...LONGMAN LITERATURE Equus Peter Shaffer Editor: Adrian Burke scanned by naruchan proofread by tigger 2 LONGMAN 3 Contents The writer on writing Introduction Structure and form The role of psychiatry Characterisation Passion and religion Critical reaction to the play The writing of Equus Reading log Author's note on the book Author's notes on the play Equus Glossary: reading the text Study programme The play's structure Staging the play Character and relationships The writer's intentions Themes Collecting relevant quotations Beyond the play Study questions Suggestions for further reading Wider reading assignments 4 The writer on writing I suppose my head has always been full of images. Peter Shaffer is one of Britain's foremost contemporary dramatists. Born in 1926 and educated at Cambridge he had a variety of jobs before becoming a playwright. During the Second World War he worked down a coal-mine; he has also worked in the New York Public Library and as a journalist. He was awarded the CBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours List. His first big success was with Five Finger Exercise in 1958, which ran for two years in London before transferring to New York. Other successes include Amadeus (which has been filmed), The Private Ear: The Public Eye and The Royal Hunt of the Sun. This last play represented a departure for Shaffer as a writer; he moved from detective stories, naturalistic drama and farce to epic theatre and the adoption of avant-garde stage techniques. It was while...
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...Catcher in the Rye Essay Innocence Themes in literary works are recurring, unifying subjects or ideas, motifs that allow us to understand more deeply the characters and their world. In The Catcher in the Rye, the major themes reflect the values and motivations of the characters. Some of these themes are outlined in the following sections. As its title indicates, the dominating theme of The Catcher in the Rye is the protection of innocence, especially of children. For most of the book, Holden sees this as a primary virtue. It is very closely related to his struggle against growing up. Holden's enemy is the adult world and the cruelty and artificiality that it entails. The people he admires all represent or protect innocence. He thinks of Jane Gallagher, for example, not as a maturing young woman but as the girl with whom he used to play checkers. He goes out of his way to tell us that he and Jane had no sexual relationship. Quite sweetly, they usually just held hands. Holden comforted Jane when she was distressed, and it bothers him that Jane may have been subjected to sexual advances from her drunken stepfather or from her date, Holden's roommate, Stradlater. Holden's secret goal is to be "the catcher in the rye." In this metaphor, he envisions a field of rye standing by a dangerous cliff. Children play in the field with joy and abandon. If they should come too close to the edge of the cliff, however, Holden is there to catch them. His attitude seems to shift near the end...
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...Themes of “Interpreter of Maladies” In the “Interpreter of Maladies” different themes are used throughout the story. The use of these different themes enables the reader to become aware of what the author is trying to get across to he or she. The themes in “Interpreter of Maladies” include marriage/love, communication, and environment/nature. With each taking on a role of its own, the story becomes both compelling and informative. Marriage and love comes across as complicated in the story. A marriage is known to be the start of a beautiful partnership between two people who love each other. In “Interpreter of Maladies” marriage is just that but also much more. It is secrets, regret, and mystery. Although Twinkle and Sanjeev are married under their own free will it comes across, as the two are strangers. No matter the romantic feelings that come about the couple remains individuals in their own right. As a direct result Sanjeev is regretting the love he has for his wife. Although as it progresses the narrator shows us that distance can sometimes be closed by shared experiences. When Shukumar and Shoba deal with the death of their child, the bond between the two strengthens. The story shows us that love can be found in the most unexpected ways and can alter in the event of a joint experience. The lack of communication weighs on several characters throughout the story. While Shukumar and Shaba are individually consumed by their own grief they fail to communicate...
