The Spring Awakening by Valencia College Theater on October 21 was extremely entertaining as well as a nice surprise. The director Julia Gange did a wonderful job of presenting a very smooth performance that kept the audience amused. I felt as if the play was absolutely entertaining and was presented very professionally. In my opinion, the show was awesome due to the quality of the acting as well as the presentation of the set. One feature of the play that really amazed me was the perfection of
As a musical theater junkie, I was ashamed to admit that Bucknell’s performance of Spring Awakening was the first production of the show I had seen. It was a show I was always interested in and had listened to a few times over, yet I had passed over the opportunity to see it on Broadway (or at other play houses). Despite my excitement to see Bucknell’s performance, there was something missing in the show that kept it, in my opinion, from being truly great. It appeared that there was an imbalance
entitled to his or her opinion. However, I believe that it is a woman’s right to be able to decide for herself what she does or does not do. It is not the government’s place or a man’s role to influence her decision. During the first scenes of Spring Awakening, Wendla Bergmann begs her mother to tell her about where babies come from. Although her mother acknowledges that Wendla is becoming a young woman, she cannot bring herself to explain these life lessons to her daughter. Wendla laments about her
With every end, there is a beginning. When the cold winter ends, there is a new beginning in nature where the trees and flowers start fresh as they grow once again. The poem “Spring”, takes us, readers, to a setting where the place shows complete nature. We are to imagine aesthetic scenery where spring has arrived and everything that happens during this season is happening right in front of us. The speaker seems to appreciate nature so much that he sees the complete difference between the seasons
Stravinsky’s bold and audacious orchestral writing. The Rite of Spring In 1913, Stravinsky premiered his arguably most famous and influential work – The Rite of Spring. This ballet ended up to potentially be a very controversial work, pioneering new ideas in both the music and the choreography. This was Stravinsky’s third ballet for Diaghilev’s company, the Ballet Russes, who primarily performed Russian themes. The Rite of Spring acts as a turning point in Stravinsky’s career, spurring revolutionary
Kate Chopin is best known for her novel, The Awakening, published in 1899. After its publication, The Awakening created such uproar that its author was alienated from certain social circles in St. Louis. The novel also contributed to rejections of Chopin's later stories including, "The Story of An Hour" and "The Storm." The heavy criticism that she endured for the novel hindered her writing. The male dominated world was simply not ready for such an honest exploration of female independence, a frank
One would think without even ever having heard of H.P. Lovecraft’s cryptozoologic tales of ancient, maleficent, inhuman and utterly incomprehensibly mad creatures awakening from beneath miles of strata under the south-east asian ocean floor, one would think that whatever could be found alive down there, even microbes, would have to be hellish, if not plainly weird. However, in sediments over 2 kilometers below the ocean floor, where pressure and heat are equally hellish, researchers have unearthed
Analysis of “The Story of an Hour” written by Kate Chopin The story under analysis is written by Kate Chopin. Kate Chopin was an American author of short stories and novels. She wrote for both children and adults. She is considered as a forerunner of feminist author. Unlike many of the feminist writers of her time who were mainly interested in improving the social conditions of women, she looked for an understanding of personal freedom. She put much concentration on women’s lives and their continual
Literary Analysis Paper #4 Their Eyes Were Watching God Abid Ahmad November 15, 2017 Our emotions are the single most human characteristics that we possess, making them nearly impossible to encapsulate. The oppression that some of us might face may seem so great that a limitless lexicon still won’t suffice in order to convey our feelings. Similarly, the eternal feeling of love, an intangible force that drives many of us in our actions sometimes will never receive the justice it deserves through
Middle East. Like many eager journalists and intellectuals during the Arab Spring, Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan and a popular political blogger, had high hopes. “A new generation has been awakened,” Cole writes in his latest book, “The New Arabs,” which chronicles the positive new historical dynamic is taking hold in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. In 2011, Westerners expected the Arab world to “spring” into democracy. But like most at the time, Juan Cole was wrong. “The