How are the themes brought up in "A death of a salesman" releveant to the presant day.
My essay looks at a sales man called willy who trys to cope with the stresses of his work and family life, and how in the present day thing like this are easy to relate to. Q:How are the themes brought up in "A death of a salesman" releveant to presant day There are many things in this play that are relevant to the lives of people today. The modern world is full of stress, whether it is work related, financial worries or problems in the family. Most people suffer at some time from anxiety or even depression, and suicides driven by a sense of failure to achieve are not uncommon. Particularly in the USA the belief in the 'American Dream' is strong, this belief is that any one no matter who they are can achieve what ever they want and nothing can stop them. In Arthur Miller's play, even though it was written over 50 years ago the problems associated with modern city living and pressured life styles were already apparent, particularly in the USA where this play is set. In my following paragraphs I am going to cover the topics which I think are very important to the break down of Willy and the relevance it has today. I am going to include, family life, as it is almost exactly the same as today. Then I am going to study the American dream, and finally The pressures of his job and his financial worries. 'The American Dream consists of a belief that in America, all things are
Woman in Black - Theatre Evaluation
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Monologue in Jessica
Topics: "Brought back to life after 100 years, how does your character respond to the way society has progressed and it's response to them now in comparison to before?" By_ Peter Lee My character: George Thomas It makes me so angry that people don't recognise that I am a powerful man! I have money, status, but those stupid people don't know who I am. When I used to dine at luxury restaurants, department store, hotels and other famous places, I was recognised as George Thomas usually, have people give me top service. That's a now a problem of course. Now people expect me to sit with filth. When I complain to the manager about the pitiful service and behaviour of the bloody waiters or waitresses, they look at me like I am some fool! It's only after my constant demands that they finally take me to fitting accommodation. Why must I have to ask, can they not see from my stature, do they not know the Thomas name? Why do these things happen to me? I used to buy expensive things from the stores, the community knew, that was a common practice for me but these people, They make comment about how those things are expensive. Who cares about the price of the things? Only, poor filthy animals like them care about it because they don't have much money like me. I look at them with contempt... Oh this restaurant has the most expensive food in the city. It is very delicious to eat.
Theatre-In-Education
Theatre-In-Education Marc Goldstein The theatre education industry/movement has seen some rapid changes since its initial developments and establishment in the 1960's. However its origins mainly lie in the early years of the last century. It was the initial establishment of companies such as Bertha Waddell's in Scotland and Esme Church's in the north of England that thoroughly established the main roots of TIE. Mainly the initial aims of these companies was to stimulate, educate and inform young people through encouraging them to participate in enjoyable and imaginary based theatre programmes. Despite early attempts in Britain in the mid 1930's, where a Glasgow Director of education allowed the Bertha Waddell's company to perform in junior schools within school time, the majority of the advances within the movement came after World War Two. Due to the nature and after-effects of the time, many post war Education Authorities felt the need to sponsor drama and live theatre companies to aid in their areas learning processes. One could perhaps say that due to the sheer devastation of the war many education authorities felt that through the use of drama therapy and role play style interaction that students would be able to address their true anxieties and would therefore have a more rewarding time in post war school. Around this time parallel groups were beginning to form in
In What Ways Are The Stories "Your Shoes" and "Flight" Said To Be Similar.
In What Ways Are The Stories "Your Shoes" and "Flight" Said To Be Similar "Flight" and "Your Shoes" are both similar in their own ways. The authors Doris Lessing (from Flight) and Michele Roberts (from Your Shoes) both try to express the idea of the older person seeking to restrain the younger one. It explores the feelings and actions of these people and how they cope with their sorrows. "Your Shoes" is about a mother whose fifteen-year-old daughter has just run away after an argument. "Flight" is about a grandfather who lives alone and is loosing all his grandchildren to their husbands. They both express themselves with things that they find important in their lives. For "Your Shoes" - a pair of shoes, and for "Flight"- a bird. The Grandfather in "Flight" is quite selfish, by not wanting his Granddaughter Alice to get married to her boyfriend. I have evidence supporting this, and you can tell when he says, mourning, " She's the last, can't we keep her a bit longer?" This is quoted from line 90 when he's speaking of his granddaughter to his daughter as if she is some sort of pet or toy. There is selfishness in "Your Shoes" too but interpreted in a different way. The mother in the story talks mostly of the bad childhood she had with her mother instead of worrying about her daughter, e.g., "She loved you more than she loved me. It isn't fair." and "My mother was like you,
Creating an atmosphere for a play.
Creating an Atmosphere Recently we have been doing a play whilst trying to create an atmosphere. The idea behind this unit was to create an atmosphere that was seasonal at this time of year, which is winter. Normally when watching a film, which has a wintry atmosphere it, would be something like a Dracula, Ghost stories, Murder Mysteries etc, so one of these ideas would be ideal for a play, as ancestors & scriptwriters have described to us in films and stories for hundreds of years. Before we got into groups and started the improvisation we did a few warm ups to help. Some of these warm ups helped us to express our emotions more fluently, there was one activity in particular that was particularly odd. In pairs we had to do an improvisation based on a game of chess, however this was no ordinary game of chess, this game of chess was arranged with "Death" the grim reaper himself and an innocent human playing for his/her life in which the grim reaper would then posses. During this improvisation we had show many different emotions contrasting with this event such as fear, stress and nervousness. I used a few small expressions like biting my nails and hesitating whilst taking my turn, which showed the audience that I was careful/cautious. However I wasn't performance wasn't extremely effective in persuading the audience that I was. When we had
This essay will be analyzing and discussing the story "Flight" by Dorris Lessing and "Your Shoes" By Michele Roberts. In answering the question I will talk about some of the similarities and differences between the two stories.
