In the production of Little Shop Of Horrors, the musical, the synopsis follows a young florist (Seymour Krelborn) as he struggles to make ends meet on Skid Row. The other lead role, the love interest, is Audrey. Audrey happens to be striving for the same aspiration. Both lead roles work at a florist shop called Mushnik's Skid Row Florist. All of a sudden their dreams do not seem to be fairytales anymore after a mysterious and interesting plant appears from a total solar eclipse. Soon after, business begins to thrive and things start to look up, however, the plant turns out to be a carnivorous man eating plant that is fueled by human blood and flesh. Ultimately, Seymour goes through multiple gruesome tasks to make sure this alien plant, known …show more content…
as Audrey Ⅱ, stays alive. In the now modern musical, renditioned from the 1960’s play, the current Broadway actors are Lee Wilkof (Seymour) , Ellen Greene (Audrey) , and Ron Taylor (Voice of Audrey Ⅱ). The majority of the theme represented in Broadway musical of Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Jerry Zaks, are dreams based of its symbolic and musical elements. There can be countless symbolic meanings in screenplays. An observer can make any assumption they would like on what they watch. Here is just a portion of some important symbolic elements in this musical. The female love interest is often seen as a dream to the hero. Seymour observes Audrey on a daily basis, and he admires her with a soft and romanticized look upon his face. Seymour often ponders on his future and how it could be different if he was not poor. In scene three of the musical, Closed For Renovation, Audrey and Seymour have a conversation about his style of clothing. In the final area of that scene the stage directions state, “He takes a step towards her...and another...and another...disappointed, he crosses us. to put his plant-mister away” (Ashman 39). During these stage directions Seymour is feeling a sense of happiness, but he falls away when Audrey brings up her boyfriend; this brings his dream to a hult for a short while. AudreyⅡis seen as Seymour’s ticket outta loserville.
Once business starts to thrive Seymour is overwhelmed with business offers and contracts from numerous companies. In one musical scene, The Meek Shall Inherit, the continous growth of AudreyⅡhas caught the attention of multiple CEOs. Seymour in the end, signs all of these offers and is then seen as a successful businessman; it starts to seem as though his dream is coming true and he now has a prosperous income. The most important symbolic meaning out of the entire musical is the color green. In there very beginning, the majority of the plants in the floral shop are seen as withered and dead. This withered green colors give the audience a sense of acknowledgment that success is a thing of longing. When the new little plant AudreyⅡarrives on Earth, its color is a bright, lively green, meaning a fresh start for business and success for everyones dreams. In a few scenes later Audrey's song, Somewhere That's Green, she literally talks about a location filled with the color green. She talks about the color so much for the reason that she wants to live a new life instead of the one she has that’s withered and dry. Another large area where this color is seen is obvious. Money. Money is green and that's mainly what anyone wants down on Skid …show more content…
Row. When talking about a musical, music is the number one ingredient to tell the story. The music gives the audience a point of view for the characters on stage. The musical elements in this story help provide information on our characters thoughts. In the song Grow For Me Seymour is seen pleading to a very small withering AudreyⅡ.
