Tom Stoppard's play The Real Inspector Hound - Plot and subplot

Plot and subplot The play opens with two critics called "Moon" and "Birdboot". We can see a dead body on the main stage. Moon and Birdboot are having a conversation about another Critic called "Higgs", and how "Moon" is the stand in for Higgs and is never taken seriously. Also they are talking about how "Birdboot" has taken one of the actresses out the night before the date and how "Birdboot" is getting at angry at "Moon" as he has a wife and he wouldn't possibly do anything to in danger that marriage he is obviously lying, or bending the truth. Then A Character called Mrs Drudge who is the "Helper" at the Manor. At first she is just cleaning around the stage and she does notice the dead body behind the chaise longue. Whilst cleaning she moves the Chaise longue so that they dead body can no longer be seen. Then she heads straight for the radio and turns it on just in time to hear a "special police message." Within in that we find out that there is a madman on the run in Essex near where Muldoon Manor is. Within in the message a strange man who is acting very suspiciously and matching the description of the madman on the Radio. He also doesn't see the dead body. He leaves the room without Mrs Drudge ever knowing that he was there. Then we return to "Moon" and "Birdboot" who carries on the conversation that "Birdboot" is an adulteress and is having "a romance" by the

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Imaginary Story

Imaginary Story Inspector Dixon could recognise slight scratch on the victim's bracelet. Now he discovered the murderer of Mrs Watson. The only person who could make this scratch was... 'NICKY!' My name is Nicky, a seventeen years old college girl, who wants to be a detective in the future. It was a sunny and cloudless day. The library was very quiet. There were about sixteen people in library and two of them were looking for some books on the shelf beside me. My schoolmate, Sally Looney was looking at me in a dull and bored look. Her eyes were half closed and her ginger hairs were stuck to the end. No one might imagine she was a clever girl, who has achieved 12 A* grades in her GCSEs and 5 A grades in her AS-level. 'Sally, Inspector Dixon was just about to say the name of the murderer, because he just discovered a scratch on the...' 'Nicky! I have called you more than three times! Are you listening to me?' Sally replied in a bored voice and a girl from the other desk raised her head to find out the origin of disruption. 'I am really bored. We have been in here for nearly 4 hours! I am hungry now.' Sally was shouting at me with an eager look. There were nearly seven ridiculous books on Sally's desk such as 'Collection of classic novels' and 'Yellow Pages'. 'Oh Sally, it's because you are choosing boring books. Why are you reading Yellow Pages?' I asked. 'I like finding funny

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How would you direct An Inspector Calls to ensure that it is still relevant today?

How would you direct An Inspector Calls to ensure that it is still relevant today? J.B Priestly wrote An Inspector Calls in 1945, but he set it in the year of 1912, and throughout the play there are several prominent ideas. Over the years, the way in which Priestly has presented these thoughts, while still relevant, may not be as effective as they were several decades ago. As time has changed, so has the way in which society views them - even if the ideas are identical. So how would the play be directed in order to make it relevant to current times? The main theme must be identified at the outset to first be able to update the play so that is still relevant. Priestly has deliberately set his play in 1912 to emphasise on the differences and his themes between the society at that present time (1945), and in the past. The consequences of the events in those 33 years led to huge changes in society. For example, in 1912 the class and gender boundaries ensured that things wouldn't change, but the event of two world wars caused a large upheaval to society, breaking down the class boundaries, and for women to gain a more valued place in society. This means that the new setting must still be able to foreshadow future events that will take place, to keep the sense of dramatic irony. For example, Priestly writes Birling: The world's developing so fast that it'll make war

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'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' by Dario Fo - A Plot Summary

