Characterisation

Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, initially performed in 1943 in Switzerland, spins around the character of Shen Teh/Shui Ta, playing on the possibility of goodness. Shen The is great, or possibly that is the thing that one should consider her to be, and Shui Ta is awful. In any case, the doubles wind up noticeably complex when the play contextualizes them with authentic realism, private enterprise, religion, charitableness, and the different meanings of contemporary ethical quality. The…

Evaluate how dramatic techniques have been used to reveal enduring ideas in Shakespeare’s plays. Support your view with detailed reference to the play you have studied. Dramatic techniques play a significant role in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606). By interweaving interpretations of dramatic tragedy ahead of his time, Shakespeare juggles the enduring ideas still relevant in today’s society. These include ambition and its influence on rationalisation, the theme of good vs. evil and its link…

“Comic characterisation is usually subordinate to the demands of the plot and therefore these characters tend to be stereotypes and/or one-dimensional characters rather than portraying realistic human emotions”. Is this a fair assessment of the ‘low characters’ in The Tempest? The prevalence of stereotyping and having ‘flat’ characters may be attributed to the strong archetype or creative flexibility (respectively) that this creates for the author. When the audience sees a stereotype, they…

IV: Rebuttals to my Characterisation of Reclamation In the above, I have created a model to represent to sociological phenomena of the reclamation of slurs. I have given an example how we can see this mechanism at work with respect to the word queer. Though this provides evidence in support of my thesis the question arises as to what measure should be used to more so test the effectiveness of the model. What should be considered and how can my thesis best be supported? The model which I have…

Mad Men's Portrayal of Sexism and Stereotyping of Women in the Sixties In July 2007, the first episode of Matthew Weiner's Mad Men aired on the American television. The television series shows and tells about the lives of admen (men employed in the advertisement business) in the sixties. At the time of its first airing, the series became well praised by the critics and was lauded by The New York Times for being “a series that breaks new ground by luxuriating in the not-so-distant past”…

The overall quotation is a characterisation of the multiple dualities present within the Victorian era and even within Stevenson. The contextual time period was always dual in nature, where the concepts and ideas introduced by modern science were constantly battling with the traditional…

Both pages in the double-spread from Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth are dreams and share surreal themes. Visually they are completely different, however, thematically they can be seen to link due to sharing ideas of anxiety and abandonment. The double-spread chosen is the end of the dream where Superman drops Jimmy’s house and the beginning of the dream about the small horse he is forced to shoot. The first page is framed differently than any other page since the panels…

In Hamlet it is argued that Christian tradition is the only thing that has deterred him, a further characterisation of the re-evaluation context. Suicide and Christianity is dealt with in a variety of ways, beginning with the wish that there was no law against self slaughter, implying that was his only deterrent “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would…

Author's Context The Author which wrote this book (To kill a Mockingbird) is called Nelle Harper Lee, She was born in 1926 in Monroeville / Alabama. She has received many awards for her writings including this book. Some of the awards that Harper Lee has won include; Pulitzer prize, Two honorary degrees, The Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Paperback of the year award in only its second year of print, One of her most privileged awards that Harper Lee…

Emerging in 18th century Britain, philosophical innovation and liberal thought characterised intellectual life. Considering the British collective identity as a gradually changing and evolving concept, Behn’s position appears to recognise the barbarity inherent to this identity and sees the nation as one that favours violence and personal independence over and above genuine tolerance. Behn’s narrative exposes these contradictory forces while complicating the concept of liberty further by…