• S – Solitude Arguments – conflict‚ debate and disagreement - Arlene used 3 arguments (yung nasa test 3 pero yung nasa book 4) These arguments are: - Virginia Woolf – English writer who uses the “steam of consciousness” technique - George Bernard Shaw – an English playwright‚ said that Filipinos will go from being primitives to becoming exhausted civilization. - Imelda Marcos – former first lady of the Phil.‚ who was never seen reading a book from cover to cover get positions of power.
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In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard has to be gently told that her husband has died tragically. Her sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind‚ she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her‚ she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they
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realizes that Bianca does not like him‚ so he moves on. Petruchio and Katherine end up getting married and Petruchio ends up taming Katherine. Bianca and Lucentio end up eloping and go back to Padua where Baptista is. In the play Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw is about a poor flower girl named Eliza Doolittle who
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home where he would bring along his St. Barnard- Porthos (who is later noted as the nurse""dog "Nana" in Peter Pan). Mr. Davies‚ was busy tending to his struggling career as a lawyer spent little time with his family. Barrie idolized the children George‚ John‚ and Peter. Only with them could he truly be himself. James met with them daily‚ creating and acting out stories‚ playing Indians‚ and pretending to be pirates by
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Literary analysis of ‘Pygmalion’ by Bernard Shaw Shaw’s cleverly crafted and highly entertaining play mixes the Pygmalion myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ with a Victorian-day twist. Shaw’s Pygmalion combines dimensional characters‚ an entertaining plotline and vibrant themes in a way that truly encapsulates Victorian high society. Set in high society‚ Pygmalion follows a bet made by two upper class gentlemen: phonetics teacher‚ Higgins; and his linguist friend Colonel Pickering. Higgins
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disappointed in these early expectations. When the play opened in Scandinavia early in 1885‚ critics paid relatively little attention to it. The play soon traveled throughout the continent. While a few luminaries commended it notably the playwright George Bernard Shaw and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke most early critics found the play incomprehensible and incoherent. Audiences‚ as well‚ showed little positive response to The Wild Duck. The Wild Duck Author Biography Ibsen was born in 1828 in a small town in
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Play analysis "Arms and the Man" By Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man" starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli‚ enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria‚ and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play‚ but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very
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separates humans from animals is the ability to make our own decisions and not be guided by simple instinct. People can choose who they are‚ what they want‚ and who they will become; humans are independent beings. In the books Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ both demonstrate the hard ships women had to persevere throughout each play. Women in no matter in what social class where oppressed as they fought for independence‚ making hard choices‚ and enduring a harsh
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Pygmalion‚ premiered in Vienna (October 1913) was Bernard Shaw’s first play to enjoy real financial success in England and has remained his most popular work. The London premiere (1914) was sensational‚ the reviews like love letters‚ and the play has enjoyed success ever since. The filmed version (1938) and the musical My Fair Lady (1956‚ filmed in 1964) were equally successful and only added to the stature of the original. Despite its seemingly plastic adaptability‚ Pygmalion is actually a carefully
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demanding than teaching. No calling in our society is more selfless than teaching. No calling in our society is more central to the vitality of a democracy than teaching. - Roger Mudd To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. - George Bernard Shaw Each of these quotes speaks to me‚ not merely because I am a teacher‚ although that is part of it. Like Guy Doud‚ I am in part a teacher because of other teachers‚ and love – directly expressed or not – was certainly part of it. It was my
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