Overview/Analysis "Six Characters in Search of an Author" Luigi Pirandello wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author", and was later translated by Stanley Longman. ... Knowing that they would not be the focus of the play later on, I realized how much this assisted the focus of the play. ... The make-up was also helpful for people who had not read the play. ... When the cast fist made their appearance on the stage, I realized how the music (before the play actually started), foreshadowed the mysteriousness of the play. ... There were many things done with the lighting throughout the play...

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Arthur Miller, who wrote both the play and the movie script, added several things to the play in order to get the desired effect for the movie-going audiences. ... There were many scenes missing in the play, which were found in the movie. ... This scene is never found in the play, we only hear of it through a dialogue in Act 1. ... In the play, Parris appeared to be overly egocentric and self-conscious. ... In the play, his personality is not so domineering as in the movie, where he is bordering on psychotic. ...

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"Game After Supper" Margaret Atwood wrote the "Game After Supper." ... I believe Atwood wrote this to reminisce of a more innocent time. She used to play near her home as a child and writes of an instance when she was young. ... They were playing hiding go seek. ...

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The typical type of play that was popular at the time that Ibsen wrote A Doll's House contained the same type of characters: the aggressive father, the innocent damsel-in-distress type, the jealous husband, the loyal friend, guilty secrets and unfound identities. ... Nora's loan from Krogstad is the main event going on before the play starts. ... The play is split into three acts and each act ends at a pivotal moment in the play. ... Throughout the three acts, however, there are pauses in the action of the play. ... Throughout the entire play, the audience is taken on a journey. ...

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Shakespeare, the famous English writer, left behind so many plays representing the time of absolute power. ... He wrote tragedies and comedies poetically, for this reason he was considered as a genius. ... However, after reading these plays, which one is considered more human? ... Rape, massacre, death, and suffer were the themes played by the characters, that gave the whole play a taste of evil never seen in reality. ... He lived with a restless heart; all this makes this play more human than the first one. ...

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Lady Macbeth was a contradictory person, but she also was a very important character in this play. She was the wife of Macbeth, she support her husband to usurp the throne .she helped him to kill the king. . But when she saw mecbeth killed a lot people, she was begun to regret and she felt her han...

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Smiley wrote her novel using the same storyline and similar themes as Shakespeare did; with specific emphasis on the theme of chaos/inversion of the natural order. ... The main theme of inversion of the natural order is apparent in both the play and the novel, with three main examples in the play. ... Another example of inversion of the natural order in Shakespeare's play is the fact that each daughter ends up dead before her father. ... Even though these examples come from the play, they are also evident in A thousand Acres as well. ... It is at the very beginning of both the play, ...

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Her younger sister, Marjorie Simmins, wrote about growing up with her and how Karen was her best friend, until Karen's drug problem became too much of a problem. Her older sister, Zoë Landale, wrote about the events of Karen's life in a seemingly emotionless piece of writing. ... (Trips from There to Here, Page 60) Marjorie showed love for Karen and wanted to keep her safe from the drugs and help her stay away from them by playing with her. ... Both writers wrote how they had to learn how to stay away from Karen for the better of the family. ...

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All of the main characters in the play were obsessed either with becoming famous themselves or linke in Bananas' case wanting celebrities to acknowledge her. ... Another theme found in the play was that of religion. Bunny wanted the Pope to bless Arties music that he had wrote, so that one day Artie would be famous and she wanted him to bles her marriage to Artie after Bananas was put into the Asylum. ... This play also was about humiliation and family dysfunction. ... Artie himself was humiliated several times in the play, once when Bananas told him his song sounded like "Silent Nigh...

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The main theme of the story is about a boy Called Willard who is a bully, and has no friends and is lonely, he gets all his joy from playing joke's on people... * I think Patrick Bone wrote the story as a warning for anyone who is going to play ghost tricks on Hallowe"en, and to say bulling is not fun for the person it is happening to. ...

