Essays on Education Page 141

The aim of this essay is to assess the differences between the two film productions in terms of the intentions of their directors in portraying Shakespeare’s classic, ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Even after watching two minutes of each film it is immediately evident that the story is set in completely different times. Zeffirelli’s version is set…

Eva Smith is a representative of the lower class and how it reacts to the upper class. She is very strong-willed as she demonstrates through all of her involvement with the Birlings and Gerald but the upper class don’t like this which is why she is so unfortunate. With Mr Birling she stands up for…

John Agard, to get his point across about half-caste, he uses images to point other well-known mixtures of half-caste: ‘yu mean when Picasso mix red an green is a half-case canvas/’ this is one of his interpretation of well known mixtures which people of society welcome with open arms, then why is there a voice of prejudice when a…

VIENNA: The expatriates here raise their eyebrows when the Viennese refer to their city as the cultural capital of Europe. Yet, as Claus Peymann, artistic director of the rejuvenated Burgtheater has noted, in what other city does the theatre capture front page headlines? And although the Wiener Festwochen stretches across the city to encompass all…

The Red Room is a traditional gothic story, which in Victorian times would have been very popular with the readers. The author H.G Wells creates suspense in an unusual way rather than describe fear in to the readers mind with the use of long silences which have been known to work, the author develops the…

In the play the Inspector conveys Priestly message that everyone should take responsibility instead of pushing it aside. He expresses this clearly when he interrogates each of them. ‘A nice little promising life there, I thought, and a nasty mess somebody’s made of it’. Here the inspector is referring again to our responsibility and hoping…

‘Discuss the role of parents and parent substitutes in Romeo and Juliet. How responsible are these adults in the tragedy?’ Through Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare presented society a drama that touched on many aspects concerning human condition. The drama, when studied closely, deals with many universal truths including young love, the family unit, the role…

During chapter eight Pip visits Miss Havisham and Stella as Uncle Pumblechook arranged for Pip to go and play there. When Pip is in Satis House, he’s character is in contrast to Estella and Miss Havisham. His low class is established through the way he looks and talks compared with Miss Havisham and Estella. The…

Dreaming is the ultimate act of imagination. In dreams our imagination is allowed to run wild and can create images and ideas that we may not be able to comprehend in real life. Coleridge composed this poem after awakening from a dream and this may be the thought behind this quote. I feel this quote…

“An Inspector calls” was set in 1917, a time of contentment prior to World War 1. This smugness is reflected in the Birling family but is soon disturbed by the inspector. We realise this character is far more than an ordinary policeman from the very beginning. The audience recognises this because of his abrupt arrival,…