1. What are the main themes in this episode? I think one of the main themes in this episode is the sexual expectation of women. One of the first things Joan tells Peggy is to get on birth control. This shows how far the office relationships go. It makes me think that that is the only reason why they have women in the office; is a toy. Another theme is just how the advertising world works. How Don is out at the bar working on a new ad instead of enjoying himself at the bar like everyone else is. It also shows how valued Don is at his job. He shows up to the meeting without a new ad but when the time comes, he is able to come up with something that satisfies the owners of Lucky Strike. 2. How does Weiner re-created the early 1960s tableau? In the opening scene with Don trying to figure out a new advertising pitch, the song “Band of Gold” by Don cherry is playing. This song was released in 1955. He uses songs throughout the episode that were popular in the 1960s. He also uses a calendar to point viewers that this is happening in March 1960. In the Sterling Cooper work place, Weiner decided to have a grid of fluorescent lights. These fluorescent lights become a defining feature of the office workplace in the 1950s and symbolized modernist style in 1960 (Edgerton, 62). To include the ceiling in many scenes, the directors used a …show more content…
low-angle shot. Mad Men is shot on 35 mm film to give it a grainy feel from the time period. To dress their actors in the correct clothing of the time and use appliances that were used, they looked into tv shows of the 1960s and looked-for things to include in their sets to make Mad Men look like it was filmed in the 1960s. They focus on how popular smoking and drinking during this time period. For advertising, they use a lot of sex appeal towards men to get them to buy things. 3. What differences can you identify between our time period and the time period of Mad Men? One of the biggest differences that stand out to me is the way that women were treated. In Mad Men, they are expected to do run the house at home and raise the children. If you were a woman during this time and did work, you had the “easy” job. Men didn’t hold the same respect for you that they had with their male colleges. The men saw women as eye candy and made their sexual thoughts public. There was a lot of sexual harassment but at the time, it was what was expected. Today, these comments are not said and if so, there are consequences. The clothing is also very different. Almost at all times, the women are dress up in nice dresses and have their makeup and hair done. It would be bad if you left the house with anything less than this. Today, women can wear comfy clothing and no makeup for things like running to the store and they don’t get scrutinized for it. 4. What advice does Joan give Peggy? Significance? What role does Joan play in the office? Joan Holloway is the office manager. She is showing Peggy around the office and to her spot. Along the way, Joan offers a lot of advice from men to the way Peggy should dress. Joan recommends that Peggy should go see a doctor who prescribes the pill to single women. This is an indication, that working in a place full of men, is going to offer many office romances. In fact, Joan and another secretary point out that Peggy doesn’t look like she is looking for a romance because of her clothing. They encourage her to shorten her skirts and to show off her figure (Edgerton, 147). When Peggy and Joan reach Peggy’s desk, Joan rattles off a list of things that Peggy should follow: don’t overdo it with the perfume, Mr. Draper drinks rye, and to invest in some aspirin, band aids, and a needle and thread. She also states that the men may act like they want a secretary but mostly they want someone who is between a mother and a waitress. Joan also encourages Peggy to follow her lead so she doesn’t make the same mistakes that she did; mistakes in the guys she has been with. Joan tells her that if she makes the right moves she will be out in the country not working at all. I think this signifies that if she finds the right man, he will be able to provide exceptional things for Peggy and she will be living out in the country not needing to work. 5. What do we learn about Don Draper in this episode? What kind of person is he? Don Draper is the best at his job.
Sterling Cooper values him and they depend on him to come up with new advertising ideas. When it comes to thinking of something new for Lucky Strike, he has no idea where to start. He even has a conversation with a man who smokes Old Gold and asks why he likes to smoke and if he would ever change. During this time, he is taking notes and brainstorming new ideas. Even when it comes to the meeting with the Lucky Strike owners, he still doesn’t have an idea. They get fed up and start to walk out the door when Don finally has an idea. He has an idea to use “it’s toasted” as their new advertising push.
