Emma Thompson Essays

  • Love And Love In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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    her and Cesarios relat... ... middle of paper ... ...e main themes of the original play. Reelviews review of the film describes the life and vitality of the play as amazing. The majority of this vitality and energy within the play exudes from Thompson and Branaghs sparkling duet. Packed full of passion and charisma they capture the essence of Shakespeare’s original words and deliver a terrific performance onto the silver screen. Between the two they successfully convey the huge amount of chemistry

  • Functions of the Chorus in Shakespeare's Henry V

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    Functions of the Chorus in Shakespeare's Henry V In Shakespeare's Henry V, the chorus plays a prominent role. There are few other plays written by Shakespeare that include a chorus, however in no other play does the chorus have such an important role. The principal purpose of the chorus is that of story telling. The chorus acts as a guide for the audience, narrating parts that wouldn't fit into the action of the play. For example in the Act II Chorus, we are told about treason: 'The

  • Classicism And Romanticism In Sense And Sensibility By Jane Austen

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    In the novel Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen introduces Classicism and Romanticism culture as themes in her novel. She introduces Classicism and Romanticism through the representation of two of her characters, Marianne and Elinor. Accordingly, Elinor most strongly represents Classicism, and Marianne strongly represents Romanticism. Classicism as defined by Dictionary.com is “An approach to aesthetics that favors restraint and rationality” (classicism). Hence, Classicism deals with belief in reason

  • A Comparison of Olivier and Branagh's Adaptations of Henry V

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    A Comparison of Olivier and Branagh's Adaptations of Henry V Media Comparative Essay: (in the medium of film) concerning the 2 well known film versions of Shakespeare’s Henry V of Olivier (1944) and Branagh (1989) in the specific scenes of “A Little Touch of Harry in the Night” and “The Crispin Crispian Speech” A comparison of these scenes in the two film versions of Henry V indicated above in a discussion of all the major cinematic issues in integrating a story like Shakespeare’s and

  • Movie Review: Sense And Sensibility

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    Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee, who directed, and Emma Thompson, who adapted the screenplay, have done an excellent job of bringing Jane Austen's Victorian novel, Sense and Sensibility, to the movie screen. The movie's collection of actors are a joy to watch as they bring out the emotions of an otherwise polite and reserved era in time. The production work is top notch with bright, cascading photography that sets a romantic "I wish I was there" setting. The purpose of the Sense and

  • Mansfield Park, the novel, or Mansfield Park the film?

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    of Jane Austen's books over the years; all six of her novels have been made into films or television dramas with varying degrees of success, from the classics of Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility, to the funny modern version of Emma in the form of Clueless. In this paper I want to show how director Patricia Rozema has made Austen's novel Mansfield Park much more modern, accessible, and, as some claim, radical, by skipping parts of the story that would make the film version drag

  • A Visual Approach to Programming

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    companies still decide to utilize them. IBM created a visual language called OpenDX, which is "...designed to allow users to visualize both observed and simulated data...and developers to quickly create programs along with interactive controls" (Thompson). Although this software is not meant for a wide audience, the visual programming community is already making usable visual languages and just needs time to grow and progress to further the reach of the language. The other major criticism of using

  • The Harry Potter Controversy

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    of electronic entertainment”, Harry Potter novels sharply contrast by luring children away from the internet, and away from video games and the television. Children across the globe are rapidly becoming interested in reading the novels. Katherine Thompson, owner of Frugal Frigate Bookstore, declared the series a “literary phenomena.” She noted that children as young as eight-years-old will devour... ... middle of paper ... ...nuum, 2001. Person, Judith. “Books debunk evils of Potter; Christian

  • Poe's Fall of The House of Usher Essay: A Psychological Piece

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    fear felt by the characters.  The essay proposes that the action took place in the mind of the narrator and discusses the dream imagery present in the story and how this supports this theory. While discussing "The Fall of the House of Usher," Thompson investigates the idea that the story is not really a truthful tale - that is, a re-telling of events that the narrator experienced - but is rather the result of a "mutual hysteria of the narrator and Roderick Usher."  Basically, he asserts that the

  • Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Infanticide and Sadism

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    Linton is orphaned when she is fourteen. The only exceptions- and these unimportant - are Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton, who are sixteen and eighteen respectively when their mothers die (and even their mothers are apparently not very motherly)." (Thompson 139). Bronte does away with all of the mothers. Why does she so that? She kills off the mothers to help better accent the children's struggle against all the psycho adults who are all out to kill them. The first child to receive this kind of treatment

