Analyse the representation of multicultural Britain in 'Bend it like Beckham' and East is East
Analyse the representation of multicultural Britain in 'Bend it like Beckham' and East is East Films have the power to represent the different ideas, images and messages that a filmmaker wants to portray. Different cultures, characters or attitudes can be shown in films with just simple words or images on the screen. Also a two hour film is much more interesting and entertaining than a long speech on a particular subject. Although filmmakers can construct different messages for their audiences we can interpret them in different ways. So filmmakers can use stories to grip their audience, make money, while also getting a powerful message across. Britain has become very multicultural in the past fifty years. People have moved here from all over the world looking for a better life. This makes our society more diverse and interesting as traditions and styles from abroad adapt and change this country. In my essay, I will be particularly looking at Asian culture in Britain, which is represented in the two films, 'Bend it like Beckham' and 'East is East'. I'll be looking at some of the characters and scenes and what they might represent. In Bend it like Beckham multicultural Britain is portrayed very efficiently. It shows how young Asians are still expected to be faithful to their Asian roots and to keep the same way of life in a foreign country. Football is used to show how
Superficiality in the poem the wasteland.
superficiality in the wasteland The Wasteland is concerned with the 'disillusionment of a generation'. The poem was written in the early 1920's, a time of abject poverty, heightening unemployment and much devastation unresolved from the end of WW1 in 1918. Despite this, or because of it, people made a conscientious effort to enjoy themselves. In doing so they lost their direction, their beliefs and their individuality. They were victims of the class system which maintained a system of privilege, snobbery and distrust. Advances in machinery brought new products onto the market, like cars, but the people were so disillusioned with the social turmoil caused by four years of war, that even the glamour of new possessions could not fill the spiritual and emotional void left by the war. The consciousness of a nation had been battered into submission by the horrors of the first world war that people now were living a shell of what was once life. People went through the motions of life but there was no feeling just a mechanical existence. This kind of surface existence, the inability to see beyond the obvious, is portrayed throughout the Wasteland. The Wasteland is a soulless picture of a world deprived of fertility. Everything has become sterile in this barren landscape, people have nowhere left to look but to the outer shell because the inside is emotionally dead. As a result, the
Discuss how the two communities of Lantern Yard and Raveloe influence the development of Silas Marner's character in the novel.
Silas Marner Coursework Discuss how the two communities of Lantern Yard and Raveloe influence the development of Silas Marner's character in the novel. The purpose of this essay is to discuss how the two communities of Lantern Yard and Raveloe influence the development of Silas Marner's character in the novel. By exploring aspects of the community such as social, religious and class this essay will underline Silas' change throughout the book. The communities of Lantern Yard and Raveloe are very different from each other. Lantern Yard is a very upper class society but we know Raveloe is a classless (no class system) community because Godfrey Cass helps out Silas Marner with money for Eppie. We know this because it says, " Mr Godfrey Cass, as every one said in the village, did very kindly by the weaver; and it was nothing but right a man should be looked on and helped by those who could afford it." This evidence shows that the two communities differ because no one would have done something like that in Lantern Yard because there wasn't a friendly, giving community like the one in Raveloe. The way these two communities are is the most important part in the way Silas' character develops. Lantern Yard is a very tightly closed community because of its strict religious principles. We know that is a place of narrow and restricted vision as once they have made their mind up about
Life of George Washington
Life of George Washington By Steven Lim George Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732. He was the oldest son of Augustine Washington and his second wife Mary Ball Washington. They were prosperous Virginia English descents. He had 2 sons before with his first wife, Jane Butler Washington. His son was Lawrence and Augustine, in 1718 and 1720. George was born a year after when Augustine married Mary Ball. Five other children followed Samuel, Elizabeth, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred. Mildred didn't survive infancy. In about 1735 the Washington family moved from Westmorland County to Augustine, Sr.'s plantation in Little Hunting Creek and lived there until they moved to a farm on the Rappahannock River opposite Fredericksburg in 1738. Washington study "rules of civility" in his early education and also study mathematics, surveying, the classics. George spends his early years on his family estate on Pope's Creek along the Potomac River. After his father died in 1743 he went to go live with his half brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon. Washington early ambition was to go to sea, but his mother prominent and effectively discouraged it. Then George turns to surveying and securing. His first appointment was to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He also helped Virginia town of Belhaven be lay out. He was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County.
