THE THEATRE OF ANTONIN ARTAUD ‘There’s no experiment in theatre in the last fifty years that hasn’t‚ knowingly or not‚ owed something to Artaud’s catechism. Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was a French playwright who revolutionised the world of playwrights. His given genre of playwrights is known as ‘Avante-garde theatre’. Artaud was very experimental and innovative with his playwrights‚ very much pushing the boundaries when writing them. He believed that theatre should be a clear representation
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War has a tendency to bring out both the worst and best qualities of human beings. These conflicts and their resulting effects on people are often depicted in literature. One of the best examples of war literature is Erich Marie Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front depicts the everyday struggles of German soldier Paul Baümer and his comrades. Throughout the war‚ the servicemen maintain a strong bond between with each other. However‚ this bond even extends to the
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Eric Hartsfield Apr 11‚ 2010 Trotta 1st Hour The King of Rock N’ Roll To make music history artist must do the unthinkable to make it to the top. Elvis Presley has done many things that have boosted his reputation to an extraordinarily popular person. Presley has changed music by creating a unique style no one has brought to the stage before‚ by having an incredible fan base that keeps growing today and accomplishing the unthinkable in the music industry. Even though Presley’s
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Compare and Contrast There are many comparisons between the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." The stories are similar in the fact that they are both investigative stories. Also the stories both include an unnamed narrator‚ along with the investigative mind of C. Auguste Dupin. The similarities between the two stories are abundant. One of the comparisons between "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the "Purloined Letter" is the use of an unnamed narrator. In both stories
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These words were spoken many years ago by a woman who worked endlessly to achieve her goals. She had to give up many things but she never lost her passion. Her name was Maria Tallchief. The first Native American Prima Ballerina. Elizabeth or Betty Marie Tall Chief was born on January 24‚ 1925 in Fairfax‚ Oklahoma‚ to Alexander and Ruth Porter Tall Chief. She lived on an Osage Indian Reservation with her parents and her older brother‚ Gerald and little sister Marjorie Tall Chief. Her great-grandfather
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towards one another. In many different ways love can be expressed and can lead to both fulfilment and grief. Throughout writings of literature‚ love has been presented in various styles. Through the works of “Wulf and Eadwacer”‚ Guillaume IX‚ and Marie de France‚ separate approaches of love are shown. The themes of love being unattainable‚ overwhelming‚ and sorrowful reveal the expression of love. In “Wulf and Eadwacer”‚ the poet represents that love is something that is there‚ but cannot be reached
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Marie Olympe de Gouges was once a feminist and an recommend about women’s rights. Her close famous labor used to be The Declaration of the Rights concerning Woman‚ (1791) among as he wrote since the Declaration concerning the Rights of Man then about the Citizen" between 1789 mentioning as French citizenship was confined to males. Olympe de gouges fundamental arguments : - She fought because equalize rights - She championed women’s rights into her Declaration regarding the Rights concerning
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The story I analyzed was “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont. In this story there is a wealthy merchant with 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. The youngest daughter Beauty was the epitome of the perfect person; where as her sisters were very pompous and only cared about materialistic items and status. Their father’s fortune was lost and the family had to move out to the countryside. The father then took a trip to the homeport to get his fortune back‚ but instead he was left
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Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire): French Author and Philosopher 1694 - 1778 A.D. Francois Marie Arouet (pen name Voltaire) was born on November 21‚ 1694 in Paris. Voltaire’s style‚ wit‚ intelligence and keen sense of justice made him one of France’s greatest writers and philosophers. Young Francois Marie received an excellent education at a Jesuit school. He left school at 16 and soon formed friendships with a group of sophisticated Parisian aristocrats. Paris society sought his company for his
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Lavoisier fulfilled his own dream of studying science. At age 25 Lavoisier entered the Academy of Science‚ which was a very high honor. Antoine Lavoisier is considered “the master-mind of the chemical revolution.” Lavoisier married 13 year old Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze in 1771. She made sketches of her husband’s laboratory. Also‚ she helped translate Lavoisier’s work into English‚ which made scientists world-wide learn of his work. “Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier discovered no new substances
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