Pine Ridge Players to perform Tartuffe! By Lizzy Parsons Special to the Beacon Remember being little and having your favorite Dr. Seuss stories read to you at night? There were hypocrites, liars, funny little men, and creatures of all sizes. Well, Tartuffe brings that to life, minus all of the silly creatures. “Tartuffe reminds me of a grown up version of a Dr. Seuss book.” says Casey McCall, who plays Mariane, “It really is a great Show, and I think that people will enjoy it a lot.” The audience is in for quite the surprise when they see this show.
The Opium War: The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was the last imperial dynasty of China. Established by Manchu invaders in 1644, China faced unprecedented growth and destruction. Whilst China’s economy and population blossomed, domestic and international policies converged, effectively rendering China a semi-colonial status, and ushering in a century of humiliation. Since the sixteenth century, China actively engaged in trade with the West. For many Europeans, Chinese products such as silk and porcelain were extremely coveted.
Charles Dickens was known as a social reformist and so particularly wrote novels about social class. Dickens wrote ‘Great Expectations’ to draw attention to the issue of how different the lives were of the rich and the poor. This had never been done before, so it engages the reader. This was done using the characters, language, setting, historical context and narrative perspective. Dickens engages the reader by using different interesting characters.
Although Price’s essay is fleeting, its audience will surely grasp a good idea of how she views American culture. Right off the bat Price recognizes the intrepid aspects of hotels, businesses, and their clientele’s choice to promote the flamingo as a sign of “…leisure and extravagance.” (Price, line 19) The bird represented pizzazz, and was bright pink. Further in she also ties the ripple effect from the great depression. Those marketing techniques may have only been so successful, because America had a generation emerging from the great depression that grew tired of dim, dysphonic, and depressing colors. A combination of flashy pastels and an expanding middle class eager to invest in new technologies previously reserved for the wealthy shot that generation in to a new culture.
The calendar paintings in old Shanghai, originated in the last years of the 19th century, was a kind of commercial advertising painting drawn by the Chinese employed by foreign merchants for their goods dumping, which initially adopted the format of Chinese new year paintings with a calendar on it and so was called as calendar pictures (Lv et al., 2011). From 1911-1927, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the monarchy as well as the clothing rank system which lasted in China for thousands of years. People started accepting western aesthetic standards with the emphasis on the figure beauty (Bian, 2004). The beautiful ladies dressed in
For instance, Mr Collins long, pompous speeches help the reader to realise his character within the novel and how he is a person who is full of pride in himself (which is one of the themes of the novel). Chapter 19 also contains authorial intervention. The authorial intervention in this chapter helps to not only tell the story but commentates the dialogue of the characters “she could not use the short pause he allowed in any attempt to stop him farther, and he continued.” The authorial intervention seems to show Austen’s annoyance towards Mr Collins who seems to constantly talk and helps make the reader sympathise with Elizabeth for being on the other end of his constant speeches. In all, through Austen’s use of the third
Well, let me set you all straight: not every Chick Lit book is a winner; some of them really are boring, predictable and just a plain waste of time! However, some earlier novels are exciting, light and frankly a breath of fresh air for anyone who wants escapism with a practical sense of reality. And as the genre evolves, the standard of writing has too. Writers such as Lindsey Kelk and Scarlett Bailey stride ahead with novels that are glamorous but realistic and genuinely get their audience excited about what they are reading. Sub-genres such as; “Marriage Lit” and “Christian Lit” have started springing up across the literary
Finding Biff In the dramatic play, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, there is an interesting mix of rounded and flat characters. Linda, the mother, and Happy, one of the sons, were among some of the flat characters in the story. Even though they were flat their reactions to the more rounded characters certainly had an effect. One of the most well rounded characters is Biff Loman. The character of Biff develops and grows immensely by searching his past and examining relationships with himself and others to find his true self.
Fitzgerald in Nick and Gatsby The Great Gatsby can be categorized as an autobiographical novel because F. Scott Fitzgerald life events and characteristics are portrayed in the main characters of Nick and Gatsby. When reading the novel The Great Gatsby the audience primarily favors Nick over the other characters because they appreciate his honesty. '' I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.'' (Nick, 59) nick masquerades as an honest man when in reality he is dishonest and highly critical just like Fitzgerald. “They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.
The characters in ‘Oliver Twist’ are successful as they are often labelled with some idiosyncrasy which represents Dickens’ distaste for society. He also loved to use melodrama, which is reflected in his characters, to create empathy and sympathy for a character. While Bumble has a complete lack of sympathy towards Oliver, Mr Sowerberry tries to win Oliver over by attempting to be nice to him, and therefore be seen as an author figure to Oliver. The characters in this chapter are presented as villains to show how Dickens felt about the authority figures in the 1830’s. As in many other of his books, Dickens uses his character’s personalities to represent the attitudes of society.