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Mickey, played by Woody Harrelson, and Mallory, played by Juliette Lewis, are shown in a way that makes you remember them. ... Then you have the policeman, played by Tom Sizemore, an egomaniac who wrote a book about himself. ...

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3rd Brother wasn't like her other siblings, they played tricks on her and teased and bullied her and made her feel she had no respect. 3rd brother wasn't like that and he talked to her nicely and listened to her feelings and dreams. He didn't play any tricks on her except for one time when they called her down to the room where they were cooling off with juice, they wanted to reward her for Writing Competition held by the Shanghai Newspaper Association. ... She wrote a letter about Aunt Baba. ...

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According to Judith Harris, who wrote an article on her thoughts about parents really mattering, she thinks that peers matter much more than the parents. ... Now when I look back on my middle school years, I realize that my parents really did not play a part in my life at all and if I was writing this back then, I probably would have agreed with the statement, but looking at it now "the long run later, I see that my parents really played more of a role in my life than my peers. ...

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The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... The good guys usually always win in an average book that has a concept of good and evil, but, is it the same with this play? ... At the start of the play, Orlando, youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, was angry. ... He wrote verses about her beauty and virtues and pinned them up on trees in the forest. ... True that evil had an upperhand in the beginning of the play, but in the end good has triumphed evil yet again. ...

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Sid and Leila were always competing for parts in plays and men. ... But behind her back, Helmut took out the money and used it to pay for the play that he wrote for Leila. The part was perfect for her because the play was about her. ...

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All of Jack London's stories are baser on personal experiences, which shows that he is fascinated by pain and nature. He was the child of Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney. However, Chaney refused to acknowledge London as his own. Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, ...

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This part of the book plays a crucial role in Hucks self-discovery. ... At last I had an idea; and I says I"ll go and write the letter - and then see if I can pray. (205)" When Huck wrote the letter his conscience felt clean and he felt releived. " I felt so good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now." Huck has a very difficult time with this situation because religion played a big part in everyone's life. ...

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In "When kids start playing to win" by Cory Turner, the writer wants to say that winning or losing is not a big deal. ... When it comes to children's games, playing games matters more than winning. ... " "If children are told that the most important element in sports or life is to be a winner instead of loser, they might cheat at sports and show immoral behavior and lack of empathy in their lives," Kohn wrote in a "Women's Sports and Fitness" magazine in 1990. ...

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Shakespeare is best known for his tragic play's. ... Lear at the beginning of this play is the King of England. ... As this play starts off Gloucester and Lear are at the top of their game. ... Edmond was the one that wrote this letter and signed Edgar's name to it. ... Shakespeare has written many great play and King Lear is one of them....

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When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. ... Ewen tells Vanessa about Grandfather MacLeod and how he enjoyed reading Greek plays. ... '[Grandfather MacLeod] must have been a lonely man...Maybe he would have liked to talk to somebody about [the] plays. ... Vanessa wrote in order to get away from the harshness of the life, it was an escape from the reality that she lived at home. ...

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Before the 1990's, men alone wrote and directed all the movies, and the movies were written for men. ... In the few movies that were based around women, a man wrote the woman's character, and the woman was portrayed as a sex symbol. ... In the movie Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts plays a hooker in Los Angeles, California. ...

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This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. ... He wrote in great detail what these soldiers went through in the frontlines of battle. ...

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Holden wrote a paper on Ancient Egyptians once and received an "F" on it. ... Holden takes a girl out to a play named Sally and is excited to finally go out on a date. They go to a play together but during the intermission Sally flirts with a boy next to her. ... Nevertheless, Holden still goes to the ice skating rink after the play. ...

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"The Gift of the Magi," "The Skylight Room," "The Cop and the Anthem," "One Thousand Dollars," and "The Last Leaf" are all short stories that he wrote that contain some of these aspects. ... Money also played an important role in alot of his stories. ...

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When they first start off they all still act like young boys and play around and stuff but as they live on the island longer everyone's true colors come out. ... Critique of Lord of the Flies Strong points in the book were that Golding used high vocabulary and with every line he wrote he made you feel like you were there with imagery. ...

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