Everyone who knows me, realizes I have an incredible love for musicals because all the music conveys such emotion and stories with every word that’s carefully designed to fit into this bigger picture that sometimes isn’t found in other genres of music. Les Misérables is probably my favorite, I’ve seen it live multiple times and still listen to the album weekly at the very least, so this led to me finding covers and versions on YouTube – which led me to finding a cover of “I Dreamed a Dream” by Caleb Hyles. This song in the musical is sung by Fantine, a young mother who was recently thrown out of her factory job and she has no where to go and no one to turn to so she laments on the fairytale notion she had of life when she met this man who swept …show more content…
her off her feet. The song goes on to discuss how he took advantage of her youth and naivety, sleeping with her and then leaving without a word and then she was left with no money and a child to take care of alone – although the child isn’t explicitly mentioned in the song, her daughter is mentioned in the song before, so the audience knows she’s a single mother at this point. “I Dreamed a Dream” being covered by Caleb Hyles, creates a whole new meaning analyzing it through a queer theory lens.
Caleb makes the decision to keep the pronouns used, which talk about this man coming into his life and how he dreamed they could be together forever, but he was left in the dust by this man coming into his life, using him, and then disappearing. The presence of God is very heavy-handed throughout all the songs in this musical, but in this cover, it takes on a different meaning as now the relationship being sung about isn’t only an unwed couple, it’s a gay couple. Whether this is sung while thinking of the time Les Misérables was set in, the 1800’s, or taking a more modern approach to this song there are ideas that being gay is something to be ashamed of especially when it comes to some religious sects. This version of “I Dreamed a Dream” is a gay man believing that somehow, despite how wrong he was taught this relationship was, he could live happily with this amazing man that came into his life. He sees this relationship as the start of something beautiful, with a person that pushes him out of his comfort zone in the best ways before taking him back to a place that could be theirs. But, despite all this hope he had, he was abandoned and now he’s left homeless, without family or shelter, and it seems the wraith of God is unforgivably targeting him because of this dream that however wrong this feeling, this relationship, might be he cannot seem to let it go –
even though, it’s made his life hell to live in.
Feeling unwanted from the closest people in your life who turn away from you when you need them the most, is the worst feeling a person can endure. I chose the song “My Story” by Sean McGee, because people young and old can relate to his song. People from different backgrounds can relate to each other when there are living homeless or raised as a foster child. Sean McGee wrote “my daddy don’t know, my momma don’t care, it don’t matter if I’m here, it don’t matter if I’m dead” people all around the world have the same issues and share a common culture. A master status is the most important status a person occupies, this is a key factor in determining a person’s social position.
My first song I´ve chosen is Sean McGee, song titled My Story. Mainly the song is about him facing different struggles, obstacles, and all the horrible things and situations he´s been in throughout his life. I can connect to this song and the lyrics for many reasons. One of his lines were ¨Do you know how it feels to be left out in the rain¨? And I have faced times like this when I feel like no one is there or have my back, and in the line he´s trying express how it feels to have nobody and be all alone. Also throughout this song he expresses how everyday you wake up your face with something rather it's just a minor issue or something that will greatly impact your life.
Global warming is a major ecological concern today. It is being caused by man’s ever
The Song at the Scaffold, by Getrud von Le Fort, takes place in France during the French Revolution. It is the story of Blanche de la Force and her journey to understanding the meaning behind her unusual fear and discovering her vocation in life, and ultimately a story of bravery and heroism. After a traumatic birth, young Blanche is forever scarred, and her external expression of this ordeal is an irrational fear at nearly anything. She grows up timid and afraid, unable to muster any sort of courage, although she often attempts to overcome her fear. Later, she joins a Carmelite Convent, and it is here her journey truly begins. It is also at the Convent that she meets Sister Marie of the Incarnation, the novice mistress. Although Sister Marie is protective of Blanche, even she eventually becomes impatient and annoyed at Blanche’s feebleness and often perplexing fear. Sister
Bad Dreams in A Raisin in the Sun The issue of racism is one of the most significant themes in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Many black men have to deal with inherent racism. The frustrations that they deal with do not only affect them, but it also affects their families as well. When Walter Lee has a bad day he can't yell at his boss for fear of losing his job.
Disney movies may want us to believe that Greek mythology is all about heroes defeating the villains and that the Gods are the good guys. However, minimal research will reveal that this isn’t the case. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet “I Dreamed I Moved among the Elysian Fields” she intertwines the allusions to mythological Greek woman with the speaker’s own experience to make a powerful statement on the sexual objectification and victimization of women in the 1930s. The speaker begins the poem with an ethereal tone masking the violent nature of her subject matter. The poem is set in the Elysian Fields, a paradise where the souls of the heroic and virtuous were sent (cite).
