Mike Barker’s adaption of Lady Windermere’s Fan – titled A Good Woman – and Oscar Wilde’s original play are both stories with similar themes and values. They follow the same plotline and convey a similar message- that the harsh rules of society were hypocritical and verging on absurd. However‚ with drastic changes made to the setting‚ characters and time period‚ some of the key themes are altered and sacrificed to cater for a modern film-going audience. Both A Good Woman and Lady Windermere’s Fan
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‚ T.S. Eliot appeared on the scene of 20th century English poetry as a wonderful innovator with these lines of his The Love-song of J. Alfred Prufrock on the pages of the Poetry magazine in 1915: “Let us go‚ then‚ you and I When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table". These lines immediately revolutionized the intellectual climate of English poetry. Eliot initiated a new brand of poetry of the city‚ poetry essentially cerebral‚ impersonal‚ predominantly
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Bratko played Mark in The Chalky White Substance‚ where his performance was inadequate and lacked what the act needed. Bratko playing his character‚ Mark‚ was subpar because in the short act his voice remained very monotone and didn’t show any emotions in order to convey myself into the storyline of the play. This was inadequate because I thought the character should’ve drawn in my attention whereas I was kind of bored and uninterested by the lack emotion in his voice. The altercation scene where
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Edmund John Millington Synge (1871-1909)‚ an Irish playwright‚ wrote ‘Riders to the Sea’‚ one of his first two one-act plays (the other one is ‘The Shadow of the Glen’). ‘Riders to the Sea’ (1904) is Synge’s dramatic response to the experience of his frequent sojourns in the Aran Islands. ‘Riders to the Sea’ dramatizes the archetypal struggle of man against the hostile natural forces and rends man’s inevitable defeat in the conflict against predestination which brings out a tragic effect at the end
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Styles and Themes of Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson wrote his novels using the epistolary novel style‚ in which all the books are made up of letters. These letters are meant to be written during the time that the stories take place by the main character. They either described a scene or dialogue within the scene (Brophy 245). The stories used the themes of female dominance over the emotions of a man‚ and male dominance over the physicality of a woman. Also‚ many women in his stories are
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Postmodernism in American literature The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison often makes us question the credibility of what is being told‚ and uses many striking‚ sudden shifts between the past and present‚ making it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction. This blurring of the truth is a common element of postmodern fiction. In fact‚ many scholars would say that Beloved is a great example of postmodernism. (Ebrahimi 2005) Morrison uses this technique to bring about the suffering
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Erlina Suwardi 2009-031-055 Character Analysis of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker In drama‚ characters play a dominant role in order to present the scenes. Whether good or bad the characters are‚ they are the ones who make the play and without them‚ there will be no play can be presented. In this play ‚ there are only three characters‚ the brothers‚ which are Aston and Mick‚ and the old tramp‚ Davies. It begins with Aston who brings Davies to his place owned by his brother‚ Mick. Aston allows
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Summary of “The Modern Academy Raging In The Dark” by Richard Badenhausen In David Mamet’s Oleanna‚ the inclusion of the controversial topics of gender conflict‚ sexual harassment and political correctness in colleges led most critics to point to these as the main themes of the play. A year before it the play appeared‚ the Clarence Thomas-Hill controversy had occurred‚ helping push these issues in the play to the forefront of reader’s minds. However‚ the “difficulties of acquiring and controlling
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The Glass Menagerie Essay With the exception of a few select books‚ almost all books have symbols that represent greater ideas‚ concepts‚ or lessons. Symbols are a discreet way for an author to share these things with out saying them blatantly to the readers face. They can be objects that represent the author’s life. They can be people that represent more than just a person but an idea. The Glass Menagerie has many symbols including fire escapes‚ a glass menagerie‚ and Jim‚ the gentleman caller
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First‚ Christy Mahon in Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World hasn’t always appealed to audiences. The play caused riots when it was originally produced because it was thought to be too vulgar‚ violent‚ and negative toward the Irish people. Since other audiences/readers are further removed from the play’s subjects‚ they may be attracted to Christy. Several reasons for this exist. First‚ other characters in the play like him. This can be contagious. Second‚ he bucks tradition. He doesn’t
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