Contrast Shakespeare’s use of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream ( DEC 08) A play within a play is a literary device that is used for several purposes-contrast‚ mirroring and for purely comedic purposes. Hamlet Midsummer Night’s Dream 1 In Hamlet it displayed self consciousness 1 In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Shakespeare shows the process of creating and staging a play through the rehearsals of the ‘ rude mechanicals’ 2
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people establish a relationship‚ the roles men and women play in an ancient and modern relationships and obstacles they face in these scenarios. As my example for the ’ancient’ relationship I will be using the Shakespearean play ’ A Mid-summer Nights Dream’ and for the ’Modern’ relationship I will be drawing my conclusions from the portrayal of love and romance in popular culture. I choose these examples because they both show different ideals of ’love’ and relationships. The first topic of today’s
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One of America’s most iconic novels‚ The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ was recently adapted into a film by the famous director Baz Luhrmann in 2013. I have personally read the book and seen the movie and can say that the film closely resembled the original book. The scenes‚ character descriptions‚ and conversations were‚ for the most part‚ spot on. Many of the differences were very minor and insignificant. Regardless of how similar the film and book were‚ film critics and viewers had mixed
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HISTORY‚ FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA." Australian Travel Information‚ Traveling in Australia‚ Backpacking in Australia‚ Holidays in Australia‚ Australian Travel Guide‚ Australian Explorer. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "Australia (2008) - Synopsis." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). 2008. Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "HowStuffWorks "What Was Australia ’s Stolen Generation?"" Howstuffworks "History" Web. 28 Mar. 2011. . "World War 2 History - Australia ’s at War." ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland). Web. 28
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Many do not think a modern movie could resemble an epic poem written around the time of 700 B.C. However‚ the movie‚ O’ Brother‚ Where Art Thou?‚ written and directed by the Coen brothers‚ and the poem‚ The Odyssey‚ written by Homer‚ are similar in multiple ways. The themes‚ plots‚ and characters are some of the ways these two pieces of literature are alike. In both stories‚ there are a group of men trying to make it back home. In the poem‚ the main character‚ Odysseus‚ along with his men‚ are
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books have been turned into great movies by adapting every bit of detail from the book to the movie‚ but as well as good books are being turned into good movies there are also good books being turned into disappointing movies by changing the great meaningful story the original author had written into a shallow script. Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury in 1953‚ which was turned into a movie adapted and directed by François Truffaut in 1966. The story revolves around a fireman named Guy
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The Lovely Bones book and movie by Alice Sebold were both very different. The setting takes place in Suburban Pennsylvania and the afterlife ‚ 1973-1984. A girl named Susie Salmon dies on December 6‚ 1973 at age 14. Susie watches over her family while she is in heaven and both the book and the movie have multiple themes that include: love‚ loss‚ grief‚ and death. Some of the differences of the book and movie are‚ the book is more descriptive. Susie describes her death at the beginning of the book
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novel‚ the novel is to inform‚ and movie is to entertain. This is because in the first few chapters all the author talks about is how bad‚ sad and how the government is being ruined‚ how sad‚ informing the audience what the government can become. In the movie it doesn’t really express how bad the government is and skips over important key details‚ therefore the movie is to entertain. In the movie The Hunger Games‚ the director‚ Gary Ross makes it clear that the movie was made to entertain the audience
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Yeller by Fred Gipson and the movie by walt Disney both have some Similarities and some differences in them the book is mainly about a little boy named Travis and he finds a dog so they kept him and named him Old Yeller and they became the best of friends. In Old Yeller the book and movie have many differences. the book old yeller there was a bull fight outside their house and the bulls broke the fence and Travis tried to stop them from fighting. But in the movie there was not no bull fight and
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escape‚ or will the food hogging mayor stop them from leaving. Will Lina and Doon leave their family behind and go to a new city? The City of Ember has many similarities and differences between the novel and the film; however the movie was a more entertaining experience. The movie and book are the same because Lina and Doon escape in both of them. It is important to keep these things the same because sometimes the book is a little bit different‚ but they can not be about a whole
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