Throughout the play, “A Normal Heart”, Ned Weeks becomes an extremely effective activist within the gay community in effort to make the country more aware of the deadly immune deficiency disease that is spreading and killing more and more gay men each week. Unlike the other people in his organization, Ned never fails to speak the blunt truth regarding this disease. At one point, Ned became so frustrated with the country’s denial of this disease that he answered a random phone call and said, “every gay man who refuses to come forward now and fight to save his own life is truly helping to kill the rest of us. How many of us have to die before you get scared off your ass and into action?” (Page 68) Ned is done with trying to peacefully handle this crisis within the gay community: he decided to take an aggressive and activist way towards solving this issue. While the other people within the small organization are quietly trying to help peacefully inform people of the disease, Ned decides to finally take this intense controversial stand. Ned has decided to stop taking “no” for an answer, no longer will he allow the country to keep disregarding this rapidly spreading disease within the gay community. After time, Ned’s …show more content…
aggressive stance begins to bring the organization great success. After about a year, the country began to accept and acknowledge the dangerous disease spreading within the gay men community. His success included: People donating, writers publishing articles on the disease, and scientists analyzing the disease. Finally, after years of working to bring awareness to the country Ned succeeded. Ned used different techniques to ring awareness to the AIDS crisis, including the following: became an active voice, said what people were too scared to say, acted arrogant at times, and spoke with confidence. Ned proved himself not only as a leader, but an activist for the gay community. Throughout the play, Ned takes the nontraditional way of solving an issue; activism.
Kramer uses Ned to express that self advocation is a vital skill. Without Ned, who knows what would have happened with the AIDS crisis. Ned did more than just bring awareness to AIDS, he brought integrity and confidence to the gay community. They were given a voice, a voice that eventually allowed them to feel more comfortable and passionate about being gay. By the end reading or watching this play, Kramer wants the audience to be passionate and accept one's differences. Stand up for yourself when you feel insecure. Be the person who acts on their believes. Accept your true self. Be a leader like Ned, and do not be a watcher like our entire country during the AIDS
crisis.
Good afternoon fellow HSC students my name is Mr Zec from the University of Wollongong and I’m here to talk about the play The Shifting Heart and the related text Hospital Evening. The Shifting Heart is a play written in 1957 by Richard Beynon, and it is set in Collingwood in Melbourne. The scene consists of an untidy backyard with a large garbage can, the right fence has barbed wire running across it and the left fence is broken with rusty nails in it. It takes place at the afternoon of Christmas Eve to the morning of Christmas day. Throughout the play the language used is usually either stereotypical Australian or Italian.
What is it about heroes that make them who they are? The Australian history is full of gallant, dauntless people who have a great deal of perseverance. Ned Kelly was a remarkable man, he was bold, brave, astonishing and saved those who were in need. The novel ‘Black Snake-the Daring of Ned Kelly’ reveals a man who stood up for the good and against the bad; he at no time ever took from the poor only the rich. Ned Kelly had a quite a few times to show his malevolent side but chose to lead his life into the light not the dark.
He didn’t deserve to die, nor did he deserve any of the persecution or ill treatment that he ended up getting. He deserved a chance to say to the world that he was not an immoral man and to prove his explanations behind his movements. Ned was in fact a victim- and if only he had additional time to evidence that, perhaps the world would open up their eyes to the fact and possibly- just maybe they would be able to see what those 32,000 people saw in him. Sure, Ned Kelly’s surprises died with him but his story? It is clear to the world that Ned’s story will live on for forever. Ned Kelly`s had only wanted the good out of people and never even dreamed to have a career as theft. No child these days gives enough respect to their hard working parents who brought them up. This respect for elders only lasted for the 1990s and since then every child has no respect or discipline for their loving parents. Ned was only trying to help his parents out. The community only looks at the police`s perspective not
"Lost Hearts" written by M R James is a disturbing yet intriguing short story. M R James uses intense descriptions and shows ghostly figures to create tension. Throughout the story unpredicted events take place. Mr Abney’s obsession with pagans and religion makes the reader question why he is so interested about taking in his orphan cousin and how it could benefit him. “The Professor of Greek at Cambridge had been heard to say that no one knew more of the religious beliefs of the later pagans than did the owner of Aswarby.” We learn about the disappearance of the two previous children who had also been taken in by Mr Abney. After the ghostly sightings of the two children with their hearts ripped out, are witnessed by young cousin Stephen, it creates a sense of foreshadowing events and suggests to the reader, the third victim will be innocent Stephen.
