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    Types of Drama

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    1. Types of Drama a. Comedy  When we talk about comedy‚ we usually refer to plays that are light in tone‚ and that typically have happy endings. The intent of a comedic play is to make the audience laugh. In modern theater‚ there are many different styles of comedy‚ ranging from realistic stories‚ where the humor is derived from real-life situations‚ to outrageous slapstick humor.  Is designed to be entertaining and humorous where misfortune ends in triumph or happiness. It presents characters

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    He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children‚ but remained friends with his mistress; an actress named Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is currently buried at Westminster Abbey. Analyzing his works: Oliver Twist Dickens began his career as journanlist (a newspaper reporter) but soon he began writing fiction. His novels were published in weekly serials rather like modern "soap" dramas

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    tragedy. Dickens and Dostoevsky‚ through their portrayal of characters and settings of events in their novels‚ Oliver Twist and Crime and Punishment respectively‚ illustrated that the Utilitarian principle was futile and a failure‚ because not only did it do more harm than good but it eventually created social chaos and human tragedy. Dickens‚ in his novel of social protest- Oliver Twist‚ discusses the problem of Utilitarianism quite explicitly‚ by making the idea of utility the revolving point.

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    ideologies through their characters. Charles Dickens‚ author of ‘Oliver Twist’ has positioned the reader to feel sympathetic for Oliver by empathizing how cruel he is treated by the parishes. Throughout the novel Oliver is treated appallingly. He and the other orphans are starved and forced into child labour; sent to sea or working in factories and mines for long hours with very minimal pay. The living conditions were harsh‚ Oliver slept on a ‘rough‚ hard bed’ and when he was sent off to live with

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    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Directed by: Oliver Stone Written by: Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff (written by)‚ Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone (characters) Starring: Michael Douglas‚ Shia LaBeouf‚ Josh Brolin‚ Carey Mulligan Oliver Stone’s recent output shows a man desperate to remain topical.  Unfortunately‚ World Trade Center is pandering melodrama. While nowhere near the disaster it could’ve been lacked adequate perspective beyond noting we all would’ve been better off if George W. Bush

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    In “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens‚ a young orphan named Oliver lives in London‚ and is sent to work at a workhouse where he learns to survive with the struggle of poverty‚ starvation‚ and unhealthy/unsafe conditions‚ similarly to the rest of the orphans at that workhouse. Dickens tries to show how society cares too much about social class and how that creates an impact of social injustice in the 1830’s. Characters like Mrs.Mann and the doctor who deliver Oliver‚ believe they take care of the children

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    Brokeback Mountain (2005) (BKM‚ exp. 1) is a controversial film that stuck different emotions among viewers such as‚ “’Gay cowboy movie’ shatters stereotypes” (Clinton‚ sec. 2) with two handsome young cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) who fall in love‚ which is not viewer’s typical western genre expectation. While Ang Lee’s‚ Brokeback Mountain‚ will remain an important piece of cinema now and one hundred years in the future because‚ the genre of the film makes

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    old woman‚ mentally she acted like a child (listverse.com‚ 2008). Nobuyuki Sato used his mature older instincts to get to a 10 year old girl. When Vagin took in Oliver‚ he made Oliver Twist believe Vagin was the good guy in the situation and used him to pickpocket and steal like the other boys. Vagin manipulated Oliver because he knew oliver came from a bad past. Vagin was

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    Slave Trade Q.5: - The first novel to be serialized was— (a) Hard Times (c) Pickwick papers Q.6:-The first Indian novel was written in— (a) Malayalam (c) Punjabi (b) (d) Walter Scott Emile Zola (b) (d) Moralizing Vagabond (b) (d) Oliver Twist Mayor of caster bridge (b) Bhojpuri (d) Marathi Q.7: - The first modern novel in Malayalam is – (a) Sevasadan (b) (c) Indulekha (d) Q.8: - Who is the author of ‘Pamela’? (a) Leo Tolstoy (c) Thomas Hardy Pariksha Guru Rajesekhara

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    English writer. He lived in England in Victorian age. He is a famous novelist of English language. Charles Dickens has an impressive list of novels to his credit. These novels are ‘Pickwick Papers’‚ ‘A Tale of Two Cities’‚ ‘David Copperfield’‚ ‘Oliver Twist’‚ ‘Great Expectations’ and many others. Several of these stories have been adopted for the cinema and have been made into successful films. When Dickens wrote these stories he could not have dreamt that his stories would be filmed and shown to

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