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Account for the success and popularity of ‘An Inspector Calls’ over fifty-eight years. Refer to one or two scenes in your answer. Priestley wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945. The play is set in the year 1912 and is at first sight a ‘straightforward detective thriller’ as Tim Bezant says in his Introduction. Mysteries appeal to…

The play Translations was written by Brian Friel an Irish playwright and a founder of the ‘Field Day Theatre Company’ who, for their first production, presented ‘Translations’ in 1980. The popularity of the play was so that productions were the staged regularly within England and Ireland through out the 1980’s but what was it that…

This is the first half of the speech, in which Kate seems to be showing her obedience. (Maybe as a result of the ‘subjugation’ – the audience must make up their own mind) I thought that the RSC version of the final scene was fantastic, as it wasn’t taken, as seriously as Zefirelli’s version, and…

Two of the most skilled poets of all time were William Wordsworth and John Keats, both poets wrote romantic poetry. From poems like “To Autumn” by John Keats and “The Prelude” (1) by William Wordsworth we can see that both well known poets used their poetry to describe their feelings and the atmosphere of them…

Dickens felt that the way in which the rationalised education structure, emotionally stunted people, was a component in the unsuccessful relationships between Victorian men and women. Due to Louisa’s repressive education and upbringing, she is unable to see an alternative to marrying Mr Bounderby as she has not been allowed ideas of her own, and would…

“In Hard Times exactly the same spiritual failings underlie the problems of industrial society, a mechanistic education system and the inability of men and women to achieve fulfilling relationships.’ Discuss Charles Dickens (1812-1870), spent his childhood in the rural town of Kent where he was very happy. However, his family met financial problems and his father…

“Hedda Gabler is deeply preoccupied with the nature of power.” To what extent is this statement reflective of Ibsen’s play? In Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler, the nature of power is seen in the inter-relationship of the characters, led by Hedda Gabler the main protagonist. It is a complex study of Human Beings and their place in…

In this scene when Miranda says “What is’t? A spirit?” she is referring to Ferdinand, they both have a similar response to each other; he also responds to her in wonder, ‘Most sure the goddess on whom these airs attend.’ Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in love at first sight. This scene is very near the beginning of the…

Consider the means by which Shakespeare reveals character in the episode. In the second act of “The Tempest” Shakespeare takes the opportunity to develop the characters of Prospero and Miranda to the audience. Prospero is set out to the audience as some kind of supreme power, after the audience learn just before this extract that it was…

There is a strong comparison between the innocence of a virginal child that can bring any man to love her and in his dreams he sees all the men that she has dangerously lured to their deaths on the side of the mountain, and once he awakes he finds that he has been treated the…