1. Types of Drama a. Comedy When we talk about comedy‚ we usually refer to plays that are light in tone‚ and that typically have happy endings. The intent of a comedic play is to make the audience laugh. In modern theater‚ there are many different styles of comedy‚ ranging from realistic stories‚ where the humor is derived from real-life situations‚ to outrageous slapstick humor. Is designed to be entertaining and humorous where misfortune ends in triumph or happiness. It presents characters
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Elements of Drama * Characters: Characters are the people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play. It is the characters who move the action‚ or plot‚ of the play forward. * Plot: This is what happens in the play. Plot refers to the action; the basic storyline of the play. * Theme: While plot refers to the action of the play‚ theme refers to the meaning of the play. Theme is the main idea or lesson to be learned from the play. In some cases‚ the theme of a play
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I began reading Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror without doing any pre-reading about the subject of the play or the author. When I read over the long list of "characters" for the play‚ I thought I would never be able to keep up with who’s who. Before beginning to read the first scene‚ I was unaware that the play was a succession of verbatim monologues from real people. I thought‚ "Wow‚ this is different." Honestly‚ I have probably read about the Crown Heights riots beforein fact I probably
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The death of Michael Jackson has given many fans and critics cause to revisit his work. The controversies that surrounded his life in the last decade made Jackson the subject of many jokes and was threatened to end his career in shame and obscurity. But his untimely death provides an opportunity for us to look back at his musical career‚ and to celebrate his talents as a singer dancer and songwriter. Like other pop stars‚ Jackson wrote many songs about love and partying‚ but a number of his songs
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Mirror With A Memory Millions of other Americans were searching for a place in the new industrial society of the late nineteenth century. The Civil War led to people flooding into cities. Urban areas changed from homogenous with Irish and Germans to large groups of European immigrants. New York had the largest Jewish population. The quality of living changed as manufacturing and commerce crowed into cities. The top classes fled to the suburbs. Realtors changed mansions into tenements for
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How does Arthur Miller create drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee
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Life and Real Life : Past‚ Present and Future Waseem Akram Malla B.V.Sc. & A.H. 3rd Year VB-2009-903 When asked about what life is‚ you might simply answer that life is the time spanning from the moment of one’s birth to the moment of his/her death‚ including one’s yesterday (past)‚ today (present) and tomorrow (future). But for me‚ life isn’t the way you think. The real life is the present moment‚ the moment you’re living in. Whatever you do this moment is your life. While you sleep‚ your life is
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A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California‚ Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university‚ he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation’s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America
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Antonio has had multiple dreams of three giants. Originally the three giants were his brothers. Who are the real giants? The real giants are the ones Antonio has lost throughout his childhood. They are Ultima‚ Narciso‚ and Florence. They all had an impact on his life. Ultima is an outstanding person in Antonio’s life‚ more like a mentor. She teaches Antonio valuable lessons. She also teaches him how to respect the land and also to be independent. Before Ultima dies Antonio asks her to bless him.”I bless
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How does Facebook impact on your life? What is the most popular social network in the world? I believe that most people prefer the answer “Facebook”. Nowadays‚ there are more and more people join the Facebook. You can always see such situations that some people refresh their Facebook when they have nothing to do， and there are some people even only use Facebook to keep in touch with others. Actually‚ Facebook has already become a part of our life; and it changed our lives in four aspects: it
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