In the play, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” it tells a story about Joseph, one of Israel’s son, who can interprets dreams and his faith with God even when times goes bad for him. If you look deeply into this play, it is a religious play that mentions about the Holocaust and the different song styles to make the lyrics of the song through.
Singing was also very important in the play. Most often, the songs that were sung in the play were used in conjuction with lighting to create the mood. Deep, slow songs indicated that times were changing from good to bad, or from bad to worse. High, fast songs introduced happy scenes. Scenes were also changed according to song, such as the jail scene. The cast began to sing a song about freedom and the jail bars disappeared, indicating through song that the men had been freed. Also, song was important in the play because the songs were specific to the african american culture.
Joseph's poem brings light to the issue of stereotyping that we still face in todays time. The narrator talks about how her mother was punished by her teachers for having an accent, but was praised by her friends for the way that she sounded pronouncing words. The narrator also
All of this is brought to the reader by an abundant use of figurative language throughout the song. For Instance, the scaffold the man is standing on symbolizes his position in life (he is scared and wants to escape. In the third stanza, after describing the problems with his world and how he prays, he curses the windstorms. This is actually a metaphor for his mental confusion and despair. In the next stanza, the prestige of the boardroom is made evident by the allusion of it towards a pharoahs tomb. We know in the end that he has pulled it all together when he calls his “crystal clear canvas” (the windows) a “masterpiece” . He has given value to his work and thus, value to his life.
Jeunet’s Amelie and Ham’s Tilly enter as outcasts; who long for acceptance and normalcy from the members of their societies. The use of settings in the novel and film are used as a visual representation of Tilly and Amelie’s isolation. Tilly is “detached” at the top of the hill but able to “[see] everything”, just as Amelie is in her high positioned apartment that overlooks the unfairness in Raymond Dufayel and Lucien’s lives. They experience detachment in different ways, with Amelie growing up “deprived of playmates”, never learning the social skills necessary to enter society, and Tilly being isolated, for being “the dangerous one” and sent away from the society at a young age. They are after the approval of everyone around them as the women
The use of allegory drives the story along. It is a constant reminder of The Holocaust to ensure the reader is not too captivated by the fairy tale element of the novel. The use of allegory grounds the novel, gives it a sense of realism. Whilst the story Yolen tells is fictional the setting in which they exist is not. By using true elements in the building and development of characters they are made believable. Characters in this story are not perfect and have many flaws and imperfections, an example of this are the fact that the character of Josef is a homosexual. It is a far cry from the stereotypical prince that is perfect in every way.
Satire criticises and makes fun of the norms of human society. It adds an intellectual humour along with the archetypes that is present in the story. In The Princess Bride, by William Goldman, satire is in a wide variety of parts in the story from the communication between others to the character themselves including the Spaniard, Inigo Montoya. The author portrays Inigo as a Spaniard who becomes a fencer to seek revenge on the six-fingered man for the murder of his father, Domingo Montoya and he becomes a henchman to the criminal Vizzini. He is a very caring man to people he cares about, but he can only act on vengeance since he truly loves his father. With his attention only on reprisal, it can blind him from achieving the results he wants and that can significantly affect his personality as he is driven by it. When he finds the six-fingered man, he prepares after many years of training with famous fencers and even has a saying that he plants in his brain so that it is the driven force of vengeance. He is the ‘evil figure with an ultimately good heart’ archetype as he is a part of Vizzini’s group with Fezzik, but he has a change in heart that he needs Westley’s help to storm the castle. Although Inigo is a prestigious fencer who only cares about revenge, the author plays with satirical devices that portray the faults and weaknesses of his characteristics while maintaining his status as the best swordsman in his generation.
