Take Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker‚” set it in a 1960’s U.S. suburbia‚ remove the Sugar Plum Fairy and add sexual and homosexual overtones‚ and you have Mark Morris’s “The Hard Nut” – an adaptation of the original ballet inspired by the comic book artist‚ Charles Burns‚ whose work is “deeply instilled with archetypal concepts of guilt‚ childhood‚ mystery‚ adolescent sexuality and poignant portrayals of post-war America” (The Hard Nut: A Look Back). Morris’s story can be described as the background
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“I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages‚ for I know I am not clever.” In the novel Bleak House‚ Charles Dickens has somehow managed to create the epitome of a perfect woman in the character of Esther. She has it all from being beautiful but modest‚ to humble and hardworking. Esther fits effortlessly in with our Victorian ancestor’s idea of a perfect woman. The reader is instantly drawn in by her character from these opening lines of her narration. She has
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HARD TIMES ASSIGNMENT DISCUSS: Dickens’ Coketown is not a city‚ rather a stage for the workings out of Gradgrind’s philosophy. Considering the above sentence examine the construction of the city in Hard Times. Coketown is quite literally the ‘town of coke’‚ the raw material used to convert iron to steel and indirectly the foundation of the ‘steel/industrial revolution’. It is critical to analyze the name of the city for Dickens’ Hard Times is a satirical caricature on the condition of England
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got into a fight and Gregory psychologically plays with Paula telling her lies about her and playing with her memory‚ which can be seen in the dialogue between Gregory and Paula: Gregory: I’ve tried so hard to keep it within these walls - in my own house. Now‚ because you would go out tonight‚ the whole of London knows it. If I could only get inside that brain of yours and understand what makes you do these crazy‚ twisted things. Paula: Gregory‚ are you trying to tell me I’m
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can express the secret agony of my soul. I felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man‚ crushed in my breast." This directly relates to Dickens discussion of David in a wine house later in the novel. A couple of years later‚ Dickens attends school at the Wellington House Academy where he fell in love with Maria Beadnell but her father opposed the marriage and nothing became of it. David Copperfield is more of a biography of Dickens life made into fiction than of just
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History Worksheet Since the beginning of his narration‚ we get a gloomy atmosphere which represents Dickens discontent. “volumes of dense smoke‚ blackening and obscuring everything” here he speaks of the terrible pollution that has infiltrated the town‚ blocking the view of everything. Afterwards‚ the quote “...ponderous wagons...laden with crushing iron rods…” appears‚ signifying the abuse that is done to the working class‚ forcing them to carry hefty objects and work heavy machinery for someone
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The publication of the first instalment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood appeared in Dickens’s weekly “All Year Round” in April 1870. It arosed wide attention from the audience for the author’s latest work “which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books (Morford 5).” At the time Dickens was writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood‚ the police force established in 1829 did not work exclusively on prevention of crime any more‚ it focused on detection too; the daily press was abounding in
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In this Assignment‚ I will analyse two chapters‚ of the Charles Dickens novel‚ ‘Hard times’. Hard Times will be stylistically analysed for speech/ thought presentation‚ point of view‚ Parallelism and Gricean implicature. The opening chapter introduces the first character within the novel‚ Mr Gradgrind the speaker in the extract and the patron of the school. The novels opening lines are spoken by Mr Gradgrind‚ ‘Now what I want is Facts.’ ‘Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.’ The word ‘Fact’
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Charles dickens (1812-1870) is one of the greatest and most popular writers in the history of literature. In his novel‚ David Copperfield‚ Dickens combines mastery storytelling‚ humor‚ pathos‚ and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people and places‚ both real and imagined. Several are the aspects that make David Copperfield a great literary work‚ but characterization seems to be the secret that has contributed to the success of that novel; namely David the protagonist of
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of types of dwellings‚ that’s why everyone can choose a house he or she likes. For instance some people prefer semi-detached houses or duplexes (as the Americans call them). I think that such houses attract them because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows‚ for example. You also have neighbours you can always turn to if you need something‚ but at the same time your neighbours can disturb you while repairing their part of the house or when they listen to music too loudly. But in general
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