The protagonist, Vivian, is dying of stage four metastic ovarian cancer, and therefore the play is situated in the hospital. She is a complex character; she is intellectual, literal, flippant, arrogant, and witty. Throughout the play Vivian uses her humour, sarcasm, irony and puns to hide behind her intellect - which she learnt from Donne's sonnets - to hide her emotional side. Thus by the end of the play she realizes to regret her philosophy of 'life and text being the same'. Her use of intellect makes the play witty - a metaphysical conceit.
$14.95. In her snazzy and helpful book Sin and Syntax, author Constance Hale masters the seemingly impossible feat of making grammar easy, and almost fun. She starts with the basics, and builds from there. Not surprisingly, the first section of the book is titled “Words,” and is about just what it says: words. Word selection is vital to her premise, and she advises the reader to “be simple, but go deep.” Uses vivid examples of just what she means to make her point as she guides the reader into an easy and enjoyable read.
Aunt Lydia's use of glittering generalities and convincing tone of voice makes these women accept whatever she defines them as, giving no reason to think otherwise. Offred describes Aunt Lydia's voice as "pious, condescending, the voice of those whose duty is to tell us unpleasant things for our own good" (Atwood 113). During her lesson she states, “We want you to be valued,
rast Jane Yolen is taking a harsh stance on fairy tales. She starts off by taking the reader into her thoughts, letting you know that this is not reality. Through her word play on the names of popular princesses and fairy tale characters she expresses her love, or the need for healthy/ normal role models, and disdain for the cliche. She goes on about this for 2 stanzas. The last stanza is the sharpest where while she’s still in her thoughts, she is talking directly to the reader and criticizing them.
In the play, Vivian is not a kind character whatsoever, but then changes into a more warm hearted character as the cancer treatment goes on. She says that “being extremely smart would take care of it but I see I have been found out”. What she means by this is that her intelligence and wit were not enough of a defense against the other characters in the play and that they have ascertained the true character of Vivian. “My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.” (Edson 38) In the play, Vivian Bearing is a teacher which a very large vocabulary and uses her skill in word play as a defense. When she teaches students, she uses sesquipedalian words to her power advantage as it makes her students feel as if they are inadequate.
Close study of a successful play reveals how the dramatist cleverly integrates dramatic techniques, structure and ideas. To what extent does this statement reflect your response to Cosi? The close study of the play Cosi, by Louis Nowra uses a play within a play to cleverly emphasise dramatic techniques, structure and ideas. The use of literary and visual techniques as well as stage directions emphasises these dramatic techniques, ideas and structure. Doing things for self-respect greatly outweighs doing things for material goods and doing so can change ones strength and courage to complete a challenge.
In Act 2 of ‘An Inspector Calls’ , Sheila says to her mother, Mrs Birling, “But we must stop these silly pretences”. How does Priestley show, in his presentation of Mrs Birling, that she often pretends to be something she is not? | In ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B Priestly, Mrs Birling is presented as a character of contrasts. Throughout the play, she attempts to present herself as something that she is not, meaning that she tries to give a false impression of herself. Firstly, J.B Priestly uses other characters to reveal and highlight her the contrasting sides of her personality.
She often referred to the poet, John Donne, throughout the film to relate her illness to what she loved and studied all of her life. It served as symbolism, representing her view the quality of her life and ultimate mortality. She reflected to the times when she was uncompassionate towards her own students and compared it to the feeling of inhumanity she was experiencing in the hospital. As Vivian’s cancer progressed, she decides to continue various intensive chemotherapies under the care of doctor and former student, Jason Posner, who viewed her as less than a person and more as an objective. On the other hand, Susie Monahan, Vivian’s nurse, served as her advocate from the beginning of her treatments to Vivian’s death.
Growing up I remember my grandfather passing away at the young age of 60, although he did not pass from Alzheimer's disease, he did battle with a chronic illness that left him debilitated. He was the love of my grandmother’s life and to see him struggle everyday was very difficult for her. Reading this poem to her brought back extremely powerful memories that she thought she buried away many many years
Thomas Foster writes in Read Literature Like a Professor, that heart disease is a very common symbolic pattern in literature as well. He said, “there is no better, no more lyrical, no more perfectly metaphorical illness than heart disease” (Foster 208). The heart is, “the symbolic repository of emotion” (Foster 208). The main character of Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, supposedly suffers and dies from this very disease. Like many stories, Mrs. Mallard exhibits a romantic detachment as an illness of the heart.