In the play, Gwendolen sets the image for a typical Victorian woman, along with her mother, Lady Bracknell. She has her personal values and ideals, and exhibits self- confidence. This can be proven by some of her lines in Act 1, like her first line “I am always right!” or “In fact, I am never wrong.” However, sometimes her over-confidence makes her look foolish. When she meets Cecily for the first time, she declares that they were going to be “great friends” and she has “likes her more than she can say”. Then when she suspects that Cecily is going to steal her fiancé, Gwendolen immediately switches her tone to saying that she “distrusted” Cecily from the first moment she saw her and that her “first impressions of people are invariably right”.
The play Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand and the modern day film Roxanne directed by Fred Schepisi tell the same love story, through different elements, styles, and points of view. Although the play is a tragedy and the film is a romantic comedy, people from all generations can relate to Rostand’s story one way or another. In this story, Cyrano is in love with Roxane, but unfortunately he has a large nose which makes Roxane uninterested. Roxane’s love interest, Christian, is good friends with Cyrano. All Cyrano really wants is for Roxane to be happy, so he helps Roxane and Christian progress their relationship despite his feelings for Roxane.
When she receives the ring from Gerald, she is immediately 'excited', and Priestley shows this in her speech with the use of dashes as she asks 'Mummy - isn't it a beauty?'. She shows appreciation of the 'perfect' ring to Gerald which shows she really is 'pleased with life' but almost possessed by Gerald.Although the Mr and Mrs Birling have been portrayed as arrogant, Sheila is contrasted to show compassion towards the conditions of the workers immediately when she hears about her father's treatment of Eva Smith - when she says 'these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people'. This shows how at the start of the play she is the only character so far that is capable of change, after Mr Birling denies all responsibility of the death of Eva Smith. Sheila is devastated when she realises her part in Eva Smith's death, she feels full of guilt for
Written by Maurice Yvain and lyrics by Channing Pollack, the song is about her man, that doesn't seem to be the best guy around but he's hers to keep and she loves him so. I love the popular music of back then compared to now because it's all the same. It's all about love, and how unhappy we are but somehow we manage to find happiness through the fight of wanting to be happy. I feel Brice had a very easy time doing this song, not just because she was a fabulous performer but because she had some of her own 'Man' problems of her
Cyrano only expresses his frustration with the size of his nose when talking to Le Bret, his best friend. His insecurities make him much more human and relatable than his mask, ultimately making him realistic and not comically extraordinary at everything he does. Roxane has qualities of a very caring, independent woman with a weak point for the romantic. She continuously does things to remind men of her beauty, intelligence, and kind-hearted personality. She quickly
Julia Prest ELMIRE AND THE EROTICS OE THE MENAGE A TROIS IN MOLIÈRE'S TARTUFFE A t first sight, the character of Elmire in Molière's Tartuffe appears to have much to commend her, and modern critics and theatergoers generally warm to her: she is attractive, stylish, independent, smart, resourceful, in many ways a modern woman.' Even older, more patriarchally inclined critics have generally been slow to condemn her,^ yet I would like to argue that rather than being a female exemplar who helps resolve the Tartuffe situation as is often stated, her function within the play is in many ways a disruptive one; she is a catalyst to the disintegration of the Orgon household and in practice contributes little toward the resolution of a plot that teeters on the brink of a
Through this movie you get to experience a variety of stories that are tied together with a centralized theme. I enjoyed the fact that the romance of the 50’s is still very true to romance of today although we have fallen far from the class and well-spoken poise that is Grace Kelly. The story then is still the same story now; the girl always wants the boy who doesn’t want her. In this case, the well-established socialite model wants the dirty photographer. It is the classic tale of “you want what you can’t have”.
Behind this representation is the suggestion that Ma sees her qualities but he underestimates her. The boys are totally captivated by her beauty: “she had a glowing complexion and her features were fine, almost noble. Her face possessed an impressive, sensual beauty”. Her level of education is revealed – she is not the typical mountain peasant. When Ma asks her
Its sharp message is cutting, caustic and tragic. His characters are memorable and the irony of the story is impossible to overlook. "She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born, as if by an accident of fate, into a family of clerks." From most aspects, Mathilde should have been content with her life. She had a loving husband, youth, beauty, and a comfortable lifestyle.
All critics agree in considering Twelfth Night as one of the most delightful of Shakespeare’s comedies. It is full of sweetness and pleasantry. It makes us laugh at the follies of mankind, not despire them, still less bear any ill-will towards them. From start to end the play is full of gay joviality. The sentimental elements and the unsentimental malice a livelier, more dramatic impression from their contrast: and the contrast itself makes the dolling life of the play more interesting to an audience.