Individual Oral Commentary Merchant of Venice Act Scene 1 Lines 8 45 This extract is from the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and is placed in Act 1 Scene 1 of the play which can also be called the expository scene of the play Right before the extract we as readers have been introduced to the confused character of Antonio a rich Jewish merchant by the author who doesnt even know the source of his extreme sadness and depression Through the extract from lines 8 45 the author ha
Williams use of Expression as an essential element of his drama Tennessee Williams is admired for the theatricality of his plays and for introducing literary devices into the theatre in particularly The Glass Menagerie In this drama he uses devices such as lighting and sound techniques to enhance the effectiveness of his themes Throughout this play the characters are tempted toward illusion when they find reality too painful Although the illusions of some characters are more socially acceptable
How have the texts you have studied this term effectively shaped your understanding of learning and experience Life is the art of drawing without an eraser John Gardener This term multiple supplementary texts have been studied however the two main texts tis term that best describe learning and experience are I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven and Missing her directed by Michael Wiesler Both texts are about the protagonist being taken away from the culture that they know and relocat
Many people in society feel alienated from the world and separated from their fellow man while others try to find meaning which escapes them In James Joyces The Dead Gabriel Conroy faces both these problems and questions his own identity due to a series of encounters that lead him to an epiphany about his relationship to the world This epiphany grants him a new beginning Gabriels progression from one who feels disconnected to one who has hope parallels Joyces changing view of Ireland from findi
Love is more love is more than just a word its an action its a way of life it is a way to describe something so fulfilling that every second is worth it Both Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce describe actions of love that step beyond boundaries to prove that love exists Ernest Hemingways short story Cat in the Rain takes place in a hotel room in Italy In the story the lady sees a cat outside of her window crouched under a dripping wet green table feeling sorrow for the cat she wants to go and ge
Essay Indian Camp While other children go with their dad to work and watches him fix Mrs Andersons sink Nick goes with his dad to work and finds a dead man Amazingly enough this is just one of the things that Nick faces in a very young age In Ernest Hemmingways short story Indian Camp we hear about a doctor his son Nick and uncle George At night time they are going to an Indian camp in Michigan P15 L17 to help a woman give birth to a baby The Indian woman lives in a shanty P13 L14 and while she
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde at start as a reader I assume it is about homosexuality but the novel actually focuses on different elements such as crime politics and society However the most important element appears to be the influence that people or objects have on a persons soul or inner conscious that makes them choose a particular path We have many people who influence our lives it can be in a small way that we dont notice or something that completely changes us Such is the cas
ESSAY Is Ralph purely evil or purely good Or does he just play a pivotal role as a character In the novel Lord of the Flies Ralph is a character that can be viewed as a morally ambiguous boy that loses his innocence and learns to have faith and believe in the future even when all chances are frail throughout the novel you get a chance to experience Ralphs good qualities and bad you get see him as a character with a pivotal role and learn how his role as an ambiguous character contributes to the
The Things They Carried a novel written by Tim OBrien raises the question of the extent of truthfulness of stories that are told from experience in which the novel is solely based on the accounts of war veterans and their lives in Vietnam The soldiers fighting in the war describe certain stories that have affected them the most and from that readers can interpret that the armed forces are able to capture the attention of their listeners through providing immense detail of the conditions adding
In Chinua Achebes novel Things Fall Apart a well known aphorism pride goes before a fall was used I agreed with and supported this statement The story line itself backed up this statement as well Through Okonkwos hard work he became a great man with a sense of pride and haughtiness who then suffered a loss of pride which ultimately led to his down fall and his own suicide This book went along with the commonly stated clich In addition to that there was a widely known joke that went well with th