In the play Ellemeno Pea, Simone introduces her currently dead-ended sister to her life of luxury working as a sort of babysitter for obnoxiously wealthy people. Her boss, Michaela, interrupts their sisters-only weekend with marital (and superficial soap related) woes, fearing a divorce from her husband Peter, and Simone’s new idiotic beau Ethan also stops by. In the end, Devon gains some perspective on Michaela and Simone—and Ethan and Simone go away together.…
The use of lighting, color, shots, and angles all work to create a distinct visual style that changes as the story does. The movie constantly shifts colors and levels of brightness from scene to scene in a way that visually conveys Alike’s progression as a character. As the environments and colors change, so too does Alike. In her first poem that we see her read in class, she compares herself to a butterfly imprisoned by its own cocoon. “Cramped in the darkness of the too-tight cocoon of its own creation.” Mirroring this, the film starts in the previously mentioned women’s club with extreme-closeups and incredibly tight shots of Alike and the other patrons. The lighting is very dim, and the shots are filled with hot purples and pinks colors. Alike never outright states in dialogue how she is feeling…
Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, juxtaposes the treatment and attention Ethan directs to Zeena and Mattie. The different treatment between the two further reveals Ethan’s internal selfish thoughts to be with Mattie. As Ethan and Mattie have more interactions and time to themselves, “The grow of passion he had felt for her had melted into an aching tenderness” (Wharton 85). Ethan’s selfishness is the antagonist of Ethan and Zeena’s marriage, and it acts as a barrier to the struggle between his affection for Mattie and his existing relationship. Although Ethan’s selfish desires to be with Mattie are shameful, he stoops to beyond a level of inconceivable selfishness, and schemes to flee Starkfield in order to escape Zeena to forever…
wonderful- I've seen that myself. But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan's face'd break your heart... When I see that, I think it's him that suffers most... anyhow” (Wharton 140)…
Overcoming adversity and obstacles isn’t something easy a person can do it because you have to be able to know that you got this and that you are strong without giving up. These two athletes had hit a point in their lives that they thought they will never succeed, Aimee and Bethany have some similarities and differences from one another. One thing that they most are unlike is never giving up even though they tried a couple of times. Both Aimee and Bethany had their limbs removed and they are different because they had different ways of facing their obstacles. Aimee Mullins and Bethany Hamilton both had their limbs removed and they couldn’t do what they loved to do. The best part about Bethany and Aimee was that they learn to accepted it and…
2. Ethan feels a dread in Zeena’s silence on this particular morning because Ethan’s mind becomes preoccupied with Mattie. He regrets not kissing her the night before and his thinks about the relationship between Zeena and Mattie which has been weird lately.…
A person had to hid in the sewers for 14 months.The People were Kristyna and Pavel. They both wanted to have freedom. They were both during WWII. Kristyna was in the sewers hiding and Pavel was in Auschwitz. The reason they were their is because they were Jewish. Kristyna got out by the sewers and Pavel by dying. 6.5 million people were exterminated by the Nazis.…
By denying Zeena a single positive attribute while presenting Mattie as the epitome of glowing, youthful attractiveness, Wharton renders Ethan’s desire to cheat on his wife perfectly understandable. The conflict does not stem from within Ethan’s own heart—his feelings for Mattie never waver. Instead, the conflict occurs between his passions and the constraints placed on him by society, which control his conscience and impede his fulfillment of his…
Beauty, written by Jane Martin in the mid nineteen hundreds, is an ironic play about two successful women, Bethany and Carla. Both women were the same age yet complete opposites. They also had completely different personalities and were unhappy with their lives. Martin casted and characterized them this way to illustrate a few themes. The drama was mainly centered on the theme that no one is ever happy unless they get their wishes granted. However, in these two women’s cases, getting what they wanted caused them to realize there is nothing wrong with being different. These two themes can be seen through the two character’s success, jealousy, and a genie.…
It is a friendship that happened by chance. To start, these two girls have a few things in common. They both have mothers that cannot take care of them so they end up at a shelter where they are eight years old, lonely, and scared. Also, they both were failing in their studies at St. Bonny’s and were ignored by everyone else in the orphanage.…
At a young age, women have a tendency to be naïve and innocent. With that, the two factors create a vulnerable persona in a girl, and it compels a person to feel sympathy towards them. “How I Met My Husband” consists of a protagonist, Edie, who is also naïve and innocent as well as humble and simple. These traits convince me to believe her to be a sympathetic character in the story.…
It shows us the cruel things we do to ourselves just to fit into society. If we don’t look as the society pleases then kids get bullied just like Georgiana in The Birthmark. She is one of the most beautiful women…
We also cannot overlook how Lindsay Lohan did an excellent job of portraying these seemingly identical yet very different girls. The characteristics of the girls and the situation going on in the film (girls pretending to be each other and going back as the other to their parents) gave the young actress a challenge as to whether she could adapt to such an in-depth role or more appropriately, role’s’.…
The story Emma and Atonement has female protagonists named Emma and Briony. These two girls have passions of things that they like to do, and desire of doing the interested things. The two story relates together showing the difference between Emma and Briony. Briony and Emma shares a lot of similar, but different characteristics that makes connection with the two story. Their personality towards other people and their families makes the two characters different. It is interesting to see the difference and connection between the two characters.…
The story Emma based from the book “A World of Prose” and published by the author Carolyn Cole is about a woman named Emma who is a very beautiful lady of leisure, she has stepped down from an active social life after giving birth to Dorian in order to spend more time with her daughter Maria. Her husband Jack is a notorious cheater and he is not faithful to Emma. The setting of the story occurs in three places the York Residence, an unknown mall and at the old train station where the death of Emma took place. In the first setting of the story which takes place at the York Residence shows the two friends Maria and Dorian doing activities such as chatting about Dory’s Mother Emma, playing adult games and the support of each other. The moods and the themes displayed in that setting of the story is called Innocence which is epitomized by Dorian, the story is told from her perspective therefore we get a view of the innocence behind her misunderstanding of adult conversations and situations. Friendship which is shown in the friendship between Dorian and Maria, which is characterized by playing adult games.…