The young couple is played by Sandy Dennis (Honey) and George Segal (Nick). Taylor, a British American actress who became one of the great actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age, won an Oscar for playing Martha. Also, Sandy Dennis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Honey. The film starts with Martha and George drunkenly making their way back from a college faculty party to their messy house where they begin to prepare more drinks. Their relationship is immediately defined by drunken verbal battles, which reveals their emotional dependence upon each other.
Hunter Baudoin English 101 True Confessions “Saturday Confessions,” is a short story by Bev Marshall that takes place in McComb, Mississippi. A young girl named Layla Jay is staying with her grandmother in the summer while her mother is on a honeymoon. Layla’s grandmother is a very religious woman. When she finds Layla Jay on the floor of the church kissing her brother’s best friend named Bobby she was disgusted with Layla. But Layla Jay is overwhelmed by temptation and rebels against her grandmother and approaches Bobby to perhaps kiss him again.
A Raisin in the Sun Role of Beneatha Beneatha is an attractive college student who provides a young, independent, feminist perspective, and her desire to become a doctor demonstrates her great ambition. Throughout the play, she searches for her identity. She dates two very different men: Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. She is at her happiest with Asagai, her Nigerian boyfriend, who has nicknamed her “Alaiyo,” which means “One for Whom Bread—Food—Is Not enough.” She is at her most depressed and angry with George, her pompous, affluent African-American boyfriend. She identifies much more with Asagai’s interest in rediscovering his African roots than with George’s interest in assimilating into white culture.
Does love have a barrier? These questions arise personally after reading the novel ‘The Awakening’. To quote E. Jones, “Moral attitude towards others is substituted for an attitude of love”(5). The quote describes more of Edna who is a mother and a wife to one of the wealthiest Creole men in New Orleans, and during her time period having a family is part of societal expectations. Edna’s character abandons her role as a mother and wife; she breaks moral values and standards because of the intimate love affair she shares with Robert, therefore leading to the struggles she faces in the novel where she failed.
They also share similar stories of two women who have overshadow how desperate women in Hollywood can be, and two men trying to make it into the Hollywood life style. Both Sunset Blvd, and The Day of the Locust show how the two leading female characters use men and manipulate them to get whatever they dicier. In the film Sunset Blvd, you see Norma Despond played by actress Gloria Swanson. Swanson really brought her character Norma performances to life in this film because she really made sure that the audience saw how sympathetic Norma was, and was in denial of the fact that she wasn’t a big star no more. One reason how Norman use her leading man Joe was when, Joe was sick and tired of dealing with Norma that he decided to leave her.
Marilyn Monroe Norma Jean Mortenson, then known by the World as Marilyn Monroe, was born on June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gladys Baker, was a woman with many psychological problems, so Marilyn had a difficult childhood and adolescence. She had to live many complicated situations that brought her problems for the rest of her short life. Before becoming a sex symbol, she used work in a factory, where a journalist found her and asked to take her some photographs. After that, she joined a well-known model agency called Blue Book, where the manager told her to dye her dark hair to a platinum-blond.
Brainwashed by society’s standards and demeaned by the white race, the black population struggles to fit the stereotypical image of perfection. Pauline Breedlove, Pecola’s mother, gets caught up in leading her fantasy life. She envisions her ideal universe filled with “beauty, order, cleanliness, and praise” (127). Mrs. Breedlove uses her job as a housemaid to surround herself in the accepted world of whites. After being suffocated by the images of this absolute world, Mrs. Breedlove strives to acquire the white’s life style.
Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.” This quote ties in all the themes of the Bluest Eyes, love, beauty, and an un-escapable fall into despair while chasing the first two. The image of Shirley Temple and white baby dolls are central to the meaning of the novel. Adults don’t try to undermine the power that Shirley Temple has on the girls of this novel. Instead they show praise towards her and her whiteness by buying white baby dolls, even for black girls.
Imitation of Life The conflict between mothers and daughters has been a theme in Hollywood since the beginning of film. Sometimes director picture the conflict badly like in “Mommie Dearest” and others do it well like in “The Joy Luck Club”. “Imitation of Life,” by Douglas Sirk starring Lana Turner and Juanita Moore fit in the right in with the movie that take the mother and daughter well. Lora Meredith (Turner) is a single thirtyish widow with the ambitious to be Broadway actress. One day, Susie, daughter of Lora, wondered off on the beach leaving Lora to look around for her, Lora with a photographer, Steve Archer’s help she find Susie with Sarah Jane and her mother, Annie Johnson (Moore), a single African American widow.
The final scene set in serene Belmont, opens with Lorenzo and Jessica’s playful banter. Their references reflect the harmonious nature of love (Troilus climbs a wall longing for Cressida, Dido summons her lover, and Medea gathers enchanted herbs for Aeson). But, while their shared repetitions of “In such a night” reflect balance and unity they also hint at tragedy and loss. The audience would have understood the dark side of their allusions (Cressida betrays Troilus, Aenas deserts Dido, and Medea leaves Aeson). Thus, although Shakespeare has left room for his audience to come to their own conclusions, the love and harmony exhibited in the final scene does remain in stark contrast to the racial hatred displayed in the trial scene.