The film portrays the life of an American singer, Sally Bowles, who sings at the Kit-Kat Club in 1930s Berlin where she falls in love with bi-sexual Brian Roberts, a naïve Englishman who has just arrived in Berlin. Both are seduced by Max, a rich playboy, who quickly loses interest and leaves Germany. Sally, discovering she is pregnant and not knowing whether Brian or Max is the father, decides to abort. Although Brian promises to marry her and take her back to an unromantic, colorless life in Cambridge, Sally recognizes that she cannot and goes back to the cabaret to continue her singing and ‘beautiful’ life, regardless of the consequences. All the main characters in the movie are linked by the Kit-Kat Club, a nightspot where a theatrical world of
Author Denise Giardina has great narrative abilities. She can spin a wonderfully coercive and succulent story, as she has done in Storming Heaven. The novel has a beautifully fictitious plot that ties in perfectly with the events surrounding the coal wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain. She really gives the reader an idea of what it might have been like to be a West Virginian during this era. The plot is set up in a way that causes it to be quite interesting to even those who are most loathing of history.
The thesis of the piece is that Fifth Business is obsessed with straying wits, wandering women, female and male tramps, and boys who run off to the war and to the circus. The thesis is clear and understandable because the rest of the article
‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ Argues without Argument ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ is a complex short story told though the point of view of a sarcastic and insane protagonist, who has rapidly changing ideas about her surroundings, other characters and even her own psychological state. Because of this, readers may come to a variety of conclusions about major plot points and themes. Puzzled, readers will identify the piece as a horror story—a vivid portrayal of insanity with unsettling realism. This is indeed the conscious conclusion that Charlotte Perkins Gilman intends for her readers to form. However, the piece is so much more than a simple horror story; it is a deceptively hidden but powerful essay on female equality and marriage, two topics about which Gilman wrote frequently.
Literary Critique Ellen Hopkins - Crank Ellen Hopkins manages to twist the deep pit in your stomach and make you feel emotions you might not know you could feel, with her book, Crank. I whole-heartedly give this book a ten out of ten rating. The novel Crank is written in free verse poetry, which is a different style than what I am usually attracted to, but I found that it took the story to a whole new level. Although, it is a work of fiction, Crank is loosely based on the true story of the author’s daughter, making it all the more haunting. Kristina Georgia Snow and her alter ego, Bree, start at the beginning and lead you through the chilling story of her downfall due to her addiction to crank, better known as crystal meth.
Venus in Fur is a sensuous, erotic yet sophisticated play by David Ives, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskanda. The play is currently being held at the DBS Arts Centre – Home of SRT from 15th March to 6th April and it is definitely a chance not to be missed. Venus in Fur is a modern day adaptation of the novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name inspired the term ‘masochism’ – a notion encircling the sexually-charged events that unfold between the playwright, Thomas (played by Anson Mount), and the aspiring actress Vanda (played by Steffanie Leigh), who turns up unceremoniously late (and drenched) for her audition for the lead role in Thomas’s play. On the surface, Venus in Fur appears to be nothing more than that of entertainment value, appealing to the general audience with its spectacle of sounds, lights, non-stop humor and delicious eroticism. Yet upon digging deeper, the savvy viewer would soon realize that Venus in Fur is more than what meets the eye.
Christopher Ray Robinson Mrs. Ballard Prose Response #3/ Term 2 1990 Prompt by Joan Didion The main issue provided in the prompt, 1990 authored by Joan Didion address that one’s incorruptible mind-frame of themselves can only be tainted when they – for themselves – decide and conclude that they no longer view themselves as highly as they once did. To help offer her point of view on the subject of this topic, she offers an example and uses many commendable techniques. Didion herself suffered from turning a blind eye from the fact that she was not as much as she thought of herself as. She proposes her own incident consisting of her being declined accepted to the academic honor society fraternity by the name of Phi Beta Kappa. She felt as if her past attributes and personal accolades would be an opening gateway and assured acceptance ticket to virtually almost anything that she felt she wanted to go after.
“The critic asks “is this believable?” The novelist, “how can I get them to believe this”? In short she argues that a good novelist always has some sort of conflict to tell and it must be suspenseful. “Something other than breakfast”. She uses witty humour to loosen the audience up. Atwood discusses the several genres of fiction that are available in this time and explains how this is not only a time of gender crossover but of genre crossover.
The book switches off between three characters. Gloria; who is the main character and craves the Flapper lifestyle, Clara; she is Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin who comes to town and reveals that she isn’t as lily-white as she appears, and Lorraine; Gloria’s jealous best friend whom is constantly trying to steal her spotlight. The themes of this book went all the ways from friendships, to Flappers (of course), to interracial relationships (which was a big deal back in those days!). Word Count: 181 Words Part Two: Literary Analysis
Wicked is a musical based off of a novel written by Gregory Maguire, titled “Wicked- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” The Novel corresponded with the ever popular story of the Wizard of Oz, but rather than following Dorothy and Glinda, it followed the life of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west, and her choices. Now all of the aforementioned aspects of this show are considered its plot, but its story is very different entirely. The actors, directors, producers, choreographers, musicians, designers and so many more worked for months and moths to create the best show they could, but once it hit the Broadway stage, their dreams came crashing down. They were immediately given