Copenhagen is a very good book. The story line draws you in and the play format makes it even more of a quick read. Not far into it, you will find yourself tied up in trying to unravel the mystery of just what went down that night that Heisenberg and Bohr took a walk. The whole book is a mosaic of all the components of what makes a story great. Of course without Margarethe none of this would be possible. Margarethe is an integral part in the telling of the story of Heisenberg and Bohr because she serves as a link between the world of the scientists and the one where reality exists. She spices up the dialogue when its dragging and gives the audience catharsis when needed. She turns what would otherwise be an incoherent story about two confused …show more content…
Let it first be said that even though she is not a scientist, Margarethe is a very intelligent woman. When Bohr says this he doesn’t mean that they have to be able to dumb it down to her level, but that they have to be able to share the science without all of the fluff that makes it confusing. Margarethe takes it from there. She serves many times over in the story as a mediator that helps take all the intense science and turn it into something that everyone can comprehend. She does this by typing every one of her husbands scientific papers, and often retyping them multiple times. She does this for the audience of the play as well, throwing in little comments here and there that without the story wouldn't make much sense. For example, at one point in the story, Bohr is trying to explain how an atomic bomb would would. This of course is not a very simple explanation, and the author uses Margarethe to interject and clarify. So Bohr says something scientific and vague, and Margarethe fires back with a clarifying statement (Frayn 33). ” Having her be apart of the narrative is a catharsis for an audience who, while educated on most topics, would be wholly confused by and not connected to a story where Bohr and Heisenberg go back and forth about atomic structure theories and the rate of decay of Uranium
Most of the exposition happens in the beginning of the play. On pages 10 and 11 the women “set the stage” for us. First, Catherine tells us about herself. “I live in Ottawa, Illinois,” she says, and “I have two children that I love. I have a husband that I love.” Next a slide comes up reading “Chicago in the Gilded Age, The Roaring ‘20’s.” Then Frances, Charlotte and Pearl tell us about important people and events of the time. “Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson is running the city,” says Frances. Charlotte adds “So are Johnny Tori and Al Capone.” Later we hear about the Radium Dial Company and its history.
People discussed in the book includes those such as scientist Marie Curie whose discovery of Radium,almost ruined her career, and the writer Mark Twain, whose short story Sold to Satan featured a devil who was made of radium and wore a suit made of . Also discussed is Maria Goeppert-Mayer, a German-born American who earned a Nobel Prize in Physics for her groundbreaking work, yet continually faced opposition due to her gender.
It was her cells that became what is known as HELA cells or immortal cells. Her story is interesting to me because of her impact on the science community. Her cells allowed scientist to perform
...was outstanding. She gives great insight to the horrors and the suffering and allows the reader to be placed into the same place with a large understanding of the emotions that took place. The only thing to complain about is the prolonging amount of detail on the dates and statistics. It’s hard to follow and difficult for one to pay attention and that’s where it became mundane. I can definitely confirm that it was worth the purchase and the time spent into the read. I could honestly say that I’ve already recommended it to others, and I will continue to do so. The people I’d recommend it to though is people interested in the subject and overly eager to learn about new things as opposed to my buddies.
I would recommend this book to people who love realistic stories. Personally for me it is hard to find books that interest me and this one felt like if I was watching someone else's life while I read it. It has so many interesting points. When you think something might happen
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
On September 14, 1879, Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. She was the sixth child of eleven children and realized early what being part of a large family meant; just making due. Although her family was Roman Catholic both her mother and father were of Irish descent. Her mother, Anne Purcell had a sense of beauty that was expressed through and with flowers. Her father was an Irish born stonemason whose real religion was social radicalism. Her father was a free thinker and strong believer in eugenics which meant Margaret possessed some of the same values. (Sanger, Margaret) Eugenics is the belief that one race is better than a different race just because they are not like them, kind of like Hitler and the holocaust. “He expected me to be grown up at the age of ten.” (Source 4.3 page 30) Coming from a family of eleven children she did have to grow up fast. Faster than most kids should have to. She left her house as a teenager and came back when she needed to study nursing. It was during this time that Margaret worked as a maternity nurse helping in the delivery of babies to immigrant women. She saw illegal abortions, women being overwhelmed by poverty, to many children, and women dying because they had no knowledge of how to prevent one pregnancy after another. This reminded her of the fact that her own mother had eighteen pregnancies, eleven children, and died at the age of forty-nine. Margaret dropped out of school and moved in with her sister. She ended up teaching first grade children and absolutely hated it. She hated children at that time. When Margaret was a child herself however, she would dream about living on the hill where all the wealthy people lived. She would dream of playing tennis and wearing beautiful c...
have chosen it for my report. Finally, I will give my reactions to the novel
Margaret had huge dreams of one day becoming a writer, but those dreams were put on hold when her father suddenly passed away in 1835. At this time, her mother was also sick and it became her responsibility to take care of her family’s finances. There were not many job opportunities available to women during this time, she found a teaching job and accepted the position. She first began teaching at Bronson Alcott’s Temple School in Boston and taught there until she went on to teach at the well-kn...
...e preceding reasons, all college students should read the book. The book will captivate the educated mind, and most importantly, will cause that mind to think and to question why things happen as they do.
*All in all I would say that this novel is definitely a good read. I found my self at times relating my own thoughts and experiences to that of the characters in the book. This is the very reason I would recommend that you give your class next semester the option of reading either this book or another. From my point of view, I think that most men can not relate to certain situations that occur, which lessens the overall significance of her writing.
...ualities and influences we want to accept as truth instead of blindly accepting the book of myths. She encourages women to descend the ladder and find the “thing itself” and the meaning that thing has for each individual woman.
...tive techniques to get her point across. Her story was very powerful and probably helped in the antislavery movement, therefore fulfilling her goal. In the end she is thought of as a "new kind of female hero" (497). She has gone through many hardships
writes her stories with the intent to shock her readers into seeing the truth behind human
By having this person be devout to their political beliefs, it draws on questions of ethics and how these political ideologies affect her life choices and her writing (i.e. fleeing to safety versus standing to sight against the Nazi