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    Top Girls Essay For the final scene we travel back in time‚ to a year earlier. Marlene is visiting her sister Joyce and Angie. The Act ends dramatically with a statement from Angie‚ we are aware of her environment and relationship with both her mothers‚ and the impact these have on her‚ her life is ’frightening’. I believe the last scene was left until the end because it makes the structure like a cyclic as the dream scene is at the beginning and you could argue that Angie has a nightmare at

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    Evaluate this opinion by comparing and contrasting how relationships between the sexes are presented in the top girls and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. Set at the time it was written‚ the early 1980’s‚ Top Girls is mainly concerned with two political agendas: feminism and socialism. It may seem surprising to us today that just over thirty years ago the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act came into legal existence. The 1960’s and 1970’s were an important time for the development of women’s

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    Top Girls by Carly Churchill Marlene: is known as many things throughout this play. She is independent and high in confidence. She is well regarded by her colleagues‚ has also tried to better herself both socially and as a woman. She is a woman‚ who wants everything to be about her‚ and want everyone around her to have the same outlook as her. Isabella: The daughter of a Church of England clergyman‚ she moved to live in Scotland. She tried to please her father by conforming the ‘role’ of clergyman’s

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    Language and communication The abrupt nature of the utterances in Top Girls reflects a style of playwriting that is more modern‚ where a short sentence can be loaded with meaning. The minimal use of words lays bare the main issues while allowing much dramatic effect through their simplicity. There is more strength in what is not said‚ and the clarity of speech does not mean that there are fewer issues to decode. The language of misogyny‚ appropriated by women‚ is apparent in Joyce’s swearing at

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    Aleksandra Szymczyk Alienation Effect in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill Caryl Churchil’s play Top Girls presents a socially challenging commentary. She uses a variety of theatrical techniques to convey her message. Influences of Brechtian Epic Theatre can be seen explicitly in her employment of the technique called the alienation effect. Brecht’s alienation effects‚ in contrast to suspension of disbelief associated with realistic plays‚ tries to destroy the possibility of escapism and aims

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    A Comparative Essay of A Doll’s House and Top Girls Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls both are a pillar of critical writing about the society they were originally produced in and have a central theme of the oppression of women‚ which makes them great sources of feminist reviews. Although Ibsen “abandoned the concept that the play was about gender roles” (Urban‚ 1997)‚ the central question is beyond the original context within which the plays were produced and received

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    Top Girls "Reading Top Girls as a feminist text helped me to find ways to dramatize the price women pay for success in a patriarchal society" (J.T Burk). To what extent can Top Girls be classified as a feminist comedy? Caryl Churchill’s play‚ Top Girls‚ has many social‚ political and cultural observations about modern women throughout the centuries. It was written in 1982 and in this‚ Churchill presents women from both modern and historical periods who seem to have been successful in one way

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    Title: How does Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes

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    Abdus Azad English 220 Dramatic Summary Dramatic Summary Act 3 Scene 2 of Tempest We begin the scene with Stephano‚ Trinculo‚ and Caliban. Stephano and Trinculo are drinking and Stephano orders Caliban to have a drink as well. All three of them drink‚ while Trinculo continues to make fun of Caliban insulting him by calling him things like half fish and half monster repeatedly‚ and Caliban gets upset of all the insults and also mocks Trinculo saying he is not courageous and will never serve him

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    It has been said that women have never achieved full equality with men. To what extent are Churchill’s characters ‘Top Girls’ in act one Many roles of women in society have been limited. There are very clear expectations of men and women‚ the men are the breadwinners and women are only to be housewives and mothers. Women through the ages have had to deal with a male dominated society. Men believed that women always needed support and someone to look after them. Women have been portrayed as being

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