Christine was blessed with the Angel of Singing from her father when he passed away. The Phantom is smitten by her when he hears her sing. He decides he must make her his so he could keep her at the opera and be her private tutor. However, Christine falls for her childhood love Raoul. The Phantom was infuriated by this and destroys the whole opera house because if he couldn’t have her than no one else could.
The musical is about a love story of a young writer, Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill star of the Moulin Rouge actress, Satine.Satine mistook Christian for the Duke, a potential investor in the cabaret, but soon know that he was just a writer without money, by this time Christian has fallen in love with her. The Duke also loved Satine and tried to interrupt them. Christian and Satine claim they were practicing the lines for the Moulin Rouge's new show. The Duke became jealous and threatened that he may stop financing the show. At the end of the show, Satine succumbed to her illness.
Tyler Rhoades Period 4 English 8 1 March 2012 Comparison of Othello vs. Much Ado About Nothing As a writer, it appears that Shakespeare was a fan of incorporating the the themes of love and heartbreak into his plays. In his play “Othello”, a Venetian general, Othello, is in love with his wife, Desdemona, but is mislead by his trusted friend Iago, and is made to distrust and eventually kill his wife. “Much Ado About Nothing” involves an Italian soldier, Claudio, and his soon-to-be wife Hero, being torn apart by the jealousy of Claudio's acquaintance Don John. Many of the characters in both of these plays can be grouped together in pairs so that, although there are some differences in their backgrounds, their basic roles in Shakespeare's writing are generally the same. The first set of characters, the protagonists, are the main love stories in each play: Othello and his wife, Desdemona, in “Othello”, and Claudio and his fiance, Hero.
Death and foreboding in Romeo and Juliet DEATH AND FOREBODING IN ROMEO AND JULIET Francisco SANTIBÁÑEZ Universidad de La Rioja 1. Introduction “Well, we were born to die” (1968: III.4.4), says old Capulet with Tybalt’s death in mind, unaware that his words, a common statement after someone has died, will also apply to his daughter by the end of the play, partly because of his immediate decision to ease Juliet’s grief with a hasty marriage to Paris. The universal theme of the inevitability of death has been dealt with in different ways by different cultures, approaches ranging from Horace’s carpe diem to the Christian belief in death as the anteroom to everlasting life. In Romeo and Juliet, however, death emerges as an ambivalent agent: it strikes the young lovers with all its cruelty (which moves the public to feelings of pity and sorrow) but, at the same time, a certain impression remains that a series of hostile forces make this unfortunate denouement the only possible way to preserve the purity and intensity of their love. The first two acts of the play are characterized by the predominance of a comic mood; it is there that we can find the atmosphere of celebration of the party at the Capulets’ house, Mercutio’s bawdy wordplay, the Nurse’s garrulousness and, above all, the sincere love between Romeo and Juliet, their marriage being the typical happy ending of Shakespearean romantic comedy.
He reminds me a bit of my brother (which isn’t necessarily a good thing) Anita was great: she brought a touch of humour to the otherwise tragic story. The orchestra was amazing in replicating the original songs which I believe are only topped by the music of Rogers and Hammerstein. As the curtain closed I had tears in my eyes and as I left the incredible Regent Theatre with ‘Gee Officer Krupke’ stuck in my head. Review Rating:
She wrote that letter as soon as he left, it's quite unfair and she even realizes it yet still writes it to satisfy herself. Even when he enlisted, she knew that he was not for him but for her. Editha noticed he became a different person after enlisting, " he made her feel as if she had lost her old lover and found a stranger in his place," if she had truly loved him she would not have felt giddy at the thought of kissing a stranger after losing her true love. Now Howell uses George's view on war, his family history and even his death to symbolize realism. From the beginning George sees war as a negative thing
In 'Sister Maude' a much more destructive relationship between siblings is presented. Like 'Brothers', this poem hints at the way in which the move towards adulthood brings a distance between siblings. Christina Rossetti begins her poem "Sister Maude" with two similar rhetorical questions, asking who told her parents about her 'shame'. We do not know at this point what the narrator's shame is, but it gradually becomes clear that she was having an affair with a handsome man. In Victorian times when Rossetti was writing, this would certainly have been considered shameful.
Question of: “Explain the dramatic importance of the letter that Lady Macbeth receives from her Husband in Act I, Scene 5, and how her reaction to it portrays Lady Macbeth’s Character?” In Act one, Scene five of Macbeth, the audience is introduced to the character of Lady Macbeth for the first time. The scene begins with Lady Macbeth established alone on stage, reading a letter from her husband. It informs Lady Macbeth of Macbeth’s encounter with the three witches, who to his own astonishment greet him as “king that shalt be.” Eager and thrilled to hear this, scene five gyrates around this prophecy, as Lady Macbeth visions her Macbeth as King of England. This gives the audience a true portrayal of Lady Macbeth’s character as she exults to the letter alone on stage. Having being set alone on stage, from a dramatic point of view, it would be most effective if Lady Macbeth were to read the letter aloud for the first time as paces from left to right of stage.
The readers introduction to Hamlet and King Claudius occurs in Act I Scene ii where the King explains that he has married his sister in law with mixed feelings but he believes Hamlet’s mourning should seize, to which his nephew replies with disdain and offense. This sets the mood for the relationship between the two characters as well as set Hamlet up for his first soliloquy, seen in Act I Scene ii line 133 O, that is too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve into dew! Or that the everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Oh God! God!
After this Sandy becomes pregnant with one of her sisters admirers and her life goal is lost. At this time of the fairy tale Sam Prince enters. He is the former husband of Mrs. Fairey and another of the sister’s admirers. Sandy likes him which we see in ll. 123-125: “And even Sandy could see the charm of Sam Prince, not only because he was mad about her cooking, but because it turned out to be Sam Prince who had described her as a Botticelli.” Botticelli was the Italian painter who painted “The birth of Venus” which shows the goddess of love, Venus, emerge full grown from the