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    Commentary on Soylent Green Soylent Green Soylent Green started out with a montage of America in the early 1980’s and ended with New York City in 2022. The movie was based on what the future could look like for the world if we continue to become over populated. It looked beautiful in the country with plenty of hay for the cattle and food for people‚ taking a ride in the afternoon in the country side was a beautiful luxury‚ people were trying different experiments like the Wright Brothers in

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    The Great Gatsby cover Commentary The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a detailed account of a summer that Nick Carraway‚ the narrator spent in West Egg‚ long island‚ living in a house next to a colossal mansion owned by a man named Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was known to throw many “little parties” which were anything but “little”. The story includes many influential characters such as Daisy Buchanan‚ who is Nick Carraways cousin‚ Tom Buchanan‚ who is Daisy’s husband‚ Jordan Baker‚ Daisy’s

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    circumstances‚ but their circumstances condition their choices and propel them toward their destiny’.[1] Middleton‚ as other Jacobean playwrights before him‚ has managed to point out that ‘aristocratic life is brutal and corrupt’.[2] The focus of this commentary will be concentrated on marriage and to what can lead one to fall apart. The first scene (Act I)‚ deals with the characters of the play’s main plot: Leantio‚ Bianca and the Mother. In this scene‚ the readers come across with the insulting

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    Reflective Commentary on Working With Actors By Andrey Levchenko One of my favorite courses for today is “Working with actors”. We learned a lot on these sessions. I am not a really talkative person and I prefer to listen‚ either than to talk. Also I am really shy with a new people and do not really like to talk to them in the beginning of our friendship. That is why it was difficult for me in the beginning to contact with actors‚ but with time a got used to it‚ and now I know how to do it easily

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    A successful piece of social commentary selects an issue (or feature) of a society and identifies a series of aspects that contribute to that society. By doing this‚ the author raises the awareness amongst readers and makes them reconsider the accepted state of affairs and challenges a position held on those certain issues. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a severe indictment on American society in the 1920s‚ with particular emphasis on the disintegration of the American dream corrupted

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    and ignorance of the upper class in society‚ whilst also stressing the brutalities of war. Sherlock employs lots of comparisons in this poem to emphasise the carelessness of the nobilities and highlights the unequal nature between the difference social positions. In the beginning‚ the author creates a sumptuous environment for the riches’ dinner party with the background sound from the pantry and video. In this poem‚ he symbolises the radio to the death as the radio was playing the news from the

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    The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov ’s last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however‚ Stanislavski insisted on directing the play as a tragedy. Since this initial production‚ directors have had to contend with the dual nature of this play. The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family as they return

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    Commentary about “London” by William Blake London‚ which consists of sixteen lines‚ is not just a description of William Blake’s birthplace but also a detailed poem of how the social status works in London. The poem is a devastating and concise political analysis delivered with passionate anger. It is revealing the complex connections between patterns of ownership and the ruling ideology‚ the way all human relations are inescapably bound together within a single destructive society. The reason why

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    The prescribed passage‚ Maiden Voyage from Denton Welch’s novel is rich in action and suspense. Several literary devices are employed by the author to create such an appealing effect. The first person narrative is introduced in the first line of this passage and is very important throughout the prose‚ especially when the protagonist encounters the decapitated head. The narrative style enhances the sensations of utter surprise and horror by describing the experience in a more personal viewpoint

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    Seamus Heaney’s Mid-Term Break is a personal memoir of how the poet deals with the death of his four-year-old brother‚ as a result of a traffic accident. While the title of the poem initially suggests a positive experience‚ where “mid-term break” conventionally has positive connotations to a schoolboy‚ the reader is quickly introduced to a somber mood‚ where the poem starts with an introduction of the events following the news‚ and proceeds with an explanation of how others are reacting to the loss

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