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    Intro to Theater 10/30/10 Script Essay on Miss Julie Miss Julie is a well written play by August Strindberg. This play is mainly about two characters one who is obviously Miss Julie and the other Jean. Miss Julie is a twenty-five-year-old tragic heroine. The other major character Jean is a thirty-year old valet who is chosen as Miss Julie’s lover. There are other characters such as Christine and Serena who are relatively minor characters. The setting for this play takes place in a kitchen of the

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    Miss Brill

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    Stylistic Analysis of “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield Shenli Song College of Foreign Languages‚ Zhejiang Gongshang University Office of Foreign Language College at Zhejiang Gongshang University Xia Sha City-University-Town‚ Hangzhou 310018‚ Zhejiang‚ China E-mail: windyforever@gmail.com Abstract Katherine Mansfield‚ remembered as one of the finest writers of English short stories‚ enjoys enduring fame and a somewhat awesome literary status with her short stories‚ Miss Brill as one of her representative

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    Importance of Social Status in Strindberg’s Miss Julie August Strindberg’s Miss Julie underlines the essence of the social status conflict‚ where both aristocrat‚ Miss Julie‚ and servant‚ Jean‚ are unsatisfied with their current positions of class. Strindberg emphasized the importance of gender roles of men and women‚ while challenging the audience by breaking these social barriers set by society‚ only to demonstrate there is no eluding “class destiny”. These beliefs were portrayed effectively

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    Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill‚ a short story written by Katherine Mansfield‚ describes an afternoon in the life of a middle-aged spinster who visits the public park on a weekly basis‚ leading to her reassessment of her view of the world and the secular reality. Though short in form‚ it is really worth detailed interpretation and appreciation. The author tells us of her character that: “She had become really quite expert‚ she thought‚ at listening as though she didn’t listen‚ at

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    Miss Havisham

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    Miss Havisham is first introduced to the reader when Mr Pumblechook (Pips Uncle) announces that Miss Havisham Requests Pips presence to play at her house. Miss Havisham fits into the main plot because she trains Estella to “ break their hearts.” When Pip sees Estella for the fist time‚ he instantly falls in love with her. Miss Havisham sees this and she encourages Pip to do so. Miss Havisham was also‚ in Pips eyes‚ the cause of his ‘Great expectations’ Miss Havisham may also have been

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    Miss Brill

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    The selected passage is from the end of the short story Miss Brill‚ beginning where Miss Brill sees the boy and girl who sits down on the bench near her right to the end of the story. In "Miss Brill‚" by Katherine Mansfield‚ we are introduced to the titular woman called Miss Brill who finds Sundays magical until she is forced to step out of her daydream and face reality. Every Sunday Miss Brill‚ who is presumed to be an English school teacher‚ goes to the Jardins Publiques and takes her "special

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    Miss Brill

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    English 90S Monday‚ May 29‚ 2013 Backpack Literature: X.J. Kennedy‚ Dana Gioia Miss Brill In Katherine Mansfield’s short story “Miss Brill‚” Mansfield describes Miss Brill as a woman who is in deep denial of her situation. Miss Brill is an elderly woman who is not aware of the distress in her life; because she doesn’t want to face the reality of getting old. Miss Brill shows the personality of a woman who is vain‚ detached‚ and over sensitive as she goes through her

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    Miss Havisham

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    Miss Havisham Miss Havisham appearance is very ghostly and skeleton like but in another way very elegant with the rich materials and fine fabrics she wears but she also has certain scruffiness to her with the messy bridal flowers in her hair and one shoe on a one shoe off kind of thing. The old woman looked pretty much skin and bone and that’s why in the extract pip describes her as a ‘skeleton in the ashes of a rich dress’. At first in the extract pip describes her in a very elegant and wealthy

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    Miss Congeniality

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    The Film Miss Congeniality (2000)‚ directed by Donald Petrie‚ attempted to show typical stereotypes of women and show how they can be disproved and unfair in a slightly dramatic and comical way. This holds true throughout the whole movie. The film shows a typical tomboy whom no one notices to be attractive change into a stunningly beautiful woman that most definitely everyone notices. This happens because Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) who is at the bottom of the ranks in her FBI division takes on

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    father of naturalism. Throughout Miss Julie Strindberg uses animal imagery to explain the behavior throughout the play. In the play‚ Miss Julie is obsessed with the animals. The animals are used to symbolize her behavior. Jean the manor’s thirty year old valet describes Miss Julie as wild and crazy. At this point he is talking to Kristen‚ his fiance and the manor’s cook. In the play dog imagery is used a lot . For example when Jean was explaining to Kristin how Miss Julie acted towards her fiance right

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