Wonderful! Wonderful!

It’s the platitude of all platitudes. Seeing (with your own two eyes!) is believing. Vision is supposed to be an unimpeachable verifier of truth. What happens when this truism fails? When you grow up in a city bombed with atrocities throughout your life or nurse a psychosis alone in the woods? In Elfreide Jelinek’s Wonderful Wonderful Times, Anna is one of five teenagers obsessed with depravity and violence. She and her twin brother Rainer are poor and always in stark contrast, especially from their perspective, to the desirable, immaculate, rich Sophie. In Thomas Bernhard’s “The Cap,” an unnamed narrator leaves his research in the city to stay in the woods in his newly widowed brother’s house to patiently await insanity. He becomes obsessed…

Picture a man, living on the threshold of suicide, believing he’s worth more dead than alive..”Your life has Purpose” means to have impacted someone or even changed certain places , and that’s exactly what George Bailey has done. The story “It’s a Wonderful Life displays “Your LIfe has Purpose” through George Bailey by preventing the death of his brother Harry Bailey, stopping Mr. Fowler from having the accidental poison in his medical pills from being sold, and preventing Mr. Potter from taking…

7th, at 7:30pm, I attended It’s A Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play. Illinois State University’s adaptation of this classic film took place in the Center for the Performing Arts. The actors took the stage as members of a 1940s radio show, playing a multitude of characters depicted in the original film. Although vastly different from the cinema version, this adaptation was very successful due to the congruous 1940s costumes, the use of varied voices to portray numerous characters, and the…

The monologue I performed is from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra (Capra). The focus of the movie is on a young man named George Bailey, who lives in the small town of Bedford Falls (Capra). George’s dream is to leave Bedford Falls and become a world traveler. The day before George is supposed to get on a train and start his world travels, his father suddenly dies. His father was the owner of the Bedford Falls Building and Loans, so George has to go to the board meeting…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published on May 17th, 1900, and its movie adaptation was released 39 years later on August 25, 1939. The book and movie have become widely known for their plot and presentation, but an interesting theory arises when compared to populism in the late 1800s. Whether populism is truly depicted in the book or the movie remains unknown, but parallels have been found and drawn. The movie adaptation was the first to be displayed in color, and has had some changes from the…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first a book is a well-known story about a girl name Dorthey who an orphaned girl. Who one day when a tornado swept her and her little dog Toto into the world far from Kansas called the kingdom of Oz. There she met a straw Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and coward Lion, who help her find her way to home. Many see the Wizard of Oz and think of it as just another movie meant to entertain families. However, very few actually understand the political concept and symbolism behind…

Lyman Frank Baum wrote a novel in 1900 wanting to pleasure and entertain children; a modernize fairy tale. Little did he know his book would become a huge success becoming one of the first colored films. The book he wrote was called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with a series later to follow. Frank Baum grew up being home schooled for his schooling. When he was twelve years old he was enrolled into a strict military school. He later learned he had a dislike for harshness and the military, due to…

From a simple trip to Kansas, the stories unfold as the writer of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz brings the fantasized world to life. The tail of a writer that takes ordinary things and reforms them to a mystical object that forms a story read by many. Frank L. Baum from a family of love and works his way to the top of books and the loving father to his family. Despite people who do not like the book, the writer has become famous for his classic Story. The writer of the Wonderful Wizard Of Oz was a…

Throughout Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is most definitely a heroin, as seen in her many acts of courage and her successes found in the story. In the face of adversity, Dorothy perseveres and succeeds in her goal; finding what lies at the end of the yellow brick road. To begin with Dorothy, is a woman of courage. She kills a witch, teaches a lion to not be afraid, and much more. Initially, she is seen as a common farm hand, but that changes as the story progresses. She does much…

The quest in L. Frank Baum 's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is designed show that a girl can be a leader, remain independent, and be assertive for values and goals. Baum 's heroine, Dorothy, accepts the challenge of the quest before her and collects companions in order to secure her safety and success in her goals. Throughout her journey through Oz, Dorothy proves to be just as capable as her male counterparts and better than them by possessing traits they do not. Dorothy rejects the character…