Compare 'Silas Marner' and 'Of Mice and Men' and discuss the theme of Outsiders
Compare 'Silas Marner' and 'Of Mice and Men' and discuss the theme of Outsiders This comparative reading assignment will compare two texts. 'Silas Marner' by George Eliot and 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck. 'Silas Marner' is a 19th century text set in England, taking place over a period of around forty years. 'Of Mice and Men' is a 20th century text set in California, taking place over a period of five days during the 1930's, which was the beginning of the depression. Throughout the essay I will compare the main characters of each book and explore the idea in both books of how easy it was to be an outsider, as well as society's role. I will also examine the reasons and consequences for this. Both books deal with many themes. 'Silas Marner' is a book full of betrayal, loneliness and friendship, mystery and crime. It is also a story of faith being lost and found again. This relates to 'Of Mice and Men' a great deal, as it too, is a book of mystery and crime, loneliness and friendship. However I feel that the main and most often occurring theme throughout both books, is change, and the theory that because something has not happened it will not.' George Eliot was the pen name for Mary Ann Evans a great English novelist. Much of her fiction relates to the middle class rural background of her childhood and youth. George Eliot wrote with sympathy, wisdom and realism about
“Silas Marner” is a story of redemption through love. Show how Silas is redeemed, but Godfrey’s loss is permanent.
"Silas Marner" is a story of redemption through love. Show how Silas is redeemed, but Godfrey's loss is permanent. Silas Marner is a story set in the past, set in the city and the countryside. In the beginning of the story Silas suffers for a crime he did not commit. Silas is trailed even though it was his best friend William Dane, who set him up so he could steal Silas's wife to be Sarah. He is trailed by the drawing of lots. Only God would prove whether he was innocent or guilty. The lots showed that Silas was guilty and he was banished from the church in Lantern Yard. After that Silas loses his faith in God and in his fellow human beings, and moves to Raveloe. Here he becomes deeply obsessed with his work. An example of this is. "His first movement after the shock had been to work in his loom; and he went on with this unremittingly." Godfrey on the other hand is the complete opposite to Silas. He deals with problems he knows about only when they confront him. He is weak willed the opposite to Silas. Godfrey is also frightened that anyone will find out about his past, where as Silas does not care who knows about his past. George Eliot shows this contrast throughout the play and this helps to keep the readers interested. In some ways though Silas and Godfrey are not so different. Even though Silas lives in a small cottage next to the Stone Pits and his cottage is tiny
Duty In Silas Marner Duty Is Peremptory And Absolute. How Far Would You Say Duty Was Important In George Eliot's 'Silas Marner'
Duty In Silas Marner Duty Is Peremptory And Absolute. How Far Would You Say Duty Was Important In George Eliot's 'Silas Marner' In George Eliot's novel 'Silas Marner' there is much evidence to justify the significant importance of duty. Duty has various meanings, but in the instance of George Eliot's novel it is an obligation. An example of this is portrayed by Silas and Eppie. Another example is Godfrey's obligation to Molly, Nancy and Eppie. In the novel the characters can be divided into two groups. There are those who honour duty and those who neglect duty. There are two main outcomes, one positive and one negative. Those who honour duty are rewarded, and those who neglect it are punished. Throughout the entire novel there are characters who neglect duty. The Cass family neglect duty quite a lot, as Godfrey, the Old Squire, and Dunsey all neglect duty. The community at Lantern Yard neglect their duty, especially William Dane. Godfrey neglects his duty towards other characters. He is obliged to Molly but fails to honour his duty, due to dishonesty and hypocrisy and stopped caring for her. Godfrey is unable to live up to his duty towards his second wife Nancy. He lies to her about his past for sixteen years. He doesn't tell her about his child (Eppie) nor does he tell her bout his previous marriage. He says, 'When I married you, I hid something from you... Eppie's mother
Silas Marner - Comparing his quality of lifebefore and after the arrival of Eppie.
