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    Every literature text is divided in different genres. Theses genres are prose‚ drama and poetry. All genres use different key features and conventions to present characters in the text. This essay will look at how different features present identity in prose‚ drama and poetry. The drama analysed is Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House”. Nora’s identity is shown through the language and the way Torvald talks to her. He calls her pet names such as “my sweet little skylark” (A Doll’s House‚ p.7). This shows

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    characterization‚ plot and genre. For example he illustrated in Hamlet that if a main character changes than the plot also does‚ integrating characterization with the plot‚ also he combined tragedy and romance in Romeo & Juliet as prior to Romeo and Juliet romance was not considered a worthy topic for tragedy. Shakespeare has been credited for influencing well known novelists over the years such as William Faulkner‚ Charles Dickens and Herman Melville‚ examples of this influence include the large

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    Drama at the Farm: A Canadian Survival Story Canadian Writer Margaret Atwood would argue that every country in the world has a single unifying and informing symbol‚ to act as a belief system that keeps everyone together and working for common ends. These unifying symbols manifest in the literature produce by authors and literary thinkers; whether or not it is done consciously or subconsciously. According to Atwood‚ in the United States "Frontier" is the unifying symbol‚ the exploration of new land

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    ABC’s suspense drama show “Quantico” has kept us on the edge ever since it started airing from September 2015. And now with only four episodes left in the current season‚ it is still not clear if Alex would succeed in her mission of finding the terrorist aka the voice. But if Josh Safran‚ the show creator is to be believed‚ fans will get the answers but not before the finale “Yes”. He is reported to have said that the audience will not find themselves embroiled in any kind of guessing game regarding

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    was a really big obstacle for me and eventually it started to turn into a fear. I was afraid to go up to the classroom‚ raise my hand‚ and even talk to my classmates. The fear just stuck with me throughout school. In the 8th grade I was put into a drama class. We were told we would be in a play at the end of the semester. At first all I could think of is everything that could go wrong. At least by then my English fluent. When the day came‚

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    Anna Pavlova And The Dying Swan Drama Essay A couple years ago I used to think that ballet was boring. I did not understand ballet as an art and did not recognize its classical and modern types. Dances like hip-hop‚ samba‚ rumba‚ cha-cha‚ tango‚ and disco appealed to me more. Once I tried ballet myself in the U.S.‚ I realized that most of the great dancers learned ballet for a lengthy amount of time. I decided to take ballet classes and after a year I realized that ballet brings me indescribable

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    Drama Prose or verse telling a story intended for representation by actors through dialogue or action. The Play Playwright : person who writes plays. Script : printed copy of a play. Acts : the major sections of a play. Scene : small section or portion of a play. The People Actor: male performer Actress: female performer Cast: all performers selected to portray characters. Director: instructs actors on how to portray characters. Areas of the Stage Backstage: area behind scenery not visible

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    “Catherine is such an attention seeker!”‚ I chose to say this because of Anna and her portrayal in the play as someone who doesn’t show any sympathy towards Catherine and her illness‚ as she does let her feelings get the best of her at times‚ an example of this is when she says to Catherine that her “obsession is ruining all our lives!” I wanted to show Anna’s resentment even before Catherine’s illness is around‚ simply because she is the younger sister and craves for attention that she wouldn’t

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    reaction. The costume for every type of comedy is extremely different. Commedia Dell’Arte for example required masks for each of the characters‚ the masks obviated the use of face expression and communication‚ therefore making the characters more puppet like; relying more upon the use of voice and gesture. Masks were not only used in Commedia Dell’Arte but also in other forms of Greek and Roman dramas. Other forms of comedy usually consist of costumes focusing on the clown’s main faults and/or

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    Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker "Our Country’s Good‚" a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker‚ is about a group of English convicts bound for Australia by sea in 1788. In the first scene‚ Sideways‚ a convict on board the ship‚ is being brutally whipped and we are introduced to the constant‚ overwhelming fear‚ hunger and despair that the convicts are going through. We are also introduced to all the officials on board. They are debating the punishment of hanging that three of the convicts

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