This is present in verse 4, “And you can tell me doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep? This line relates to the difficulty of sleeping experienced by many veterans and soldiers. The images of what they had seen and experienced stuck in their mind and causes sleep to evade them.A lot of imagery is used to make the audience really imagine what the composer has been through.In verse 5 “A four week operation when each step could mean your last one two legs” This was stating that he was on a four week mission through mines and each step was taken precaution, as there were mines everywhere, if you took the wrong step you could have had your legs blown to
In my opinion Stanley Kubrick is, to this day, one of America’s greatest directors. He is renowned for directing films like Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange; Stanley Kubrick doesn’t just limit himself to one type of genre, he works across the entire spectrum and, still, each and every one of his films demonstrate flawless directing, a palpable atmosphere and a great sense of intelligence. The Shining is one of his later works and it is widely deemed one of, if not THE, greatest horror film ever made. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel; however Kubrick very much took the storyline into his own hands for the film and made a considerable amount of changes throughout. It is a captivating, twisted and sinister film which is as notorious in popular culture today as it was when it first came out.
1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
The author uses Irony to show the cruelty of the Holocaust. A quote from the text that shows how awful the concentration camps were is “Every bomb filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence.” This shows irony because they are in the camp as it is getting bombed and they are happy about it. They have no fear but joy and as they are in the camp they were not cowardice but happy they no longer cared if they died in that camp or if the camp got destroyed or if anyone else was killed. In that moment all they saw was the American planes coming and the planes dropping bombs and they had hope, hope of a new day and another shot at life. A second quote to show how the Jewish people felt after the Holocaust going on for that long is “I have more
Neurotransmitters, the chemicals that transmit signals across the synapse of a neuron. Formally used to communicate information throughout the brain and body. With out or even lack of neurotransmitters causes our body to face severe malfunctions. There are a few different types of neurotransmitters that we need in order for our body to function, those include: dopamine, serotonin, epinephrine and many more. Neurotransmitters are extremely crucial when it comes to proper body function, not only that but its vital to understand how our body would malfunction with out them. Looking at The Awakening by Penny Marshall this concept can really be grasped.
The song accomplishes such a thing by taking the approach of a man who knows he is dying, and who takes a nice approach to it. Before the man dies and gets to experience the beauty of heaven, he explains to his loved ones that he doesn't want them to cry for him when he is gone but rather be happy for him. Images of different seasons of the year to explain the process of growing older. Images that depict the fading of light in a persons soul transforming into darkness. Images that the reader can perceive as vivid actions.
Shakespeare is a famous writer of many plays, such as Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy that takes place in Illyria and incorporates several songs throughout the play. Shakespeare normally assigns the singing roles to characters of lower class and minor personalities, such as servants, clowns, rogues and fools. Major characters never usually sing unless they are in disguise or in distracted mental states. In Twelfth Night, the Fool, who is also known as Feste is in charge of all the songs and he uses music to effectively portray the truth and reality beneath all the acting in the play. The songs are not a reflection of him, but are addressed to the protagonists themselves. Through his use of indirect speech and metaphorical
The play starts off with Jesus speaking; he is explaining how he died on the cross so that we could be given eternal life. In the instance of Jesus’ death it was very important. It was necessary for Jesus to die in order for us to be forgiven for the sins that we commit, and for us to one day have a place in heaven. During this part of the play the seven deadly sins are also mentioned. These sins are of importance because we live in a world today that is full of corruption and one day we are going to have to stand before God and explain to him why we fell part into the corruption and temptation. We are going to have to explain to him why we have earned a place in heaven. God will then look at us and either say “well done good and ...
In the film ‘The Shining’ directed by Stanley Kubrick is labelled one of the most complex psychological sub-genre horror movies ever made. For Stanley Kubrick, it was his first film he's made that was a sub-genre psychological horror. The film “The Shining” gave Kubrick a reputation of being labelled one of the most influential directors in film making history. Majority of his produced films were based off books and the art of the film were made with famous music/soundtrack. The film is a psychological thriller/horror about a mother/wife (Wendy) and her son (Danny) in danger of her alcoholic husband (Jack) who is influenced by visual manifestations caused by cabin fever. It is a ghost film about an isolated haunted hotel called the ‘Overlook