In Blood Brothers how does Willy Russell use music to create emotive effect Choose and explore the audience reaction to one song Willy Russell combines love life death and friendship to bring up the astounding play Blood Brothers Set in the 1950s Liverpool Russell illustrates division in English through the clever plot given away at birth for convenience the memory of his Edward haunts his birth mother eternally Plagued by guilt experience the emotional struggle that Mrs Johnstone must face whi
V for Vendetta Dystopian futures in society often spring from conflict in society This often results in a vision of an authoritarian or totalitarian government and the resulting conflict that the two forms of government cause The graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore is no exception This novel was also adapted into a movie In the process of adaptation the directors of the film version attempted to maintain the overall characters and anarchist themes of the graphic novel however the
The Global South Who Really Cares A global disease is one that does not care about borders doesnt care if a country is developed or developing if a country is in the global north or in the global south all it cares about is infecting as many people as possible A global disease is one that travels throughout the entire world infecting and destroying as much as possible In his book The Hot Zone Richard Prestons describes the spread of a global disease of a filovirus known as Ebola Throughout the
Misery by Anton Chekhov Misery is a narrative written story with the focus on the characters psychological state rather than physical surroundings The word misery meaning great mental or emotional distress Dictionary com 2011 sets the mood of the story This story is about grieving over the death of a loved one and how insensitive people can be Iona the main character lost his son to an illness During his encounters with many people Iona tries to speak of about his misery but no one is willing t
Irony in William Shakespeares Twelfth Night or What You Will In Twelfth Night or What You Will William Shakespeare tells a story of twin siblings who have been separated and to each other thought dead after a shipwreck The main character Viola is a virtuous woman who has good judgement of character and is very witty and bright Due to circumstance she must deceive others by altering her appearance and hiding her gender in order to protect herself This places her in an odd position resulting in c
Chapter 15 of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a very significant part in the story It is important in showing how much Okonkwo has changed since being exiled from his village and going to live in his motherland We heard in the previous chapter of his first couple of days but this chapter is set 2 years later when he has become accustomed to the very different atmosphere of the village of Mbanta During this chapter is his first contact with Umuofia his old village which comes in the form o
Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan which is located in lower Niger He is haunted by the actions of his father Unoka who was cowardly and died in shame and left many village debts unpaid Okonkwos comeback was to become a clansman warrior and a great farmer In Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart symbolism is used as a way of foreshadowing when he discusses the plague of locusts fire and animal imagery Achebe uses the locusts to foreshadow the arrival of the white men who
During the end of the 16th century William Shakespeare was one of the most famous writers Shakespeare wrote all sorts of different genres in his career but his most popular comedic play is The Tempest The Tempest is a magical play about wizardry betrayal and love The play takes place on an island where a magical wizard and his daughter life The two are invaded by seamen who had survived a shipwreck In the play Shakespeare criticizes the British colonization in India Shakespeares The Tempest pre
In 1909 ten years after the publication of Heart of Darkness except for the revision of his first story The Black Mate Joseph Conrad had not written a short work since the spring of 1907 Without warning he received a visit from Captain C M Marris recently returned from the Malay Seas As Conrad explained to Pinker It was like the raising of a lot of dead dead to me because most of them live out there and even read my books and wonder who the devil has been around taking notes My visitor told me
The Odyssey This storys main character Odysseus who is the king of Ithaca has traveled for ten years of wondering after the Trojan War He is being held captive on the island by the nymph Calypso who wants him for her husband Odysseus has suffered the revenge of Poseidon who is the god of the sea by blinding his son Polyphemus the Cyclops While his absence his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus has to deal with the group of suitors who had plagued Penelope Athena make a plea for allowing Odyss