ENGLISH COMPARATIVE ESSAY
ASSINGMENT II
A comparison and contrast between "Flowers from another world" and "Hi, are you alone?"'
This essay will attempt to compare and contrast two films directed by Spanish director actress Iciar Bollain. The films to be compared and contrasted are "Hi, are you alone? ("Hola,estas sola?") and "Flowers from another world" ("Flores de otro mundo"). The most apparent reason for comparing and contrasting these two films is that both focus their attention on women's affairs and behaviours in today's Spanish society, both display similarities in their content but most important is the differences that one may find in the portrayal of women the director seems to be interested in.
A) "Hi, are you
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Both plots have a vast amount of drama in their content making common for the audience to expect emotional and passionate scenes where becomes clear that the director is an expert in obtaining the very best of every actor in her films.
 II) The Characters: Both films have different portrayals of women, there are female characters such as Silke in "Hi,are you alone" and Patricia in "Flowers from another world" who represent women determination and contingency as opposed to Trini and Milady who are much more sex appealed and adventurous thus much more joyful. The former are more complex figures whereas the latter, Trini and Milady are more immature and flirtuous. In both films we get the figure of the mother who at first seem all caring and all loving but turns out to appear as a malicious figure whose ego is greater than her heart.
 III) Politics: Both films suggest a sympathy towards a left wing government or Evolutionary as often called in Spain where the establishment appears to be the cause for the distress and problematic lives the characters have in this two films. One finds this is the case when Patricia shouts out "Maldita burguesia" referring to Spain's hierarchical family structure in "Flowers from another world" and when Trine calls her landlord a fascist because he looks down
Is the novel making the same point about the value or ideas as the film? If so, how? If it is making a different point about the value or idea, how is it different?
In this essay, female oppression in La Casa de Bernarda Alba will be discussed and analyzed. However, in order to be able to understand the importance of this theme and the impact it has had on the play, one must first understand the role of female oppression in the Spanish society in the 1930s.
One of these key differences can be found through the attitudes and portrayals of each of the characters. Baptista Minola, (the father of Bianca and Katherine) in the play, is a very respectable and confident man. But in the movie he acts extremely timid and scared;
With any comparison between a play and its movie counterpart there are bound to be major differences and key similarities between
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There are many similarities and some minor differences between the movie, directed by Claude Chabrol, and the short story it is based off of, written by Guy de Maupassant. The plot, setting, and characters are all highly similar in both the story and the film. In both, the plot follows the same scheme, it is set in Paris in the 1880’s, and all of the main characters are the same. The major difference that stood out to me is how these aspects are displayed at the beginning of the narrative.
The plots are quite similar in both plays, both the film and the play tell a story about a man who meets 3 people, in the
This essay will be discussing how gender is portrayed in the films Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) and Tacones Lejanos (High Heels), both directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The use of the theatre and performance, along with the audiences that come with it, enables these films to explore the manner in which gender is unstable. Gwynne Edwards writes that Almodóvar often pays tribute to the stage . Almodóvar dedicates All About My Mother “to all the actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to men who act and become women” , which is also relevant to High Heels. He uses the stage setting as a platform to show the instability of gender, not only on a physical stage but also in the characters’ lives: “The dialogue of his films has the cut and thrust, and very often wit, of stage plays. There are also soliloquies, and one of them – in All About My Mother – is even delivered to the audience from the stage of a theatre” . Russell Jackson suggests that this is done as a method for the characters to “find the sometimes onerous ability to deal with and describe their past, and to create a future in the face of death and desertion.” The character ‘La Agrado’ in All About My Mother as well High Heels’ Femme Letal (Letal), will be considered - both the manner in which they carry themselves throughout the film, as well as the their performances on stage. In the following paragraphs, I will illustrate how performance and the stage are vital in Almodóvar’s exploration
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes is a piece of literature that asseverates that perhaps intelligence is a seamless fundamental. Precisely, for 34 old Charlie Gordon who initially wants to attain intelligence because he has been dimwitted throughout his whole entire life. Mr.Gordon is given an opportunity to be chosen for an operation. Fortunately for Mr. Gordon he happens to be the perfect candidate for the operation that will result to be semi-successful. As for Charley a 1968 film that portrays a 34 year old who seeks
In El Laberinto del Fauno, Guillermo del Toro uses the theme of obedience to illustrate and condemn two repressive components of fascism: patriarchy and the coercion of free will. This essay will look at two examples of obedience in the film which reveal the abhorrent nature of these aspects of fascism and the importance of resisting them. These are, respectively, the relationship between Captain Vidal and Mercedes and Ofelia’s refusal to compromise her own integrity.
Both the films have one thing common which is their genre. Both the films are based on romantic-comedy American film. Another thing which is common between them is the duration of their films. Both the films have approximately duration of one and half hour plus fifteen minutes. The films are based on the romantic theme but followed by a little comedy touch that can attract the viewers and can attain their attention. Both the films were a huge success of their times due to their best chemistry of the main leading characters and also by the good mixture of the comedy and romantic aspects of the filmography.
Lope de Vega’s play touches upon several key components and ideas that were brought up in many of the other stories read throughout the semester. This included the role of gender and how men and women are viewed differently in the Spaniard town of Fuenteovejuna. Another topic included the importance of family, love, and relationships and their connection on loyalty, trust, and personal beliefs. The last major influence found in other literature and in Fuenteovejuna, were the political and religious references made throughout the play. Even though Lope de Vega didn’t make these views obvious, the reader could still pick up on their connotation and the references made towards these specific ideas. With all of this in mind, each of these
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