Ridley Scott’s Alien provides us with one of the most basic and primal super-objectives: the preservation life. Our protagonist‚ Ellen Ripley‚ faces impossible odds as a seemingly invincible alien predator wreaks havoc on the crew of the Nostromo‚ taking them out one by one until she is the last man (or in this case‚ woman) standing. In most every horror‚ or as Blake Snyder would call it‚ “Monster in the House” film‚ the super-objective is to preserve life. Some‚ however‚ are more successful than
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Pygmalion #9 Eliza and Professor Higgins meet in an awkward situation. Professor Higgins is studying people’s language and he noticed that Eliza speaks quite unique. Eliza is a poor girl who is selling flowers wearing poor clothes. Higgins also meets Colonel (Col.) Pickering in the beginning. They both have great amount of money and they give very little to the flower girl Eliza when she asked for it. Eliza isn’t stupid‚ but just in proverty. She over heard the time Higgins and Col. Pickering would
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Adams 1 Caitlin Adams Mrs. Fizz Honors English 1-2 6 May 2012 Pygmalion vs. Taming of the Shrew: Are They the Same? Many people believe that all stories are the same in at least one way‚ if not more. This can be proven by comparing George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. In these two plays you can see the similarities and differences in: the two main female characters‚ the two main male characters‚ and the purposes of both plays. The two leading
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Shakespeare‚ in keeping with the conventions of a revenge tragedy‚ undercuts the nobility inherent in the protagonist by presenting an individual too easily made ’jealous’. G.A. Wilkes in ’The compulsive Course of ’Othello’’ asserts that Othello’s ’openness and innocence make him vulnerable’ and through Iago’s soliloquy’s‚ Shakespeare affirm these as possible weaknesses in Othello. So the simile ’And will as tenderly be led by the nose/as asses are’ and the high modality of Iago’s language ’I put
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years ago‚ men had little respect for women because of their gender. Females were not given the rights they deserve. They were controlled by their fathers‚ then handed straight over to their husbands. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion have occurrences that show similarities between the two female protagonists‚ Nora Helmer and Eliza Doolittle. Nora and Eliza are comparable in several different ways because both go through experiences with powerful outcomes ultimately transforming
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The play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw has many different characters that bring much to the play due to their backgrounds‚ feelings‚ and intentions. One of these remarkable and famous characters is Eliza Doolittle. How Eliza comes across‚ how she is treated by others‚ and how she changes are what make Eliza such a wonderful character. Firstly‚ Eliza comes across as a sassy‚ smart-mouthed flower girl with horrible English‚ and is transformed to a still sassy‚ figure fit to consort with nobility. She
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GSL510: 12 Angry Men and Dead Poets Society Deconstruction April Romer Mountain State University GSL510 Art and Science of Leadership –Module 5 Gail Palmisano‚ Ph.D. January 26‚ 2011 12 Angry Men and Dead Poets Society movies display leadership and rhetoric skills throughout‚ offering insight into effective leadership and rhetoric styles that can apply to daily life. Both movies provide similar‚ yet different‚ examples of contingency‚ transformational‚ and authentic leadership;
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Rags to Riches Eliza Doolittle is a main character in the play Pygmalion. She is a poor girl from the streets of London who turns out to be a brilliant and beautiful young woman. Eliza Doolittle uses her skillful thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer to lessons with the rude Henry Higgins to become a lady in a flower shop. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle does not
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The scene shifts to Higgins’ laboratory in his home in Wimpole Street. It is eleven o’clock the next morning‚ and Higgins has been giving Pickering some demonstrations of the types of equipment that he uses in recording sounds which can then be studied at leisure in a scientific manner. As Higgins finishes his demonstration‚ Pickering admits that he is impressed‚ but he hasn’t been able to follow more than half of what Higgins has shown him. Mrs. Pearce‚ the housekeeper‚ enters to announce that there
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