Willy Russell uses the contrast of characters to show the major difference in social class in the play Blood Brothers. Mrs Johnstone was the first character introduced to us in the play. In ’Blood Brothers ’ Mrs Johnstone lives in a poor end of Liverpool‚ struggling to bring up eight children on her own and is forced to give one away to keep the others clothed and fed well enough‚ whereas Mrs Lyons‚ whom she works for‚ lives in a large house‚ very comfortably in a nice part of Liverpool‚ she wants
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Pop Art came to fruition at the wake of the Second World War eventually peaking at the prime of capitalism; the movement was distinguished by their portrayal of any and all characteristics of popular culture that had a powerful influence on contemporary society. Themes of consumerism such as advertisements‚ comic strips‚ film stars and products led to the blurring of boundaries between higher and lower cultures of that era‚ through the use of these received notions‚ pop art became a western sociological
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Arthur Miller Background Study: In preparation for Death of a Salesman Miller’s Early Life ● Arthur Miller was born on Oct. 17‚ 1915‚ in New York City. ● His father ran a small coat-manufacturing business; during the Depression it failed. ● He was 17 before he read any serious literature and had poor grades in high school. (woo hoo – there’s hope!) The College Years ● Two years after high school graduation‚ he enrolled in the University of Michigan. ● Before graduating in 1938‚ he won two Avery
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Andy Warhol is quite possibly the most famous pop artist known to man. He is best known for his work “100 Cans” which shows numerous Campbell’s Soup cans‚ which leads to the question‚ how can something so simple be so captivating? This is a perfect example of what pop art was and still is today. Warhol took something so simple that people see every day and turned it into the most famous art piece of the era. This style is what Andy Warhol was known for‚ turning simple everyday items into powerful
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August 6‚ 1928 in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania. Before he began making famous art for extravagant galleries‚ he was the highest paid successful commercial illustrator in New York. Even so‚ Warhol is most known because of his screen printed images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans associated with pop art. As a famed illustrator‚ his drawings were humorous‚ fancy‚ and silly‚ which contrasts with the detached and distanced mood of his pop art. Even though he thrived as a painter‚ many of his other
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The story A&P written by John Updike reminded me of a regular American life. Updike transforms this seemingly ordinary locale store into an intense battleground; where the struggle for power and freedom plays out in the aisles. Updike title’s the story after the grocery store to emphasize that the setting holds an important role in American life. The grocery store setting is worth observing and writing about since it represents a commonplace that modern civilians go to purchase their necessities
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Schenley High School‚ and upon graduating‚ in 1945‚ he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute for Technology to study pictorial design. when he graduated with his bachelors in art he moved to new york. his portait " untitled from mariyn monroe" is bascially just a picture of marilyn monroe.Marilyn is an example of the successful evolution of Warhol’s goal of erasing signs of the artist’s hand from the production process. " brillo boxes"Warhol presented the viewer with exact replicas of commonly used products
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Slattery who he had two children with‚ and married Marilyn Monroe. Monroe was one of the most famous actresses in America and her love life was thrust onto every tabloid. Shortly after their marriage‚ Miller was called before the HUAC (House of Un-American Committee)‚ which could have potentially ruined both his and Monroe’s career. There are links between the characters. John Proctor as Miller‚ and Elizabeth as his first wife Mary Slattery. Monroe is represented by Abigail‚ the woman he and also
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her self image as she doesn’t see herself meeting the beauty standard that society had created. The world she is living in is telling her that she is not what they see as beautiful. You can see this in how she see’s the girls in the media like Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple becoming famous and wealthy‚ as well as a Barbie doll advertised as being the ideal girl. Along with this‚ the people in her community like her best friends Lisa Ogleby are all white and blonde. Jean views being white and blonde
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time and I never had. It was very well put together and had some great stories. It seemed that I made the similarity of Orson to Marilyn Monroe. I am not a scholar on Marilyn‚ but I know that she was groundbreaking woman of her time and that she questioned how things as were done as a woman. I think that Orson did mostly that‚ aside from being a sex symbol like Marilyn was. Orson was considered a genius and a mastermind of film and radio and everyone knew it. Talking with a classmate about this movie
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