Heather Austin Comp 3 Drama Analysis B2 George Bernard Shaw’s My Fair Lady is the story of a lady‚ by the name of Eliza‚ who lives and works on the street. Eliza sells flowers daily to make a living. Eliza hears a phonetics professor say he can take Eliza and pass her at an Embassy Ball in six months or less‚ just after he puts her down by saying‚ “Yes‚ you squashed cabbage leaf! You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns” (650)! Eliza over hearing the professor’s
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Macbeth is a tragic tale about a young man that is tricked into his doom.This is an unfortunate story because Macbeth in the beginning was a loyal warrior that fighted for the king. In the end he ends up being one of the most untrustworthy men in the story. In this tale Macbeth is made thane of cawdor because the old cawdor betrayed the king and began to fight for the other side‚ in the end he is executed and the position is giving to Macbeth. In Macbeth defense it was not his fault that Macbeth was tricked into killing the King
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momma”. It is a quite humorous thought to only trust two women in life‚ but sometimes it might be wise to apply these thoughts to some woman with tendencies of wildness or rebellion. A seductress would be included in this‚ and with being a seductress; Lady Bertilak is able to get under Sir Gawain’s skin with many methods of seduction. We see that she is already different than medieval woman‚ she is much more modern. She is very good at being able to read people and has an impeccable talent of being argumentative
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his teachers. He enjoyed playing in amateur theatricals and often attended performances at the provincial theater. As an adolescent he tried his hand at writing short "anecdotes‚" farcical or facetious stories‚ although
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"The Lady With the Dog‚" by Anton Chekhov "The Lady With the Dog" is a short story that gives an overview of an adulterous affair. The main character‚ Dmitri Gurov‚ is dissatisfied with his wife and has been consistently unfaithful to her. While vacationing in Yalta‚ he becomes enamored by a young woman that has a Pomeranian in tow‚ and successfully seduces her. Instead of enjoying a short-term fling‚ Gurov finds himself falling in love‚ even though he heartily attempts to dismiss this fact.
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did not have as much luxury as men in their everyday lives. Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” illustrates the oppressive nature of women in society during the Victorian Era and the consequences that occur when those roles are defined. However‚ in Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own‚ gender roles are questioned showing the changing ideology behind women’s rights during
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"The Lady with the Pet Dog" is a love story about two married persons. Regardless of the fact that they were both married‚ the characters found each other and then fell in love. Starting out as strangers‚ the lovers nurtured their relationship in secrecy as they were both married. The story conveys a true reality about loveless marriages. Using characterization the author depicted the feelings of people who were trapped in their unhappy marriages. Readers can easily recognize how characterization
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all over the world like "the true cost of beauty" in England or "Let me in" in Korea in which women participate [pɑː’tɪsɪpeɪt] to win a facial [’feɪʃəl] makeover [’meɪkəʊvəʳ]‚ all they have to do is to have the saddest and most dramatic [drə’mætɪk] story with an ugly face‚ at the end of their makeover they’ve lost weight and have a brand new face. This kind of show are highly[’haɪlɪ] prized by women‚ it really shocks me because this interest women. Whatever‚ women want to achieve [ə’tʃiːv] perfection
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wonders and become engrossed by greed as they yearn to acquire and maintain an affluential reputation. This central theme is apparent in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ which is further translated into Billy Morrissett’s Scotland‚ PA. Although Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s desire to “achieve absolute monarchical authority is absurdly reduced to the McBeths’ desperate bourgeois ambitions‚” in Scotland‚ PA‚ the main concept remains intact (Hoefer 154). Essentially‚ Macbeth is transformed from a tragic play about
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R. Stockton’s story‚ "The Lady or the Tiger"‚ I found that the princess was in dismay caught between the turmoil of love and jealousy. She had an intimate love for the boyfriend‚ but her semi barbaric mind set along with her jealous nature endlessly swayed and clouded her mind. Her father king added fuel to the flame of her jealousy and aimed the punishment towards her‚ not so much at her lover. This was evident in the passage of the story that exclaimed‚ "...she knew who the lady was. It was one
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