Subplot

In ‘Reading the Movies’, it was William Costanzo who stated that one third of all films ever made were translated from literature onto the big screen for modern day audiences (Costanzo, 1992). Unsurprisingly, the 20th Century classic ‘1984’ written by George Orwell is no exception, adapted to film almost 40 years after it was published in 1949; but was it an effective adaptation? The novel depicts a world where the government, referred to simply as ‘The Party’ seizes ultimate control over their…

1. I think this play has one prevailing main plot with lots of exposition which could appear as subplots. Everything serves the main issue, which is their resolving the altercation between their children. More and more becomes revealed about both couples. Things such as their marital issues, their work, upbringing, and parenting styles, but each of these conversations merely add to the complexity of the main conflict at hand. They highlight the similarities and differences between the characters…

love. There is an argument that states that John Ford only introduced the incest part of this play to make it different from “Romeo and Juliet.” While there may be reason to consider that, John Ford’s introduction of incest in the middle of all the subplots…

In the convention of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom; Samuel Thomas' momentous presentation, The Midwife's Tale It is 1644, and Parliament's armed forces have ascended against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Indeed, even as the city endures at the rebels' hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson gets to be entangled in an alternate kind of rebellion. Bridget Hodgson is a 30 year old dowager that lives in a middle class home with her servants in York, England. It is 1644 and England is under…

There have been many successful and unsuccessful attempts at adapting Shakespeare’s works into opera. Though modern composers such as Benjamin Britten and Thomas Adès have set Shakespeare’s original words to music, with few changes if any, the most famous operatic adaptations over time have proved to be Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello and Macbeth. In these works, Verdi manages to keep the intent of Shakespeare and the overall plot of the play, yet molds the details of the story to be more suitable for…

“You’re going to rot your brain out from watching that T.V.!” is a phrase that I heard all too much growing up, as I’m sure many other people did too. However, in today’s age I cannot help but wonder how much validity that phrase now holds. In 2005, the New York Times Magazine published an excerpt of one of Steven Johnson’s books, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter which address this exact question. Johnson’s debut in the New York Times…

the potential to not be well developed over the course of a season. The show imbues itself with a great deal of intensity, with a lot of action and a very fast pace. It feels like one of the fastest-paced shows to grace television screens, having subplots easily tied up in a few quick-cut scenes. However, this was one of the problems with the pilot - so much was crammed in that some interesting stories…

story of Edgar, ‘sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of Tom of Bedlam’ (from the title page of the 1608 quarto of King Lear, quoted in Shapiro, 2015). What’s interesting to me is Shapiro’s interpretation of this subplot as a counterpoint to the story of Lear’s family, “a way to highlight Lear’s figurative blindness by juxtaposing it with something more literal” (Shapiro, 2015). Edgar’s…

different class. The young lover, Oberon and Titania as a supernatural existence, and the Mechanicals, which is most interesting part. Both the young lovers and the artisans explore new experience of life and theatrical freedom. The artisans as the subplot of the play emphasize deeper meaning that Shakespeare is trying to extend: one is relationship between sight sense and self-judgement. In this play, the plot of Bottom and Titania explore the idea. Second is the relationship between audience…

Mona, the Syrian Bride, whom is the main character, but yet the storyline is significantly more than about her wedding. Her character assumes an essential part in entwining the real topics of the film that are portrayed through the movies numerous subplots and characters. Every individual from her profoundly broken family has an essential part to play in entwining the expansive subjects that make up the storyline of the film. Mona, the hero is good to go to wed a Syrian actor. Her sister Amal is…