2) What is the role of source music in Casablanca? (10 points) Source music in Casablanca is used to give a setting to a scene and portray the emotions of the characters. La Marseillaise is the French national anthem that is frequently played throughout the movie. It’s supposed to represent liberty, equality, and the Allies during WWII, which was the time period the movie is supposed to have taken place. A particular scene in which La Marseillaise had significant meaning was when German soldiers were singing the Nazi anthem in Rick’s Café and then almost the entirety of the other people in the café started to sing La Marseillaise to drown out the singing of the Germans.
Larkin presents the themes of loss and decline in his poem MCMXIV; he highlights the tragic loss of soldiers during the World War One through poetic devices and langue devices. In paragraph one Larkin uses similes to reinforce the innocence and naivety of the young soldiers regarding the forthcoming horrors of war with the quote “As if they were stretched outside”, “An August Bank Holiday lark”. The use of the metaphor “crowns” establishes a heroic, biblical portrayal of the young men enlisting for war. The use of adjectives and lack of enjambment in stanza two, create a funeral tone creating the tone for the war contrasting the light, upbeat tone of the opening stanza, symbolic of the soldiers terrible journey ahead. This is highlighted with "shut", "bleached" and "dark-clothed".
Distinctively visual Question: how composers use distinctively visual techniques to create meaning in texts. Distinctively visual technique holds great ability to convey powerful message through the text to the responders. This is evident in the play “shoehorn sonata” as its composer John Misto explores the horror of war and the importance of friendship during the invasion of Singapore in 1942. Similarly Nick Ut’s photograph “The Napalm Girl” illustrates the brutality of human conflict in the Vietnam War as well as the innocent civilian that is mercilessly treated. Both texts demonstrates the atrocity that war brings using visual techniques although they rely on different ways to convey their message.
In this essay I intend to show how Cormier’s choice of language presents the war throughout the book heroes. Throughout the novel war is seen from two points of view, becoming a hero or a coward. Cormier has used many language devices such as onomatopoeia’s like ‘Boom’ to create more atmosphere about the war so the read can feel more involved like they are actually their at war. Stereotypically war is associated with death and the onomatopoeia ‘Boom’ gives a loud exploding effect which gives the reader an image of bombs exploding. Religious references are made a lot throughout the novel due to Francis’ strong catholic religion “beads on a rosary “is used as they are prayer beads used in devotion.
All Quiet on the Western Front: This novel was very interesting and very vivid. Also the novel is so intense and very detail of the lifestyle of war. The way the book is different from the others is by how the novel takes the readers to the war by telling the vivid details and the characters thoughts and also the lifestyle of the characters. The novel tells the story of Paul Baumer, the main character of the story, a soldier who was persuade and urged by his school teacher Kantorek to join the German army shortly after the start of world war 1. Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.
The Herald Angels Sing”, and “It Came upon a Midnight Clear”, both include apocryphal material to help add to the biblical account of Jesus Christ being born. “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” was composed originally in the year 1739 by the Wesley brothers, Charles and John. However, “Hark! The herald angels sing; glory to the newborn King” wasn’t the original lyrics that the Wesley brothers had written the lyrics to be.
McNally’s passion for music is evident in his writings. He derived his title of “Frankie and Johnny…” from Debussy’s classical piece, “Claire de Lune.” A myriad of McNally’s characters cite Broadway lyrics to one another. Additionally, Terrence’s afore-mentioned vast knowledge of opera landed him on the radio’s Texaco Opera Quiz. McNally’s a rare artist in that he’s as comfortable writing drama, as he is musical theatre. 1991’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart addressed homophobia and prejudices towards individuals living with AIDS.
A few composers who made music today possible by struggling through the aftermath of the Black Death epidemic would be; Jasquin Des Prez, (who was a big name at the time,) Pierre De La Rue, a very well proclaimed vocalist (The New York Time Company 2012, March 23. Top 8 Renaissance Composers Retrieved from http://classicalmusic.about.com.) One such composer whose name is still heard pretty often would be Johann Sebastian Bach; he is considered as one of the faces of classical music. Like all of us, he started out with baby steps, slowly learning the ways of music. Bach came from a family of musicians who brought him into the whole scene; his father was a director and had several uncles who were musicians (Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 2000.)
Dulce Et Decorum Est In the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, the poem uses the theme of conflict, danger and death to enhance the mood. The poem starts by talking about a day in the First World War when a group of soldiers who are extremely tired after a battle and are returning to base when all of a sudden they are the targets of a gas attack. This poem is focused on a particular soldier who fails to fit his gas mask. Using the soldier’s death the writer shows us that in no way is it “Sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country”. A technique used to enhance the mood is imagery.
Victory, victory, Thru Jesus Christ, our Lord!” While this song list is only a very small portion of songs about war and soldiers, it is clear through academic study and research that references about war in writing and poetry are just as, if not moreso , prevalent in society. One such poem about war is “Dulce Et Decorum es .” Exploration and analysis of “Dulce Et Decorum est,” by W ilfred Owen, will surpass the initial and shallow influences of affective and intentional fallacies painted of a destr uctive God-less war to some nameless enemy; careful exploration will reveal the unspoken necessity of duty, name the unnamed enemy, offers hope to the purpose of war, and resolves tensions within the symbolism, motifs, and diction of the text- thus exposing that duty, sacrifice, and suffering are a necessary part of ultimate human victory, on the very real battlefield of an everyday