Ms.Gargano ENG3U1-02 February 27‚ 2011 The imagery behind Ann’s loneliness The Short story‚ The Painted door‚ by Sinclair Ross‚ follows the life of a woman and a man living on a quiet‚ secluded farm. The woman‚ Ann‚ is a very confused person who is seemed to be unsatisfied with her marriage. Her Husband‚ John‚ is a very hard working farmer who works his hardest so that he can provide for him and his wife. He enjoys the simpler things in life‚ yet his wife
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When people are lonely and bored‚ they tend to reflect on their lives and the issues they have. This is precisely what happens in Sinclair Ross’s "The Painted Door"‚ where the author explores adultery‚ a topic which was taboo back in the thirties‚ the time when the story takes place. This is a story about a woman named Ann‚ who‚ ironically‚ discovers her true feelings for her husband‚ John‚ by cheating on him with his best friend‚ Steven. John decides to invite Steven‚ so that the latter would keep
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Ross Sinclair used‚ the literary device‚ irony in many ways throughout his short story "The Painted Door." This short story takes place in the great depression of the 1930’s in Saskatchewan during a horrific blizzard. Two of the three characters‚ Ann and Steven‚ are the main cause of most of the irony expressed in this short story. The irony is what makes this particular short story so tragic and dramatic. There are several examples of irony that dramatically affected the mood to be found throughout
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The Painted Veil begins with a story of a young‚ upper-class woman names Kitty married a middle-class bacteriologist calls Walter. Through the whole film‚ Kitty follows Walter to Mei-Tan-fu and this changes Kitty‚ self-centered lady to a loving wife. Kitty is a selfish and ignorant woman who comes from a high society of London. She is spoiled by her father. She inherits the values‚ high social status and with a bright future‚ to find her ideal mate. However‚ her mother puts a lot of pressure
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The Painted Terrapin Painted Terrapin is a species of turtle found in Borneo‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia and Thailand. The difference between a turtle and a terrapin is that turtles can only live in freshwater while a terrapin can live in both freshwater and brackish water (half-salt and half-fresh). Turtles live most of their lives under water‚ they rarely leave the ocean except when the female comes up to shore to lay their eggs. However‚ terrapins live in ponds‚ lakes‚ marshes‚ swamps and rivers
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The screen adaptation of W.S. Maugham’s novel The painted veil |Directed by |John Curran | |Produced by |Edward Norton | | |Naomi Watts | |Release date(s) |December 20‚ 2006 (US) | |Country |China | |
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The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel from British author W. Somerset Maugham. A lost girl named Kitty marries a guy named Walter Fane‚ a bacteriologist. The only reason that she marries him is so she can be married before her little sister Doris. She also had to get away from her mom. She moves to Hong Kong with her husband‚ and quickly gets bored. Kitty meets a guy named Charles Townsend who is the colonial secretary’s assistant. They start having an affair with each other. Her husband Walter finds
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O for A Door-to-Door Sales The Forgotten Channel CONSUMER T he days are long gone when it was common to find a stranger on your doorstep pushing aluminum siding‚ brushes‚ or encyclopedias. Yet even today‚ Mary Kay’s 1.7 million “beauty consultants” still drive up in their pink cars to demonstrate and sell cosmetics to women in their homes. And in some 70 countries around the world‚ millions of Kirby vacuum cleaners are being sold in households that have just
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The pained veil. I have just read one of the Somerset Maugham’s novels under the title of “ The painted veil”‚ which he wrote in 1925. In his preface to the novel Maugham wrote‚ that he had felt a desire to use the story as an inspiration‚ but re-wrote it and made a more modern version of it. According to his words‚ it was the first time he started writing from a story instead of from a character. I can dare say‚ that the plot of the book is very tricky. But there is a great depth of meaning
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The film The Painted Veil (2006) by director John Curran‚ an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel‚ forgoes sugar for pungent truths. This story is steeped in the painful emotions of betrayal‚ resentment and the realities of marrying for the wrong reasons. Viewers are taken on a visually stunning and emotionally charged journey to the meat of the heart where love is not always gentle or syrupy‚ yet can bloom unexpectedly even when scorned and surrounded by death. The Painted Veil explores
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