How Is Chapter 5 of Frankenstein Relevant To Social and Historical Influences of the Time?
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Looking closely at Pygmalion, consider the relationship between Higgins and Eliza. Where do your sympathies lie?
Looking closely at Pygmalion, consider the relationship between Higgins and Eliza. Where do your sympathies lie? In the play Pygmalion, my sympathies change between the two characters Higgins and Eliza, as the play progresses. Eliza seems the more likely of the two to feel sorry for because she is without money and was brought up in filth. At some points during the action we do tend to sympathise for Higgins because of what he is going through and sometimes the stress of teaching a lower class girl gets the better of him. In Act1, at Covent Garden outside St Paul's Church my sympathies are for Eliza as she is grovelling in the rain for money. She clearly is poor and is dressed in dirty clothes as well as not having had a wash. When her flowers are knocked out of her hands by Freddy and trodden into the mud, she is deeply annoyed as it is her only means of living and without selling the flowers (which are now destroyed) she does not have much chance to have a bed to sleep on: "...eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzen than ran awy like that athaht pyin." When the mother kindly offers to pay for the flowers, Eliza is pleased that she now has more money than they were worth: "Thank you kindly, lady."(page11). Her daughter on the other hand is very rude and says: "Make her give you the change; these things are only a penny a bunch."(p11). I feel sorry for her
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What different aspects of marriage are presented in Pride and Prejudice?
What different aspects of marriage are presented in Pride and Prejudice? Jane Austen opens the novel with her famous saying which quite sets the whole theme for the rest of the story.- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". We can see just by reading this that Jane Austen did not share traditional views about marriage. She lived in times where marriage was a necessity for all women or else they would live a life without independence or freedom as maids or governesses, and not to forget the social neglect they would face if they remained single throughout their life. However in her writings, Austen displays quite comical and at times satirical themes towards marriage, which was quite the contrary to what people thought in the 18th century. Mrs Bennet is portrayed as an annoying woman who focuses every aspect of her life into marrying off her five daughters. She appears to be an overprotective character and she never fails to cease a chance with encounters between her daughters and rich men. The main candidates for her daughters include Mr Collins, Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley. All five girls are brought up to show good manners which were well suited for attracting rich men. It was common for families in the 18th century who faced financial and social pressure to raise attractive girls who would easily
With reference to the way OCasey presents the members of the Boyle family in Juno and the Paycock, how far do you agree that they attempt to escape their poverty?
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Death and the King's Horseman - notes
Q1) Iyaloja is the mother of the marketplace. She speaks for the women and girls, which are an important component of the community. She must approve and affirm Elesin's journey from life to death. Initially, she is very supportive of him and gives in to his demands for the Bride, but after he lets the community down by failing the ritual, viciously turns against him. She reminds him of just how wrenching his failure was, and how destabilizing it was to their community. At the end of the text she takes Olunde's place as the representative of the Nigerian culture to the English, speaking coolly and wisely to Pilkings and Jane, and refusing to allow them to strip even more dignity and autonomy away from an already-languishing people. Q2) In the play's preface, Soyinka states flatly that seeing Death and the King's Horseman just as a drama about a "clash of civilizations" and the role of colonialism in Nigeria is incorrect and reductive. Instead, he wants readers and potential filmmakers to concentrate on Elesin's dilemma as he fails to complete his suicide for a variety of reasons unrelated to Pilkings' attempts to stop him. Despite this warning, colonialism, racism, and prejudice loom large in the storey, if only because it takes place in colonial Nigeria during WWII. In terms of colonialism, Death and the King's actions are significant. When considered in terms of
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How is Thomasina presented by Stoppard in "Arcadia", and what methods and techniques does he use? In "Arcadia", Tom Stoppard uses many different techniques and methods to affect our opinion of Thomasina, one of the main characters in the play. Many of these techniques are successful, as by the end of the play the majority of the audience will have formed a strong opinion of Thomasina. The opening few lines that she speaks in the play are all questions; immediately this gives a good first impression as the audience can see that Thomasina is not afraid to be inquisitive. She asks, "Septimus, what is carnal embrace?" We can then see that she is not satisfied with the answer she is given, leading her to ask, "Is that all?" This gives the impression that she is very clever and not afraid to ask questions of her elders. In the first scene, this creates a favourable opinion as the audience can sense that Thomasina will be an interesting character to have in the play. We are also given the slight idea by Stoppard that Thomasina does not ask the questions entirely in innocence, and has perhaps simply asked them to make Septimus nervous. This again makes the audience feel that she is very intelligent. It also creates ambiguity around the character for the audience as they are curious to Thomasina's true personality. The audience is clearly shown Thomasina's intelligence throughout
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Dear Mr Briggs, I'm writing you this letter to tell you how thankful I am for the 'lesson' that you taught me on the cliff last Sunday. First, I am sorry for putting you in such a dilemmatic situation. I know you must have been really enraged. I know you must have a hard time trying to control your wrath. I know you must have hated me so much for my silliness. Hence, now, I want to send you a letter of apology with my greatest sincerity. I wasn't out to the cliff for no reason. I had been through the hardest time in my life. My brother had had a car accident. Although he was taken to the hospital, the doctors refused to rescue him because we had no money to pay them. I thought, "If only my family had had more money, my poor brother wouldn't have passed away. Why is life so unfair? Why do we have to be so poor? And what is the sin of being poor anyway?" Things still wouldn't be that bad if since then, my mother has not been constantly drunk and my dad has not stopped going to work because of depression. Even worse, quarrels between my parents have happened continuously and we are starving day by day because there is not enough money to support all of us. The night before the trip, I wondered, "Sooner or later, I'll die of hunger anyway. So why don't I try to escape this miserable life right now and seek for a beautiful place to enjoy the rest of my life in tranquility?" I
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