In the song “Wet Dreams” by Ja Cole, who is a rap artist. He talks about the song “wet dreams” by describing his first time with a woman. He begins out by describing the first time they met in math class. Cole talks about how nervous he is to do the unthinkable with her. In the poem, “Junior Year Abroad” by Luisa Lopez, who is a female poet, she writes about her time in Paris; she tells about how she is alone even though but love can only go so far because she meets someone else. Although these two works of art are different they are found to be very similar.
There are several events in the play which at one point or the other take a tragic turn which constantly undercut back into the play by speeches. What is set out in the play is a festive mood where people were engaged in activities of ‘Maying’ where people get together to sing and dance in the woods, activities that led to the maids’ belief that the pursuit if true love can be scored only through divination dreams (Barber 18). The fairy’s existence is conceptualized from the act of fusing pageantry together with popular games in a menacing way bring out their actual image of a relaxed
The American Dream: Dead, Alive, or on Hold? written by Brandon King discusses what the American Dream is, how it has evolved, and how to live it to the fullest. He writes that the American Dream in the past meant to live a wealthy, materialistic life, however the American Dream today is to live in stability. The American Dream also has the potential to be viewed from multiple perspectives as everyone is different and have their own opinion as to how live the American Dream. King also addresses that inequality is the main problem according to many; the government is only making the rich minority wealthier, ignoring funds for the lowers classes. The American Dream will never die as long as planning ahead and proposing policies to sustain economic growth are tirelessly acted upon.
Peter D. Hutchinson, Kelly Nyks, and Jared P. Scott produced a film called Requiem for the American Dream. The narrator throughout the film, speaking behalf of the filmmakers, is Noam Chomsky, a former MIT professor of linguistics. Chomsky is considered one of the most influential intellectuals of the 21st century. During the film, Noam Chomsky delineates the wage inequalities between the poor and the wealthy, then relates all of it to the middle class. The majority of U.S citizens live in the middle class, so the policy would be determined by the middle class. So for Chomsky’s purpose of convincing others that higher tax rates are beneficial on the economy, Chomsky directs the message to the middle class, to convince them of his and the filmmaker's message, and to fulfill their purpose. The film, Requiem for the American
Throughout the poem there is only one narrator, a man or woman. The narrator is of high importance to the one being spoken too, so possibly a girlfriend or boyfriend. This narrator alludes to the idea that dreams and reality can be one in the same. The narrator says, “You are not wrong, who deem/That my days have been a dream;” (Line 4-5). The narrator explains that the moments spent with her have felt almost, if not, a perfect dream. The narrator also says, in the closing lines of the first stanza, “All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.” (Line 10-11). The narrator concludes like dreams, reality is not controlled; reality is what you make it, or what you see. Moreover, in the second stanza the narrator
In the speech “I Have a Dream,” presented in the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr talks about his American Dream. This speech is recognized as one of the best speeches ever given at the Lincoln Memorial. As King gives his speech the reader would notice how the second half of the speech is what the world would see as the American dream. The first half consists of the actual reality, nightmare, of the world the constant state that seems never to change. Throughout the speech a person can hear one of the primary themes, dream, repeated constantly eleven times to be exact. Although King acknowledges the metaphor of reality, he explores the archetypical metaphor of a dream.
Before being elected as the first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama was a young student who was trying to come to grips with his racial identity through a period of rebellion. Through Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father,, people would be able to see the development in his beliefs.
Oprah Winfrey once said, “The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” But, what actually is a dream and what do dreams really have to do with one’s everyday life? In essence, a dream is a series of mental images and emotions occurring during slumber. Dreams can also deal with one’s personal aspirations, goals, ambitions, and even one’s emotions, such as love and hardship. However, dreams can also give rise to uneasy and terrible emotions; these dreams are essentially known as nightmares. In today’s society, the concept of dreaming and dreams, in general, has been featured in a variety of different mediums, such as literature, film and even music. While the mediums of film and music are both prime examples of this concept, the medium of literature, on the other hand, contains a much more diverse set of examples pertaining to dreams and dreaming. One key example is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. While the portrayal of dreams, in general, plays a prominent role in Shakespeare’s play, the exploration of many aspects of nature, allows readers to believe that dreams are merely connected to somewhat unconventional occurrences.
The musical Les Miserables communicated the true importance of love and compassion to all of