mother Chris and her four sisters. The play‚ through Michael’s narration‚ touches on different aspects of life of the characters by exploring the occurrence of simple events which contribute an impact to their relationships. However‚ Michael‚ as a chorus figure‚ plays the most significant role which affects our perception of the events which unfold. The play opens up with Michael’s first speech. "When I cast back my mind to that summer of 1936 ¦ We see an apparent reflection of the memory through
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passages are the most representative choral lyrics of Oedipus and its dilemma. The first passage by the Chorus is about Human against divine justice. The speaker of the passage is the Chorus‚ who can interpret as representation of the human being. It describes the distinctive human behaviors such as keep its own faith to the Gods and hoping to live according to the laws of the Gods. As the Chorus narrates‚ “I only ask to live with pure faith keeping in word and deed that Law which spans the sky made
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Introductory Paragraphs for Antigone 2. Antigone violated the laws set forth the land of Thebes by her uncle Creon and planned to defy Creon’s order and bury Polynices. Antigone possesses a remarkable ability to remember the past. Whereas her father Oedipus defies Tiresias‚ the prophet who has helped him so many times‚ and whereas he seems almost to have forgotten his encounter with Laius at the three-way crossroads‚ Antigone begins her play by talking about the many griefs that her father handed
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Genazzano FCJ College Year 12 Literature Text: Lysistrata Aristophanes The Play Lysistrata was produced early in 411 BC. It is the third and last of Aristophanes’ ‘peace plays’. It is a dream about peace‚ conceived at a time when Athens was going through the most desperate crisis she had known since the Persian War. All that most Athenians could see was that the war was going on as usual and there seemed to be no way out of it other than the unthinkable option of capitulation. But comedy specializes
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the concert. The piece started out piano: or soft. With a very slow beat. During the entire piece‚ the Chorus sang with out any musical instruments‚ with many different levels of pitches in their voices. With a combined chorus of Altos‚ Tenors‚ and Sopranos. The next piece I want to talk about is Coral of Bells. It was another great piece of work done by the chorus. During the piece the chorus started of in a very staccato way or a very short‚ detached style with no musical instruments‚ then voices
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Imagine this following scene: You are sitting in a dark‚ fairly crowded large room. There are hundreds of other people‚ in hundreds of other seats surrounding you. In front of you‚ there is a large stage‚ with people acting out a play. Lights‚ music‚ and different sound effects set the mood of the play in order to understand more clearly what is going on. With these certain conventions‚ the audience can get a true grasp of a story which several actors are trying to portray. However‚ it hasn’t always
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soldiers. The verse loses the lyrical guitar in the background‚ while the chorus lessens the marching beat of the drum. This is done to give off conflicting ideas of being beaten down by the government and to incite an upheaval over the actions taken in Ohio. The instruments are used mostly to incite pathos in this song. In between each verse/chorus they play an instrumental except for the first verse transitioning into the chorus. CSNY played the song this way in order to give their main idea right
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In the early nineteenth century‚ African Americans were involved in the "Second Awakening". They met in camp meetings and sang without any hymnbook. Spontaneous songs were composed on the spot. They were called "spiritual songs and the term "sperichil" (spiritual) appeared for the first time in the book "Slave Songs of The United States".The negro spirituals "The Gospel Train" and "Swing low‚ sweet chariot" which directly refer to the Underground Railroad‚ an informal organization who helped many
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“Adam’s Song” was produced by Blink-182 and was released in 1999. “Adam’s Song” was a part of the Enema of the State album. This song was extremely different from most songs Blink-182 made. The tempo is much slower and the lyrics are considered much more depressing. Most songs produced by Blink-182 were up-beat and the lyrics did not touch on such sensitive topics. This song does a good job of using the instruments to create the sense of sadness and hope‚ and uses the lyrics to explain how someone
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feeling of strong sense of nationalism and heroism as a listener. The coordination of the chorus and the instruments used in Alexander Nevsky’s fourth movement has a great impact on the piece as
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