and not in a movie’s ability to go on location or add cinematic frills. In opening up Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comic masterpiece‚ ’’The Importance of Being Earnest‚’’ the director Oliver Parker‚ whose more straightforward adaptation of Wilde’s ’’Ideal Husband’’ three years ago found an agreeable balance between period lushness and linguistic precision‚ has gone overboard. What would Wilde have made of the embellishments Mr. Parker has tacked onto the play like a reckless dressmaker tarting up a Chanel
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She left working for him because her husband went to officer training school so they had to move. The blind man and the woman kept in touch through audio tapes throughout the years. This gave the woman enough money so that she could marry her childhood sweetheart. You may be able to tell‚ just what a kind and giving person she was‚ for doing the job she chose.
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Lila Begovic Mrs. Williams ENG1DB December 1‚ 2011 Bassanio: The Distasteful Husband Love is a complex topic that grows and matures from the trust‚ loyalty‚ and respect a couple share for one another. In order for two individuals to successfully remain in a loving relationship‚ they must be worthy of each other. The worthiness of an individual is expressed as an important theme in one of Shakespeare ’s famous plays‚ The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio is presented as a character who is the
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“The Country Husband” is a story by John Cheever. The story begins with a middle- aged man (the main character) named Francis Weed experiencing an emergency plane landing into a crop field. The plane Francis was taking from Minneapolis to New York had entered a turbulent storm‚ thus resulting in the pilot to have to land. However‚ Francis Weed survives the plane crash. After Francis’s near death experience‚ he seeks to his true identity which had been lost in the social circle of his suburban life
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When we were asked to write about someone that we admire I instantly thought about my papa‚ Massoud who is extremely accomplished and always has good advice to give. He demonstrates scholarship well because he works hard and values education. He was born in Iran‚ but came to America when he was twenty-eight after finishing college. He graduated at the top of his class and came to the U.S. to finish his residency. Even though it was never easy he worked hard to become a surgeon and to provide for
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You are repeating ’’leader" so often that your essay don’t sound good. Just read it aloud and you’ll understand what I mean. A positive attitude is another essential quality a leader must have in order to do well in office. A leader must see things in a positive light or else everything will not go as planned. For example‚ if a huge crisis was going on and a leader had a mind of a pessimist‚ he would scare "his people" into thinking the situation is way worse than what it really is. On the other
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the situation with her husband leaving her and her child‚ you can better understand why Louise Mallord reacts the way she does about her husband’s so called death. Desiree’s story takes place in the late 1800s and that certain period of time is when women were to be considered better than the slaves but by a small margin. At that time the women had no say in anything and if they did say something nobody really listened to what they had to say. In "Desiree’s Baby"‚ her husband feels as if he has complete
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antagonist‚ the wife of a high standing physician‚ John. The story is written as if it is the journal of the narrator which her husband does not approve of her writing in. We never learn the authors name throughout the story. While the female narrator receives most of the attention and criticism from readers‚ what does one think about the passive attitude of her husband‚ John? Evidence in “The Yellow Wallpaper” proves that John cares for the well-being of his wife; however is potentially bound by
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Love is the most powerful force in the world‚ even in death the power of love continues to be felt making the lover immortal. This is the idea expressed in Anne Bradstreet’s ode “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. The Love between two people is so powerful that it combines them and makes the as one. This is proven when Bradstreet states “If ever two were one … Surely we” (1)‚ This states that connection between two people is so powerful that it combines them physically‚ mentally and spiritually thus
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Alice Munro published “How I Met My Husband” in her book Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You (1974). Told from the first-person point of view‚ the story layers the voice of the fifteen-year-old Edie‚ working as a “hired girl” in the house of the comparatively wealthy Peebles family‚ with that of the adult Edie‚ now happily married and wiser than she was as a teenager. Edie’s voice is colloquial and friendly‚ keenly aware of its audience. In this way‚ the story celebrates the art of storytelling
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