Shortly before in the scene the plant was lively and attracted the attention of a customer through the window. This was the first customer anyone had seen in a long time. Right after the customer leaves the characters on stage bellow with joy, but then little AudreyⅡcollapses. AudreyⅡnow looks as if it is no longer animated. Seymour then continues into the song alone on stage. In the lyrics “grow for me” seymour is literally talking to the plant. He does these actions because now he sees a sense of hope and fortune through AudreyⅡ. However, this vision can only continue if the plant proceeds to prosper. Skid Row is the shows setting. It is a gloomy part of town filled with broke civilians, homeless people, and declining businesses. No living soul would ever want to live there. That's why this musical number has an important number. Throughout the entire song the audience obtains the understanding that Skid Row is a living hell for the main characters. Towards the end Audrey and Seymour have a duet and they
proclaim, “Gee it sure would be swell to get outta here. Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here. I’d move Heaven and Hell to get outta Skid. I do I-dunno-what to get outta Skid. But a Hell of a lot to get out of Skid. People tell me there's not a way out of Skid. But believe me I gotta get out of Skid Row” (Ashman 20). During this movement it's not just the leads who have this vision. The entire ensemble is singing right along with them. All with the same hopes and dreams of leaving Skid Row. Audrey’s solo of Somewhere That’s Green shows the true theme of this musical. Her song is a precise meaning of her dream. Before she goes into her song, she sits upon a bench talking to three Doo-op Girls about her abusive boyfriend. She then goes into trance in which she starts to imagine what life could be like if things were drastically different. In the song she talks about having a husband, Seymour, who would take care of the lawn and herself. A life that revolves around TV dinners and plastic covered furniture. She also dreams of having children and spending quality family time with them. Her last line of her solo is a dragged out “somewhere that's green” with a soft and seldom tone in her voice. We as an audience hear her voice, and understand that she wants a new vibrant life filled with happiness and the color green. This screenplay is one to be remembered; especially for its symbolic and musical elements. The Characters, props, setting, and musical numbers help assist our thoughts in determining that the real theme in this musical is dreams. Everyone has dreams, and they're all different. Whether it be fortune, a person, or fame they all connect by a sense of desire.
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In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression. Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is almost ready to give up her childish ways. Through this time period she was confused and could not quite understand what was happening to her. In the end she rips Miss Lottie’s marigolds among the ugly place in which she lived. The marigolds were the only things that make the place a bit beautiful to the eye. In this scene the marigolds represent the only hope the people had for themselves in this time of depression. This could reveal how the author has experienced a loss of hope in times of need. In her explanation of how Lizabeth had torn up the flowers and destroyed all hope in that time of depression, might explain that she has also destroyed hope in a time of pain and grief. Later she writes, “And I too have planted marigolds.” This could mean she has learned from her experiences and that she has finally found hope and always tries to seek the good within the bad and the ugly. On another note, it could mean she just wants to act out on something, but she can’t, so she writes about her...
In like manner, green is also used to symbolize money. In the story, money controls the life of the people in the story. Gatsby feels that he needs green money to live and to impress Daisy. Symbols of Gatsby’s money included his large green lawn and the green ivy growing up his house. Also, in his car, it depicts the passengers sitting “in a sort of green leather conservatory.” All of these symbols depict Gatsby’s money.
As Dorothy approaches her magical destination she notices the abundance of the rich color. There is not a hint of anything but green. The city is dripping with green including the clothes, money, food, books, and flowers. Not to mention the green people, with green hair and green tinted faces. Green is often connected to money and riches but in this case it is related to the prosperity of the beautiful city. It is being led by a powerful wizard that everyone worships and respects. That leadership helps the city grow and flourish so successfully. The spirited color gives the feeling of trust between the wizard and his people.
Generally, people thinks that ‘green’ represents the plants or earth. In this book, ‘green’ represents an ideal world that Nick wants to live. Nick is one who traveled around to have better life. For example, he moves Midwest to West where he met Gatsby. At the end, he is tired with it, and decided to go back to Midwest. ‘Green’ also represents spring which refers the new beginning or hope.
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”(Fitzgerald 171). Whenever Gatsby looks at Daisy’s green light, he thinks of a bright future with his love of his life. The color green symbolizes Gatsby’s desire for a future with Daisy. Green also symbolizes Gatsby’s desire for great wealth. Nick describes Gatsby’s car as a “green leather conservatory” because the interior is green (Fitzgerald 64).
Symbolism is immensely spread through this novel, as well as an immerse amount of color. For example, the green light gatsby strives for. Gatsby states that the "single green light" on Daisy's dock that Gatsby gazes wistfully at from his own house across the water represents the "unattainable dream," the "dream [that] must
... middle of paper ... ... Hence, the colour green is used throughout the novel to represent all of the jealousy and envy. In conclusion, Fitzgerald uses colours to express the different themes in the novel.
