1. “The Lady with the Pet Dog “‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is the story that I personally liked better then Anton Chekhov’s interpretation more because it presents a more modern the theme of the love affair between two people. The story presents a unique account contrast to the other version and the secret relationship between a man and a woman who are trapped by marriage that they feel unhappy about. I reason like this one more is because I like the way Oates shows the forbidden love in the
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Monologue analysis. The recreation of Irene Ruddock’s character in Lady of Letters relies hugely on maintaining the quality of her idiosyncratic ways. Her prejudices and her naivety amongst other things are all relevant traits‚ and in my recreative piece I found that keeping with Bennett’s structure‚ form and use of language ensured that Miss Ruddock’s character remained unhampered with. This artless narrator seems very unaware of her social situation in the sense that she doesn’t seem lonely
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The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy‚ who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train‚ but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert‚ a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit‚ who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques
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Never Trust a Lady Victor Canning Everyone thought that Horace Denby was a good‚ honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and unmarried‚ and he lived with a housekeeper who worried over his health. In fact he was unusually very well and happy‚ except for attacks of hay fever in summer. He made locks and was successful enough at his business to have two helpers. Yes‚ Horace Denby was good and respectable-but not completely honest. Fifteen years ago‚ Horace had served his first and only sentence
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In Anton Chekhov’s story‚ “The Lady with the Dog‚” a married man named Dmitri Gurov and a married woman‚ Anna Sergeyevna‚ met in a city. They hung out often which led to them having an affair because both of them were in an unhappy marriage and found that they make each other happy. Although‚ this did not happen all at once. After having several casual conversations and becoming acquaintances‚ he kissed her and told her‚ “Let us go to your room (par. 27).” This made Anna feel guilty and have a dirty
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The No.1 Ladies Detective agency 1. State the title‚ author‚ and number of pages. Ans: The No.1 Ladies Detective agency‚ Alexander McCall Smith‚ number of pages 235. 2. Tell what the book is about. Describe the setting. Ans: The book is about a woman named Mma Ramotswe‚ who wants to open a detective agency by using the money her deceased father left. All she wanted to do was help her people by solving their problems. All her cases take place in beautiful place called Botswana‚ in Africa. Mma
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The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story‚ Chekhov begins with the simple line‚ “It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front…” This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider‚ a person they know nothing about. Chekhov asks the reader to consider who is she with and why is she there? The character of the sly womanizer‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ also asks these questions. When first reading I began to form a certain opinion of Dmitri
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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In the short story of "The Lady or the Tiger" is about the sacrifice of love people have to suffer when they love another person. One of the examples is the way the princess and her lover try to maintain a relationship knowing that the king could find out and punish the lover. The princess has to sacrifice her lover because the king finally discovers the secret love affair of his daughter. She has already lost her lover and now has to choose who to lose him to. She has found out what is behind each
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Discuss the different ways of representing class conflicts. Pygmalion‚ Bernard Shaw‚ 1914 My Fair Lady‚ George Cukor‚ 1964 “As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men‚ I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.” This famous quotation of French playwright Molière proves how powerfully theater and social criticism are linked‚ and how in its different genres‚ drama as well as comedy‚ theater can‚ and maybe must‚ be a way of communicating and expressing the human and society’s flaws
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