Le Cid Corneille The playwright of Le Cid is one written by Corneille sometime before 1636 when it was first performed in France. This was his first play that became a popular hit with the people of France as well as with the King Louis XIII. This play was so well appreciated it was used as a base for many other plays to follow. This play is based on the deeds of a Spanish soldier El Cid. The play relates to Le Cid having to challenge Le Cid’s future father in-law to a duel. He is stuck
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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is a book written in 1845 about the time period directly following the French Revolution. As is the case with most literature‚ Les Miserables includes character archetypes. In Les Miserables‚ the characters Cosette and Jean Valjean are both character archetypes. The character Cosette represents the archetype of the orphaned child. Her mother‚ Fantine‚ was forced to abandon her as she needed a job and couldn’t take Cosette with her‚ who was an infant at the time. She
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Major Dramatists: Moliere. Broomall‚ PA. Chelsea House Publishers‚ 2003. Print. Knutson‚ Harold C. The Triumph of Wit: Moliere and Restoration Comedy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press‚ 1988): pp. 115-17. Print. Melzer‚ Sarah E. “Performing Moliere: Le Misanthrope- Tragedy or Comedy?” Approaches to Teaching Moliere’s Tartuffe” and Other Plays. (New York: The Modern Language Association or America‚ 1995) pp. 143-44. Print. Norman‚ Larry F. The Public Mirror: Moliere and the Social Commerce of Depiction
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Tous les gens miserable (All the miserable people) It’s hard to say who’s happy in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo‚ but it’s not hard to point out the miserable. Even the title Les Miserables means “the miserable”‚ which is the theme of the novel. The lives that are most devastating in the town of M-sur-M would be Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ Cosette‚ and Eponine. These characters live everyday fighting to get through one-way or another‚ but it always seem there is a cloud of darkness and misery following
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going on in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot le Fou? Godard is known for his contribution to the French film “New Wave” movement‚ and this film is no different. Through the use of a nontraditional narrative style‚ in combination with an experimental film form‚ it is insanely difficult to keep this plot straight. Then again‚ what is a plot? Does the plot even matter? In Pierrot le Fou it appears that it does not. At its simplest form Pierrot le Fou is the story of Ferdinand Griffon a.k.a “Pierrot”
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French Literature Practice Commentary Le Poison – Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire wrote the poem ‘Le Poison’ within his collection of poetry titled ‘Les Fleures du Mal’ that wes released in 1857 during the modernist and symbolist literary movements. The themes of this collection of poems were mainly revolved around the negative qualities of human nature‚ industrialism and women which can all be easily linked to the title ‘Les Fleures du Mal’ and the obvious juxtaposition and symbolism within
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The ‘Black Legend’ of the Spanish conquest in the America’s stems from the backlash against the Spanish in the late 1500’s early 1600’s. Following the disaster of the Spanish Armada crushing Spain as a maritime power and the alliance of Portugal with England‚ it was convenient to use the reputation of cruelty and ruthlessness to motivate people to fight against them and to justify colonization methods. While the vilification of Spain as an entity in Europe has existed for centuries‚ with the Spanish
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Les Misérables Published 1862 I | | INTRODUCTION | When Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables first came out in 1862‚ people in Paris and elsewhere lined up to buy it. Although critics were less receptive‚ the novel was an instant popular success. The French word “misérables” means both poor wretches and scoundrels or villains. The novel offers a huge cast that includes both kinds of “misérables.” A product of France’s most prominent Romantic writer‚ Les Misérables ranges far and wide. It paints
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biographical documents survived. Bologna was a great influence on the prime figures of 14th century Italian music. After his death in 1386 his music still playing in northern Italy and Tuscany‚ His work was still treasured even after his death. Philippe Le Chancelier was most likely born in Paris‚ France in the 1160’s‚ the approximate date in undetermined. Philippe was not only influential through his sermons but his music. During the 1220’s –30’s Philippe released Summa de bono‚ which was an unprecedented
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aundra Murray Nettles was born in 1947. Her career focuses are resilience in children and teens‚ community development‚ development of African American women‚ environmental psychology and education. She earned her BA in philosophy and a master’s in library information sciences and psychology and later received her PhD in psycholog6y in 1967. She serves as chair on black women’s priorities which helped introduce concerning issues facing black women. Saundra’s committee work led to the formation of
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