Silas Marner essay comparing his quality of life before and after the arrival of Eppie. In this essay I intend to compare the differences in the quality of Silas Marner's life following the events which altered his life. There are two main major changes in the book- firstly when he moved from Lantern Yard to Raveloe and secondly when he lost his money and found Eppie. Lantern Yard and Raveloe are two very different communities, having different beliefs and traditions, and Silas found it hard to adapt from one to the other. The downfall of losing his precious gold seemed to be compensated by the unexpected arrival of Eppie, so in this essay I will describe how his loss of money was a good thing. When Silas lived in Lantern Yard he was respected and has a purpose in life- he had friends, family and was content. People in the community regarded him as a respectable man- 'Marner was highly thought of...believed to be a young man of exemplary life and ardent faith...' (page 14). The church he attended was most probably a non-conformist one or puritan, with no decoration or communion, only a formal prayer ceremony, so when Dolly Winthrop gets her son Aaron to sing a choir hymn in chapter ten he wasn't unfamiliar with it because he had never ever had an interest in church, but because he had never sang hymns at Lantern Yard. The 'hammer-like rhythm' came to his ears as
Silas Marner Essay - What changes does Eppie bring about in Silas?
What changes does Eppie bring about in Silas? 'A child, more than all other gifts that earth can offer to declining man, brings hope with it, and forward looking thoughts'. The meaning of this quotation is that a child more than any other gifts in the world can bring happiness to a declining man, a man like Silas Marner. Silas Marner is an anti-social man. He has spent fifteen years in silence and isolation; he has no friends or family because of his behaviour towards people. Silas was deeply upset when someone stole his gold coins, until one day the arrival of Eppie changed him. Silas has learnt to love instead of keeping to himself, he has forgotten about his gold, he has become more socialized because Eppie has brought him something to live for, happiness and love. George Eliot the pen name of Mary Ann Evans believed that the city was a terrible place to live and the countryside was a much better place. She thought that the city was a dark and dull place because of all the factories in the city creating pollution. She thought that the people of the city looked like 'the remnants of a disinherited race'. People who lived in the city were pale and undersized, they were alien-looking. George Eliot thinks the countryside is a better place to live because there aren't factories surrounding the place; it isn't dark and dull like the city. The people who lived there 'brawny
A brief literary analysis of the relationship between Rosalind and Lydgate in George Eliot's Victorian literature classic, Middlemarch.
MIDDLEMARCH: a literary analysis Title: Middlemarch: a literary analysis Description: A brief literary analysis of the relationship between Rosalind and Lydgate in George Eliot's Victorian literature classic, Middlemarch. "if the chance ever comes to you again to fall in love, grab it, every time. You might always live to regret it, but you won't find anything to beat it, and you won't know if it will ever come to you once more." -Joseph Heller, God Knows- In half of one paragraph George Eliot describes the relationship between Tertius Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy in Middlemarch. The auction of Edwin Larcher's property describes how the two characters and their actions fit into the world and how they treat each other. Their marriage is a commercial engagement from the very beginning and they are never able to break free to form a union built upon a more sound emotional foundation. The location of the auction is at a place in between the New Hospital and Mr. Bullstrode's residence. That is the same location which Lydgate occupies socially and professionally. As the doctor in residence, he enables Bullstrode's hospital to exist. From its vantage point in between these two places, the auction brings the people together as both a "kind of festival" and a "superior funeral". This juxtaposition of celebration and death is mirrored when Tertius and Rosamond announce their