Claire Bloom

attention on her. Similarly, Claire Bloom’s performance as Nora is just as layered, if not more so. At first glance, Bloom portrays Nora as the typical housewife of the time. She is adoring and does her best to dote on her husband, and she does not appear to understand much about the potential consequences of her actions. Money is not as much of a concern for her as it is for her husband, and this is evident in the flitting quality of Bloom’s gestures. Furthermore, much of Bloom’s performance of Nora’s character is directly for Torvald. Her quick performance of her squirrel gesture is for Torvald’s benefit, not hers. At the same time, it is likely that Nora, through Bloom, does these gestures on purpose in order to manipulate Torvald into giving her what she wants. Nora owes Krogstad money and because she does not have access to the family finances, she requires Torvald to physically give it to her. When he rejects her first request, Nora retreats into herself, almost as though prompting Torvald to bring her out of her mood. Bloom stands up and walks away from Hopkins before she completes her squirrel gesture, therefore encouraging him to rise from his seat and go over to her. When Torvald hands Nora some money, her joyful reaction appears to be genuine but also as though this is a frequent occurrence for the couple. Bloom looks at what Hopkins has handed her and then her eyes flit back up to him, expecting what will happen next. Despite instances of Bloom playing Nora as a…

==Mistakes== *In one scene, [[Bloom]]'s shoes are blue instead of light purple and Tecna's shoes are blue instead of purple. *In one scene, Bloom's wings are green instead of light pink and [[Stella]]'s wings are purple instead of pink. *In one scene, [[Tecna]]'s wings have the same design as [[Musa]]'s and Stella's wings are purple instead of pink. *In one scene, Bloom's shoes are blue instead of light purple and Stella's wings are purple instead of pink. *In one scene, Tecna's shoes are blue…

Growing up is a part of life and though some may bloom later than others everyone grows up sooner or later. In Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh,” truck driver Leroy Moffitt is badly injured and suddenly forced to stay at home with Norma Jean, his distant wife. This brings her to the realization that she is no longer happy with where she is. She displays maturation that brings her to a better place and through her drastic self improvements Mason reveals that maturing and moving on are key parts of life…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

Romeo and Juliet Movie Comparison The classic play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has been turned into a movie which are directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann. These two movies are similar and different in many ways and the directors of each play tried to put their spin on this classic play. There are many scenes which are different and similar but one is Act 5 Scene 3. One difference is that when Romeo came to find Juliet she was in a church while in the newer movie but…

Shakespeare vs Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo and Juliet 1996, did a wonderful job at turning the once classical play into a modern film that captivated and amazed the now demanding and uninterested audience. Luhrmann used techniques such as weapons, culture and props to keep the newer generation delighted and intrigued in the significantly monumental playwright of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare. In the 1996 film, Luhrmann used props such as new weaponry and…

freshwater lakes and ponds respond to the changes in their climate in two ways. They either can not respond, therefore, the number of that organism decreases and can become extinct, or they adapt so well that they overpowers other organisms causing the other organisms to become extinct. In the Arctic, ice caps have started to melt causing many animals to be stranded. All of these environmental changes are also affecting us humans. Freshwater lakes and ponds have drastically been affected due…

necessary process of strengthening oneself, even the benefit of a degree of selfishness, are themes that appear throughout How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom and “I Stepped from Plank to Plank” by Emily Dickinson. Harold Bloom’s thesis is that how and what one reads has to be distinctly personalized to themselves; because of our constant race against the clock, reading needs to be for the individual alone. Dickinson enforces this idea of solitary exploration and…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

Claire Danes (Temple) seemed having a wonderful skill to behave a bit silly, but straight forward to her thought. The film viewed Temple’s face was as strange, funny, curious, and some time walking in funny way along with her strange thought. Her thought was also unusual. The film illustrated the picture in her mind that she connected to objects or words while she focused on. She acted a bit silly with funny face when her professor said “shoe.” Then the film viewed her connection with all type…