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    Pygmalion Distinctive Voices

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    Module A – Experience Through Language “Distinctive Voices” Analysis Table – Pygmalion (NOTES TO USE IN ESSAYS / EXTENDED RESPONSES) |Technique |Evidence (include Act/page number) |EFFECT in relation to “Distinctive Voices” | | | |Consider how “voice” and Shaw’s use

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    Addressing the Nation When any artist or director embarks on the journey of creation‚ they use a variety of different techniques to aid in the conveying of their message. Their main goal is to create something special for their audience‚ or rather call them witnesses. Convincing them that a personal piece of art‚ whether it be a painting‚ a novel or a movie‚ is different than all the rest. Rhetoricians create an author’s idea‚ their own unique perception of reality‚ for a vast and diverse viewing

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    first published in the year 1913. The drama revolves around three main characters – Eliza Doolittle‚ Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering – who are all striving towards the same goal. That is‚ they want to be able to pass Eliza off as a Duchess rather than the flower girl from the London slums that she actually is. It starts as just a bet on the part of the Professor and the Colonel‚ but it is a struggle for a better‚ upper-middle class life on the part of Eliza. She is enticed by not only

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    Beauchamp. She was born June 11th‚ 1456 at Warwick Castle in Warwickshire and died on March 16th‚ 1485 at age 28 in Westminster‚ London. Lady Anne was a very powerful and wealthy woman during her time in England as she held the titles Princess of Wales‚ Duchess of Glouchester‚ and Queen of England. Anne’s coronation as Queen of England was on July 6th‚ 1483. She became Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward of Westminster and then Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III. Anne Neville was born

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    Abstract The dissertation entitled ROBERT BROWNING AS A POET OF LOVE: A DIFFERENT STANDPOINT is an examination of different aspects of love represented in the poems of Robert Browning. Browning has presented love with all its natural fire and earnest truth. His love poems are the perfect equilibrium of faith that happens to be the nectar of ecstasy in human life. His art and artifice of creating love lyrics is unlimited‚ infinite and ever revolving. Browning considered love to be the basic principle

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    exits. Browning’s poems open the minds of his readers‚ allowing for exploration and the discovery of the dark side of human nature: in the context of his dramatic monologue‚ character revelations are discovered. In Robert Browning’s‚ My Last Duchess we are introduced to a rich‚ arrogant and authoritarian Duke of Ferara. Browning immediately establishes the technique apostrophe as the Duke begins to speak to an unseen character about his late wife. The Duke displays feelings of nervousness towards

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    subject of the play I am exploring now is the way two unconnected people can change each other. The question of who triumphs at the end can be answered in many ways. At face value‚ and probably in his mind‚ Higgins triumphs – he passes Eliza off as a duchess and wins his bet. He does not realise how sneering and abusive he is of Eliza and therefore for a lot of the play she feels used‚ abused and objectified. At the beginning of the play‚ Henry Higgins is an unlikeable‚ domineering‚ selfish person with

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    Several motifs appear throughout the narratives of traditional medieval romantic texts and The Carl of Carlisle is no exception to this. As established the giant character of these texts acts as the foundation on which the rest of the narrative forms around; The Carl of Carlisle reads as a series of tests given to prove the courtesy of the knights in a place where courtesy is stripped from them‚ truly testing their commitment to the chivalric code. At the first test both the Bishop and Key fail as

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    Gone Girl Analysis

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    Saul Dibb in his 2008 film The Duchess and Gillian Flynn in her 2012 novel Gone Girl both deconstruct the bases that form trust and deception within relationships and society. Although Flynn’s thriller of twists and Dibb’s 18th century drama depict two diverse settings the texts both present the idea that trust is an unrealistic expectation within relationships‚ as relationships are created from idealism of the perfect partner. Both texts explore the importance of appearance within society‚ as Flynn

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    Throughout the past 400+ years times and ways of life have changed‚ but if you think about it‚ stuff that occurred back then still occur now. The play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by Shakespeare displays the most common similarities between then and now. The play displays an arranged marriage‚ a couple arguing‚ and a group of people performing a play for entertainment. As stated before these three things still often occur today. “Full of vexation I complain against . . . my daughter Hermia- Stand

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