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    that is so is so.” To what extent do you agree with this in relation to Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”? In Shakespeare’s comedy ‘Twelfth Night’‚ the main theme of disguise and façade is used to create comedy as the characters ‘conceal’ themselves. This adds to the confusion and consequently the characters‚ and at times the audience‚ are doubtful of what is real. Shakespeare makes it clear that ‘Twelfth Night’ is up for interpretation through the use of his double title ‘what you will’; he introduces

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    SITA SINGS THE BLUES Sita sings the blues is an animated film directed by an American artist named nina paley basically using 2D graphics and flash animation. This movie is directed produced and written by nina paley narrated by aseem chhabra‚ bhavana nagulpally‚ manish acharya. This movie stars sanjiv jhaveri‚ nina paley‚ deepti gupta‚ debargo sanyal‚ reena shah‚ Pooja kumar‚ Aladdin ulaah. The music for this film has been given by Annette hanshaw and the movie was released on 11th of February

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    adaptations of Shakespeare ’s comedies‚ Trevor Nunn ’s Twelfth Night and Kenneth Branagh ’s A Much Ado About Nothing [‘Much Ado ’]. Although both films can to an extent be seen as comedies with serious‚ almost tragic aspects inherent throughout‚ Nunn ’s film deals with these serious facets as central to the depiction‚ whereas Branagh‚ although not entirely ignoring the deeper issues‚ prefers a more light-hearted and visually attractive adaptation. Twelfth Night has been described as ‘like Hamlet in a comic

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    and Andrew for their drunkenness‚ but she also tolerates them and shows her own capacity for pranks by initiating the phony love letter ploy against her supervisor‚ Malvolio. In I.iii‚ Maria draws our attention to Sir Toby Belch’s habitual late nights and drunkenness when she warns him that his niece‚ Countess Olivia‚ has lost patience with his dissolute behavior. She also prepares us for the entrance shortly afterward of Sir Andrew Aguecheek by referring to him as "a foolish knight" whom Sir Toby

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    Jasmine Howard 23 October 2013 Hip Hop’s Portrayal of Black Women Hip hop has changed drastically over the course of years. In the earlier ages‚ Hip hop artists valued plenty of originality by creatively expressing themselves in a positive way to their surroundings. Now it seems as if artists are preying on women as if they’re animals by lacking its true originality and being ran over by commercialism. Hip hop represents a tree gradually losing its leaves over time. Somehow‚ the hip hop

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    How Does Shakespeare Present Different Types Of Love In Twelfth Night? Shakespeare presents lots of different types of love using a variety of techniques. The plot of twelfth night is very complex and has a lot of thing happening at a time‚ there is never a time where there is only one thing happening other than the end when all get revealed. This type of pot allows Shakespeare to introduce lots of different types of love to create drama and perhaps even humor at times. In the next couple of paragraphs

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    Treatment of Women in a Midsummer Night’s Dream The general treatment of women in ancient times such as the Elizabethan and the Ancient Greek era varied in great degrees from the treatment of women in the contemporary twenty-first century. In more ancient eras‚ women were generally viewed as men’s property and not as individual human beings. Women were not even allowed to choose their spouse. It was common that this type of arrangement was made by their family‚ and the determining factors were usually

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    book "Krik? Krak!" (Danticat) I decided to write about the story "Night Women" (pages 81-88). In the chapter ‚ author Edwidge Danticat talks about a women‚ a lonely women who has a little boy by a man who left them both. Although‚ this women really cares and loves her son‚ there’s a dark side which the boy has been hidden from. In the story‚ the women narrates who she becomes when her son is asleep and night begins to take over. The women transforms into a prostitute so she can support herself as well

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    norms for both men and women. However‚ when reading the works of William Shakespeare‚ one can sense a riff in the norms of either sex. With characters such as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet‚ we can see a character that possess qualities that do not necessarily belong to their gender. However‚ with a character like Desdemona in Othello‚ we can see that Shakespeare could also write characters who fall victim to the gender roles of society. Also‚ with a character like Viola in Twelfth Night‚ we can see a character

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    To what extent does confusion and disguise contribute to dramatic comedy in Twelfth Night? Twelfth Night in set in an era of dramatic comedy under going changes‚ certain themes that used to perfectly acceptable although controversial was now seen to be distasteful and often looked down upon‚ this was due to the emergence(or rather acknowledgment) of two very different types of comedy: old comedy and new comedy‚ although neither were genre had a very high status in theatre compared to tragedies

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