Language Essays
Overture The significance of print media has been getting bigger and bigger as the time progress all over the world. Magazine is one of the popular forms of print media worldwide. There are different types of magazines with different features and attributes. They are mostly periodic- monthly and quarterly magazines are most common. The magazines…
I have noted that generally, most property advertising of new housing estates, is done by using an artist’s impression of the new/proposed, development. Whilst this is practically feasible, it must be pointed out that these graphic representations are intended to represent the idyll and set out to do exactly that through the imagery used –…
This 1962 advertisement promotes the Marlboro brand cigarettes, which now have a filter. However at the time, filtered cigarettes were new to people and therefore considered feminine. This advert is targeted at a narrower and sceptical audience of men, since the image suggests that “real” men also smoke filtered Marlboro cigarettes. To convey successfully its…
In “Old Man, Old Man” the juxtaposition of words like “Lord”, “World authority” and “connoisseur” with words like “shamble” and “ramble” emphasize that the old man is retreating from his talents in the adult world to an old frail man who now lives in a “contracted world”. His old talents have been exaggerated and given…
This lesson is manly focused on how Billy and Tommy felt going to war. It was a hard time for Billy because of what happened in the past. It was easier for Tommy because his past wasn’t as shocking as Billy’s. In the First World War many people died as a result. This was the…
There are three main stages of the performance process; improvisation, rehearsal and performance. All three stages are closely linked to each other and often overlap; a dress rehearsal for instance is a rehearsal and it is also a performance. Improvisation is an unrehearsed performance, sometimes to an audience. There are always some aspects of improvisation that…
Performance studies is about exploring how dance, drama and music interlink through the use of common language, as well as acknowledging that each art form has many elements that are unique to it. The language of performing arts is an essential range of vocabulary employed by writers, performers and directors to effectively convey the various…
How does Willy Russell use the stage to show that growing up in different social classes affects two very similar people? ‘Blood Brothers’ is all about a set of twins who are brought up together but in different families of different classes, they grow up as best friends and eventually die together just after they find…
Their language, accent and ability to use language contrasts greatly. Mickey appears to have a posh accent, or just a lot more posh than Mickey’s. When they first meet the language differences are highlighted. Mickey: …..”because I’m pissed off”. Eddie (awed) “Pissed off! You say smashing things, don’t you?” Mickey says things like pissed off and he later says ‘the F…
In “Bleak House”, Dickens uses language to create an atmosphere of fog all over London. He uses different techniques to do this, one of which is a variation of sentence length and another is his punctuation. He also uses repetition and personification. Firstly the lengths of the sentences are short or long. At the beginning…
Nora: flesh-coloured. Aren’t they beautiful? …… Nara: (look sat him for a moment) shame on you (flicks him on the ear with the stocking) (pg66-67) Nora is excited and cheerful most of the time so her body language is also quite childish just like her, she is always jumping clapping or fiddling. Nora:(walks around the…
A doll’s House has alot of qualities about it which most plays often don’t have. The sub-text within the play is really intense because characters say one thing yet mean another. This mainly happens with Nora’s character as she has alot going on that she doesn’t want her husband to know about. Mainly where alot…
J. P. Morgan once remarked that “A man has two reasons for what he does- a good one, and a real one. ” These words reflect upon the stark difference between appearance and reality. The play, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen illustrates this difference greatly. Set in Norway in the nineteenth century, the play…
On another part of the island, Trinculo and Stephano are busy getting drunk and introducing alcohol to the clueless Caliban, which creates humour in the scene. Stephano manipulates Caliban, who then volunteers to be a slave to Stephano, rather than Prospero. Ariel enters in an invisible form as Caliban reveals his plan for Stephano to…
Love is possibly the most talked about subject of all time but unfortunately it has not always been as fair, free or co-equal as we like to believe it is today. Pre-twentieth century poems clearly show us that love was very male dominated. This was often the faults of the woman’s fathers who set up…