'Accidental Death of an Anarchist' by Dario Fo A Plot Summary by Rosa Scheewe ACT ONE Scene 1 The play starts in an ordinary office. Inspector BERTOZZO explains to the audience that several weeks before an anarchist fell out of the window a few floors above while he was interrogated by the police about a bomb attack in a bank in Milan. His death caused public outrage although the police claimed it was 'suicide'. After that he starts to interrogate MANIAC. We find out about more characteristics of MANIAC. He was arrested 11 times but he has never been convicted, because he suffers from a 'histrionic mania'. In the following interrogation, that shows MANIAC's intelligence, he confuses BERTOZZO and the CONSTABLE, who sometimes interjects a comment, until he threatens to throw himself out of the window. Then he is told to leave by BERTOZZO. After he does BERTOZZO and CONSTABLE leave as well. MANIAC re-enters and as he finds himself alone he starts to throw files about little criminals out of the window. This shows that he is an anarchist himself and an activist. So he is going to do something about the death of the anarchist and he is hardly afraid of anything. When the phone rings he doesn't hesitate to answer it and finds Inspector PISSANI at the other end of the line. He talks to him, provokes him and makes BERTOZZO look like an idiot. After the phone call he starts to

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Accidental death of an anarchist

Drama Coursework :2 "Accidental death of an anarchist" Brief Out-line of the Story. The story is based around a true occurrence in the French police force when a man brought in for questioning for anarchistic actions, was found lying on the ground after having mysteriously 'fallen' out of the third floor window A large inquest was set in motion but was adjourned after a while due to a lack of evidence in the case. However now there is a man that threatens the case, his name is Maniac and he has been brought in for questioning after being found posing as a physiatrist. What happened before my particular section of the script began. Just before my section of the play is to start we have the inspector sat on one side of the desk and the Maniac sat on the other side, with the Constable stood directly behind him lent up against the wall. The two men are interrogating the Maniac for the crime of impersonating a certified physiatrist and apart from that, charging 200,000 lire for one session with a patient. The reason the police have brought him in and are treating him so bad is because they have read in his record that he has posed as some one else on many separate occasions and that each time if been allowed to escalate could have had severe consequences for the public as he posed as a surgeon, a captain in the Bersaglieri, three times as a bishop and once as a marine

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In Naturalism, characters do not have free will; external and internal forces, environment, or heredity control their behaviour.

In Naturalism, characters do not have free will; external and internal forces, environment, or heredity control their behaviour. Zola displays this lack of free will in his character, Therese. The passage particularizes this fact. The movement of the Raquin's to Paris was the central focus of the passage. Therese had a life full of suppression: sexual, monetary and intellectual. She felt as if she were dead. The emptiness in Therese's life reflects upon the vacuity in her family. Therese's emotions are generally suppressed, she cannot even cry when she moves to Paris. ("Her hands were numbed and her breast was bursting with sobs but she could not cry.") It is obvious that the narrator is a third person and is omniscient. The all-knowing character (of the narrator) and the ability to slip in and out of characters as no human being possibly could were prominent. The narrator reports the thoughts and feeling of Therese, for example," A sort of nausea seized her in the throat and she shuddered." The passage shows that the narrator is not neutral. He does not obliterate the thoughts and actions of the characters. The writer wants the reader to feel sympathy for Therese. The image of death that the writer uses to describe Therese's feeling clearly wants us to feel sympathy for Therese. The writer says,".. She felt as though she were going down into a newly dug grave." The style

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Play: Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber Character: Mugsy Act 3 Scene 2 to the end of page 75

Summer 1999 GCSE Section A Question 1 Play: Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber Character: Mugsy Act 3 Scene 2 to the end of page 75 a) In this scene, Mugsy, a waiter in a restaurant in London, is playing poker in what is a weekly game with his colleagues and boss. They are in the basement of the restaurant in which they work, and Mugsy is desperate to win this time, as he wants to purchase some public conveniences, with the intention of turning them into his own restaurant. He is quite a simple character, and would never be able to succeed in running his own business; the audience feels pathos for him. In this scene when he wins a hand, he responds as though it is the greatest thing that ever happened to him. One of the main complications in this act is that there is a professional poker player playing with them, although only one other character knows this, which means that Mugsy will lose this money very quickly again. I would play Mugsy with a cockney accent, and although varying the pitch of his voice a lot throughout, it would generally be quite high-pitched. The tone of his voice would be light and quite breathy, as he is quite simple. Generally his movements would be quite defined and show what he is feeling. When sitting at the table, I would slouch when Mugsy is sad, and sit up and bounce on the chair when ebullient (e.g. when winning or with a good hand).