This 6. What kind of person is Pete Campbell? Peggy Olsen? Pete Campbell is the account executive and is after the job that Don Draper has. He really wants to be successful and will do anything to get there. After a meeting with Don and a psychologist, Don turns down all helpful advice she gives and throws her work in the trash. After Don has left his office, Pete tricks Peggy says he forgot his pen to get into the office and takes the psychologists’ work out of the trash. When Don is struggling to give an idea during the Lucky Strike meeting, Pete offers up the psychologist advice to see if they like it. Pete is someone who will do anything to get to the top even if that means going behind someone’s back. Peggy, during this scene, is a push over. Even though someone isn’t supposed to be in Don’s office without him in there, she lets him in. She is also quick to apply Joan's advice. At the end of the day, she lays her hand on Don’s to show him that it’s okay. Whatever he wants is okay with her. 7. Describe Peggy’s visit to the doctor’s office. How does the doctor treat her? The doctor walks in the examining room and lights up a cigarette. He makes small talk with Peggy about his secrets with Joan. He says that he doesn’t judge single women for requesting the pill. Then he goes on to say that she doesn’t need to go out with every man to get her money’s worth. He also warns that if she abuses the pill, he will take it away. This shows that even a man has control over a women's body and what she does with it. After he prescribes the pill for Peggy, he said that “easy women don’t have husbands.”
In "Constant Star", lighting told much about the play as soon as it began. Low, yellowish lighting and a bit of fog spread by ceiling fans filled the stage as the play started. This gave the stage the look of an old photograph, so the audience immediatly gathered that the show was taking place in the past. The mood was often set by lighting as well. Red lighting gave the audience a sense of foreboding while yellow indicated happy times. Also, lighting could substitute for props. During scenes involving the train, lights would flash on and off, making the stage look as if it was actually moving. This effectively created the illusion that the cast was on a train. Also, lighting was innovatively used to create a "jail" in one of the scenes by creating vertical bars on the stage around the convicts.
Kathy Harrison starts her personal story happily married to her childhood sweet heart Bruce. Kathy was living a simple life in her rural Massachusetts community home as the loving mother of three smart, kind, well-adjusted boys Bruce Jr., Nathan, and Ben. With the natural transitions of family life and the changes that come with career and moving, she went back to work as a Head Start teacher. Her life up until the acceptance of that job had been sheltered an idyllic. Interacting in a world of potluck suppers, cocktail parties, and traditional families had nothing in common with the life she would choose after she became a Head Start teacher.
This brings up the resolution. Danny and Uno play the one thing they bother love, baseball. At the end they have a friendly talk about they’re lives.I feel like the theme of the story is that it’s good to get to know someone. Danny and Uno didn’t get along at first but then they were very good friends towards the end of the story. This also happened with Danny’s mother. Danny’s mother was staying with their step dad and she wanted to leave him at the end. Also, Uno and Danny were fighting cause of baseball and everyone had a grudge against him. Once Uno and Danny start to talk they got along. Therefore, I think the authors theme was to get to know people because of Uno’s and Danny’s friendship. The mood of the story is Fun and serious. During the beginning, Danny didn’t know anyone and was serious about everything. Everyone else was having fun playing baseball
The play has an example of the technique of foreshadowing when Ruth faints. This foreshadows her later announcement of her pregnancy. The unchangeable setting is considered as a motif. Although the actions that affect the family happen outside. Yet the audience never goes out of the Youngers house. Mama goes out to buy a house, Walter goes to drink and Bennie goes for dates. All these actions are not shown, but the characters go out and come back to tell what they did. By keeping the actions in their apartment only, this reinforces the idea that the family is trapped in their small house and their life is not changing. Hansberry also uses the look of the apartment to convey the situation of the family that they are worn out of this life. Especially when Hansberry says that the furniture is placed to cover worn spots in the rug (loos40).
Theme: The theme of the story is that sometimes in life you have to make sacrifices, big or small, to help things that are more important then what benefits you more. This is shown plenty of times throughout the story, but the most important time was when Sadie had to choose to save her father, or stop Set and...
