Close Study of Text: Cosi The play “Cosi” by Louis Nowra is about a young‚ inexperienced university student who is given the task of directing a play in a mental hospital. The play uses many dramatic techniques including the setting of the play‚ humour‚ Language‚ the play within the play structure‚ and the fourth wall to help draw the audience into the world of the play. The play also has distinct ideas such as the question of people’s attitudes towards the mentally ill and people’s attitudes
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Lewis Nowra’s semi auto biographical play ‘Cosi’ is a touching yet biting portrayal of human relationships in a Melbourne mental institute‚ where the patients are astracised by society. Throughout the play Lewis Nowra illustrates each and every character that suffers with a mental illness as normal people with a desire to do or think things different to others from the society of the 1970s. Throughout the play Nowra poses a question‚ can anybody be classified as insane? When there is insanity all
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Cosi – How does the dramatist cleverly combine themes ideas and structural techniques to convey meaning within a play? The Dramatist Louis Nowra cleverly combines structural and language features with an array of characters and personalities in order to convey themes of love versus infidelity and reality versus fantasy. It is this combination which allows Louis Nowra to convey meaning within his play “Cosi” Louis Nowra addresses the themes of fantasy versus reality as the opera of “Cosi Fan Tutte”
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me four times longer to hit the brake [while being distracted and driving]” (1). Therefore‚ LeBeau’s results matched up with the final results for Car and Driver Magazine; it took an unimpaired driver .54 seconds to break‚ yet for a person sending a text while driving‚ it took 70 more feet to break. Furthering Car and Driver Magazine’s study‚ it shows that it only
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Macbeth is a man worthy of our sympathy. To what extent do you agree with this statement? Macbeth is portrayed as being a loyal and noble man but when faced with a life-changing decision‚ his dark side begins to surface and greed takes over common sense. He appears to be quite gullible and is persuaded easily by his wife and the witches into becoming king and letting nothing get in the way. After a Macbeth returns from a battle‚ he is seen to be “noble Macbeth” in the eyes of King Duncan. By
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When writing a discussion response we begin by stating our position on the issue then consider both sides of the argument within the body of the essay. We must give reasons and examples for adopting the point of view on the topic. A standard format for completing a text response essay follows this procedure. Introduction: should restate the name of the text and what the topic is asking and the way that you will answer the question. You may be asked to give a reasoned point of view on the topic
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The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response The Hunger Games Analytic Text Response I think the Hunger games depicts a horrendous dystopia because Suzanne Collins makes the Hunger Games as a child slaughter match. She makes the characters such as the Game Maker as a man who takes orders from a bigger man who is sick minded as he reminds the 12 districts that we can take your children no matter what and make them fight in the glorious Hunger Games. He also gives each District a speciality trade which
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Text Response- Of Mice and Men The 1937 novella of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck engrossed the audience with the plot providing great detail. The author portrays a realistic story about the Great Depression in America during the 1930s and the effects it had on the farm workers and the issues they experienced. Steinbeck employs many narrative techniques with meticulous care. The author uses many examples of foreshadowing and symbolism in the text. A considerable measure of anticipation can be felt
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Text response: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Text title: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Author/creator: Lasse Hallström (Director) Text type: DVD Movie Method of narration: First Person‚ Film study Date of publication: 1993 Summary of Text + Setting The film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape opens in the small town of Endora‚ a place where ‘nothing much happens’. There‚ Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie‚ his brother with a developmental disability as they wait for the many tourists’ trailers
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Cosi is a play written by Louis Nowra in the 1970’s. The comedy is about an inexperienced director‚ Lewis‚ who chooses to earn some cash and gain professional experience by working with a group of mental patients in Melbourne and directing a play for them to perform. Although the play is a comedy‚ there is many real messages throughout the play that are deeply significant‚ these messages are explored through different themes such as the nature of madness which is best showed in the characters; Roy
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