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...presentation (for either Germany or The Netherlands), in a EU setting/context b. Based on your concept, in line with the main theme of the World Expo CONDITIONS The indoor construction should meet the following criteria: * Representing the assigned sub-themes, all 6 included, one worked out * Creating a German or Holland Brand Experience * Distinctive * Within a total budget of € 3.000.000 (incl. breakdown after Expo) * Within the dimensions of 30m(b) x 30m(l) x 10m(h) * Able to handle 1200 visitors per hour Assignment 1 B Create a German or Holland Culture Experience in the Open Air Theater Expo 2015 (depending on your concept). Key characteristics: * Focused * Powerful * Exceptional * Positive CONDITIONS: The German or Dutch Culture Experience is an original and unique experience to the world. * Budget: 1 million Euro * Representing the European people: * Open * Creative * Adventurous ------------------------------------------------- B2B Assignment 2: Germany & Holland Themed Conferences Create a conference program based on the assigned sub-theme CONDITIONS: * Strong joint promotion with German or Dutch theme related industries, based on the assigned sub-theme. * Individual networking opportunities with International business partners during the Conference Theme Meetings . * National Uniform Invitation to be sent via central EU database. * Main language English, Italian...
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...Critical Analysis Paper TE 250 Spring Semester In writing this paper, you must use at least four readings to date from our class that inform your thinking about the questions below. You can also use readings from other courses that inform your thinking. Remember that a strong paper will have a clear focus that is carried throughout the paper and is supported by evidence from the readings, videos, class discussions, and classroom activities. I encourage you to discuss thoughts and ideas for crafting your paper with your colleagues; however, your writing must be your own. Everyone answers number 1 and 2 other questions from the following list of questions. 1. Describe how and why social reproduction occurs. Use examples from your text (Ain’t no Making it) and articles to support your explanation. Chapter 8 2. Describe how human, cultural, or social capital shape individuals’ social and economic mobility. Drawing on examples from Ain’t No Makin it, talk about how peers, parents, and institutions influence this process. (p.418) 3. What impact does linguistic privilege in American society have on students’ opportunities to learn? Consider students’ cultural backgrounds and its alignment or mismatch with school. (Bourideu p.14 4. Our readings suggest that race, disabilities, and special education are interrelated. How might students be disadvantaged in schooling by these labels and concepts? 5. How does heterosexism or homophobia manifest itself in...
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...The first movement is allegro molto e con brio. It is allegro which explains it’s lively tempo. This movement has an orchestral sound just as the second movement does. The second movement, largo, con gran espressione meaning slow with great expression played in C major. This movement has brief dramatic pauses of silence as James Reel wrote in a depiction article on this movement “these pauses provide the melody with an aura of grandeur.” Now the Allegro third movement contains the friendly melodies a minuet has but also includes characteristics of a scherzo such as, the range of its tone and also containing a rumbling trio in e-flat minor. In the last movement, rondo: poco-allegretto e grazioso is not the typical rondo form. It begins as a smooth melody and is broken in the middle of the piece that is played in C minor and ends loudly. The final piece that was played by Chang following a brief intermission was Piano Sonata No. 3 by Paul Hindemith. This piece is played in B flat major. Ruhig bewegt, the first movement is an uplifting melody in sonata allegro form with sounds similar to an English folksong. The second movement also known as sehr lebhaft plays part of a scherzo and trio in the sonata. The third movement Mabig Schnell compares to the first movement as it is also a sonata allegro. The only part that does not match to the rest of the movement is the fugato section. The final movement fuge: lebhaft is climatic as it has numerous voices. This performance was part of the...
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...The famous military sonata for pianoforte, The Battle of Trenton Sonata is a through-composed work by American composer James Hewitt. A contemporary of Beethoven, Hewitt was born and raised in England until moving to New York in 1792 at the age of 22. Throughout his career, James Hewitt was very active in both Boston and New York as a conductor, composer/arranger and music publisher. The story behind Hewitt’s sonata unfolded in Trenton, New Jersey on December 25th 1776 as President Washington led his Army across the Delaware River, preceding The Battle of Trenton that occurred the next day. Although a large number of the opposing Hessians escaped, within an hour of battle nearly nine hundred were captured by Washington’s Army. This was the first pivotal victory of the American Revolutionary War, boosting reenlistments into the Continental Army. Twenty years after this event, James Hewitt published his sonata in 1797 after living as an American citizen for just over five years. The Sonata is written using numerous titled sections that correspond with the historical event: “Army in Motion”, “General Orders”, “Washington’s March”, “Defeat of Hessians”, “Yankee Doodle”, and “General Rejoicing”. Essentially, the composers goal whilst writing a military sonata was to recreate the event with music as best as possible. With regards to tempo markings and tonality, Hewitt is able to effectively match the mood of each event, for example: “Washington’s March” is marked as maestoso while...