The colors in the hat are extremely significant. Its purple velvet flap creates the image of royalty, and the rest of it, green, represents money. This is the only time that green is mentioned in the story, for money is not something that they have, which even the mother cannot dispute. In addition to the hat, the sky of their once “fashionable” neighborhood is the color of “a dying violet,” and the house...
The green light signifies Gatsby’s hopes and dreams. Nick thinks back to when Gatsby observes the green light across the bay from West Egg and says, “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” (180). The “orgastic future” represents the American dream in which everyone has the equal opportunity to live in prosperity and happiness through hard work and success. Gatsby’s dream is full of potential, but the memories in his past end up against him and his potential diminishes as his life
In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, the main character is Jacob Portman. Throughout the book we see Jacob go through a lot of hard times while also trying to convince his parents and his therapist that everything his grandfather told him was real. Jacob started this book as a normal teenager in a small town living with his mom and dad. At the end of the book he’s at a place he never thought he would be in and seeing his grandfather’s stories come to life. Jacob has many obstacles throughout this book and is a perfect example of why you should always believe in yourself.
Though success lies at the heart of the American dream, Fitzgerald deftly portrays the ease with which this sacred idea can become tainted by commenting on the corruption of wealth. Gatsby exemplifies the American dream in his ideals, in this case the desire for success and self-substantiation; however, this dream become corrupted because he is not able to distinguish the acquisition of wealth from the pursuit of his dream, embodied by Daisy, and is tainted by the illicit foundations of his wealth as well as his desires for an unsuitable married woman. Fitzgerald uses the symbol of the green light at the beginning of the novel to represent Gatsby’s dream and even uses the light to introduce him for the first time. “He [Gatsby] stretched his arms out towards the dark water in a curious way, and as far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing but a single green light, minute and far away”(Fitzgerald 26). The author uses the light to represent the American dream; initially the color green represented fertility, which plays a prominent role in the dream, but as the story progresses the green light grows to symbolize money. In his essay “Money, Love, and Aspiration”, Roger Lewis discusses the means by which Gatsby amasses his wealth and poisons his dream.
The deconstruction of the conventions of the theatre in Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard predicts the more radical obliteration presented later by Pirandello in Six Characters in Search of an Author. The seed of this attack on convention by Chekhov are the inherent flaws of all the characters in The Cherry Orchard. The lack of any character with which to identify or understand creates a portrait much closer to reality than the staged drama of Ibsen or other playwrights who came before. In recognizing the intrinsic flaws of its characters, we can see how Chekhov shows us that reality is subjective, reality is not simple, linear, or clean, and that the real benefit of theater is to show this inane, subjective reality.There are essentially three flaws that permeate over the characters of The Cherry Orchard. The obvious first flaw is nostalgia.
Among the countless books written throughout history, the small gems of good books exist written by famous and unrecognized authors. An enjoyable book requires the answer of a majority of questions that many enjoyed books answer. What is the conflict? What are the characters like? Do the characters create a connection with the reader? Can the author make the reader feel like he/she is inside the story? What is the central message the author is trying to get through? These questions and many more are the final deciding factors readers and critics answer to see if the book is indeed a gem of a novel. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs answers the questions and justify it by the evidence from the book. The book was an enjoyable book for myself and I would most definitely recommend to others
The short story "The Doll 's House" shows the struggle people had under the pressure of society and its disgusting lifestyle. The story is written in 1922 the decade known for its parties and its changes in the social structure. While addressing the social difficulties "The Doll 's House" talks of the peoples struggles that still affect their lives while the social structure is being modified. Although Kezia is a part of a high class society she shows that even people of superior class can be kind and cast out the idea that people similar to her social status are entirely selfish and harsh just as a lamp scatters the darkness.