Lately, I have lack of interest in the new releases or ongoing TV series. Not just Western TV series, even I have not able to find any Asian TV Series that really grab my attention. In result, I ended up re-watch one of my all-time favorite series – Sherlock. Last week, I found one British mini-series out of random on Netflix, it called The Bletchley Circle. These TV series pop up as a recommendation since I have watched Sherlock. I accidentally playing it when my original intention was just to check the synopsis. Then, this British mini-series about a group of code-breaker whose solved a murder case successfully get me hooked and I have completed all two seasons of this mini-series in one day. The Bletchley Circle tells the story of four women – Susan, Millie, Lucy, and Jean, who was part of a decipher team for British Military at Bletchley Park during World War II. These women successfully cracked the German military codes that help British to prevent Germany’s military attack. After the war ended, …show more content…
Although they were a best friend at Bletchley Park, their friendship has drifted apart after the war's ended due to Susan's decision to pursue a conventional lifestyle and bailed from their plan to traveling together. In the beginning, Susan’s intention to contact Millie just to get second eyes with her theory. However, Millie quite sure that Susan does not make mistake with her pattern. Millie strongly believes that the missing part of Susan's calculation is due to the data that she is working with. Since what they both need complete data and information from a valid source, then Millie suggest getting help from their other colleges at Bletchley Park, Lucy (Sophie Rundle) and Jean (Julie Graham). They need Jean’s good relationship and connection with important people to get all of the data about the missing girl included the one that not shared to public and Lucy’s eidetic memory to remember all those
Jean agrees to meet the Other Woman even though she does not know who the woman is and what her relationship is with Gordon. Jean however knows very clearly that she does not know anything about the Other Woman at all, so she chooses to make a very broad guess of “You must be—his friend” (20) in the hope that she can collect some information from the Other Woman as she goes along with her lies such as how “Gordon mentioned [the Other Woman]... [and] said: tell her that I love her… [before] he turned his face away and died” (21). Jean is obviously telling lies because first of all, the audience all know that she did not even talk to Gordon at all; and second of all, Ruhl uses many dashes in Jean’s monologue, especially when Jean tells the Other Woman that Gordon “said that other women seemed like clocks compare to [her]—other women just—measured timer—broke the day up—but that [she]—[she] stopped time... just by walking into a room” (22), to show that Jean is actually improvising all her lies as she speaks. Based on the fact that Jean is meeting and telling the Other Woman some made up lies, it is obvious that Jean is not aware that what she has done is socially unacceptable and is crossing the social boundaries. Another example of Jean’s telling lies is demonstrated when she presents the fake “presents for
had begun in June of 1950 and was still waging. As was usual for wartime the country
Sheila supported the Inspector when Mrs Birling wouldn’t give out any information about Eva and tried to persuade her mother to talk but Mrs Birling took her as being rude and insolent and showed that she doesn’t like being contradicted.
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just around Wirrawee alone’ (Pg. 225). Ultimately, they were forced into the war and all the negative
for a second time in history. However, this war was to be a lot more
said, it was the end of WW2 and the Labour Party had been elected for
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The United States had watched the fighting in Europe from a distance. One of the Allies, Russia, sustained great losses and signed a peace treaty with Germany. The treaty ended fighting on the Eastern Front. Germany began to focus on the Western Front and weakening Britain on France even more. The United States remained neutral even when Great Britain and France put pressure on it to join the Allies. Truman was re-elected in 1916 using the slogan “He Kept Us Out of War.” He did for a long time. When a German submarine torpedoed the Lusitania, more than a hundred United States citizens lost their lives. Germany apologized for the disaster and agreed to stop submarine attacks. In early 1917, they broke their promise and started sinking American cargo ships. On April 2, 1917, Wilson went to Congress and asked for war to be declared. War was declared and troops were sent to Europe. The policy of United States Isolation was over. War continued and ended on November 11, 1918 with the signing of an armistice. The Treaty of Versailles followed and was signed on June 28, 1919.
Wartime is definitely a time of much violence and many things happen during this time, but what about after war…
having to come to terms with the loss of the war and also the losses
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In the early months of 1941 the world was at war. Not all countries where involved in combat since the war was primarily focused on Europe, but many countries outsi...
in the war in between 1939 and the end of 1941, was largely based on a
The facts and aftermath of the