Helena

Love is hopeless. Love is fruitless. Love is good. Love is stupid. Love is kind. Love is biblical. Love is spiritual. Love confuses me. Love is scary. Love can be described as nothing besides love. Love is always in the air, that’s why there are so many b***** children such as the demon, elf child Pearl in the Scarlet Letter. Teenage love is especially terrifying, due to its unpredictability. Do Romeo and Juliet ring a bell? That nymphomaniac Juliet had Romeo committing suicide for her, or was…

Constantin Stanislavski was born in Russia in 1863 and disproved of the acting style at the time, he felt performances did not reflect reality as acting techniques were mechanical and lacked real feelings. To counter this overused system Stanislavski formed his own acting school and devised a system to help actors bring reality into their performances, today this is known as 'Method Acting' or more simply, 'The Method'. In the Shakespeare duologue my partner and I have produced I used some of…

Personal Statement 4. Explain unicorns. “What do you know about unicorns?” the man across from me asked, pushing up his glasses. I blinked, caught off-guard by the question from this new chairman. What was he talking about? “Unicorns?” I stuttered. He only nodded. “W-well, I don’t know?” I hesitantly replied. Did he really just pull me out of class to ask about unicorns? Is he crazy? He watched me, his sharp eyes narrowing before shaking his head sadly. “You must think I’m crazy…” Bingo. You…

Is love at first sight a real thing? Can it be real love, if it is? These are questions that were asked about Claudio and Hero’s relationship in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Claudio is a bachelor. He is a soldier, not looking for a woman until he meets Hero. Hero is the daughter of the governor of Messina. She is gorgeous, yet doesn’t have much to say on her own account, so she is almost always told what to, and she listens. Claudio and Hero ‘fall in love’ from the second…

Romeo and Juliet, written as a play, focuses on two people separated by a feud between families, meet out of the blue and fell in love. All of the characters in this play were all filled with different knowledge about each other's lives. Love and marriage were all mostly in their heads, but there were different stories behind their thoughts and what they knew. The character that did change their point of view is known as a dynamic character. The one that does not change their point of view were…

RIZALDY ROSARIO ELET-2101 REACTION PAPER Les Miserables Les Miserables Some people pronounce it as “ les - mis - e- rab - les “ and I think that was so funny. Anyways “Love conquers all” this phrase has a huge attack on our heart and mind. Inspite of the struggles, “comments” Judgement, Love is the one which can conquer…

In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, the characters Benedick, Beatrice, Hero and Claudio all have very different relationships. Beatrice and Benedick have never been civil with each other, and whenever they meet, they often have a skirmish of words between the two. They have known each other “of old” and seem to enjoy fencing insults back and forth between them, using insults to convey their true feelings of affection towards one another. The relationship of Claudio and…

When forbidden love crosses two young individuals, the best is not intended for them. William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy and romance. In the play, two young lovers named Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, cross paths and end up falling head over heels for each other. However, their families have been adversaries for years but that does not stop them. They still pursue their dangerous love for each other behind their loved ones back. This results in deaths of them…

Literature has always been enraptured with love and describing its effects on people. In the theater, playwright John Lyly uses his play Galathea to paint his own picture and definition of love that is complex and ever-changing; through his characters Galathea, Phillida, and the goddess Diana’s nymphs, Lyly shows that love comes in different forms. Sometimes love is pure and innocent, while other times it is undesirable and invasive, consuming one’s thoughts. Through these dynamic relationships,…

Throughout both the film Tootsie and Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the idea of gender crossover is used, and while the idea of gender itself is examined, this crossover’s affect on love relationships is the main focus. Both Michael Dorsey and Rosalind, the protagonists of their respects works, pretend for a short time to be the opposite gender. Both are also in love with someone who, for the time being, is the same gender as they are – Michael falls in love in his disguise, while Rosalind…