Examine how Russell portrays the characters Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons In the musical.Look closely at what they say and how they say it and refer closely to the text in your answer. I think Willy Russell has portrayed Mrs Johnstone as a loving and caring person knowing instinctively what’s right and what’s wrong. She always involves her family when she thinks of life and just thinks of simple things as luxury. This shows she is quite poor. Although she doesn’t have much money still she tries
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‘The Farmer’s Bride’ by Charlotte Mew is about a farmer who marries a girl that is too young and she gets terrified of her husband on their wedding night and becomes withdrawn. Although this is a love poem‚ the themes are of madness and unbearable emotions. The farmer’s longings for his new bride are unfulfilled‚ whilst the terrified bride appears to be on the verge of madness. Looking at when the poem was published‚ 1916‚ makes it easier for us to understand the themes of the poem. At that time
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Interpretation of poems Dulce et decorum est are the first words of a Latin saying taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words‚ it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. The opening of the poem suggests Owen pities the state to
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Slumdog Millionaire Essay In the movie Slumdog Millionaire‚ the director Danny Boyle explores the role of destiny in the life of the main character Jamal Malik‚ and also shows the significance of his success in the poverty of a developing country such as India. Jamal is a kind‚ honest and generous person who always does good things for others and the audience is positioned to value his character. In the movie Jamal endures horrific events throughout the impoverished conditions of his childhood but
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This emphasises that there is no glory in the physical and emotional state they are in. By Owen showing that there is no glory in war‚ through the emphasis on the soldiers’ horrible state we are engulfed in a sense of pity‚ which then makes us sympathise with the soldiers and the exhaustion they
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influence they have upon the next generation. So bad that binge drinking is most common in 16-24 year olds. Be it at parties or out on the street‚ in some cases “just for the hell of it”. It’s also hurting the government’s pocket too‚ whilst we may not sympathise
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‘How do Owen’s poems expose (unmask) the tragedy of war?’ Throughout Wilfred Owen’s collection of poems‚ he unmasks the harsh tragedy of war through the events he experienced. His poems indulge and grasp readers to feel the pain of his words and develop some idea on the tragedy during the war. Tragedy was a common feature during the war‚ as innocent boys and men had their lives taken away from them in a gunshot. The sad truth of the war that most of the people who experienced and lived during
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and leading him. Gittoes witnessed an Afrikaner-Weerstands Beweging (AWB) rally during his visit to South Africa in 1994‚ there he saw a 15year old boy immersed in the propaganda of Nazi Youth. Whilst being pestered by photographers‚ Gittoes sympathises for the boy‚ as he recounts the rape and tortured. The boy in the work is too young to fully
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anti-hero and why all the way through the programme the audience route for Walter. Reading an article from suite 101 on the rise of television antiheroes it suggests that “As audience‚ we might not share his vices‚ but we share his virtues and sympathise with him because he is still the character we fell for in the beginning.” I agree with this‚ as the creators of programmes build such a strong first impression the first time we meet the character that it’s hard for us to let go and dislike them
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Holocaust Literature Essay The Holocaust genre was a tragic time in the 1930s‚ during Hitler’s reign in Germany and it involved the persecution of the Jewish people. Holocaust literature was developed from this and from testimonies of survivors and fictional writings by authors. John Boyne’s ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ is an example of Holocaustic literature; the story follows a young boy who is the son of a Nazi officer during the reign of Hitler. Holocaust literature texts contain conventions
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