Watch the film from The Miller's Tale link I have provided. Write a 250 word minimum essay explaining the differences in the film from the Miller's Tale text. The Miller’s Tale, Movie vs Text During world literature class we read and then watched “The Miller’s Tale” both having the same moral but with certain details that give the story a twist. The main differences in both the text and movie were Alison’s “singer career”, Absalom’s crush on Alison, John’s profession and the way Alison and Nicholas had sex. One of the main differences is that in the Millers tale (movie) Alison was a singer at his husband’s bar, which was Nicholas excuse to approach to them and make up the story that he was in the music industry.
Jessica Tandy played Blanche, Kim Hunter played Stella and Marlon Brando played Stanley. In 1948, one year later, Tennessee Williams received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Donaldson Prize and New York theater critics Prize so it became the first drama that won these three awards at once and his work became wildly popular and it is still so today. The internet site of New York Times (times topics) suggests that Tennessee Williams: “had a profound effect on the American theater and on American playwrights and actors. He wrote with deep sympathy and expansive humor about outcasts in our society. Though his images were often violent, he was a poet of the human heart.”[2] Činoherní klub`s webpage about A Streetcar Named Desire uses a quote (from a letter to an agent, Andrea Wood, August 27, 1947) which described Tennessee`s intention about the main characters and how he wanted them to be perceived by the audience: “I do not intend to focus blame or accusation on one particular character, but I want it to be a tragedy of misunderstanding and indifference toward others.”[3] The play is set in the city of New Orleans.
His first Broadway production, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened in 1944 and ran for only four performances. After working as a journalist (work that included coverage of World War II) and writing a novel about anti-Semitism, Miller had his first real success on Broadway with All My Sons (1947); he followed this in 1949 with Death of a Salesman. Along with another early play, A View from the Bridge, and The Crucible, these are the plays for which Miller is best known—though he has continued to write successfully, including a 1996 screenplay adaptation of The Crucible for a major motion picture. MILLER’S STYLE: Arthur Miller had a reputation for being obscure. He maintained, and his estate continues to maintain artistic control over his plays.
He became a mentor to Baldwin, and Beauford’s influence brought him to his first realization that a black person could be an artist. While working odd jobs, he wrote short stories, essays, and book reviews. He also was a preacher like his stepfather but was better gifted. During his teenage years in Harlem and Greenwich Village, Baldwin started to realize that he was gay. Baldwin was taunted by American prejudice against blacks and gays, so Baldwin left the United States at the4 age of twenty-four and settled in Paris, France.
Lesane Parish Crooks also known as Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest artist of all time. He still influences the world even after his death. Tupac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem New York as the son of active members of the Black Panthers Party. After a few years his family moved to Marin City, California where his rap career began. He started writing lyrics in his High School where he also performed at concerts, the concert led to him being signend with Atron Gregory who set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the young rap group Digital Underground in 1990.
South Pacific by Hammerstein the second and Joshua Logan is generally considered to be one of the greatest musicals in history, but this musical wasn’t always a Broadway hit! It first started out as the story line of two short stories by James A. Michener from his Pulitzer prize-winning 1948 book, Tales of the South Pacific. When Director Joshua Logan, a World War two veteran, read Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific he decided what a sensation it would be to adapt it for the stage. He and producer Leland Hayward purchased the rights for the work from Michener; they also asked Richard Rodgers to do the honors of to compose the music and Hammerstein the second to write lyrics and the Libretto of the upcoming musical. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein accepted the job and they began transforming the short, but detailed stories “Fo Dolla” and
Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt 1) F. Scott Fitzgerald- Major influence on his life and writing . In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, Alabama. He fell in love with Zelda Syre 18 yrs old. His romance intensified and hopes for success for his novel but was rejected by Scribners for the second time. When the war ended he was sent overseas and in 1919 he went to New York to seek fortune to marry.
He excelled in writing, and was top of his class, but he failed math. Ben didn’t like helping his father make candles and soap. When he was 12 he was hired by his brother James who was a printer. Section 2 – In 1720 Franklin’s brother James started the second newspaper in America. Benjamin worked as a delivery boy, and wrote in his free time, which he enjoyed immensely.
A Streetcar Named Desire focuses on the values of the values of the old south, replaced during the 1940s by industry and efficiency. When A Streetcar Named Desire was published in 1946, it was straight after the war had finished, so a typical man in this New Orleans society would have gone to war and served his country well. Williams uses Stanley as an accurate representation of this common man, his chief amusements are gambling, bowling, sex and drinking. Tennessee Williams brings in his own past into the play, he was a heavy drinker himself like Stanley and who also lived in Mississippi. Williams also connected with the new American taste for realism that emerged following the Second World War.
It is said that during his enlistment he was often paid by other sailors to write love letters to their girlfriends. He talked of how the greatest enemy he and his crew faced during their long sea voyages wasn't the Japanese but boredom. After World War II, Haley was able to petition the Coast Guard to allow him to transfer into the field of journalism, and by 1949 he had become a Petty Officer First Class in the rating of Journalist. He later advanced to Chief Petty Officer and held this grade until his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1959. He was the first Chief Journalist in the Coast Guard, the rating having been expressly created for him in recognition of his literary ability.