  • ?Letter to Americans? by E. P. Thompson

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    “Letter to Americans” by E. P. Thompson Dated back in 1986, “Letter to Americans” is as if it’s written in the last three-four years. In it E. P. Thompson explains why he is anti-American in his beliefs. First off, he starts with that he is in two minds about this state of his. Even his friends doubt he is anti-American, thinking he is joking. We also read how the author traces American ancestry on his mother’s side- he goes back to his great-great-grandfather who lived in Lincoln times. Most of

  • Ancient Egypt

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    naturalistic in that they deified the forces of nature; and polytheistic in that they believed in thousands of gods and goddesses (Thompson). These gods were responsible for all aspects of their existence (Cunningham). The Egyptians saw no distinction between the creator and his creation. They believed the gods to be powers, which could be manipulated by man for his own benefit (Thompson). Because they believed in so many gods, the Egyptians invented rituals to praise them all. The rituals in turn affected

  • Quentin's Struggle in The Sound and the Fury

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    unable to cope with external reality.  Internal reality is the only reality which he entertains.  Like Hamlet, he tries to live up to the internalized idealized image of nature and himself that he imagines should be external reality.  As noted in Thompson and Vickery (224) "Psychologically unbalanced by his own inner and outer conflicts, Quentin is represented as being partly responsible not only for what has happened to himself but also for what has happened to some other members of his family. 

  • Terrorism and Airport Security

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    at the innocent civilians of everyday life. These cowardly attacks are the reason that the U.S. has devoted more time to national security, specifically airport security (September, 2004). Paul Thompson has compiled a complete timeline of the events that took place, before and after 9/11. Thompson continued, " The scrambling of fighter aircraft at the first sign of trouble is a routine phenomenon. During the year 2000, there where 425 'unknowns' pilots who didn't file or diverted [sic] from flight

  • The Philosophy of James Patterson

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    examples are Letters for Nicholas, The Jester, Cradle and All, and the “number books�(1st to die, 3rd degree). Patterson has been affected by many things in his life. The greatest thing was most likely his involvement in the company J. Walter Thompson, an advertising company. After his wife died in 1984, he focused all his energy into the company. Four years later he became CEO, then in 1990 he became chairman, and in 1994 he became the World-wide Creative Director (Author & Artists, page 209)

  • Communication and the Virtual Team

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    Communication and the Virtual Team Information The successful passing of information creates an important bond between virtual team members. “Without creating the connections, a virtual team can’t do what it needs to; function as a cohesive unit” (Thompson, n.d., Introduction section, ¶2). Information should be specific to the task at hand with a common goal in mind. Complete and accurate information not only helps a team reach its goal, but it also avoids problems and conflicts that arise between

  • Use of Irony in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

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    Frost’s own claims to conscious irony and "the best example in all of American poetry of a wolf in sheep's clothing." Thompson documents the ironic impulse that produced the poem as Frost's "gently teasing" response to his good friend, Edward Thomas, who would in their walks together take Frost down one path and then regret not having taken a better direction. According to Thompson, Frost assumes the mask of his friend, taking his voice and his posture, including the un-Frostian sounding line, "I

  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - A Critical Review

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    critical process using the three critical methods that were discussed in class. Also included in the paper will be the notes that were taken from the conversation I overheard at Hardees, about the movie “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” between Seiter, Thompson, and Meehan. This critique will discuss the several components to each of the three critical methods including cultural codes in the movie, gender roles, and advertisement placement with in the movie. Neo-Formalist The syuzhet begins with the opening

  • Abortion

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    responsible to remained attached to the violinist? Thomson says no, because the person was kidnapped and they didn’t volunteer for the violinist to be attached. Thomson states “it would be very nice of you if you did, a great kindness”. I agree with Thompson here no one should be forced to have a stranger plugged into them unknowingly for nine months. A growing fetus inside a woman is hardly a stranger to her it is her own flesh and blood. Secondly, a fetus is not unknowingly plugged into a woman Except

  • Citizen Kane's Summary

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    relationships between him and his wife and about his career. The newsrell was played in a small projection room filled with reporters. He noted Charles¡¦s last word ¡§rosebud¡¨ would make people suspicious. He decided to send a reporter, ¡§Jerry Thompson,¡¨ to search the meaning behind the word ¡§rose bud.¡¨ Jerry¡¦s first interview was Charles¡¦s 2nd wife ¡§Susan Alexander Kane, who worked as a dancer and singer in a bar, thinking she would know something about rosebud. For the reason, she was drunk