Yasmina Reza is a french woman who is an well known playwright, and novelist, who has been awarded multiple awards, including a Tony award in 1989 as well as 2009, she currently resides in Paris. A play she had wrote in 2008 entitle God of Carnage, has become an impeccable piece of literature that has changed the outlook on acting like an adult. With realistic characters with realistic dialogue, all completed with a seasoning of awakening satire. This play puts on display the irony of two couples, arguing about their own children acting like big children themselves, as they discuss the ill manner choices of their own sons.
As they play opens ups, we learn that Veronica 's eleven year old son has been assaulted with a stick causing him
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A comical scene that occurs in this story is when the hamster comes into play. Veronica informs us about her second child, henry’s sister who is nine years old. This little girl is very upset because her father got rid of her hamster. Then, we learn more about the hamster as Michael shares his side of the story, “Yes this hamster makes the most god awful racket all night, then spends the whole day fast asleep! Henry was in a lot of pain last night; he was being driven crazy by the noise that the hamster was making. And to tell you the truth I’ve been wanting to get rid of it for a long time, so I said to myself OK, that’s it I took it and put it in the street. I thought they loved drains and gutters and all that but i guess not, it just sat there paralyzed on the sidewalk, Well, they 're not domestic animals, they’re not wild animals, I don 't really know where their natural habitat is. Dump them in the woods, they 're probably just as unhappy, so I don 't know where you’re suppose to put them.”. (7 Reza.) If this were a lifetime movie or a disney movie we would all sleep better at night because we would have seen the dad bring the …show more content…
… No, no, darling, we haven’t found her … Yes i went all the way to the grocery store. But you know, my love, Nibbles is very resourceful, i think you have to have faith in her. You think she was happy in a cage? … Daddy’s very sad, he didn’t mean to upset you … Yes will of course you’ll speak to him again. Listen darling we’re worried enough about your brother .. She’ll eat … she’ll eat leaves acorns. Horse chestnuts … she’ll find things, she knows what food she needs … worms snails, stuff that drops out of trash cans. She’s like us, she omnivorous… See you soon, sweetheart. This one phone conversation has two key pieces of giving us very realistic situations, the first being when Veronica switches from melt down mode as she was just previously losing her reputation as a prideful adult in front of her house guest, she collects herself to avoid any worry in her daughter. Secondly, she covers up the mess by lying to her daughter that her hamster will be alright, knowing what happens to hamsters when they’re set free, just like most realistic moms would do to prevent breaking their child’s
The reading “The Terror” by Junot Diaz is a story I can relate to because of the emotional and physical bullying I experienced in high school which I was able to curb after informing my parents who took immediate actions to put a stop to it. Junot Diaz was narrating his experiences with fear after getting beat-up as an adolescent.
Throughout the play She Kills Monsters, different feelings and opinions arose. Primarily, it was not appealing to my taste of genres, and I couldn’t care less about what appeared to be a nerdy play, additionally it made me feel puzzled. Secondly, the play was entertaining and humorous. Lastly, the role-playing of the characters in this world of fantasy was amusing and enlightening. Although the play’s genre was fantasy and adventure, I speculated that it illustrated important values that we should incorporate in our lives.
Throughout an individual’s life-time, he/she has a vision as o what his/her should be. But when things do not go as planned and the unexpected occurs, does that person face it, or run away? In “An Act of Vengeance” by Isabel Allende, running away is not an option at well. Through the usage of plot, character and irony, Allende illustrates the cost of war.
Due to the serious tensions looming in the air, many people would think it is strictly forbidden to laugh a little or have fun in Iran. The constant political instability makes it seem like the citizens live like robots under extreme oppression. However, in Marjane Satrapi’s biography, Persepolis, she gives an inside look at her experiences growing up in Iran and adds comic relief throughout the novel. As the main character, Marjane, evolves from an innocent girl into a mature woman, Satrapi adds bits of comic relief to highlight her typical personality while living in the midst of an oppressive society.