The 1950s are said to have been some of the most prosperous times in American history. It is completely reasonable if one looks at our current economic state, the “50s” was a more lucrative time for Americans however our safety was not as secure. “The Red Scare,” a time that everyone knows as a time when a war with Russia was likely and security measures were as serious, if not more, than today’s antiterrorist initiatives. Through Good Night and Good Luck audiences are able to view today’s issues through past events, and the music involved in the film plays a prevalent part in how the story is told. Dianne Reeves sings most of the songs in the film and has a decidedly soothing and “50s” style voice that contributes to the form of the scenes that her songs take place in. The film starts off with “TV is the Thing This Year” and continues throughout the movie with “I’ve Got My Eyes on You” as well as “How High the Moon.” Each of these songs has some sort of significance in the film that assists in fashioning the mood behind the scene and a feel of the real 1950s.
up an overall idea of the theme of the scene. The scene is quite long,
The movie shows the Hoover family a typical American dysfunctional family who are all at different stages of their lives. Each member of the family has their own odd quirk. The family includes Richard, the father, who gives motivational speeches on “The Steps to Being Successful” which is completely ironic because his motivational book is failing, the grandpa who is addicted to heroin, Dwayne, the son, who is slightly depressed and refuses to speak, Sheryl, the mother/wife, who is just trying to keep it all together for everyone and Frank, the uncle, had a failed suicide attempt. Abby, the daughter just landed a spot at the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest. The whole family decides to pack up their van and take a road trip
These stories are laden with humor, but have, like all other stories, an underlying theme. Both themes of these stories are “implied,” and provide an excellent stage to compare and contrast a story on. Theme is the underlying power beneath a story; the “force” that makes the whole experience worthwhile. Theme is “an idea or message that the writer wishes to convey” (Holt 874). A theme can be either stated or implied.
The music was simply in my opinion, background noise which helped, especially at the beginning to put the audience in place and time. The main theme I believe that The Learned Ladies encompasses is approval and greed. This play looks at the limits we are willing to go for our own happiness, but not the happiness of others. I particularly enjoy the fact that in the end, we see the true colors of each complex character. Since it is a comedy I think it is funny that it makes light of the arguments between husband and wife.
The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
The theme is presented all through the story by the setting. Whenever Walter went somewhere or passed a certain place, a daydream would be triggered. In his daydreams he was in many different places, doing different things. After dropping his wife off at the hairdresser, Walter passes a hospital. At the sight of the hospital, Walter begins to daydream that he is a well-known doctor. He is clearly regarded as great doctor for many achievements. He is also the one of higher importance because as soon as the anesthetizer begins to malfunction Walter is the one that everyone looks to. Near the end of the story while he waits for his wife in a hotel, he sees a magazine about World War I, which then catapults him into another daydream of him being a valiant soldier. Also while Walter is walking on the sidewalk, he hears the newsboy shouting about the Waterbury trial which leads him into a daydream about being a defendant. Walter is not satisfied with where he is and
The beginning scene was actively engrossed with low-key lighting or "dark look" that gave off an overcast to understand the power Don Corleone possessed over the individuals he was speaking with. According to David Konow (2014) "As Willis recalled in the book Masters of Light,That technique or that approach to the movie visually just came out of a thought process. And the process, in my mind, was based on evil; it was based on the soul of the picture. The wedding outside had a very sunny, almost Kodachromey, 1942 kind of feel to it. Then when we cut inside the house with Brando, it was very down and very ominous…so it was a very simple philosophy. However, the overall look of The Godfather was a kind of forties New York grit." The lighting used in The Godfather helped to implore the nostalgic feel of the movie. Although it was made in the 80 's Willis ' use of his new techniques changed the lighting in movies to come and placed the viewer in the midst of the 1940 's mafia
The main theme expressed in the play is change and the characters' inability to cope with this. Like many working-class people from this time the characters in the play are fairly uneducated and because of this, they do not have an understanding of the growing old process, they cling onto what they know best, which is youth and this brings about their downfall. Olive is the classic dreamer. She is thirty-nine but still continues to live as though she's a teenager. She has extremely strong ideals, which she refuses to let go of. She wants excitement; she wants "five months of heaven every year." She doesn't want the monotony and responsibility of married life. Roo and Barney, who once were fit young men, come down from the lay-off this year, dragging their ever-increasing age with them. Roo is not as fit and healthy as he used to be - he has a bad back - his pride also holds him back from realizing that he is getting older and that life is changing for him. Time is catching up with Barney as well and he is no longer the epitome of male prowess that he believed he once was. Underneath the smiling, joking façade he really is a fairly pathetic man who doesn't truly understand what is happ...
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