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The story of The Big Knife like the stories of Golden Boy and Rocket to the Moon is that of a man who fails to live up to his ideals and possibilities, It is the story of Charlie Castle, a financially successful Hollywood star Charlie Castle could have been a good actor,but he has sold his soul to a movie producer whose chief interest is in dividends for the stock holders. Odets has listened carefully to the way people talk and one of his greatest assets as a playwright is his ability to put real speech into the dialogue of his plays at the same time using that dialogue to demonstrate with brief, deft strokes the individual characteristics of the people in his plays. While some of the characters in The Big Knife are too one-sided and a few approach stereotypes, all give proof of Odets’s ability to show characters …show more content…
Write your book-- make it scandalous. Wire me for money any time you need it. Someone has to complete -,nQ the work he was born to do. Naive, ain't it? (112) Marlon reveals both her own character and that of Charlie when she says, to Charlie, Aren't you the one who says he wants to live a certain way and do a certain kind of work?... And then pushes a pie in the face of everything he says? Men like Hoff and Coy have their own integrity— they're what they are I The beetle and the fervid Christian can't be equally corrupted! You can laugh--you can snort I But the critic who called you the Van Gogh of the American theatre saw, as I did, that you had a Christian fervor! (Beginning to cry) And now you're nothing, common trash— coarsened down to something I don't even recognize! (Pausing) Don't think I ever condoned what you did! (Weeping bitterly) But you're helpless, you're sick You feel guilty and it makes you viciousl You've taken the cheap way out--your passion of the heart has become a passion of the appetites! Despite your best intentions, you're a horror … (62) Throughout the play Nat maintains the same traits shown when he
It is impossible not to judge someone without meeting them in society. This is well shown in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, a novel about a group of boys with their own problems not including their social class being Greasers. The other class, the Socs oppose Greasers. Socs jump Greasers in their free time which then causes the Greasers to retaliate. Some personal origins are dead family members, starvation, no education, and poor households. In conclusion one theme is proven through the statement keep judgement to a minimal because you do not know the problems of others. This creates two sub themes, never succumb to stereotypes and society will wrongly, consistently generalize a group.
The movie Broken Arrow (1950) builds strongly upon the stereotyping Indians of being noble savages. The scenes in which Tom Jeffords makes contact with the group of Apache Indians in Broken Arrow manipulates the viewer's perspective of the Apache, enforcing a noble savage stereotype to the Apache tribe. These scenes at the start of the movie can easily change the attitude of the viewers. Jefford’s first encounter with the Apache group has a greater presence on how savage and wild the Apache can be, where as there is a greater emphasis on nobility with Cochise’s character.
“By working dying people into his act, Jones is putting himself beyond the reach of criticism. The dying people are viewed on videotape. He thinks that victimhood in and of itself is sufficient to the creation of an art spectacle. The cultivation of victimhood by institutions devoted to the care of art is a menace to all art forms.”
In Willa Cather’s short story Paul’s Case we learn of a young man who is fighting what he fears most: to be as common and plain as his world around him. How others perceive Paul only encourages him to fulfill his dream of escaping his monotonous lifestyle. Paul feels he is drowning in his everyday environment and his only breath of air is his savior: the theater.
Towards the end of the first paragraph we begin to get more of an insight into what Charlie’s father is really like. The first example of this is “I’d like to take you up to my club, but it’s in the Sixties, and if you have to catch an early train I guess we’d better get something around here”.
The film “A League of Their Own,” depicts a fictionalized tale of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. This league was started during World War II when many of the Major Leagues Biggest stars were drafted to the war. MLB owners decided to start this league with hopes of making money while the men were overseas fighting. Traditional stereotypes of women in sports were already in force before the league even begins. One of the scouts letts Dottie, one of the films main characters she is the perfect combination of looks as well as talent. The scout even rejects one potential player because she is not as pretty as the league is looking for even though she is a great baseball player. The player, Marla’s father said if she was a boy she would be playing for the Yankee’s. Eventually Mara’s father is able to convince the scout to take Marla to try outs because he raised her on his own after her mother died. Her father says it is his fault his daughter is a tomboy. In this case the film reinforces the traditional stereotype that mothers are in charge of raising their daughters and teaching them to be a lady, where fathers are incapable of raising girls to be anything other than a tomboy. The focus on beauty also reinforces the traditional stereotype that men will only be interested in women’s sports when the females participating in
Riddled with ambiguity by its very nature, the text of William Shakespeare's Hamlet has been a commonly debated subject in literary circles since its first performance. The character Hamlet undergoes intense physical and emotional hardship in his quest for revenge against his despicable uncle. This hardship, some argue, leads to an emotional breakdown and, ultimately, Hamlet's insanity. While this assessment may be suitable in some cases, it falls short in others. Since Hamlet is a play, the ultimate motivation of each of the characters borrows not only from the text, but also from the motivations of the actors playing the parts. In most respects, these motivations are more apt at discerning the emotional condition of a character than their dialogue ever could. Thus, the question is derived: In Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of Hamlet, does the character Hamlet suffer from insanity? Giving halt to the response, this paper will first endeavor to establish what insanity is and will then provide sufficient examples both from the text, film, and Branagh's own musings on his motivations as proof that Hamlet's character, at least in Branagh's version of the play, is not insane.
