Despite the post-war peace, progressive attitudes, and economic successes with which the 1920’s are associated, the Weimar Republic was an incredibly insecure time for German people. From the eerie darkness of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to the destructive chaos of Metropolis, much of the era’s popular film thematized this insecurity with expressionistic flair. By the summer of 1929, however, the expressionist movement had faded, giving rise to a new movement: New Objectivity. Robert Siodmak’s People
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Kesey and Weir both explore the struggle for independence by enforcing similar settings and contrasting characterisation in their two individual texts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Dead Poet’s Society. At first glance, many would argue that there could not be two settings more dissimilar than a men’s mental institution, and a boy’s private school. However, both texts are set in heavily instituonalised arenas, where the individuals within the communities have had their independence and freedom
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the unconscious. The popular question which started to be used by that time was “Who am I?”, but it gradually passed to the collective “Who we are?” We should know that, since the American tradition didn’t have any obvious roots, they borrowed very much from the immigrants and, in time, the wilderness of the ancient world has gone. Since the American writers didn’t have any settled tradition, they started to explore within the human soul and mind, which came to invent new style. While
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Writing/Lit February 19, 2013 A Tale of Two Poems Love is so often written about by poets. Perhaps it is because love offers so many elements of writing. It can be as grand as the ocean with great depths, leaving the poet free to roam about and explore. It can also have great passion and sensual power like the waves that caress and crush the shore line. Love can also be as vast and frightening as Pandora’s Box, with great unknowns and even evils such as heartbreak and the loss of a lover. It
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Imaginative Journey Notes: The Stimulus Booklet 1.The road not taken: - Robert Frost o Imaginative Journeys allow us to explore future possibilities through speculation o Extended metaphor of the ‘road’ used to express both past and future decisions and actions. Frost describes using the imagination in times of indecision to explore the consequences of possible choices. – “…long I stood /And looked down one as far as I could” o Each of the four stanzas characterises one stage of this process
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Explore the ways writer’s present characters in difficult circumstances. What similarities and differences do you find in the ways Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Hermia in ‘A Midsummer night’s dream’ are presented in their battle to be with the man they love. Both plays, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s dream are based upon the theme of love. Shakespeare’s explores the difficulties faced by the characters in both plays and how they struggle to be with the person they love, I will
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Kane The narrative structure of Citizen Kane is largely nonlinear, which was revolutionary at the time the film was released. The narrative defies Classical Hollywood Cinema, in that it is not told as a chronological story with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, the narrative begins with the end of the story – the death of the main character, Charles Foster Kane. The life story of Kane is then summarized in a newsreel, which actually gives away the whole movie. The entire plot is summarized in
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2013-1-40-044 Eng 420 (1) - MAZ Response to the Character of Daisy Miller Daisy Miller is a novella written by Henry James where the story focuses on a young girl Daisy, who is full of life and innocent at the same time. This one particular aspect of the novella that focuses on this young girl has left the novella to analyze from a feminist point of view. Therefore we can say that Daisy Miller focuses on the nature of women, and Henry James portrayed the character of Daisy in order to do that. Daisy is introduced
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The Necessity of Art in Station Eleven Ever since I can remember I have loved theatre. It’s been a constant presence, and an important touchstone, in my life. However, for as long as I’ve loved theatre, I have also been ridiculed for my enjoyment of it. As a child, my interest was tolerated as something precious, something I was bound to grow out of. My parents and teachers would sit in the audience, clapping and cheering me on, all the while thinking to themselves “I bet she’ll make a great lawyer
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How does Friel explore the concept of identity in Making History, looking at alternative viewpoints in your answer? Identity is the individual characteristics by which a thing or a person is recognized or known with, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/identity These characteristics are exposed through factors such as a person’s image,personality,where they were brought up and their accent. All the characters in the play, making history are identified through where they came from and their accent
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