This had obviously been very difficult time and I was aware that the birth of a new baby within the family may have come with mixed emotions. SCENARIO Prior to the visit I had received a telephone handover from the new Mother’s midwife, who had explained this had been an uneventful pregnancy and straight forward delivery. However her sister had very recently given birth, which had tragically resulted in the baby dying shortly afterwards. The midwife explained this had created anxieties about her new baby and that whilst she appeared to doing okay it was something to be mindful of. This highlights again the importance of collaborative working and effective handovers ( ).
In this essay I will look at how the characters Sheila and Arthur Birling change over the course of the play, and how the generation gap affects this. These characters have been chosen because they, in my opinion, differ the most out of any two characters in the play. I will firstly look at how Sheila is portrayed when we first meet her at the start of the play. In the first act the Birling family is having dinner to celebrate Sheila marrying Gerald Croft, a lucrative decision for both of the families. Sheila is shown as sarcastic and playful when she says “(with mock aggressiveness) Go on Gerald- just you object!” This sentence implies that Sheila likes to joke around with Gerald, which was actually in contrast to how women were supposed to act in that period, showing early on that she is also quite rebellious.
Metamorphosis Metamorphosis was writtten by the playwright Franz Kafka and adapted by Steven Berkoff in 1969. Berkoff believed in Total Theatre where the play would give animmediate emotional connectionwith the audience. Metamorphosis is a non-naturalistic play which consequently due to the plot gave a dehumanising message to the audience. During the time that Berkoff was writing the play, the entertainment side throughout the world was flourishing and due to bands such as the Beetles and Rolling Stones emerging, so was the hippie culture. However the state of the country was poor, the upper classes were financially comfortable, but the middle and lower classes were not, creating a clear divide betwenn classes.
Charles Dickens was known as a social reformist and so particularly wrote novels about social class. Dickens wrote ‘Great Expectations’ to draw attention to the issue of how different the lives were of the rich and the poor. This had never been done before, so it engages the reader. This was done using the characters, language, setting, historical context and narrative perspective. Dickens engages the reader by using different interesting characters.
The other patients like Roy see “Cosi Fan Tutte” as an escape from their mundane wards and asylum. However, the operetta takes a new meaning for an enthusiast who “aims for the stars.” Mozart’s music allows Roy to relive the illusion he has of his childhood, a fantasy that he clings to and hopes “Cosi Fan Tutte” will “capture and recapture.” Roy’s vision helps him cope with his reality of being “farmed out to foster parents,” as a result his passion lies with the Italian opera as it is a landscape that reflects his perfect world. This strong attachment to the play makes him determined to manipulate Lewis’ direction so that it fits his own expectations. Likewise, Roy’s insistence to have the play sung in Italian, his initiative to “get the costumes made by occupational therapy” and to “paint the back drops,” highlight how he lives and breathes “Cosi Fan Tutte.” Similarly, Roy’s “down periods” when Doug leaves and his ability to bounce back and make Lewis play Ferrando highlights how important the play is for him. Roy’s manipulation of the opera which begins with passion reinforces how effective a manipulator can be when they are emotionally
After all, at its end Josie Alibrandi consents to becoming Josie Andretti. But there are many other things that change in her life. She loses a friend, John Barton, in tragic circumstances, but she also discovers her father. Mysteries about the actual identity of her mother's father are solved, and she develops a greater understanding and love for her grandmother. She constantly interacts with her Italian heritage both within herself and with others and comes to a deeper understanding of it.
Silent Dancing I really connected with reading Silent Dancing by Judith Ortiz Cofer. I was able to see some interchangeable themes and contrasts of ideas through out Gloria Andalzua’s peace How to Tame a Wild Tongue. My first connection with this peace was identifying with my grandmother. She is an immigrant in to this country for Italy. As I read the story, Silent Dancing, I reflected by on the stories that she would tell my brother and me growing up.
In realism, the playwrights tried to be as objective as possible whilst focusing on the mundane issues in everyday life, such as politics and economics or, with playwrights like Henrik Ibsen, the role of women in society. Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright who is considered the father of realistic drama. His plays, all of which attacked society’s values, dealt with unconventional and shocking subject matter. However, he perfected the well-made play formula, which was developed by Eugene Scribe, and thereby made his shocking plays relatively acceptable. Some other subject Ibsen addressed included euthanasia (In the play “Ghosts”), war and business and the reality of STD’s like syphilis (“Ghosts”).
The play, A Doll's House, written by Henrick Ibsen in 1879 is a depiction of inequality towards not only women, but men as well. His version of the play is set in an isolated village in Norway where the main characters, Nora and Torvald live a outwardly comfortable lifestyle with a diminutive, yet hideous secret. Unfortunately, the secret of forging a signature or a woman borrowing money is no longer a controversial issue in today's world so the modern day reader can only relate so much. Therefore, Hollywood has taken this ancient work and modernized its content to fit a similar, yet unusual storyline to grasp the audience's attention as the actors experience different emotions of humor and shame. The director has modified the drama into a musical for they are tremendously popular and appealing to the twenty first century viewer, next to movies in 3D.
“In the isolated worlds presented in these plays, the arrival of outsiders provides a direct challenge to the existing ways in which people communicate.” Compare and contrast the two plays you have studied in such a way as to explore in some detail how far you would agree with this claim. The Tempest The island on which Shakespeare’s characters are brought to life is isolated from civilization; however it contains the social structures and hierarchy’s of a normal nineteenth century society. When Prospero and Miranda first arrive on the island they are not necessarily the only inhabitants but because of their superior education and in Prospero’s case ‘magic art’ they are able to dominate the existing creatures and in doing so challenge the ways in which they communicate. Caliban, for example, is taught to speak. We can only assume that before the arrival of Prospero and Miranda he was able to communicate on a very basic level.