In both poems “Oranges” and “Fair Trade” by Gary Soto‚ the author explores the recurring theme of compassion and pride. Both poems have several ways to show the theme. The poem “Oranges” is about young love and knowing how it once felt. At the beginning of the poem‚ I get the sense that the boy is a little apprehensive in meeting his girl as he states‚ “Cold and weighted down / with two oranges in my jacket.” Certainly two oranges aren’t going to weigh anyone down‚ therefore the image described must
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August Strindberg’s play “The Ghost Sonata” represents an expressionistic approach to drama. Expressionist elements are obvious through Strindberg’s use of distortion of reality‚ “typing” of characters‚ and the use of musical pattern. In the lecture‚ we discussed that one of the elements of expressionistic drama was “extremism and distortion”‚ the lecture also mentioned how expressionistic drama can take the form of a dream to “capture inner feelings” of a character. Strindberg distorts external
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Realism? Realism is the movement toward representing reality as it actually is‚ in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray real life on stage‚ a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700s. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism‚ character development‚ stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters. The arrival of realism was indeed good for theatre as
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Sharareh Rafieipour Dr. Agnes Yeow Swee Kim Drama of the Modern Era 2 December. 2012 Modern Drama; The spectacle of language breaking down and the explosion of the hysteria underlying the polite banalities of social intercourse To be modern is to be‚ in many important ways‚ different from anyone who ever lived before. This idea does not mean that human being has undergone a change; man’s nature is always the same‚ but his perception of himself has distorted in a way that is significantly
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Elements of Drama 1. script: the written dialogue‚ description‚ and directions provided by the playwright. 2. plot: the events of a play or arrangement of action‚ as opposed to the theme. 3. exposition: the part of a play that introduces the theme‚ chief characters‚ and current circumstances. 4. rising action: a series of events following the initial incident and leading up to the dramatic climax. 5. climax: the point of greatest intensity in a series or progression of events in a play‚ often
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In the passage‚ “A Summer life” by Gary Soto. He writes an autobiography about his childhood past. One summer day‚ where he stole a pie from the market. Knowing it was a bad idea‚ he still did it anyways. In the pie-stealing passage from his autobiography‚ Gary Soto presents his guilty six-year-old self through descriptions of his guilt‚ through references to religion‚ and through his paranoid belief that everyone can see what he has done. Gary Soto’s guilt is first made clear by his descriptions
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On Drama Translation Like their contemporary prose translators who were introducing Western fiction to China‚ budding dramatists were enthusiastic about bringing Western plays to the Chinese stage. The first play was staged in Japan from an adaptation of Lin Shu ’s translation of Uncle Tom ’s Cabin. A Chinese student in Japan named Li Shutong adapted the script. The play was put on by members of the Chun Liu (Spring Willow) Drama Society. Their performance marked a complete break from traditional
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The TV Drama Love Child produced for channel 9 in 2014 set in King’s Cross in the late 1960s and early 1970s follows the lives of the staff and residents at King’s Cross hospital and Stanton House. At a time where unwed mothers were frowned upon‚ freedom was golden‚ woman had little rights and society controlled everybody’s beliefs. It was the beginning of a social revolution. A great representation of the time is reflected in the Matron as well. A combination of narrative and visual conventions
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Medieval Drama Jugglers‚ folk- plays‚ pageants: The beginning of the Middle Ages started by the fall of the Roman Empire. The corrupt Roman drama had come to an end‚ and the actors became some disreputable jugglers and inferior minstrels who wandered all over the country. The performances of these social outcasts were crude and immoral. However‚ they continued for centuries‚ because they were the only source for dramatic spectacle. Other sources of amusement too can be found in the country
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Heather Schmeling A Doll’s House can never be Home Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House” is a play that seems like a very cute and entertaining piece of work when reading. Thankfully‚ it is entertaining‚ as the play is approximately seventy pages on paper. The dialogue between Nora and Torvald is quite interesting‚ as when they speak it’s a bit like young love struck teenagers‚ and borderlines on mushy. But in the last few pages of the play‚ the title suddenly becomes the lie that Nora has been
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