World War 1, World War 2 and the sinking of the Titanic, so the significance of the early setting gives the audience the ‘upper hand’ over the characters. In Act one before the arrival of the Inspector, when talking about the notorious ship, the Titanic, Birling says she is “absolutely unsinkable.” The audience of the play would have lived through the sinking of the titanic and would have had first-hand experience of the damage that it caused to the nation and the catastrophic effect to society. This makes Mr Birling seem naïve and this also immediately creates a negative image for capitalism as these are the views being expressed by Arthur. Priestley has made Mr Birling purposefully look stupid and ignorant to the audience at an attempt to make his socialist views look more appropriate. Birling is also using direct derogatory language when talking about socialist movement activators.
Don Elias didn’t go out and make an honest living. He was only respected by the people around him because they feared him. Dona Matilida was not seen as an equal partner in the relationship. She was more of a servant to Don Elias. I believe that when they first got married there was some kind of love in their relationship, but when they realized they could not conceive a child Don Elias blamed his wife.
‘Neither Paul nor Keller gets the life he expects.’ Is Maestro primarily a study of disappointment and loss? In Peter Goldsworthy “Maestro” there is the hard truth of reality that not all dreams come true but through this disappointment there is growth, happiness and learning. Eduard Keller had a life of success with a sudden loss that ruined him and caused him to escape, with this he found a new life, a new student and became happy with his achievements and relationship with Paul. Paul Crabbe doesn’t get to achieve what he aims to be but the journey and everything that happened to him during it changes him, his dream didn’t come true but who says he isn’t happy with the life he ends up with. Even though Paul and Keller do suffer disappointment they both need each other to strive through and reach their goals, their relationship drives each other and they
LOVE Nanny * She had all the love to support Janie, she didn’t like to see Janie sad and unhappy. * She wants to protect Janie from dating the wrong guys since she’s in her womanhood. * She wants a man that would treat Janie with respect and tell her about her love life. * She did her best on finding a man for Janie because she loves Janie and wants a man to treat her well. Logan * Janie didn’t really love Logan he treated her as if she was nothing by bossing her around all the time after he got sick of doing all the work.
Doug’s response to setting his mother’s cats on fire was ‘It was the fault of the psychiatrist...he told me I had an unresolved problem with my mother... and I better fix it’. Julie’s brief monologue in Act One also helps the audience to better understand her character and why she came to be in the institution; ‘twelve hours later that woman was still there, minus a few curls, if that. She hadn’t moved. Too scared I was going to snip everything except her hair’. The final monologue (spoken by Lewis) at the end of the play summarises the future of the patients, Nowra is able to comment on how bad things happen to good people simply because they are given the title of being ‘mad’.
However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself. When Nick and Lucy denounce him for doing a play about love, by declaring that ‘only mad people in this day and age would do a work about love and infidelity’, Lewis is able to realise that love and friendship is more important than politics. He learns about the importance of friendship, clearly evident, that he attends the moratorium, helping the patients prepare for their performance with an additional rehearsal. Lewis also finds strength later in the play, which he was devoid of to begin with . At the start, he is overwhelmed by the patients such as Cherry, Doug and Roy by their 'crazy' behaviour.
Although Edna has taken control of her own life, she is still not happy with her life because of the many different types of love she has experienced. Alcee loves her but she only uses him as an affair while her husband is doing business. Robert truly loves her, and she felt the same way about him, but he can’t have her, because her husband already owns her. Edna doesn’t want to be owned by anyone, but no matter how many times she rebels and takes control of things, men still think of her as a possession. Edna ends her life in search for herself, and her
She was determined to only marry someone if she was completely in love no matter what their social class may be. Elizabeth believes that she and Mr. Darcy are in the same social class because she is a gentleman’s daughter and Mr. Darcy is a gentleman’s son and now a gentleman himself. The amount of money each has is of no relevance to her. Mr. Darcy, however, took social class very serious and strongly believed in only marrying within the same social class. When Darcy first met Elizabeth he was unimpressed and said that she was unattractive simply because he knew that she was not as wealthy as him.
For the Polish people the consequences were harsh and quick. The consequences for the British and French governments and people were to plan for rearmament and a huge disruption to daily life. The Phoney war of the next five months was followed by the miracle of Dunkirk and then the successful defence of Britain by the Air Force in the Battle of Britain in 1940 and 1941. The world was at war for young and old. Red can possibly be left out The Great Depression provided the opportunity for Hitler to take power in Germany and start the process of undoing the terms of the Treaty of Versailles by re-arming in defiance of the Treaty.
His father and mother were quite different from one another, while they both influenced Carnegie from different point of views. His father was a weaver, before he was laid off, while his mother was the type of woman to do anything to make sure the family was financially stable. Andrew couldn’t help but admire both his figures, but he also had envy and a few bits of dislike towards them. He was always made the odd one out, as his parents always took a more liking to his older brother. Such other influences such as their family’s poverty and lack of opportunities has made him realize that he didn’t want to live such a life, as he got older.