Comparing and contrasting two short stories. This essay will be analyzing and discussing the story "Flight" by Dorris Lessing and "Your Shoes" By Michele Roberts. In answering the question I will talk about some of the similarities and differences between the two stories. "Flight" is about the relationship between the grandfather and his granddaughter, and the love and passion he has for her, how he finds it hard to let her go and accept her as a woman. "Your Shoes" is about a mother whose daughter has run away from home and she is talking as if her daughter was there, explaining how she feels and how hurt she is. Both of the stories are focused on the actions of a younger person and how what they do affect the older persons feelings and actions. In "Flight" we have the granddaughter introducing the idea of her boyfriend Steven to her grandfather. He is not happy with the idea and resents the fact she is so happy. He doesn't understand why she is so in love and thinks he knows more about love and life then her. " 'But its not like that at all,' he muttered miserably. 'It's not like that. Why can't you see? Running and giggling, and kissing and kissing. You'll come to something quite different." This quote clearly suggesting he think his granddaughter is too young to be in love. That he doesn't want her to be so happy. His granddaughter's actions annoy him quite a lot, he
Shakespeare's romantic comedies range from the mystical to the ludicrous. Plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night dip into the essences of the mystical and ludicrous and distasteful.
Ashley Abboud Shakespeare 509 November 17, 2002 Paper #2 Shakespeare's romantic comedies range from the mystical to the ludicrous. Plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night dip into the essences of the mystical and ludicrous and distasteful. It has been said that these elements for example, "love-in-idleness juice," the anti-Semitism of the Merchant of Venice and the social distinctions of Twelfth Night, are all "problematic to the readers of the 21st century." This essay will explain how these attributes of Shakespeare's work are some what of a hindrance to the readers of the 21st century. To begin with A Midsummer Night's Dream, the idea of love-in -idleness juice is a little too much. The problem is not so much with the juice itself but the implications of the juice kept on the eyes of Demetrius. At the beginning of the play he is truly in love with Hermia, but because of the fairy Oberon, he is forced to love Helena, "A sweet Athenian lady is in love with a disdainful youth. Anoint his eyes but do it when the next thing he espies may be the lady," (2.1.260-262). Of course at this part of the play the juice is put onto Lysander. It is at the end of the play that the love-in-idleness juice is truly a problem; Demetrius marries Hermia under the power of its spell. This compromises the "romance" part of the comedy. Every
Essay comparing short story Paths(TM) with improvised drama developed from news article Mystery o
Essay comparing short story 'Paths' with improvised drama developed from news article 'Mystery of Dead Young Female' In this essay I am going to be comparing a short story 'Paths' with the improvised version of 'Mystery of Dead Young Female'. 'Paths' is about a boy who decides to go home through the woods, where he finds different paths and does not know which way to go. He finds a girl from the 19th Century and tries to go back in their time, but he can't as soon as he gets close to the exit of the woods to a different time he can't move he gets paralyzed. So he goes back to were he met the girl and she comes along and then they find someone else there, who they think is from the Viking time, but he is from the future and then Kevin runs home. The 'Mystery of Dead Young Female', is used with a bit of improvisation, it is from an article in Southwold Gazette, 19th January, 1869. This is about a young woman found in the porch of a church; she is dead and knows one has bothered to identify her. And they all try not to get involves when they did see her and she approached the Manor House and everyone living in there denied seeing her. We improvised from this, which was developed as part of GCSE Drama Course, in June 2006. 'Paths' is written by John Christopher, he uses a mixture of people from the past, present and future, which is a good way to write a book as many writers
Compare Brimestone and Treackle with Death and the Maiden
Describe and compare Brimstone and Treacle with Death and the Maiden Brimstone and Treacle is a play set in the time when England was dominated by the industrial revolution. It is based on a young woman who was involved in a car accident and is left very disabled. A man, who appears to the family as her boyfriend, comes to the house and lives with her. Te gullible parents allow him to stay and then the plot unfolds. We read the final scene of the play, where flares of all of the characters personality really show. The supposed "fiancé" is with the parents in the evening, talking about issues that have been affecting them. One of the main points he makes is racist, infact so much so the father has to excuse him. You already can tell that there is an underlying, sickening streak in the fiancé's personality. The parents then leave the couple alone, in which time the fiancé rapes the girl. There are several suggestions that this is not the first time. The girl, who begins to scream, startles him. He runs away just as the parents arrive. While they tend to their abused child, she begins to speak. I think that the writer has based this play on society. There are several references to the government and race in it. I think that he is trying to show how corrupt and unequal the society is, however sweet and genuine it appears to be. He also tells us very plainly at the end, that