...y, it is a disease where friends have to stand by and watch their friends die. The death toll of AIDS could have been reduced, many people believe, if it had been handle correctly. Although, when one thinks about it from Mayor Koch’s seat there was only so much he could have done. Koch never wrote or said anything that was malicious toward the AIDS community. Like many, it seemed he wanted to help but did not know exactly how to do it properly. Every move someone made when it came to AIDS was brutally scrutinized by both sides of the t so many politicians didn’t know what they could possibly do. The nature of this disease and the political ramifications drive home the overarching idea that the sexual is political because without the sexual nature of this plague it would not have been as difficult to deal with politically and millions of lives could have been saved.
Hamlet in the beginning of the play finds out about how his father truly died and begins to devise a plan to avenge his father. Just so happen his plan is to be crazy. Hamlet first begins acting crazy when he goes into Ophelia’s sewing rooms and starts sniffing her, this little act of crazy has Polonius thinking hamlet is mad with love for Ophelia and began occasionally spying on Hamlet. Hamlets friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent so spy on him by the king but hamlet sees through the cleaver plan and just continues to act mad around his school friends, and tells them that he is "I am but mad north-north-west" (BOOK). Polonius, the Queen, and the king come up with a plan to try and see how hamlet feels about Ophelia. They all watch while Ophelia waits for hamlet to pass by Hamlet and Ophelia speak about their relationship but hamlet say he never loved Ophelia because he knows someone is listening so he must act mad. Hamlets has rewritten a scene in a play that was being preformed in the castle to match the way King Hamlet tells hamlet he was killed. While watching the play hamlet sees that the kings reactions is just what he wants it to be. Guilt. But its at this moment in the play hamlet tries to warn someone about all the things happening. Hamlet goes up to Ophelia after the play and says "believe none of this"(BOOK). While a lot of things could have been
In the play Hamlet, Hamlet can be seen as the sole reason for the corrupt and rotten place that Denmark has become. Shakespeare introduces the audience to Hamlet as a loved and innocent prince who is mourning the death of his father. As the play progresses, Hamlet changes to a person who battles himself with key decisions and only thinks to serve himself. Hamlet is seen to have little respect for women resulting in him using broken love for Ophelia to cover up his plan to murder Claudius. Shakespeare also creates Hamlet to have a hamartia which is an inability to act leading to him manipulating people to achieve his goals. In the play, it is clear that Hamlet causes much grief and turmoil in Denmark and eventually leads to Denmark's rot and his demise.
I know things are confusing right now Hamlet and your father just died, but I want to explain why you’re feeling so awful. Hamlet, it's tough to tell what you're suffering from but presumably grief or grieving. Conversely, the reason it is tough to tell is that it is possible you could also have a mental condition called clinical depression. Moreover, the reason it is grieving and not depression is because before your father died you're but after your father died, your uncle Claudius said you had “change of heart", which is indicative of the fact that before your father died you were not as moody and depressed. Grief essentially means that you feel as if darkness and gloominess, a deep sorrow especially caused by death of a loved one. Some of the symptoms of the grief include mood swings, dismal and depressive thoughts, and social isolation and all of which you illustrate throughout your story. This grief has been compounded and building up since your father’s
As an immigrant myself watching the play for the first time, I was drawn to the shockingly realistic similarities my family encountered as immigrants, emotional as they maybe. It lifted the veil on past and current immigration issues plaguing Australia and the western world (Blake, 2018). The play's liberal usage of reference to the Bianchis family as "New Australians" reflects the general attitudes of that period especially since some of those "Old Australians" felt uncomfortable integrating with new cultures, languages and customs while fearful of becoming tainted. I do find it rather ironic that these "Old Australians" would refer themselves as natives or the stance, "I was born here," when they themselves were at one time immigrants whilst
The setting in "A Man Of No Importance" is a play set in Ireland in the 1960 's about a man 's journey of self-discovery and finding his sexuality and his lifelong desires. The 1960 's were a turbulent time for the rights of anyone who did not fit the norm of society. This included homosexuals and those of different races. The civil rights movement was just beginning to take shape in America in the mid 60 's and equality was spreading, but tensions were still high. I feel that these ideals are exemplified in Father Kenny and in Robbie Fay.
