The movie “the lives of others” is a German film that takes place in East Berlin‚ November 1984. Five years before its downfall‚ the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend‚ the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all‚ the "operation" is backed by the
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How does Hosseini portray tension in Pages 62-65 In Chapter Seven‚ Hosseini uses a significant amount of imagery to portray the violence taking place in the alley. He uses animal imagery to depict the rivalry between Hassan and Assef and his cronies. The alley has been described as ’blind’‚ to show that there is no end to it and Hassan is trapped‚ just like prey being trapped by its predator‚ in this case Assef. Assef is reminiscent of the head of a pack of wild animals‚ leading his group and
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Macbeth has finally found his way to the throne and throws his first social gathering as king. Macbeth needs this banquet to be nothing other than perfect‚ and when it ends up being absolutely horrid‚ Shakespeare incorporates a large sense of dramatic tension into the play that keeps the audience on complete suspense through the imagery‚ supernatural theme‚ and the confusion and chaos between Macbeth’s alter egos. One of the most prominent themes in Macbeth is the theme of ambition. Once the weird
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How does Miller build tension in Act 1 in A View from the Bridge? The play A View from the Bridge was written by American playwright Arthur Miler in the early 1950’s. The play is set in Red Hook‚ Brooklyn. This is where the ports are near the Brooklyn Bridge that is the gateway to Manhattan. The play is centred on an Italian-American longshoreman– Eddie Carbone. Eddie lives with his wife Beatrice and his niece Catherine who he has developed improper feelings for‚ however his feelings are repressed
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How does Arthur Miller create drama and tension in Act 1 of ‘The Crucible’? The Crucible is a play‚ which explores the witch- hunting hysteria that happened in Salem 1692. Miller uses this “organized mass-hysteria”[1] to comment on his own similar experience during the 1950s. Through “The Crucible”‚ Miller is able to draw an analogy between the hysteria of the Salem witch-trails and its modern parallel of the anti communist ‘witch-hunts’ which occurred due to the HUAC-House of un-American Committee
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elements of art. Like the visual arts‚ music is no such stranger to academics drawing weak links between historical events and new music styles. In our case‚ the origins and influences of free jazz are being called into question. While the civil rights tension during the 1950s and 1960s is often cited as the main influence of free jazz‚ in actuality‚ free jazz stems from a combination of the civil rights movement‚
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Causes of Tension Between Cuba and the United States‚ and The Bay of Pigs Invasion On January 9‚ 1959‚ following their successful overthrow of the oppressive Batista regime‚ a band of freedom fighters‚ anchored by Fidel Castro‚ marched through the Cuban capital city of Havana. Upon his arrival‚ Castro immediately seized control of the Cuban government and declared himself the highest executive of the island nation‚ Premier of Cuba. In April of 1959‚ Castro visited the United States in order to gain
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How does Charles Dickens create tension and danger in the opening chapter of Great Expectations? The firs chapter of ‘Great Expectations’ establishes the plot outline for the story whilst sill introducing‚ its main characters‚ Pip and his world. As both narrator and protagonist‚ Pip is naturally the most important character in ‘Great Expectations’: the novel is his story‚ told in his words‚ and his insights define the events and characters of the book. As a result‚ Dickens most important task
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narrator killing the old man in cold blood which is a usual theme in gothic horrors. An unnamed narrator opens the story by addressing the reader and claiming that he is nervous but not mad. This automatically makes the reader feel a gradual build in tension and by unnaming the narrator it dehumanises him which makes the reader feel no human compassion towards. He says that he is going to tell a story in which he will defend his sanity yet confess to having killed an old man. His motivation was not desire
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The concept of memory reveals a tension between past and present‚ as memory spans days‚ years‚ and decades‚ resurrecting the past as an integral part of the present moment. In E.B. White’s essay “Once More to the Lake‚” a father struggles with an internal conflict between the present and the past‚ and between memory and reality. Through the use of contrasting stylistic elements‚ as well as synchronization and repetition‚ the father’s insistence that “there had been no years” (446) blurs the line
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