Burlesque

break the mold as to what a leading lady should be like? Describe her act, and why it made her such a success. Fanny Brice or (Fannie Borach) was a female comedian. Brice was a native of Newark, and she quit school at a young age to perform on burlesque circuits outside of Manhattan. Florenz Ziegfeld was impressed by some of her acts that she performed so he signed her to a contract and from then on she became an instant star in the Follies. Fanny Brice broke the mold as to what a leading lady…

Symphonie Fantastique (1830) – Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique is said to be the most significant work of French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz, written in 1830. Berlioz, born December 1803, was no child prodigy, not studying music until age 12, however in 1924 he abandoned his Parisian medical studies to peruse his compositional career. Symphonie Fantastique differs from the previous symphonies of Berlioz, as this follows a narrative through the music, therefore making it an early…

The Comedic Nature of Lysistrata On the year 411 BC, Aristophanes wrote the comedic play Lysistrata, the first anti-war play in the world. Comedy takes various forms, and the purpose of this essay is to analyze the comedic elements used in Lysistrata to determine whether it is a farce or a satire. Why is this important? Michael Moses, the president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics said: “The key to adjusting the relative strengths and weakness of a particular work was for the…

Compare & Contrast essay “Depression is when you don't care about anything. Anxiety is when you care about everything. And having both is like hell.” ~ Anonymous, this quote relates to both the protagonists in the catcher in the rye and the edge of seventeen. Depression and anxiety play a large role in Holden Caulfield and Nadine’s decision making and impact their social life and sex life. The protagonist in both the novel and the movie find the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around…

On January 20th, 1961, war veteran, Pulitzer prize winner, and thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave his Inaugural Address. An inaugural address is a combination between a ceremony where the new president is inducted into office and their first speech to the people as president. The first speech is supposed to inform the people of their intentions as a leader of the country. Kennedy’s speech was filled with strong and poetic but also simple language…

frustration with several views of society as well as institutions. Satire can be defined as so, “A usually topical literary composition holding up human or individual vices, folly, abuses, or shortcomings to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement” (Satire, DISCovering). Satire can be more thoroughly described by such, “In a more particular sense, satire is a literary form, traced back to the Romans and in…

novel Austen shows the reader that real life is superior to fantasy. Austen does so by utilizing realism in every essence of the book and parody to get the reader to realize the folly of Gothic novels. “The evident purpose of Northanger Abbey is to burlesque the popular fiction of her day, to carry its convention and assumptions to an absurd extravagance” (Brown 50). Contradictory to Gothic novels, the readers are interested because the book is such an accurate representation of English society…

Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has caused multiple difficulties in school readings. In 2011, the novel is modified so it could be accepted in today’s society. Stephen Railton, a professor at University of Virginia, published a version of the book that replaced that offensive word with “slave.” But, the novel is mostly banned for the use of a derogatory word, the “n” word. Many people argue that the novel portrays the way things were during that time period. People…

Yeah, that’s what I was doing senior year. Intrigued by my latest Netflix-Binges of “Gentleman Prefer Blondes,” “Monkey Business,” “How to Marry a Millionaire,” and “Burlesque” I had to revel in the ideologies behind classical film. Call it inspiration, but I had to create something glamorous; I had to make some kind of world, some kind of sense, of the fascinating eroticism coming out of the screen and gouging at my eyes…

Urbanization and industry transformed Midwest from agricultural to urbanized economies with trading hubs in cities like Chicago. This transformation from rural to urban sparked the Great Migration, a mass movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized cities in the North. This influx of African American communities challenged the existing racial constructs in the metropolis and gave rise to new socially constructed identities and means of self-expression. Davarian L. Baldwin…