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Swan Lake is a ballet that consist of four acts. It is based from a German fairy tale. It contains music from Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The first performance of Swan Lake was in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theater. It was held on May 4, 1877. The choreographer was Julius Reisinger. It was not successful. Swan…

  This image is followed by a montage sequence which includes- two people holding hands, a person sighing a will, a piece of paper (supposedly the will) being put into a brief case, the sealing of the will with a stamp. This opening scene establishes motif that will recur and may only be interpreted accurately…

This is evident by the use of the alliteration “perfect pike in all parts,” as well as when Hughes says that pikes are “stunned by their own grandeur. ” The poet specifies the fish’s pattern by describing it as “green deserting the gold,” and he created the word “deserting,” in order to make the poem…

  ‘Often ’tis in such a gentle temper found,That scarcely will the very smallest shell Be mov’d for days from where it sometime fell, When last the winds of Heaven were unbound’ There is the sense that the sea is gentle, but even when so, we are reminded of its immense power – the contrast…

    The arts are very much subjective, and contrary to the sciences, the arts are based primarily on emotion. Because of this, often the way we express our emotions and ideas is artistically. Concepts in the sciences, for instance, are often expressed through art, a good example being the work of Leonardo da Vinci….

The conception of conformity and confinement are salient in both Yukio Mishima’s “The sailor who fell from grace with the sea” and Laura Esquivel’s “Like water for chocolate”. Through these novels, we are testament to the passive and active powers of Ryuji and Tita alike. Ryuji on the one hand succumbs to conformity whilst Tita…

The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima is a post-World War II novel centering on the ill-fated lovers, Shinji and Hatsue. At first glance, the novel appears to be a classical love story of a couple kept apart due to social and environmental obstacles, but a deeper analysis reveals that The Sound of Waves may…

When Harker sees ‘the first dim streak of the coming dawn’ light imagery is used to give a sense of approaching safety. However, Harker then hears ‘the howling of many wolves’. The use of onomatopoeia and the aural imagery adds to the atmosphere of horror. The violence of the wolves is juxtaposed with safety created…

What do these celebrated stage plays and films have in common: A Man for All Seasons, Under Milk Wood, Alfie, The Mousetrap, Voyage Round My Father and Wings? All of them began life as radio dramas for the BBC. American playwrights should take a cue from their British counterparts and be more bold about marketing…

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a political play written by J. B Priestly in 1945. Set it 1912, it unravels the mystery of a working class girl’s suicide and how her death was entwined with a family from a middle class background. The Birling family are Capitalists and believe that every man should look after himself,…