But the movie of The Big Sleep is still a success and, well, a good movie, just because they changed the plot and the characters. One The Big Sleep is appropriate for the audience of books, the other for the audience of
The close up on Susan Sarandon’s face is used to show how beautiful she is because she uses REVLON. By using her beauty it gives the product credibility and it manipulates people because a famous person is being used and one immediately assumes that the product must be good. Furthermore, alliteration is used. Susan Sarandon’s initials match the initials of the title “Star Style” people will be more compelled to buy the product because she uses it and especially because the words confident and charismatic are used to describe her, again alliteration is shown. The REVLON advertisement use of rhetoric appeals to those who know who Sandra is and like
Octavia E. Butler’s work Kindred is a profound novel that illustrates the destructive power of obessive love. Butler also does a remarkable job protraying the graphic nature of racial prejudice in the 1800s as opposed to how it’s viewed in modern times via time travels – which gives the reader the oppurtunity to compare and contrast the two distinct eras. Dana’s (the narrator and protagonist of Kindred) choice to continue saving Rufus’ life, regardless of his absurd behavior, causes her time travels to prolong – given that Rufus was the focus and cause of them – and Rufus eventually beomes obsessed with Dana. As Dana chooses to save Rufus’ life, she not only prolongs her time travels to the antebellum Maryland of the early 1800s but also saves her life and preserves the familail bond of the slaves. “Was that why I was here?
Compare the presentation of the central heroines in the opening of ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘The Magic Toyshop’ ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte and ‘The Magic Toyshop’ by Angela Carter are both prosperous bildungsromans, which illustrate the personal development of their central heroines as they come of age. Gothic elements of literature and biblical influences are mainly what encompass ‘Jane Eyre’, as Jane reflects on the trials of growing up as a dependent middle class orphan. Similar to Jane’s initial circumstances of growing up without a solid loving family, Melanie from ‘The Magic Toyshop’ was born to a wealthy nuclear family, which was tragically torn apart subsequential to her parent’s death. Angela Carter, renowned for her deeply descriptive and hyperbolic ways of depicting Melanie, aims to show how a young girl emerges from her childhood with the strong desire to experience womanhood and leave her innocence behind. Charlotte Bronte however, aims to create a deeper identity for Jane, who aspires to find her position in society as she makes the transition into adolescence.
Just stand back and watch them set off sparks.” The supporting actresses Shirley MacLaine (Ouiser), Olympia Dukakis (Clairee), and Daryl Hannah put the icing on the cake. They were great and made the film even more worth the while. Finally, Steel Magnolias has been awarded some of the top awards ever presented. The People’s Choice Award, Golden Globe, and an Oscar are just to name a few of the six. Not only were the southerners nominated for the American Comedy Award in 1990, they also come close to the Golden Globe, as well as the CFCA Award.
Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma” has transformed a 19th century classic English novel into a teen flick romcom film of the 20th century entitled “Clueless”. Despite the vastly different historical settings and societal values of the two texts, Amy Heckerling’s “Clueless” still retains the essential values of the original text by adapting these values into a modern society of our time and a modern audience of our age. Comparatively through the themes of class and social structure and the attitudes towards love and marriage, a greater insight can be gained of the context in which it appropriates further enhanced by the use of satire and irony employed by both composers. “Emma” by Jane Austen was written in the Regency period of the 1800s; a time of inequality as it featured a wide gap between the rich and the poor while at the same time a rise in the merchant middle class. In response to this context, Austen tends to satirise the common source of power by creating a microcosmic world of a genteel community evolving round a “handsome, clever and rich” young woman who "seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence."
AP English Literature 4 April 2013 Victorian Era Satirization in The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde creates a light, yet well constructed, piece of timeless literature through The Importance of Being Earnest with strong characters and themes that satirize the Victorian era and its views. Aspects of Victorian society that are expressed very clearly throughout the text include society’s pride in status and arranged marriage, the importance of manners, and how people could find themselves stuck inside their own world of upper class and their mind. Wilde took these themes and brought them to extremes in hopes of showing the absurdity that he believed was behind the values of the time period through his characters and how they interact with one another with regard to Victorian values. Being of high class himself, Wilde was able to identify and understand the different variables of upper class society well and express them through his writing. Marriage, during this time period, was arranged by the authorities of the household and chosen to push someone higher up on the social ladder.
Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre Film Adaptation Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is one of the most popular texts of all time. Since it’s publication in 1847, there have been stage, television, and film adaptations of this classic. One of the more popular adaptations is director Franco Zeffirelli’s film version. What makes his version of Jane Eyre interesting compared to other adaptations is his ability to take particular scenes from the book and dramatize them in a way that make them seem more profoundly powerful than they were originally portrayed in the book. Jane Eyre is the story of a girl who struggles to keep her independent spirit despite the problems that society and circumstance conspire to throw against her.
Alex Williams Mrs. Elrod AP English 12 March 29, 2013 “The Importance of Being Earnest” and the Victorian Era Society The Victorian Era was an excellent time in the English history, when classical music was at its peak and sophistication was very important. During this great era, men and women searched for the ideal partner based on the expectations in this demanding society. After researching the society of the Victorian Era and relating it with the society found in Oscar Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest,” the reader can acknowledge the humor found throughout the Characterization and the social satires of this era and play. With its subtitle “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” The IBE jokingly criticizes the Victorian morals and manners but also pokes fun at the wealthy. Men and Women of the Victorian Era had very distinct roles.
Critical Analysis of Chapter 1, Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen laughs at her own society of the early 19th Century in her most famous opening line of her fiction novel, Pride and Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This overstatement is a most effective introduction to her novel Pride and Prejudice as it not only captures the readers’ attention but also immerses the reader in the English 19th Century setting, introduces Austen’s ironic tone of writing and light hearted genre of the novel. Jane Austen uses chapter 1 to introduce her concerns regarding marriage, gender and social order. Austen intrigues the reader with the entertaining relationship between Mr and Mrs Bennet and teases the reader by cleverly introducing the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet, through dialogue. Austen relies on dialogue over description to voice her themes and issues; she uses diction and syntax to introduce the setting. Austen typically restricts the setting as a means of using select few characters to make more universal comments.