Charlie’s character transition is an evidence of the saying, “Walk a mile in my shoes. See what I see, hear what I hear, feel what I feel, then maybe you’ll understand why I do what I do. Until then don’t judge me.” His journey with Kanalaaq showed him how important it is for people not to judge other for superficial
Lollipop Chainsaw is a third-person, character action game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in 2012. Lollipop Chainsaw stars Juliet Starling, part-time high school cheerleader and full-time professional zombie hunter, as she strives to save the world from a zombie invasion. Should you allow Juliet to hang your decapitated head off of her belt as she chainsaws her way through hordes of zombies in Lollipop Chainsaw?
Both quotes show the extent of Charlie’s change throughout the novel. Silvey also uses this element to successfully create empathy from the readers and make the book that much more brilliant.
The film Basquiat explores the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, a Haitian-Puerto Rican painting in New York City during the 1980s. Working closely with Andy Warhol, Basquiat was exploited for his unique “urban ghetto” graffiti and crude style of representation. Schnabel’s film further exploits this image of the painter, depicting him in various scenes of poverty and drug addiction, dirty poor love and desperation. Our understanding of the artist is framed by excerpts from essays by art critic Rene Ricard, depicted as a flaming homosexual who leeches off of his artistic friends. Ricard observes the hypocrisy and self-indulgence of the art scene that is vital to...
He does not want to live anymore like before and is afraid of losing his daughter forever. In response to Honoria's words that she wants to live with him, "His heart began to beat, he dreamed that it would happen the same." Charlie would be very happy to live with his daughter, Honoria. This means that his daughter for him is one of the most important things in his life. He told his sister that he had changed, "I work, the hell, I lead an exemplary lifestyle with everything." He is ready to end his old way of life for his daughter. He does not attend parties as before and does not meet old friends who love to drink. His words once again prove the seriousness of Charlie's intentions to change his life for the
Stereotype threat is present in our everyday lives and it prevents people from doing things to their fullest abilities. It is the fear of confirming a negative stereotype about you resulting in weaker performance. An example where stereotype threat exists is in the case where African Americans do poorly on tests compared to Caucasian individuals. This occurs because the stereotype is that African Americans are intellectually inferior to Caucasian people. In a setting where the negative stereotype is brought to mind, African Americans will perform poorly on tests when in fact they are able to perform equally as well if not better than Caucasian individuals. (Article 1) Stereotype threat limits individuals in their performance in academics, sports or even something like driving. By reducing stereotype threat, performance in many areas can improve and people can perform tasks to their fullest potentials. Stereotype threat leads to underachievement in academic and work related situations. People may feel they cannot rise above the stereotype and become limited in their successes. (article 1 I think) The purpose of this paper is to inform on stereotype threat and how to reduce it, as well as to introduce my own investigation aimed at reducing stereotype threat.
Zadie Smith grew up listening to black “soul voices”, so she didn’t grasp the appeal of blonde singer Joni Mitchell and her “bloody piping” (Smith, 2012, p. 190) until a decade after her friends used to rave about her. Suddenly on a drive to Tinten Abbey a decade later, Smith changes her mind about Mitchell and writes, “How is it possible to hate something so completely and then suddenly love it so unreasonably?” (Smith, 2012, p. 191-2). Even though on the surface this essay may seem like a story of how a woman started to love an artist she previously hated, this event represents her realizing her ignorance and discovering a personal deficiency. Smith considered herself a “connoisseur of novels” (Smith, 2012, p. 191-2), but recognizes her anxiety when she converses with people who are just as much of an expert as she is- but also knowledgeable...
The madness of each individual is not realistic, but the idea that death, grievance, and revenge can drive someone to do things that seem to be mad or make them do things out of their nature. Overall, we see that the theme of madness has a significant impact on the conflicts and overall development of the play as well as the characters themselves and is successfully conveyed. Shakespeare developed a theme that tied the many important emotions and ideas together to make the play what it is. He used Ophelia’s grief and love, Hamlet’s wit and ruminative nature to convey a theme that could be related to more than the one character, and tie all of the conflicts and complications down to one cause.