The children were horribly spoiled and considered the nursery as their parents, not their actual parents. The nursery is a room that turns your thoughts into reality. The nursery had been an African veldt for about a month now, demonstrating ideas of death and hatred ever since the children were denied a rocket to New York. They called in a psychologist named David McClean. He said this wasn’t good at all and that they needed to shut the house down as soon as possible, as well as getting away from here. George and Lydia were fine with it since they wanted to do so already, they wanted to live and the house wasn’t letting them. They told the children and they were in hysterics. They begged the nursery to be turned back on. They did so, and eventually George and Lydia were locked inside by their children, and were killed by the lions that were always in the veldt, waiting. David asks where their parents are, they said they’ll be coming. It ends with Wendy breaking the silence, offering a cup of
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, is a story based on her own childhood in Iran. The story consists of the struggles her family and friends are forced to deal with, changing Marji’s view of Iranian life and its people. The book starts during a revolution, the Iranian people are trying to overthrow the emperor and when they finally do, war breaks out between Iraq and Iran. During the war thousands of people’s lives were taken, women, children and men of all ages. During this Marji’s parents forced her to leave Iran because they know it is too dangerous for a child of her age to live in the middle of a war so severe and life threatening. During the time Marji did live in Iran, she heard many tales about the umpteen conflicts and struggles that lower class people were faced with. Marji saw her maid whom she loved and cared for, not being able to date her love, their neighbor, because she was embedded in a different social class. She experienced the harsh realities of divergence between men and women. Women were compelled to wear a veil in order to not “distract” men with their hair. Younger boys in the lower end of the class system were given a “golden” key to take to war, which was actually plastic; this key meant that if they were killed fighting for what they believed in, it would guarantee their entrance to heaven. In Iran, there were a variety of ways in which the people of Iran can be distinguished between social classes. Your social class affected you in every way there was during this horrible time in Iran.
The play God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza begins with a simple set-up, four parents from different social classes coming together to discuss a dispute between their sons. As the play continues we see the characters slowly becoming less polite and civil as they start yelling at each other, getting piss drunk, and everyone’s favourite, vomiting. Throughout the play these characters are constantly being tested and judged. When Veronica and Michael attempt to show off their material possessions to the Raleighs they are given a metaphorical slap to the face as they physically ruin what the Novaks hold dear to them. In return the Novaks judge the Raleighs on their sense of righteousness and responsibility, the Raleighs social standing allowing them
In the chapter “The Four Girls”, it said, “ ‘She told us that she was being turned out of the human race. She was becoming a monkey…Already the other organs inside her body were a monkey’s. Only her brain was left, and she could feel it going...And she’s making these awful sounds like she’s a zoo’ ” (Alvarez 54-55). In this chapter, the sisters’ mother told embarrassing stories that had happened to each one of the sisters. The story about Sandra, that the mother told, was about when she suffered a mental breakdown while growing up. She explained how before Sandra’s breakdown, Sandra had been suffering anorexia. And as an effect from this, Sandra started to believe that she was turning into an monkey, that evolution was going backwards, as she grew older. And so it’s this that caused Sandra’s parents believe that she had lost her sanity because of the crazy idea that she believed that was happening to
Sofia Coppola’s movie, The Virgin Suicides, 1999, brings to the forefront the reality of what life is like for five oppressed teenage girls living in suburbia in the mid-70’s. After examining numerous articles, a few of them made an impact on my perspective. The first of many articles is Todd Kennedy’s piece, Off with Hollywood’s Head: Sofia Coppola as Feminine Auteur. Kennedy discusses how Coppola has a tendency to lean toward directing films that cater toward females’ interest, either because of the visual imagery or women’s feelings of connectedness with the characters. The author reveals that The Virgin Suicides portrays women as becoming dominated by the environment surrounding them. The author gives an interesting point of view when he claims, “The film tells a story of the five Lisbon sisters whose identities exist only insofar as they are defined as the objects of the masculine desire” (44). Furthermore, the Kennedy asserts how the film serves as a prolonged exploration into the degree to which female characters are idealized, objectified, and defined by the image that the film- and their society- imposes upon them.
