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    themes that link it closely with society. Twelfth Night explores the idea of love through his characterisation of Viola and Duke Orsino. Andy Fickman’s film modernised Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night through the change of some parts of the play and updating them. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is the original text of She’s the Man. Twelfth Night explores the key idea of hidden identity through the characterisation of Duke Orsino from Twelfth Night. Accordingly In Twelfth Night‚ in relation to Duke Orsino

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    “Inside Out” best represents how teenagers are changing identities by using plot‚ characterisation‚ setting‚ camera work and sound track. The characters roles and where the film is set has a great deal of meaning. The soundtrack and camera shots help explain what’s going on. In conclusion‚ the film “Inside Out” has a lot of significant meaning behind it. As a father himself‚ Pete Docter‚ created the film “Inside Out” to portray how his daughter was changing her identity. Once Docter started noticing

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    premise. An examples is the plot parallel and differences between Kate’s transforamtion inWIllian Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s 10 things I hate about you are drawn through the use of characterisation and the strong tones generated by the use of characterisation and the strong tones generated by Shakespeare’s language as wel as the visual imagery in 10 things I hate about you. The settings‚ however are very different. The play takes place in Italy back in Shakespeare’s

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    Intro: Death and the maiden‚ is a play written by Ariel Dorfman that is set in Chile under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. I have composed a poster for the play to highlight the key themes and characterisation conveyed in the play. Dorfman has included multiple techniques to expand the character development‚ add more depth into the play and to position the audience to think what they would do in that circumstance. I have added images to the poster that relate to the techniques involved. Dorfman’s

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    1818 Gothic Novel‚ Frankenstein‚ the characterisation and destruction of Frankenstein’s humanity serves to highlight the dangers associated with ambitious exploitation of experimental science. Furthermore‚ the contrast between the creature and Frankenstein is the used to explore man’s moral limitations in the creator capacity. Similarly‚ in Ridley Scott’s 1982 noir film‚ Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut‚ parallels with Shelley’s novel are seen in his characterisation and

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    exposes the falseness of the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the confrontation and contrast between these two characters to explore this theme and does so through his effective use of characterisation‚ symbolism and key moments of tension. Firstly‚ we can see the way in which Fitzgerald uses the characterisation of Gatsby to establish the contrasts existing between hi m and Tom which will lead to their eventual confrontation. When Gatsby is first introduced he is alone and seems lonely: “He stretched

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    effects that are perceived in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. When the young soldiers arrive at the frontline its nothing to what was anticipated as they had “just begun to love the world and being in it‚ but we had to shoot at it.” Remarque’s characterisation of Paul is naive and inexperienced as he only just begins to grasp the understanding‚ through torment and fatality‚ that they didn’t “believe in those things anymore; we believe in war” their new objective was to survive. Trained to disregard

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    world that criticises the world we live in. A variety of literary techniques were performed to portray this. Setting can be seen through the fictional worlds that both All Summer In A Day and The Hunger Games have illustrated to the audience. Characterisation is used to emphasise the correlation between the protagonists and the people within the world we live in. Imagery is used in the form of rain‚ where both author and director have cleverly used to criticise the world we live in. Ray Bradbury and

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    What Techniques Does Tennyson Use To Tell The Story Of Mariana? Tennyson uses place and setting‚ time‚ characterisation‚ imagery and form to tell the story in his poem Mariana‚ based on the character of Mariana from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. The poem is about the character Mariana‚ who after losing her dowry in a shipwreck‚ her lover Angelo leaves her. In the poem‚ we see Mariana slowly coming to terms with the fact that Angelo will never be coming back to her. Tennyson uses place

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    progression has always shrouded society. Both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) were produced during eras of technological exploration. Through depicting technology breeching moral boundaries through context‚ characterisation and intertextuality‚ both Scott and Shelley highlight the dangers of progression with the absence of ethical emotion – a timeless social issues which binds these two texts. Written during the industrial revolution and the emerging era of existentialism

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