‘The Break Up’ I am writing about the genre of ‘Romantic comedy’ this genre has been around for a very long time since the silent era and the storyline and expected endings to these have stayed the same until 2006 which was the release of ‘The Break Up’ starring Vince Vaughn and Friends star Jennifer Aniston which is devoted to lots of romantic comedies. The audience must be able to connect with‚ and relate to‚ the characters in a romantic comedy. They need to be likeable and down to earth‚ so that
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Rhetoric 195 29 November 2011 The Illusions of Romantic Comedies and its Effect on Marriage It is no surprise that while the media is a source for news‚ education‚ and primarily entertainment‚ it has also been influencing society regarding our beliefs and values in a variety of ways. Consequently‚ media influence is often used in studies such as communication and sociology‚ to examine the affects it has on its audience. Sociologists refer to this as a mediated culture where media reflects
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In the introduction of Twelfth Night‚ twins Sebastian and Viola are compared to have such similar characteristics that Viola is said to have disguised herself as Sebastian. The twins‚ get into a terrible shipwreck that dolefully partens them. Viola masters a scheme to disguise herself as a man named Censario while she searches for her twin. Quickly Censario runs low on money and takes a job working for Orsino the Duke of Illyria‚ whom she instantly falls in love with. Unfortunately the love of her
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study‚ Shakespeare’s moments of sudden love will be examined in both art and science. Shakespeare has depicted the unyielding pain of longing for or losing love‚ and its unpredictable nature through his writing. Let us take his masterpiece of Twelfth Night where Olivia is sought after by Duke Orsino who is in pains for her love. But alas‚ Olivia has vowed to sworn off men as loving tribute to her dead brother and Orsino sends Viola to profess his love to Olivia. Enter the unpredictability of this
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The “dark side of life” that William Shakespeare exposes in his play‚ Twelfth Night‚ is the danger in the individual’s willingness to abandon the intrinsic self as a means to better realize a goal. The characters Viola‚ Feste‚ and Malvolio‚ in assuming new persona’s‚ engage in a metaphysical betrayal in which they deny the reality of their nature. Viola’s choice to serve Duke Orsino as a page in hopes of finding her brother is by no means unethical‚ and her efforts are ultimately successful‚ but
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connect fabricated characters to genuine people. While the character’s emotions depicted throughout a performance attain an audience’s response‚ the musical score written during the process of a play receives a greater acknowledgment. Viewing Twelfth Night from a analytical musical perspective‚ Shakespeare underscores how the expression of various genres of music reveals the inner feelings of characters and foreshadows the progress of the characters. William Shakespeare organized his style of
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Love is an everlasting theme throughout literature. In the play “Twelfth Night”‚ Shakespeare explores and illustrates 3 different types of love--true‚ self‚ and friendship. For each type of love‚ Shakespeare created its own characters to represent it‚ and these characters and their love played a major role in the play. True Love: There are three romantic love stories in the play. In the opening‚ Duke Orsino expressed his deep love for Countess Olivia. Later‚ in the following scene‚ Viola disguised
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Throughout the beginning scenes of Twelfth Night Shakespeare uses dramatic comedy as a main way to create humour to the audience. The shock factor creates a comical atmosphere to the beginning of the play‚ and the form in which Shakespeare introduces the character’s expresses effectively each character’s over exaggerated personality creating dramatic comedy. As twelfth night is a comedy but is all about mistaken identity and love Shakespeare had to reveal the comedy in discreet ways to make the humour
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reference to Twelfth Night during Shakespeare’s own lifetime is to a performance on February 2‚ 1602. A law student named John Manningham wrote in his diary about a feast he attended at the Middle Temple in London where he was a law student and where “we had a play called Twelfth Night; Or‚ What You Will." This was likely to have been an early performance since it is generally agreed that the play was probably written in 1601. In 1954 Sir Leslie Hotson’s book‚ The First Night of Twelfth Night‚ sought
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The Portrayal of Women in Twelfth Night The women in Shakespear’s play: Twelfth Night‚ are all depicted as having power‚ comedic and being very emotional. All of the female characters are given power‚ whether it be over each other‚ men or their servants. The woman with the power over the greatest number of people is Olivia‚ she has numerous servants and doesn’t hesitate to give them orders‚ which can be seen in (1.5.287) when she orders Malvolio to "run after that peevish messenger" and in
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