Themes: ‘Atonement’ And ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ This essay will compare the themes of Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (ASND) and Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’. The two stories are different in several ways as they have different backdrops and are set in different time frames but manage to attain similar themes. In ‘ASND’, Blanche enters the play already lying. She mentions how she has come to visit due to the loss of Belle Rive and her leave of absence from work, when in actual fact, Blanche was fired for having an affair with a 17 year old student. She also constantly lies about her age and relations.
What are your first impressions of Blanche and Stanley? Support your ideas with close reference to the text. In the first scene we see that Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone, she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier, and she is a social exile due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly.
The first song is a major musical motif in Baz Lurhmann’s 2013 Great Gatsby, and the title is “Young and Beautiful”, sung by the amazingly talented Lana Del Ray. The lyrical development of the song helped to ground it in the world of the film. Lana chose a very clever way of wrapping universal pop lyrics around universal themes, but somehow her lyrics fall in beautifully with the themes of the film. Musically, I think it’s an unusual song, because on the one hand, it has romance and tells a love story, but at the same time, it’s filled with real yearning and melancholy, which I think is at the heart of the story, whether you’re looking at it from Gatsby’s or Daisy’s point of view. There’s a real sadness in the story, and that’s reflected beautifully in this song.
To What Extent Does Tennessee Williams’ Symbolic Use of Light Play a Part in His Tragic Representation of Blanche DuBois in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? A Streetcar Named Desire centres on a desolated woman named Blanche DuBois; reared in Old South aristocratic traditions, she lived elegantly in her family homestead, married a man she adored, and pursued a career as an English teacher. Her life was tragically and dramatically ripped apart when she discovered that her husband, Allen Grey, was having a homosexual affair; disgraced, he killed himself and Blanche’s life crumbled down around her along with the walls of her beloved Belle Rive. Williams uses intricate, clever and powerful imagery and symbolism throughout the play in order to build up a sense of poignancy and tragic drama. These help to build up a very convoluted and elaborate character within Blanche with whom the audience can emphasise with and get a clearer understanding of.
The movie first takes place in summer of 1956. Actress Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) was in England to film a movie called The Prince And The Showgirl. The film was filmed so British Thespian Sir Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) would the best actor of his genreration and Marilyn Monroe was just there to give him that. It was difficult to shoot because of Monroe's disassociation with her newly wed husband Arthur Miller (Dougray Scott) and because of that Monroe felt anxious about doing well and relied alot on her coach for support. Into the Mix comes Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) which is who this movie is based on.
Having a more conventional name can make a person fit in more easily with the society in which they live. If it is a challenge for someone to pronounce your name, then it may be difficult to fit in with that society. At age twelve, Firoozeh Dumas thought adding an American name to hers would improve the life she had in America. She felt that if people could pronounce her name that then childhood would be filled with many friendships and happy memories. “To strengthen my decision to add an American name, I had just finished fifth grade in Whittier, where all the kids incessantly called me “ferocious” (85).
Ruth gives Gogol an idea of what “type” of girls he likes, who are born and raised in the American culture. Gogol liked having some experience with being pure American. At this point of the story, Gogol felt more like he wanted to date girls that were in the American culture, so when he and Ruth’s relationship relationship ended, he went even more extreme. On Gogol’s train ride home for spring break he met a girl named Maxine. When they started dating Gogol
It was the first time I belonged to a group of like-minded people. Making friends was much easier because we had something in common from day one. I stayed involved in theater for several years. I traveled to competitions, memorized lines, worked on sets and costumes. Our public school drama club was an island of liberal arts in football country, but we were focused on getting lead roles and learning to be better actors.
Question: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jindabyne are feature film adaptations of short stories. Which is the better adaptation and why? “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) and “So Much Water So Close to Home” written by Raymond Carver (1976) are both short stories that have been successfully adapted to the feature films. Three key elements to be thought about when tackling the difficult task of adapting literary work to the big screen include the extent of faithfulness to the original source, the essence and sincerity of the author and the new creativity that provides an active engagement with the material. Using these principles is Ray Lawrence’s film adaptation “Jindabyne” of the short story, “So Much Water So Close to Home” better than David Fincher’s film adaptation of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from the short story of the same name?
From being separated from the love of her life so soon, all Allie was left with was hope that Noah would soon write to her everyday until they were back together again. I believe the intended audience for this movie are teenage girls and young women. In my opinion, I think this movie would be interesting for the audience because every girl has that fantasy of the "perfect guy". People go see a movie to escape from reality, they don't want to watch a movie that mirrors reality. Therefore, this is why the notebook will be so popular because it gives people what they want to see and even though death occurs in the movie it still portrays a fantasy every girl holds onto.