John Williams has composed over one-hundred film scores of which he has received forty-five Academy Award nominations. He has become a household name through his memorable music motifs. These themes capture the essence of the film and as one fan summarized: "John Williams has composed some of the best known themes and scores ever. You can’t deny that the Star Wars scores‚ for all the movies‚ especially the Imperial March‚ are incredible. He invented the famous Jaws theme‚ which is a standard
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tragedy is defined as beginning with a problem that affects everyone‚ i.e. the whole town or all the characters involved‚ the tragic hero must solve this problem and this results in his banishment or death [run-on sentence]. A comedy is defined as also beginning with a problem‚ but one of less significant importance. The characters try to solve the problem and the story ends with all the characters uniting in either a marriage of a party. Although these two genres are seen as being complete opposites
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The comedy in both Midsummer Night’s Dream and Lysistrata is portrayed through the comic characters suffering some pain. In Lysistrata the men were suffering from their wives refusing to have sexual relations until the war ends. Watching the men suffer physical pain over the sex strike brings more excitement and entertainment to the audience. Even now a days sexual content is considered humorous‚ especially when the men want it so much in this play but the women tease them and then refuse. Also whenever
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Trevor Nunn’s adaptation of "Twelfth Night" is a masterpiece of insight and nuance. Instead of simply playing this gender-bending comedy of mistaken identity‚ the director highlights the dark undertones of the plot which show surprising depth. There are some alterations from the original text‚ but those who are less familiar with Shakespeare among the audience can appreciate the story being more easy to follow. For example‚ when Duke Orsino utters the famous opening line of the play‚ "If music be
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Shakespeare’s comedy is based on cruelty and subversion discuss. Shakespeare created comedy in Much Ado through the characters behaviour‚ dialogue and prose but his comedy is often seen as cruel and subversive. Cruelty can be defined in many ways‚ one definition is behaviour which causes physical or mental harm to another‚ another is to inflict pain or suffering and enjoy the pain or distress of others. Plato said that ‘laughter is an emotion that overrides rational self-control’. From this definition
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his grandmothers house. It came out in 1996‚ and made $38‚624‚000. This movie had more than one subgenre. It was a screwball comedy because it had a man and a woman battling there differences and eventually falling in love in the end. I think this also had slapstick comedy tendencies because it used violence to make people laugh. 1."Normal rules of behavior are violated. Comedy characters act in ways we cannot get away with." This is a very obvious trait of this movie. Happy is always getting in
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William James (1842-1910) William James was a philosopher and psychologist but was most well known in the field of Psychology for developing the philosophy of pragmatism‚ or the Functionalist theory: "Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment." He was also the first Psychologist to be born in America. William James was born on January 11‚ 1842 in New York City. His father‚ Henry James Sr. was a
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How the Wall of Jericho Falls It Happened One Night set the place for the “screwball” comedy‚ the witty and romantic clash of temperaments between a man and a woman mismatched in both personality and social position. Through one of the greatest romantic comedies in film history‚ Frank Copra shows the outlandish nature of the rich and the nature of man being the controller in relationships as well as in society. It is the reversal of the Cinderella story‚ a modern tale with light hearted sex appeal
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I think that the other theme of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is hope because in the poem it states‚ “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow” (William’s 309). The red wheel barrow is used to represent the blood of life and the white chicken or the sick little girl is depending on blood in order to survive. The little girl is hoping that she will be able to get better because in order to survive you need to have water and blood in your body. The poem “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
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The saying goes‚ a picture can paint a thousand words‚ but can the same feat be applied to a short poem containing just one sentence? This seems so cause during 1932‚ William Carlos Williams wrote a minimalist masterpiece‚ “Red Wheelbarrow”. Upon first impressions there’s not much information to take in. The only distinctive phrases that catches the reader’s eye initially is the countryside image that is applied to the scenery‚ along with the red wheelbarrow and white chickens. Although initially
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