The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy‚ who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train‚ but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert‚ a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit‚ who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques
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Never Trust a Lady Victor Canning Everyone thought that Horace Denby was a good‚ honest citizen. He was about fifty years old and unmarried‚ and he lived with a housekeeper who worried over his health. In fact he was unusually very well and happy‚ except for attacks of hay fever in summer. He made locks and was successful enough at his business to have two helpers. Yes‚ Horace Denby was good and respectable-but not completely honest. Fifteen years ago‚ Horace had served his first and only sentence
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In Anton Chekhov’s story‚ “The Lady with the Dog‚” a married man named Dmitri Gurov and a married woman‚ Anna Sergeyevna‚ met in a city. They hung out often which led to them having an affair because both of them were in an unhappy marriage and found that they make each other happy. Although‚ this did not happen all at once. After having several casual conversations and becoming acquaintances‚ he kissed her and told her‚ “Let us go to your room (par. 27).” This made Anna feel guilty and have a dirty
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The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story‚ Chekhov begins with the simple line‚ “It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front…” This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider‚ a person they know nothing about. Chekhov asks the reader to consider who is she with and why is she there? The character of the sly womanizer‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ also asks these questions. When first reading I began to form a certain opinion of Dmitri
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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In the short story of "The Lady or the Tiger" is about the sacrifice of love people have to suffer when they love another person. One of the examples is the way the princess and her lover try to maintain a relationship knowing that the king could find out and punish the lover. The princess has to sacrifice her lover because the king finally discovers the secret love affair of his daughter. She has already lost her lover and now has to choose who to lose him to. She has found out what is behind each
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As he stood in front of the door‚ the door that either held the Lady or the Tiger‚ his mind was surprisingly calm. He knew the princess would make the right choice. He trusted her; he loved her. His hand felt the cool metal of the doorknob. He heard it click as it was turned as if the silence of the arena wasn’t already enough to make the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He wasn’t nervous‚ no. As he gently pulled on the cloth-silenced door‚ he merely wondered what fate the princess chose
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Why God‚ can I not have my own conscience? Ok‚ get it together Macbeth. I can do this. All I have to do is kill King Duncan. All that is required of me is to sneak into his room and stab him to death. Thinking of this plan reminds me of Lady Macbeth’s cleverness and brilliance. She constantly makes me question my manhood and intellect. But I know she has my best intentions at heart. Don’t lose focus at the goal Macbeth. Just kill Duncan. I deserve to be king. But Duncan does not deserve
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First Entry - After Lady Macbeth receives Macbeth’s letter I just received a letter from Macbeth telling what had happened after the battle‚ “I met weird witches on my way back after the victory and I realized that they tell prophecies. While I stood rapt in the wonder‚ messengers from the King appeared and announced that I had just been named as the thane of Cawdor‚ which was one of the titles that the witches had previously mentioned when they called ‘Hail‚ king that shalt be.’(Act I‚ scene v‚
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