Cosi Character analysis Lewis - Protagonist of the play - 21 years old - Lives in Northcote‚ a very poor area‚ near an abattoir - Has left university and is searching for work. “I need money” pg.1 - Lives with his girlfriend Lucy and friend Nick - At first‚ he shares the same values as his friends Nick and Lucy‚ that love is unimportant due to the ongoing Vietnam War. - He finds work at a mental asylum - He begins work with lack of confidence and scared of the patients‚ but his confidence
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WRACK TECHNIQUES Note book is a mixture of fact‚ fiction and speculation. Your task as reader is to discover the truth. Bradley makes use of historical incidents and real people. He also draws inspiration from other texts. This is called intertextuality. For example he draws on Conrad’s book Heart of Darkness to explore the darkness in man’s heart. His character Kurt parallels Conrad’s Kurtz. He also quotes from Ondaatje p.37 to develop his idea about maps “whose portraits have nothing to do with
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Topic: Cosi challenges the audience’s sense of normality Set in a burnt out theatre in the 1970s‚ Louis Nowra’s play ‘Cosi’ depicts the transformation of the protagonist‚ Lewis Riley. From the start of the play to the end‚ we see that Lewis turns from a mercenary to a humanitarian. Other than the changes of Lewis‚ Nowra doesn’t fail to introduce other key themes like love and fidelity‚ as well as‚ normality and madness. The word ‘normal’ is similar as to ‘regular’ or ‘usual’. But it also gives
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that changed the moment they had a son who show traces of African ancestry. Armand rejected Desiree‚ so the devastated young mother left L’Abri with her son and both of them were never have seen again. In both stories‚ the author uses many literary techniques to express how pride and selfishness can turn someone into a different person. Chopin’s symbolism is very rich in description and filled with hidden meanings‚ which makes both of the stories very extraordinary. The first part of the story makes
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People quite often change through their experiences‚ as evident with a few characters in Louis Nowra’s play Cosi. The major character is‚ of course‚ Lewis Riley who is one of a few we observe who is very much different at the beginning than the end of the play as it can be said that he learns a great deal during the course of the play as the lessons he receives are of both personal and professional nature. Although the lessons Lewis learned are influential for the change of another through the course
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DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES Things to look out for in plays. Context You will need to write about techniques used in plays during your KS4 course. You will be expected to be able to look closely at how the playwright creates tension and characters through different techniques You can use this homework to help you develop your skills when writing about any play but not all plays will use the same techniques. Objective To identify dramatic techniques in plays. What you need to do. 1. Read the help sheet ‘Dramatic
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DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES Speech directions: Words in brackets that tell the actor how to say the lines. This helps us to understand the feelings of the character easily. Asides: When a character temporarily turns away from another character and speaks directly to the audience. This helps us to understand a character’s real feelings at a particular moment in a play. It is often used for humour or to help us empathise with a character. Entrance and exits: It is important to notice when characters
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The film ‘Witness’ by Peter Weir is made memorable through the representation of ideas through the cinematic techniques and inclusion of themes throughout the film. These ideas are represented through the use of camera angles‚ dialogue and Mise en scene. The theme of the clashes of two cultures is initially displayed through the use of camera angles and the ideas presented highlight the interactions between these two cultures. The horse and buggy scene is the first representation of a clash in the
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1. Abstract Language: Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things‚ people‚ or places. 2. Alliteration: The repetition of initial consonant sounds‚ such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." 3. Allusion: A reference contained in a work 4. Ambiguity: an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. 5. Analogy: a literary device employed to serve as a basis for comparison. It is assumed that what applies to the parallel situation
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|Persuasive Technique |Example |Why used (Purposes) | |Images or figurative language |‘Logging is creating smouldering‚ |If readers can visualise the problem | |Painting a word picture of a scene or |air-polluting wastelands.’ |through the writer’s words‚ they may be | |action; using similes‚ metaphors‚ |‘You can’t ban boxing. The horse has |more likely to support his or
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