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    he Ghost Sonata does not take place in the real world; or at least not in a world most people would recognize as reality. Strindberg originally subtitled his play "Kama-Loka‚" the name of a mystical dream world through which some mortals have to wander before reaching the kingdom of death in the afterlife. Accordingly‚ the characters in The Ghost Sonata speak‚ move and act as if they are part of a dream—or a nightmare. One sees glimpses of the future‚ another embodies tragedies from the past. There

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    MIND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO UNERTAKE THE STAGING OF IBSEN’S ‘A DOLLS HOUSE’. THEATRE ARTS END TERM ASSESMENT ESSAY [ (Swomley) ] 2013 THEATRE ARTS: STAGING HENRIK IBSEN’S ‘A DOLLS HOUSE’ A BACKGROUND ON IBSEN Often considered a theatrical genius‚ Henrik Ibsen based his plays on simplistic foundations of common social occurrences and on them set up constructed elaborate plays with intelligent twists and outcomes. It is possible to assume that he based these stories on some his past

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    Book Review ========================================================== RANK & NAME: LT HABEEL BIN ZAHUR UNIT: 1ST BALOCH ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. About The Book: Hardcover: 199 pages Publisher: Greenwood Press Reprint Language: English Publishing Date: January 15‚ 1980 Version: Pak Army Services Book Club 2. About The Author: a. Sir Basil Henry Liddell

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    controversial play in its time because of Ibsen’s bold questioning of society’s basic rules and norms. One of the most pressing questions in the play is that of the unequal treatment of women. Ibsen questions Is it right to treat women as inferiors?’ Through the relationship between Nora and Helmer‚ Ibsen presents unequal power sharing in a negative light‚ trying to provoke the audience into questioning what was accepted as the norm in that period. One of the subtler techniques used is Helmer’s language

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    Write a critical analysis of the relationship of Othello and Desdemona in Shakespeare`s tragedy Othello. Pay special attention to the interracial character of this relationship and the use of racist stereotypes in the play. The contrast between The Moor Othello and the gentle Desdemona in Shakespeare`s tragedy Othello is noteworthy. Yet initially it looks like one complements the other: “She loved me for the dangers that I had passed. And I loved her for that she did pity them.”( Act

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    You seem to know more about our ghost stories than I do. We certainly have a lot of old castles and other old buildings to generate plenty of ghost stories. I did a job about 20 years ago‚ it was an old disused vicarage ( a big house used by a vicar and owned by the church )‚ we were converting it into flats‚ and somebody on the job started a rumour that the building was haunted so we started calling this ghost Marmaduke‚ it was a long running joke on that job. Every time

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    is never to late to become a person you were meant to be. God made men and women to be different yet equal. However‚ throughout the centuries‚ women faced and struggled many challenges to be accepted as equal as men. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is considered as the father of modern prose drama. Most of his major works reflect the social issues that provoked controversy in the nineteenth century. “ A Doll House” is one of the clearest portraits of women’s lives in this era in which they have to struggle

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    Ghost Map Reflection Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a national bestseller about Cholera epidemic that happened in London‚ and how it completely changed glob view of urbanization. The book follows Dr. John Snow as he find the source of the outbreak and ultimately changed the way modern city-dwellers‚ city planners‚ physicians‚ and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. His discovery was that the cholera come from contaminated

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    In A Doll’s House written by Henrik Ibsen morality and moral disease are used to describe people who are sick‚ both mentally and sick. Ibsen uses mentally sick to foreshadow different character’s perspective throughout the book. Ibsen uses Torvald and Dr.Rank to show the ideology during the Victorian era people often believe that when you’re physically sick that you’re also mentally sick. Ibsen uses Torvald ideas of sickness to show even when someone you care about is sick. Whether physically or

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    Tragedy is one of the oldest types of drama although‚ is not willingly found in modern drama anymore. “In the Poetics Aristotle defined a tragedy as a serious work with a hero who is great and good but has a flaw that brings down destruction on himself or herself” (Hischak‚ Thomas S. “Chapter2/Types of Drama.” Theatre as Human Action: An Introduction to Theatre Arts. N.p.: n.p.‚ n.d. 38 Print). Aristotle feels that regardless of being a king and having a whole kingdom look up at this noble rank the

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