Kenneth Branaghs 1993 Much ado about nothing shows how the setting of a film can contribute to the way the film plays out. Branagh decided to set the scene between Don Jon and Conrad in the cellar of Leonartos house to help set the atmosphere and mood. Branagh uses a low key chiaroscuro light mid-shot whilst Conrad gives Don Jon a massage. The low key light mid-shot helps show us the emotions on both Don Jon and Conrad’s face showing the power Don Jon has over Conrad‚ the chiaroscuro lighting portrays
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The theme in the poem “Homecoming”‚ by Bruce Dawe‚ is the feeling and belonging of home and how you can die for your country‚ yet receive inhumane like treatment. The theme in “Beach Burial”‚ by Kenneth Slessor‚ is the pointlessness of war. The two poems are very similar‚ yet very different‚ in meaning and tone‚ through their subjects‚ themes‚ techniques and structure. Both poems relate to the same post-war event; bringing the corpses of soldiers back from war. However‚ in “Homecoming” the corpses
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Kenneth Millard‚ in his book Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction‚ examines the coming-of-age genre and its place in American culture. He makes a relatively solid case that authors use adolescent characters to enact social change‚ accurately asserting that “adolescence‚ youth‚ [and] innocence...become an idealised fictional category which literary writers can use to give a particular urgency to representations of subjectivity and socialisation that highlight their own social and political
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In Thomas Mallory’s King Arthur‚ he emphasizes the values of the people in this time period. He does this through characters and through conflicts that occur in the story. Throughout the story‚ Mallory gives the readers a better understanding of how the people viewed kings and their expectations of how the nobility should act. Not only that‚ but also the different beliefs and customs of the time period. Values that Mallory emphasizes many times throughout the epic is the value of humility and mercy
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Slessors poetry is distinctive in that it evokes string images by emphasising the mood and the setting of his subjects. He uses poetic devices such as personification‚ metaphors and sound to highlight his philosophical views on life. Slessors philosophical view is evident in the poems "North country". "North Country" demonstrates the lack of concern towards the country land enforced by loggers. It ’s a discovery of change from a peaceful country environment to the harsh and cruel takeover by technological
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The article‚ "Calculating the optimum temperature for serving hot beverages" (2007) by Fredericka Brown and Kenneth R. Diller focuses on the science behind the optimum serving temperature of hot beverages. The purpose of the article is to persuade hot beverage vendors to reduce the serving temperature of hot beverages in order to "reduce the scald burn hazard and improving customer satisfaction" [1]. This analysis is to underline how the authors made their article simple to comprehend by utilizing
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Poets use many techniques to convey their thoughts and purpose in their poetry. In this case‚ Kenneth Slessor’s poetry will be analysed to show his effectiveness. William Street is a poem which discusses about the beauty and ugliness of the red light district. Country Towns‚ in contrast‚ romanticizes the country and its sleepy atmosphere. In addition‚ Night-Ride is also sleepy in tone and tells about a train trip Slessor ttok. Finally‚ Beach Burial will be discussed about its anti-war themes. William
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Kenneth Branagh takes Hamlet from play to screen in an intense‚ full-length adaptation and he got it right! Gregory Doran also takes a whack at bringing Hamlet from the stage to the screen but with a more modern-day interpretation. Branagh restores Hamlet’s greatest scenes and brings out the most in Shakespeare’s awe-inspiring revenge-tragedy plot; in both performance and direction‚ Branagh displays energy and cogency. The language has the upmost clarity and makes the film feel accessible
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‘For me‚ the story is less a horror…than a larger than life gothic fairytale’ (Kenneth Brannagh) How far and in what ways do you agree with this description of the text? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel which forces the reader to question whether it is a simple horror story or whether it is a gothic fairytale of many depths. Frankenstein is considered by many critics as the first modern horror story ever written‚ and it opened a whole new world of ideas for novels and has inspired many similar
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The Aluminum Industry in 19941 and Aluminum Smelting in South Africa: Alusaf’s Hillside Project2 1) Is primary aluminum production an attractive industry? Why or why not? Within the framework of the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) model3‚ the primary aluminum production industry (“the industry”) in 1994 can be described as perfectly competitive. The industry is characterized by a large number of competing firms – the largest of which has only 4.1% of total industry capacity; homogeneous
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