Chapters 17 -18 Why does Tea Cake whip Janie? How does he justify it? How does Janie and the other people react to the whipping? What does this reveal about the time period? Support your response with textual evidence. Tea Cake whips Janie because he felt a need to claim Janie as his own because he felt insecure This insecurity was initially caused by the new townspeople who made advances on Janie, before knowing that she was married. However the arrival of Mrs. Turner’s brother is what incited…
THE CRUCIBLE In 1952, Arthur Miller published The Crucible, a dramatization of the events of the Salem witch trials. However, it does not fall prey to the common misconception that the trials were simply a case of mass hysteria or superstition. Rather, the play highlights the social causes behind the deaths of the Salem ‘witches,’ finding drama within the conflicts among individuals and between the individual and society, within the consequences of extreme individualism and isolation. The play…
LOGLINE: A couple takes an opportunity to admit their genius son into a very prestigious school despite there fears of being outcasted. In turn, there fears become reality and take a turn for the worst when a rival family does everything in their power to challenge the boards decision of their son’s admittance. With comedy at its core, this story mixes a happy go lucky style with thematic elects of revenge, conspiracy and challenge the ideals of the perfect family. SUMMARY: STEFANIE and HOWIE…
The Importance of Being Earnest is about a character called Jack Worthing, who is the guardian of an eighteen-year-old girl called Cecily Jacobs. For years, to escape from the responsibiities in the country, Jack pretended to have an irresponsible brother called Earnest in the city whom he has to visit every once in a while to get him out of trouble. In fact, Jack is known in the city as Earnest and leads the kind of life he criticizes his imaginary brother for. No one knew that fact except for…
After losing his looks and having his heart broken, life became too complicated for Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) to handle, he cryogenically freezes himself, without taking into consideration the consequences of his choice, hoping all his problems could be solved in the future. Directed by Alejandro Amenbar in 1997, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) a mystery/science fiction/drama long feature film, speaks of a 25 year old handsome, promiscuous, rich young man called Cesar whose best friend Pelayo (Fele…
Character- Charlie from The Perks of being a Wallflower Charlie is one of my favorite characters because I find his personality to be relatable to my own. Charlie didn't have any friends until he met Sam and patrick. Charlie wanted friends so badly that he would do almost anything to get them, he wouldn't even raise his hand when he knew the answer to a question because he didn't want to be made fun of. When he made friends wih sam and Patrick he started to open up and come out of his shell.…
The Scarlet Letter, created by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 is story about a strong young women named Hester Prynne who is being punished in front of her entire Puritan community in Massachusetts Bay Colony for committing adultery with a town minister. Because of her sins committed, she is now sentenced to wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom to mark her shame because of her choice to have a love affair with a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the whole story, Hester can be seen as a…
II .The American Dream (1960) by Edward Albee Edward Albee is an important playwright who manages through his way of writing to address the mind of the audience. In his play The American Dream, Albee tries to remind people that they must refine their own version of the American Dream, or their society would be completely damaged. His intelligence is presented from his choice of the title of the play. He uses an ironical title to refer to the corruption in the American society. The…
Master Harold and the Boys is a play written by Athor Fugard. It first produce at the yale Repertory Theatre in early 1982 and made its premiere on Broadway on 4may at the Lyceum Theatre. The play is all about man of magnitude it consist of three character Hally, Sam and Willie What it means to be a great man, basically the first of a truly great man is his humility .by humility I do not mean doubt of his power or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the…
Vijay Tendulkar, a great Marathi playwright, was born on 7 Th January, 1928 in Mumbai (Maharashtra).Silence! The court is in session (1967), the first Tendulkar’s play to become part of the New Indian Drama phenomenon of the sixties and the first significant modern Indian play in any language to centre on woman as protagonist and victim. With its production Tendulkar became the center of a general controversy. He had already acquired the epithet of “the angry young man” of Marathi theatre but…