One day in May 1988, Rebecca Wight and Claudia Brenner were backpacking on the Appalachian Trail in south central Pennsylvania. Claudia was thirty-one, and Rebecca was twenty-eight. Along the trail, they encountered a stranger who tried to involve them in conversation. Suddenly, the quiet of the afternoon was shattered by gunfire. Claudia was hit in the arm, neck, and face. Rebecca struck in the back and head; the shot in her back exploded her liver and killed her. The stranger, Stephen Roy Carr, shot them because they were lesbians (Oliver 8). There were laws against this of course. However, unfortunately for people who identify as homosexual, not many of these laws were followed for the reason that discrimination against gay people was clearly evident in America. When this incident happened, a social movement was well under way. This movement, of course, was the gay rights movement. One of the earlier accomplishments of the movement was in 1951, when the First National Gay Origination was founded. Yet, during the 1950s, it would have been immensely illegal and dangerous to register any kind of pro-gay organizations (Head). The gay rights movement continues to create and achieve goals even today. Many people did not support the movement; however, fortunately the gay rights movement had many followers from homosexual to straight people all over the country. Some memorable leaders would be Kathy Kozachenko, first openly gay women elected into politics, and Harvey Milk, first openly gay man elected into politics. In 1977 Harvey Milk won a seat in the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. It was there that Milk delivers a famous and inspirational speech which would later be called the “Hope Speech”. The main idea to take away from th...
Deviant characters and people exist in both stories and the real world. Being deviant is just being different and going against the norms of society. Most stories are created by the use of a deviant character. The main character is usual different and stands out in society. These deviant characters consist of characteristics that fall into two groups. They have concepts and details. Concepts are the motivation behind the character and the details are their actions preformed to identify these motivations. In “The Tell- Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner the authors all used at least one deviant character to compose their story. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe creates a character that is out to do whatever he wants even if it causes harm to others. In “The Pedestrian”, Bradbury creates a character that goes against the rules set by authority and thinks that he can do whatever he wants. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner creates a character that does not follow any rules just to get what she wants. All of these characters personalities go against norms. Based on the readings deviance can be defined as a person that goes against the norms of society.
... understands the actions of Alan that makes him confused as he doubts his integrity and vocation. This conflict reflects the current problem in the society since the modern families lack guidance and understanding on the right choices and effects of their choices. Lack of passion and desire at work and in normal life makes Dysart admire Alan’s life. He thinks that the life that Alan leads needs to exemplified, he says, “that boy has known a passion more ferocious that I felt….and I envy it” (p82). In the play's last scene Dysart says, "There exist a certain sharp chain in my mouth at the moment that never stops" accepts that his censored tongue has trapped him in his situation. However, the psychiatrist relates the source of his view change in his overworked status “in a provincial hospital” (p10).
The movie, And the Band Played On, portrays a current issue the U.S. health care system face: the effects of societal perceptions of people who should receive health care support. Those perceived as undeserving are disregarded. Homosexual men were the first to be affected by AIDS in the US, and because of this, the stigma of homosexuality prevented developing health care policy to control the epidemic. Homosexuality was, and to a lesser extent now, not widely accepted. Marginalizing gay individuals was seen in the movie at the beginning, when media coverage on AIDs would not include “homosexual” within the news title (Pillsbury, Sanford, & Spottiswoode, 1993). This represents how media has to be marketed; the broader public will not be interested if a new disease only affects an undesirable population. Another example of this negligence is seen when Phillip Burton is asked to introduce a bill on AIDS. He agrees, but does not hesitate to retort, “They couldn’t get a dime out of this administration with the name gay on it” (Pillsbury, Sanford, & Spottiswoode, 1993). Finally, in order to change the perception, at the CDC conference with blood agencies, they renamed gay related immune deficiency (GRID) to AIDS, and the film cuts to news segments finally covering
This play is about the troubles encountered by young prince Hamlet as he tries to seek revenge for his father?s murder. Hamlet discovers the murder of his father, as well as the adultery and incest committed by his mother and uncle. This results with Hamlet retaining a very embittered and cynical outlook on life. "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon 'gainst self-slaughter -- how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (1.2.131-134). Throughout the play, Hamlet teaches the audience the depths of his depression through soliloquies. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. Hamlet displays thoughts of self that questions the worth of living. The foremost cause for his exasperation and aggravation is the fact that his mother and his uncle, Claudius immediately got married right after his father?s death. His mother's actions seem to be what repulses Hamlet most as he yells, "frailty thy name is woman!" (1.2.146). Hamlet has developed a burning hate towards his mother and women in general. It is this fuming mind-set that is responsible for his terrible treatment towards dear, innocent Ophelia in Act 3.