Michelle Veliz Period 7 4/27/12 Critical Lens Essay A famous author named Richard Wright once said‚ “All literature is a protest”. In simpler terms‚ books have been written to raise awareness about problems in order for humans to find solutions for them. This quote is true because in most works of literature the author makes their characters go through difficult obstacles to overcome that not everyday people go through. The book Night was written to protest against anti-Semitism‚ which means
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Critical Lens Essay Somebody once said‚ “In literature‚ evil often triumphs but never conquers”. Both The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Color Purple by Alice Walker prove this quote true. Throughout The Lovely Bones‚ a family struggles with the dreadful murder and rape of a family member. The book demonstrates how the family only got stronger with the passage of time. Their success in moving forward in life regardless of their encounter with such an evil act emphasizes the victory of good
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In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”‚ there are a lot of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For example‚ most of the similarities have to do with power relationships‚ courtship and dating‚ and sisters. The main characters in both the writing and movie have the same personalities. Bianca is played as the perfect innocent teenager and Kate is portrayed as a spiteful‚ bad tempered person. Also‚ their father is still very strict. As one would think‚ the themes between
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The basic plots of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You both involve multiple men wanting to be with a nice‚ beautiful girl named Bianca‚ but Bianca has a mean‚ older sister named Katherine that no one wants to be with. In both of the stories‚ the father of these two
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Katherine Kennedy Huck Finn Critical Lens Essay Antoine de Saint-Exupéry stated‚ “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly”. He implies that humans understand and comprehend the world by different means and rely on different sources to provide the truth. People use their senses‚ reasoning‚ emotion‚ and what others have taught them. However‚ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry expressed that in order to understand something for what it is truly
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LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told Taming of the Shrew (2005)‚ directed by David Richards
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In comparison‚ Taming of the Shrew play and 10 Things I hate about You film both share similarities and differences. The relationship between Kat and Pat is a lot different than Kate and Petruchio between both titles. The similarities between how they tame Kate and the differences between the woman’s roles. Patrick and Petruchio are the ones to ‘tame the shrew’. Patrick’s is seen as Kat’s peer‚ while Petruchio is more of Katherine’s master. Petruchio had starved and wouldn’t let Katherine sleep
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Celie had to grow up being beaten by these men and acting like their slave‚ she decided that she hated men. Instead she liked Shug‚ a famous singer‚ and they became really great friends. Shug helped her get away from Mr.____. This connects to the lens because at first Celie was not strong at all‚ but when she went with Shug to Tennessee‚ she gained confidence and started her own business sewing pants. Throughout the book‚ there has also been a theme of sexism. When Celie is living with Mr.____
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‘A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money’( W.C Fields). The main male characters in “The Taming of The Shrew” and “Ten Things I Hate About You”‚ Petruchio and Patrick‚ have three things in common‚ the lust for money‚ the lust for power‚ and the lust for women. In the 1967 version of the play‚ originally written by Shakespeare‚ Petruchio is portrayed as brute only thinking about money and himself. In the 1999 version Patrick is portrayed as a charming‚ smooth talker that doesn’t care about
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Katherine the Shrew Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew is comedy about Kathrine‚ an outspoken rebellious shrew. In this story she is paired up with Petruchio‚ a man who only wanted her for her money and so Bianca could marry one of her suitors. As time goes on Petruchio is able to tame his wife Katherine‚ at least somewhat. Taming of the Shrew has spun out many different versions of its story‚ mostly in movies. Both movie versions‚ Shakespeare Retold and 10 Things I Hate About You where based and
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