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“Now, what I want is, Facts.” With these opening words to “Hard Times”, spoken by Thomas Gradgrind, Dickens declaims Gradgrind’s values in life. Gradgrind’s gives his instructions to the class teacher in unequivocal terms, using repetition of the word “Facts” several times to emphasise his narrow vision of the purpose of education and he closes…

In medieval times, the Church had become predominate in both the culture and domestic affairs of everyday people. The Church was in charge of governing laws, taxing people, and was a big participant in every form of social event from baptism to the funeral. Sadly, with power comes corruption, and the Church was not above…

A hero is someone with the emotional capacity to alter significantly, the lives of others for the better. In some cases, physical accommodation is necessary as well. The epic, Beowulf, by an unknown poet, accurately portrays the characteristics of an epic hero. Strong and intelligent, the hero in the story, Beowulf, defeats many evils and…

The first thing you notice about the space is how much of it there is. Entering the bank lobby in Philadelphia’s Packard Building, the Wilma Theater’s inspired off-site venue for its current production of Oedipus the King (running through May 1), is like entering the Parthenon the scale and proportions of the architecture collude to…

In the year 1996 Baz Luhrmann, a famous film director, adapted Shakespeare’s classic play, “Romeo and Juliet”. He directed the newer version with the intention of making the film more enjoyable for a wider range of people, bringing different aspects of play into different perspectives. In this essay I will be looking at how Baz…

An Inspector Calls is set in the year 1912 but was written by J.B. Priestley in 1940, during the Second World War. Priestley had witnessed the suffering, torture and discrimination of the working-class people who lived throughout the two World Wars and the years that lay in between. Priestley’s experiences had influenced him to expose…

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a well made play written by J. B. Priestley in 1945. Based in 1912 the play focuses on the Birling family being visited by Inspector Goole. No one quite knows who or what the inspector is as he has a ghostly sense about him. To the audience he could be a…

Between 1591-1595 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote the famous tragedy ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The play involved some very advanced and intricate writing styles for its time. One of the most interesting parts of his play was the idea of the influence of a patriarchal society on the characters and indeed the story. In this essay I…

In William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet”, the character of Juliet changes constantly throughout the play. In some scenes she is a calm and calculated adult, in others she is seen as a somewhat immature child and sometimes she is observed as a glorious mix between the two. We first see Juliet when she is called…

In a play we as the audience learn about its characters by their speech, actions, tone of voice and their stage directions. It is usually very easy to see a character’s personality in a play as the playwright usually makes it easy to understand who is “Good” and who is “bad”. It must be remembered…