In this essay I will explore how Wilfred Owen expresses powerful emotions through powerful language in his war poetry. I will focus on the three poems “Dulce et Decorum est”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Parable of the Old Man and the Young”. Wilfred Owen grew up in England and moved to France as a…
Pip and Magwitch are the most mysterious and strange ‘quasi’ family in the novel. They are connected but without either knowing for the most part. It’s coincidental that the father of the woman loved by Pip is his benefactor, however a benefactor without knowing his own daughter. The two first meet in the Marshes. Magwitch, a…
David Mamet’s new play, Oleanna, is an urgent, upsetting examination of sexual harassment, a subject that has gripped America since the Clarence Thomas hearings. When the play premiered last October in Cambridge, Mass. (produced by Mamet’s own Back Bay Theatre Company in conjunction with the American Repertory Theatre), Mamet was attacked by people on both…
Romeo and Juliet is a play set in a city called Verona in Italy, about two “star crossed lovers”, who fall in love at first sight, Unfortunately Romeo, is a member of the Montague family who are sworn enemies of the Capulet household, to which Juliet belongs. The path of true love is not going…
Act 3 scenes 5 evokes Shakespeare’s pity from the audience in many ways the use of language, characters and dramatic devices creates the general feeling of sympathy for Juliet. I personally feel Shakespeare’s best use way of provoking sympathy is through the use of the character Capulet and how he uses isolation and manipulation to…
In Act 1 Scene 5, when Viola attempts to woo Olivia for Orsino she calls her ‘most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty’. This is the type of language Orsino would use to compliment her beauty. She uses courtly love language which would have been mocked in the Renaissance era as Shakespeare did in Sonnet 130…
Act 3 Scene 5 is a pivotal scene in William Shakespeare’s renowned tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. It includes Romeo’s departure to Mantua, where he has been recently banished, Lord and Lady Capulet’s announcement that Juliet is to be married to Paris, and Capulet’s subsequent outburst in hearing that Juliet is not willing to cooperate….
In this essay, I’ll be writing about how “The Man Who Invented Tomorrow” uses language in his novel “The Time Machine” to teach us about his incredible vision of the future. My understanding of Science Fiction is that it can be based on anyone, humans, animals etc…it can also be set anywhere, examples are schools,…
Act 1 scene 3 introduces Juliet to the audience. Here she interacts with the nurse and her mother. Her words emphasise her contrasting relationships with the two. When interacting with the nurse she seems at ease and the words spoken between them shows a friendly and intimate relationship, Nurse ‘Faith I can tell her age…
Q. How does Shakespeare maintain tension and interest in Act 1 scene 5 and who do you blame for Romeo’s and Juliet’s death? Shakespeare maintains interest in Act 1 scene 5 using dramatic devices like dramatic irony, mood/atmosphere, shifts of focus, contrasts of emotion language etc. As well as imagery, hyperbole, contrast of language and…
In the play of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ so far, The Capulets and the Montagues have been given a decree: That if they were to disturb the streets of Verona again, than it would be punishable by death. The supreme prince Escalus made this Judgement with severity because of the other Two brawls before this most…
By considering the use of language, how does Simon Armitage portray the importance of his mother, in “Mother, any distance greater than a single span”? Armitage opens up his poem concerning the importance of his mother, suggesting a great importance to him. “Mother, any distance… requires a second pair of hands,” instantly implies that his mother…
Friar Lawrence plays a key role in Romeo and Juliet, as an advisor to the couple, as the cleric who marries them to each other, and by planning the means of their escape from Verona. Throughout the play, his intentions may be played as being good (although this is debatable), however, the ironic outcome of…
The voice was written in the same year Hardys beloved wife Emma died. So the poem focuses on his heartache and loss over her. It shows his depression and how he mourned, we feel for him because he uses imagery and complexity in the poem to give us an idea of how he felt. From…
Reason, perception, emotion and language are all ways of knowing1. Reason is defined as formal logic or knowledge that is gained through rationalism. Perception is an empirical inquiry gained through experience. Emotion is a normative judgement that while language is comprehensive rationality. Different ways of knowing affect different areas of knowledge, which are Mathematics, Human…
