• Disease, Rotting, and Decay – examples of this are shown through quotes from the text. -In scene two, Hamlet first thinks of suicide, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God!…
Tim O'Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, eloquently (NR) demonstrates the theme of ‘beauty in horror’. The novel emphasizes this theme through the underlying foil between beauty and atrocities that are not uncommon in war stories. O'Brien focuses on the imagery of these events as well as the tone to illustrate the difficulties that soldiers are exposed to and how they have been conditioned to their situation to no longer see the horror in these horrific events rather start seeing them as beautiful events. The relevance of this theme is most prevalent in the short story, “How to Tell a True War Story.” This short story illustrates many different barbaric events that have been very beautifully illustrated.…
Greg Ruth wrote an essay about how horror is beneficial for kids, appropriately named “Why Horror is Good for You (and Even Better for Your Kids)”. He explains how horror for kids has slowly been diminishing at the children’s expense. He argues that kids today are sheltered and not introduced to horror the way that they used to be. In this process, kids have not been taught to enjoy being scared.…
They share the same genre values with the filmmakers. For instance, look at John Carpenter’s Halloween. By the time this film came out audiences knew what to expect when seeing this. This movie would surly have blood, suspenseful moments, and an emotional undertow; it did not disappoint. By the time this movie was released, in comparison to Dracula¸ it was often expected that the ending leave you wondering whether or not the “bad guy” was actually dead.…
CRR #7 Observations: In the reading Our Town by Thornton Wilder I felt the feeling of being included in the audience because he gives us the layout at the beginning. Another detail that contributes to this feeling of being included is by having the stage manager speak directly to us. When he starts describing the town and how small it is it reminds me of Porterville and how nothing really happens there or here. I find it sad when the stage manager tells us about all the things Joe is going to accomplish but ends up dying in the war.…
Craft of Acting and Sweet Smell of Success The ability for an actor to successfully, skillfully enrapture the audience’s attention to the scene and overall production is not simply one skill but rather various dynamics that are pieced together for the creation of his character. Similar to a handy man, an actor utilizes his or her set of tools of the craft of Acting to accomplish the ultimate goal of the character. In the Sweet Smell of Success, Tony Curtis, who portrays Sidney Falco, utilizes his tools of presentational acting, obstacles, objective, given circumstances, environmental condition, and actions to successfully embody his character.…
Little Shop of Horrors September 12. 2015 at the Boise Little Theater. A flower shop clerk develops a giant blood-thirsty plant that feeds on humans. The clerk experiences a rise to fame and fortune with the sudden notoriety of his creation. The road to fame is laden with the disappearances of his close acquaintances. The shop girl’s boyfriend, the shop owner, eventually the shop girl and then in a last ditch attempt to destroy the plant even himself all vanish.…
In its fall production of Much Ado About Nothing, the American Shakespeare Center stay true to the theatrical roots of the Elizabethan Era with the use of character doubling throughout the play for dramatic and thematic purposes. For a play that relies heavily on the idea of deception, the usage of actors for multiple roles is given additional significance, as it emphasizes how appearances are the driving force behind the plot of the comedy. This is observed through the transformations of three specific actors, who throughout the play alternate characters that are polarizing in their differences of gender, morality, and social stature. With this in mind, it is clear the deceptions are not only effective in altering the perceptions of characters amongst themselves but the audience as well, as appearances are instantly able to shift the impression of the actors as a whole.…
Electra (Sophocles) The blocking and emotion of a scene can completely change the audience’s response or even how they perceive the character as a person. This means that how an actor voices a line or a scene can make an incredible difference. It could mean the difference of the audience hating or loving a character, or a death having meaning or not. The impact a certain character makes can make or break a play. The emotion behind a scene can bring up or answer questions about a character and the motivation behind an action or event that they carry out.…
A theatrical element that Kushner employed to increase the affiliation between the audience and his characters was the use of split scenes. By using a split scene, the audience was able to watch two scenes occur at the same time. These scenes would often portray two different couples having the same argument. This not only allowed the audience to understand the characters more, but to relate to the characters themselves. With two separate couples, an audience member is bound to relate to one of the four people in the argument.…
1. Title: American Clock Author: Arthur Miller First Performance: November 20th 1980 Period of play: 20th century 2. Awards won: N/A. 3. Main characters and their relationship…
To begin this argument, people who enjoy horror films support that watching horror gives them a chance to learn, to experience situations. In an article “The Lure of Horror” published in November 2011, Dr. Christian Jarrett is the Psychologist’s staff journalist mentioned “Movie monsters provide us with the opportunity to see and learn strategies of coping with real- life monsters should we run into them, despite all probabilities to the contrary“. Dr. Jarret explained that horror scenes give people a chance to face with situations that may happen in real life so that people can handle situations or run away instead of standing and screaming. Similarly, Mathias Clasen says, “ That’s where horror can teach us something truly valuable” (Jarrett…
Fooling Malvolio into thinking his dreams have come true is a malicious trick. Sir Toby and his gang orchestrate the event out of annoyance, spite, and desire to amuse themselves. Yet, the scene is full of humorous lines by the duped Malvolio that are ripe for laughter if the audience is manipulated to view Malvolio as a fool undeserving of sympathy. It becomes the director’s choice to tip the balance towards darkness or comedy. Nunn chooses the former, Rylance the latter.…
The Entertainer was a show that featured the decay of a performer, his family, and his country in war. The characters continued to disillusion themselves with self-medication and by acting that everything was fine, especially Kenneth Branagh’s character, Archie. The production’s set and transitions, set dressing, and lights that came through the doorways enhanced the character’s attempts to appease their lives that were collapsing before them. One element that was evident with many of the characters throughout the play was the attempt to maintain a performance or act like everything was okay. A design element that helped to present Archie’s struggle to live authentically were the seamless transitions between the parlor/living room and the stage with the showgirls.…
Labelling Interactionists suggest that there are several ideas which underline labelling theory. One of these is the particular situation in which people find themselves in. We can clearly see that if we label people as failures then this will affect how we react to those people. We can see in the past how people reacted to people who were regarded as mad and the mental institution of Bethlehem which later gave rise to the word bedlam showed how in the past such people could often be viewed in the same way as people would now go to a zoo to watch animals. On a less dramatic note we can see that people such as the former Labour minister David Blunkett were regarded as second rate because of their blindness.…