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...were captured for coding process * Coding Scheme: - The coding scheme that was obtained is as below (in alphabetical order). Please observe the ads you would find how the below codes were developed. SNo | Code | 1 | Adventure sports | 2 | Business | 3 | Celebrity testimonial | 4 | Dance | 5 | Do’s and Don’ts | 6 | Fashion | 7 | Food | 8 | Festivales | 9 | Food | 10 | Handicrafts | 11 | History | 12 | Hospitality | 13 | Nature | 14 | Natural Landscape | 15 | Monuments | 16 | Music | 17 | People | 18 | Public Awareness | 19 | Religion | 20 | Shopping | 21 | Spirituality | 22 | Sports | 23 | Wellness | 24 | Wildfire | * Theme generation: - Seven themes were identified based on the coding schemes. The list of themes are as below Sno | Code | Theme | No of Ads | 1 | Fashion | Culture(that broadly describes the codes presented in previous column. | 15 | 2 | Festivals | | | 3 | Dance | | | 4 | Food | | | 5 | Handicrafts | | | 6 | Hospitality | | | 7 | Music | | | 8 | People | | | 9 | Religion | | | | | Flora | 9 | 10 | Nature | | | 11 | Natural Landscape | | | 12 | Wildlife | | | | | | | 13...
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...Your Signature Themes SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 08-28-2015 qi li Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five." Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance. Achiever Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive. Achiever describes a constant need for achievement. You feel as if every day starts at zero. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. And by “every day” you mean every single day—workdays, weekends, vacations. No matter how much you may feel you deserve a day of rest...
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...Authors and poets give similar central ideas in their stories. They always have part or their whole stories or poems about the central idea. An example is poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who wrote Letters To a Young Poet, and author David Mitchell, who wrote Black Swan Green. In both the poem and story, they show a similar central idea. Beauty. Rilke shows beauty in “Letter One” of Letters To a Young Poet, and Mitchell shows beauty in the chapters “Hangman” and “Solarium” in Black Swan Green. They show the central idea of beauty in many ways. Rainer Maria Rilke is a poet. His whole name is René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke. He wrote fourteen poems and nine stories during his lifetime. Letters To a Young Poet was published in 1993, which was 67 years after he died of leukemia in 1926. Near his time of death, his work was intensely admired by many leading European poets. His reputation is still steadily growing and he is regarded as the master of verse. David Mitchell is an award-winning author. His full name is David Stephen Mitchell and he has written two librettos, ten articles, sixteen short stories, and seven novels, including Black Swan Green, which was published in 2006. Both Black Swan Green and Letters To a Young Poet both share the central idea of beauty. Rainer Maria Rilke shows beauty in his story in many ways. In Letters To a Young Poet, he shows beauty in “Letter One”. In it, he has sent a letter to a young poet who sent in his/her own verses to get feedback on them...
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...03.11.2015 The choreography of vortex [Won Chae] Beginning with pianissimo, repeating melody of snare drum is rising in a continuous crescendo with a breathtaking and moderate movement under the spot light. When you are about to feel there is no air to breathe, this repeating eco introduces and adds other instruments one by one with highly saturated dancing. I would never forget the moment when I was captured by this beautiful choreography ‘Bolero’1 performed by Sylvie Guillem2. I was not even in a grandeur theater but was sitting in front of television. This 14-minute short performance thrilled for me to rewind more than 10 times. Resonating one another, this performance literally let me repeat the whole story again and again. It was rather the vortex that makes chain reaction to itself and to multiple individuals around her. Movement of spinning was not only a single reason that Bolero was giving me the idea of vortex but also, the one of sequencing, agitating and branching were the others that inspired me to imagine perhaps the possible connection between choreography and other fields. In every step of dairy production, the vortex is one of the most important process in consistency. This is an intervention or intercession which disrupts previous stable status to another level of stability. It demands certain level of upheaval to change itself otherwise, it may go back to the previous status. However, if there is enough force for a time span, you cannot go back. Between different...
