In the opening scene of "The Crucible"‚ the playwright reveals insight into John and Elizabeths troubled marriage through Elizabeths subtle passive-aggressive gestures‚ Johns incoherent ramblings‚ and his emotional explosion at the end showing his frustration. Tension between the two immediately increases when John Proctor comes home late. Apparently‚ Elizabeth knows about Johns extramarital affair with Abigail. Elizabeths annoyance is seen when Proctor states‚ Oh‚ is it [a rabbit]! In Jonathans
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Drama In the 1580s Philip Sidney complained that English playwrights were ignoring the principles of drama; he meant the classical principles exemplified by the tragedies of Seneca and the comedies of Plautus‚ Ben Jonson published his own plays in a grandiose format‚ and with a title (The Works of Benjamin Jonson)‚ that invited comparison with the editions of these same dramatists. The prologue to the first play in this collection‚ Every Man In His Humour*‚ announces that its author ’hath
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As part of our GCSE Drama course‚ we read and studied ‘Bouncers’ by John Godber. During our practical exploration of the text we used drama mediums‚ elements and explorative strategies to enhance our understanding and appreciation of the play. We used the strategies: still image‚ mime‚ hot-seating‚ marking the moment‚ narration‚ role play‚ thought tracking and forum theatre. We also used the mediums of space‚ levels‚ movement‚ mime‚ voice and speech. During our workshops we were also given the opportunity
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"Romeo and Juliet" was based upon Arthur Brooke’s poem - "The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet" (1562). He wrote a play that the audience already knew - Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy originally written in 1599. The opening of the play creates tension‚ which is followed throughout the ply by the dramatic irony of the chorus giving the prologue to the play‚ making the audience start to wonder when things will happen. "Who will fall in love?" "Who will die?" "Who will fight?" "Who is the conflict
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Analysis of a scene: How is tension created? (Slumdog Millionaire Scene 4) In the fourth scene from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire"‚ Salim and Jamal manage to escape from Maman and his henchmen by jumping on a departing train. In this scene Tension is created in different ways. So for example when Salim is to fetch Jamal for his "casting" the two boys are shown in an extreme long shot when they are disappearing in the darkness. The spectator is left to wonder if Salim will really betray his
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BIRD BY BIRD In the book Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott‚ the author takes the reader through a crash course in writing a story. I found the book helpful in many ways. However‚ I also found a plethora of information that I will never use and didn’t need to read. Instead of giving tips on how to write college papers‚ which is what I was looking for‚ the author went in depth about the life of an author. The three most important things I took from this book were; the importance of getting things down
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takes her back to when her older brother‚ who was ten at the time‚ was trying to finish a report on birds that was due the next day but had had over three months to work on. Her brother sat in the kitchen table crying‚ surrounded by the unopened books‚ desperately worried about not having enough time to get it done. Her father sat down beside him and said “Bird by bird‚ buddy. Just take it bird by bird.” Anne Lamott keeps‚ this one-inch picture frame on her desk to remind herself of a piece of herself
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Task one Effect theories Effects theories were developed and introduced into the media in the 1920s; they are used to look at how media texts or products influence people who consume them‚ they are used more and more particularly in recent years to look at how negative messages for example sexual and violent based content affect different audience groups. There are two main effects theories that are used within the which are known as “Uses and gratifications” and “Hypodermic model”. Uses and Gratifications
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figurative language‚ especially in a literary work. The authors of “The war is kind” ‚ “Dulce et decorum est” ‚ “The yellow birds”‚ and “ The things they carried” try to make the reader feel what was happening at the war ‚ and how the people suffered in that moment. They use their own perspective to show this feelings and make the reader more into the poem. In the poem “The yellow birds” the people felt “like there was acid seeping down into [their]/ soul” (6-7) all the bad things in the war were
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The Crucible is a play about how people can be reduced to a name this can be compared to what takes place in an evaporating basin. The person or liquid goes into the basin and after heat is applied‚ there will be nothing left except a name or a simple residue. In the play we are shown in detail just one case‚ the case of John Proctor. Throughout the play miller uses a variety of techniques to build up suspense such as stage directions‚ dialogue and actions. This assignment will look at how theses
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