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Direct Line Insurance. The investigations focus was the decision to cease writing their own bespoke software in favor of purchasing an off the shelf CRM (Customer Relation Management) solution

FO Degree Networking Case Study Direct Line Insurance 21st March 2006 Contents GROUP WORK 3 INTRODUCTION 3 REPORT 4 CONCLUSION 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY 13 APPENDIX ........................................................................................................................ 14 Group Work The team (three members) was tasked to investigate Direct Line Insurance. The investigations focus was the decision to cease writing their own bespoke software in favor of purchasing an off the shelf CRM (Customer Relation Management) solution. As part of the investigation the team considered the situation prior to the purchase of the software, the effects or influences of kaizen on any solution, Direct Line Insurance acquisitions' and the customer experience. The task was broken down into a number of parts: * Initial investigation of Direct Line Insurance * Investigate Kaizen * Investigate Chordiant and CRM software * Produce a CRM diagram * Produce individual reports An initial meeting to delegate responsibilities was held and the report author was designated as project manager. It was agreed that as individuals we would investigate all the major components of the task (this would facilitate individual learning). Following the initial investigation, further meetings would then take place as necessary to correlate information, agree further investigation and decide the

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Rebecca - "Scene where rebbeca confronts Mrs Danvers"

Rebecca "Scene where rebbeca confronts Mrs Danvers" As I begin my essay I will firstly focus on how we get to a scene in the movie Rebecca. The movie begins with a young girl marrying a man called, Maximillian de Winter. They go to his house and the girl hears about the lifestyle of the house. She then persuades max to hold a party. Mrs Danvers the housekeeper encourages the girl to be dressed in an outfit of Max's ancestors. The girl presents herself to max and he is furious at her. She runs upstairs weeping and discovers Rebecca wore the dress at a previous ball. The scene opens with a medium shot of the girl and she is looking at the picture of Rebecca wearing the identical costume. She is in confusion to why Mrs Danvers hates her. The camera shot then changes to a long shot of Mrs Danvers walking into Rebecca's bedroom. Mrs Danvers doesn't look at the girl but from her body language she makes the girl want to follow her into the room. Mrs Danvers figure shows up a really well in this shot because she is in a dress and the walls outside the room are white. Hitchcock uses has a close up shot of the girl and this helps us see the girl's emotions clearly. The girl wants to confront Mrs Danvers to reveal why Danvers is teasing her. Eerie music makes it breathtaking. The girl then walks in the direction of Rebecca's bedroom and her hat falls off while travelling up the set

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What do you find particularly horrifying about the world Forster creates in

What do you find particularly horrifying about the world Forster creates in "The Machine Stops"? In "The Machine Stops" Forster creates a world set in the future, where machines rule. In fact, machines run life so much so that human beings, by this time, have adapted accordingly to life and the lifestyle it brings. "In the arm-chair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh - a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus," Forster writes. This is a pretty horrific description because it shows us that in the world Forster has created, people get no exercise whatsoever. There is in fact no need to get any exercise with the life the humans lead under the control of The Machine. "Infants [are] examined at birth, and all who [promise] to endue strength [are] destroyed...it would [be] no true kindness to let an athlete live; he would never [be] happy in that state of life to which the Machine had called him." Therefore, humans have whittled down to shorter heights as they do not get outside of their rooms often, therefore diminishing this need, and they also consequently get no sunlight. These factors combined lead to people who are deathly white and resemble out-of-shape "blobs" from basically being hunched on a seat constantly. More frightening than this, and so this is truly scary, is the lifestyle the Machine is described as giving in the story. The people need

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