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...purposes). The prominent motive for the first section is SL (SL) SSSL (SL) LSSSL (SL). For the whole piece, there are a number of different subdivisions for every beat as the piece continues and develops so quickly and so often. Although, common subdivisions for the piece are two and four. The piece began slow with its first motive and elaborated and transformed until a spontaneous re-appearance of the first motive. Though seldom, the theme is extended by a spinning and varied continuation of the basic motive. In this piece, the melody tends to achieve balance. Through subdivision, it avoids growing unrest and supports comprehensibility by limitation. Thoroughly dramatic, the piece included a series of key modulations. The second section began quietly yet quick with tempo, slightly recalling a theme from the first section. The theme develops as the tempo increases as with volume with crescendos to reach a point where a seemingly new motive enters. This new motive enters after the momentum gain and outbursts in its new main theme. This theme is followed by a calm development and continuation. The piece continues on to a greater tempo and an accumulation of octaves of notes accompanied by a crescendo are played for a significant conclusion. On a poetic note, the piece began like an announcement. It was as if it is trying to establish a presence, and once the presence was...
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...Your Signature Themes SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 09-21-2015 Alvaneisha Garrett Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your "top five." Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance. Futuristic “Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and this detailed picture keeps pulling you forward, into tomorrow. While the exact content of the picture will depend on your other strengths and...
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...hospitality industry Author: Rishi, Meghna; Gaur, Sanjaya S Abstract: Purpose - This paper attempts to identify the emerging themes that can shed light on the sales and marketing issues and challenges being faced by global hospitality organizations. Design/methodology/approach - The paper utilizes a multi-method approach for data collection. A thorough literature review, a focus group and personal interviews were conducted to explore the themes and construct a tentative thematic web. Publicly accessible secondary data in the form of customer reviews were drawn from world's leading web site - Tripadvisor.com. A total of 702 reviews of the customers of luxury hotels from the world's top two tourist destinations - France and USA - were analyzed, using thematic analysis. Customers' perspective is juxtaposed with industry's perspective to offer insights on the sales and marketing issues and challenges being faced by hospitality organizations globally. Findings - Marketing challenges, namely personalization/customization of services, service management, creating a strong parent brand, under-utilization of the social media and diverting tourists from heritage properties, are identified as some of the key emerging sales and marketing issues and challenges faced by the global hospitality industry. Practical implications - Analytically identified themes in this research paper provide valuable insights on issues and challenges related to sales and marketing for the policy makers and...
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...The Gift of the Magi Gabrielle M Parks ENG 125-Introduction to Literature Jennifer Thompson November 1, 2014 Throughout literature writers have sought to entertain or to tell a very important story. Often there is a hidden depth or theme to the story that is overlooked by the reader. The story The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry is about value and sacrifice. The author uses point-of-view and situational irony to support and bring meaning to the various themes. Theme The theme of a story tells you what the story is about (Clugston, 2014, section 6.1). It is essential for the reader to establish the theme of the story so that he/she is aware of what the writer is trying to convey. In The Gift of the Magi the main theme of this story is sacrifice. Each character sacrifices something for the other person. Also, in addition to sacrifice, value and love are themes as well. Both characters felt a deep love for the other and therefor sacrificed something that held great value to them. It is immediately apparent that the main theme is about sacrifice and value when the author writes, “One dollar and seventy-eight cents. And the next day would be Christmas” (Clugston, 2014, section 4.4). Also the author writes, “Now there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride” (Clugston, 2014, section 4.4). One of those items was a pocket watch Jim had that belonged to his father and the other was Della’s hair (Clugston, 2014, section 4.4). From...
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