Madness‚ love & transformation Everyone goes mad in their own particular way. Nowra thinks madness is too generalised‚ and it is based on each individuals past and experiences etc. At the end of the play‚ Lewis is no longer afraid of madness. Lewis is thoroughly transformed by the patients. Nowra uses a mixture of laughter and madness‚ which is a volatile mixture. We usually see madness as dark and scary‚ so we can keep it in a corner and ignore it. When he adds humour to it‚ then we begin to
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Cosi‚ composed by Louis Nowra‚ is a minimalist play contextualised by the Vietnam War which emphasises the characters and their growth. Cosi explores the distinctive ideas of illusion verses reality and the concept of “madness” in a comedic and innovative way‚ through a variety of dramatic techniques. The device of a play-within-a-play of Cosi Fan Tutte‚ develops an effective dichotomy‚ while highlighting the dramatic verisimilitude of the values presented in the outside and inside worlds. Lewis
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both “The Infant Prodigy” and “Her First Ball” share the common theme of loss of childhood innocence‚ “The Infant Prodigy” explores its theme through many points of views and character description while “Her First Ball” makes use of one point of view and vast imagery of the setting to advance the theme. In “Her First Ball” Mansfield uses the experience of a young eighteen year old girl going to her first dance to explore the theme of a child losing their innocence. The story opens with a girl named
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Program Code: HT124008 Higher Diploma in International Hospitality and Tourism Management LES4306 Theme Parks Operations and Management Group Assessment –Universal Studios Singapore Group Members : Chapman Eugenia (130620331) Sung Yan Yee (130722544) Hung Hiu Nam (130107965) Mok Hiu Wai (130314420) Chau So Ting (130300102) Lecturer: David Poon Class: 2I Submission Date: 31 Oct‚ 2014 Content 1. Introduction P. 3 2. Background 2.1 History 2.2 Ownership 2.3 Operator P. 4 3. Design and facilities
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COSI QUOTES LEWIS “[hesitantly] This is an unusual position for me…I directed some plays at university…and‚ well…this is my first year out.” P7 “In a way you’re sort of testing yourself by coming here?” (Julie to Lewis p32) “Make a decision Lewis between going to the moratorium meeting or staying here.” “I’m not going to let them down.” P70 “Love is not so important nowadays.” P10 “Without love the world wouldn’t mean much.” P70 “Working with these people has changed you.” (Lucy
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illnesses and how the mentally ill were seen by society were not one of these issues and were still seen negatively by most people. In Louis Nowra’s play Cosi a range of techniques are used to engage the audience by exploring certain characters and themes that were significant to Louis Nowra. Contrast and settings are important in exploring the theme of insanity‚ while characterisation and dialogue reveal what type of person one of the mental patients‚ Zac‚ is. The play is set in the 1970’s in
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One common theme within Education of Little Tree‚ Of Mice and Men‚ Night‚ and Willow would be the theme of pain. Within all four books the characters all feel pain or guilt about something they have done in the course of the storyline. For example in Education of Little Tree‚ Little Tree‚ feels guilty when the snake bites his grandpa and grandpa has to suck the venom out but still gets sick. Little Tree also feels guilty after getting in trouble in class and being sent into the little room all
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Louis Nowra’s portrayal of the relationship between Lewis and his world move into a deeper understanding of acceptance throughout the play. Recent graduate Lewis has taken the role of being a director of a play in a mental asylum. At the beginning of the play‚ he initially took the job in desperation for money. However as the play an advance‚ Lewis builds relationships with the patients and realizes they are just normal people. As he has a one on one encounter with each patient‚ he begins to develop
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Cosi Themes Fidelity‚ Infidelity and Love According to Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte‚ the issue of fidelity is depicted to be an ideal that is never achieved. Since ‘women are like that’ – the interpretation of ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’‚ Mozart encourages the belief that men should simply accept that women are indeed disloyal in relationships. Nowra illustrates this same idea about women and infidelity through Lewis and Lucy’s relationship. While Lucy is ‘sleeping with Lewis‚ she is also ‘having sex’ with Nick
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American Psycho: Analysis This extract of ‘American Psycho’ conveys most of the wider themes of the text‚ with similar stylistic techniques that are seen throughout the novel. Ellis uses a peculiar chapter title with ‘End of the 1980’s’ for this extract and throughout the rest of the book. These titles usually relate to the theme of the chapter or the events within it. This extract is named ‘End of the 1980’s’ which is very significant to the wider text. The entire novel is a dark‚ satirical
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