What if you could forget all your worries and cease to care? What if you could avoid all the stresses of being a teenager in high school, all the expectations teachers, parents, and society impose on you, and simply be free and careless? Would you decide to take action? Would you risk everything to have a permanent feeling of euphoria and liberty? Would it be worth it? In the fictional world Chuck Palahniuk creates in his short story “Zombie”, there is a way to make this happen. Nonetheless, this fictional world is not impossible, it is improbable.
War ravaged the land and tore people apart emotionally and physically. One recurrence that came about during the war was the raping and “ruining” of women. To be ruined meant that a woman was raped and/or tortured so severely that she would no longer be capable of having sex. In a culture that values the fertility of its women, this lead to the breakdown of many communities. A perfect example of this breakdown would be in the case of Salima and Fortune. Salima was taken into the bush and raped for 5 months and when she returned home her husband, Fortune, turned her away. This violence committed against Salima caused her to be forced from her community, and it also forced her to take up work at Mama Nadi’s. Here she has to endure a change of identity in order to do the work required of her and to come to terms with her past. At the end of the play, Salima dies and states the haunting words; “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore”(94). These last words sum up just how intrusive the war has become in the lives of everyone in its path and also represents a clear shift in Salima as an individual. Instead of the woman who just wanted her husband back at the end of the play, we are left to contemplate a
This is the first threshold that Cohle crosses on his adventure. He and his partner find the church and a key piece of evidence linking it to the killer they are searching for. This first accomplishment in finding a piece of evidence signifies to the detectives, just as much as the viewer, that the case is progressing.
This line is spoken by a character played by Steven Segal in the movie Hard to Kill, a movie remarkably similar to every other motion picture Segal has ever touched, and depressingly reflective of a larger cultural trend. In Segal’s movies, characters with names like “Orin Boyd” and “Nico Toscani” boast body counts and a shared insatiable thirst for vengeance. Death becomes a prop employed to dispatch central characters, and a cycle of one-upmanship ensues – we saw Segal rip someone’s throat out in Under Siege, so the next movie has to be more ridiculous in its sheer level of violence to be marketable. In 1999, it came as no real shock to viewers when Segal’s character stabbed a Nazi sympathizer in the neck with a broken wine glass. The reality is that technology gives us the means to transmit images and messages of unparalleled intensity, and as we do that, reality is recursively recreated. As artists and media moguls say less, they attempt to compensate through force, resulting in a constant barrage of deafening sound that amounts to nothing more than noise or visuals so gaudy and exaggerated that the thin shreds of meaning behind them are utterly lost. In this context, death is watered down until it becomes comfortably palpable. Theatres full of families cheer when the hero shoots the bad guy in an action movie, but it never crosses a single mind that a murder has taken place. Viewers wear expressions of smug satisfaction when a crooked lawyer is double-crossed, but the underlying web of lies fazes nobody. In this context, authors have to shout over the noise to communicate the true evils that float between humans. There is no longer ...
In the novel Heart of Darkness, there are several themes including Good versus Evil, Power, Femininity, and Fate. Two themes are further prevalent and significant. These themes are restraint and identity. They are the two most noteworthy themes in the book because both capitalize on the complexity and flaws of human nature.
Nawal El Saadawi is an activist, a physician, a psychiatrist, and most importantly she is an Egyptian feminist writer. She has written many books about the women of Islam, all of them focusing on the mistreatment and abuse of women. God Die by the Nile is one of her works originally published in 1985. Women in God dies by the Nile are victims to a patriarchal society and class system, that is controlled though religion, politics, and social customs.