A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS How does Alan Ayckbourn make use of comic resources in the play? (page 1-3) From “A Small Family Business” a play in which people work together as a team‚ united to reach to the same goal and sharing values‚ the author Alan Ayckbourn exposes atmospheres of humorous situations to cut with tension and make the scene weird and funny at the same time. Various comic resources are used in this first scene where Jack is coming back from work and his wife‚ Poppy‚ waits for him
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The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedie‚ of Romeo and Iuliet a play with such a title as this could hardly be expected to contain any great deal of light-hearted comedy‚ but comic elements can still be seen throughout the course of the story. Characters joke and jest in between romantic soliloquies; bright imagery are embedded between passages of trouble‚ darkness‚ and death. These elements are so subtly included in the tragedy that one barely notices their poignancy as the story folds out.
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Classics of Italian cinema 2010 Federico Fellini’s films were‚ and still are in many cases very controversial. Fellini attempts to convey many of his own ideas and attitudes into his works. Nowhere is this more evident than in his attitude towards faith‚ ritual‚ and religion. Fellini’s attitude towards faith‚ ritual and religion has always been critical. However‚ the way in which he demonstrates this criticism varies. These varying methods of criticism are clearly demonstrated‚ when one considers
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healing instead of agony: * --- To discuss serious issues in straight forward language: * Yoshimoto Banana * Yoshimoto Mahoko * Her father has a successful career as a poet and critic * Love of popular fiction‚ Japanese manage comics pop music * Graduated from Nihon University in 1987 * “Kitchen” * Works: 12 novels and 7collections of essays * “Kitchen” (1987) 1. What does the narrator (mikage) like? --- Kitchens * “The place I like best in this world is
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The Wizard of Oz Review by Harvey Karten Copyright © 1998 Harvey Karten I’d like five bucks for every time someone called out to me‚ “Hey‚ Toto!” when I walk my cairn terrier around the neighborhood. “Is that really Toto?” adults would stop and ask me‚ and I’d of course reply‚ “Sure it is; I’ve had him for sixty-three years now.” As for the kids‚ well‚ surprisingly enough some of them never saw “The Wizard of Oz” so the best they can do is say‚ “Ma‚ Ma‚ look at the dog!” Pretty soon
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Raven Davis Professor M. Intro to Theatre June 25‚ 2014 Chicago Response The film Chicago is largely based on the Broadway musical of 1975. The said theatrical show ran for approximately 936 performances. It was the best project of Bob Fosse who had actually choreographed and directed the original Broadway production of 1975 plus had won an Oscar in a successful manner for his excellent direction in 1972 of the film version of famous Cabaret. It is to be highly noted that he died much before
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Looking at Structure in a Literary Work (Looking at the Structure of Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth) Writing a novel‚ play‚ or short story can be a very difficult task. The author has to consider many things such as plot‚ setting‚ and character traits. Another very important decision an author must make is how to structure specific parts of the text. This includes where to begin or end a story‚ how to order events‚ and what type of resolution the text will have. The choices the
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high contrast of shading used for the foreground depiction of the plane. It is of a comic-like sort and is using the ‘Ben-Day Dots’ technique‚ named after illustrator and printer – Benjamin Day. Depending on the effect‚ colour and optical illusion needed‚ small coloured dots are closely-spaced‚ widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots‚ for example‚ are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colours (cyan‚ magenta‚ yellow and black)
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GRAAD 12 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P1 NOVEMBER 2010 MEMORANDUM MARKS: 70 This memorandum consists of 9 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over English Home Language/P1 2 NSC – Memorandum DBE/November 2010 NOTE: • • • • • This marking memorandum is intended as a guide for markers. It is by no means prescriptive or exhaustive. Candidates’ responses should be considered on merit. Answers should be assessed holistically and points awarded
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Females have always been present in comic books‚ but the actual representation of them has been abysmal. Women were constantly made the helpless victim awaiting the rescue of a man to swoop in and save the day in almost any situation. They were also extremely over-sexualized; in their costumes‚ proportions and even in the angles and ways they were drawn. Wonder Woman is iconic as the first mainstream and wildly accepted female super hero. Though we would not consider her classic uniform risqué at
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