTIVE SOCIAL COMMENTARY South Park: Effective Social Commentary Abstract This paper will explore whether the animated show South Park is an effective use of social commentary. We will explore the controversial topics covered by the show and the reactions to those shows from both a liberal and conservative viewpoint. In addition‚ we will look at how topics covered in a humorous‚ cartoon format may be able to more effectively discuss taboo subjects
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Analyze the way in which Flannery O’Connor fuses social commentary with a religious vision in at least two of her short stories Social Commentary and religious vision are two of the most common and striking features of the work of Flannery O’Connor. I found both themes to be particularly evident in her short stories “The Artificial nigger” and “Revelation”. what I found particularly interesting about these stories with regard to the subject was how O’Connor had the two ideas intersect and relate
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The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov ’s last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however‚ Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production‚ directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return
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The prescribed passage‚ Maiden Voyage from Denton Welch’s novel is rich in action and suspense. Several literary devices are employed by the author to create such an appealing effect. The first person narrative is introduced in the first line of this passage and is very important throughout the prose‚ especially when the protagonist encounters the decapitated head. The narrative style enhances the sensations of utter surprise and horror by describing the experience in a more personal viewpoint
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Seamus Heaney’s Mid-Term Break is a personal memoir of how the poet deals with the death of his four-year-old brother‚ as a result of a traffic accident. While the title of the poem initially suggests a positive experience‚ where “mid-term break” conventionally has positive connotations to a schoolboy‚ the reader is quickly introduced to a somber mood‚ where the poem starts with an introduction of the events following the news‚ and proceeds with an explanation of how others are reacting to the loss
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As Leon Battista Alberti once said‚ “Painting is possessed of divine powered‚ for not only does it make the absent present‚ but also makes the dead almost alive”. This seems to summarize the central theme of William Butler Yeats’ poem‚ “Sailing to Byzantium” that through human imagination‚ nature and its raw materials are transformed into something that will withstand the test of time. Through the use of Yeats’ clusters of images‚ paradoxes‚ and syntax‚ this theme of endurance over time is emphasized
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