Essay On Machinal

The radio play was able to show what was faced by the invalid; Mrs. Stevenson by the strong characterization that was given, the audience could truly see what she was facing as a woman who was not believed by the people she was communicating with. Though the voice of Mrs. Stevenson was not the most pleasant sound, it truly showed the audience what she was going through at the time. Knowing that a murder was to be committed, but having no one to listen and believe her caused panic to the character of Mrs. Stevenson, even though the audience could not see what she was facing, the audio play painted a portrait of terror she was in. The noise going on the background also fell into this as it gave suspense as to what would happen to the character and showed what could have happened and made the audience think about what was to come. The cacophony of

     Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the great political minds of the 15th century, accomplished what many mathematicians today only dream of, having one’s name used as an adjective. To be Machiavellian is to demonstrate characteristics of expediency, deceit, and cunning and as Machiavelli wrote in, The Prince, these are the qualities of a great leader. The Prince was published in 1531, creating great controversy with other political thinkers of the time. Machiavelli completely ignored the popular religious teachings of the era and erased the moral and ethical considerations from the leadership equation; the actions of a ruler should be governed solely by necessity. “Since I intend to write something useful to an

Sound quality was there, as expected in a performance as such. In the midst of scenes you could make out crickets or even an ambulance which really gave life to the experience as a whole and left the moments of complete silence as powerful as ever.

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Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal is a strangely riveting play so filled with unlikable characters that it makes one want to scream and throttle whichever character is closest at hand, without prejudice as to which persona it might be, as they are all equally detestable in their own way. Unfortunately, the infuriating characters are exactly what make the play so fascinating. Each of the characters in the play, originally intended to display that life is an inescapable machine, exhibit many disturbing psychological qualities, and the main character suffers a slew of near textbook psychological misfortune. Whether Sophie Treadwell created her play with this facet intentionally or not is unknown, but the examples are so

The actors that I will be discussing is Jenna Taylor, who plays Savannah Honeycutt. Another actor that I will be discussing is Charlotte Malone, who plays Hayley Quinn. Last but not less Alexis Bryner, who plays Norleen Sprunt. Savannah Honeycutt is the daughter that is successful and don’t have a boyfriend because of her mother. Hayley Quinn is the daughter in law that is the braid to be. Norleen Sprunt is the mother that is always in your business. The three characters that I choose was great characters. I choose these three characters because they were the funniest out through the play. They stay in scene with ever change that made. Even though they were the main focus of the play, other characters was funny. In every scene something happened

The director and creative team shot abstract video and used audio replication to manipulate the sensations audiences experience when viewing this film. It is hard to know if the characters are experiencing diagetic sound, or if the audio is removed from their

Machiavelli had a true and abiding love for Florence. He wanted to make Florence great and also find himself a job, as he lost his when the Medici family came into power. He dedicated his book on political science, The Prince, to Lorenzo Medici in the hopes that Lorenzo would be impressed and offer him a job. However, Lorenzo ignored the book and Machiavelli.

"And since it is Fortune that does everything, it is she who wishes us to leave her alone, to be quiet and not give her trouble, and wait until she allows us to act again; then you will do well to strive harder, to observe things more closely...." (67)* Letter to Francesco Vettori in Rome December 10, 1513.

Those whispers and voices you hear in the horror movies aren't like the ones in real life. The real ones are different. Filtered, muffled. There's something in the way of making them understandable and clear.

With the opening scene of the show, it was the director’s choice to cast many voices all throughout the theatre—all speaking either English or Spanish, which left me confused with what was happening. Shortly thereafter it was made clear by voice-over narration that the play was about the history of Willimantic; specifically, the immigrants who came into Willimantic to work in thread factories and provide better lives for their families. As the majority of the cast comes on stage, none of them were speaking. In fact, the only way to tell what was happening was to watch their specific movements, and their dancing, and to see how the characters were interacting with each other. It became clear that the director had decided to make it mostly a nonverbal show, relying on movements and special effects to tell the story. All of the movements the cast made were very methodical and flowed with the scene and the character either moving with or beside them. Truly, the creation of a non-verbal play caused me, and I believe the audience, to pay closer attention to sound and movement in order to piece together the story for ourselves.

Despite many people being against his way of thinking, Machiavelli’s way of thinking was brilliant because of his interpretations in The Prince. One of the main reasons why Niccolo Machiavelli was a great leader is because of his dual purpose writings, which led him to success. His most famous book is The Prince,the proof of his brilliant but misunderstood mind. The above mentioned book was originally written to help rulers - specifically, Lorenzo Medici. Many of the ideas written in The Prince were very controversial and caused the book to be banned and for Machiavelli to be jailed. Even though many people

The Prince, written in 1513 but not published until 1532, was a treatise written by Machiavelli containing his opinion on the most effective government model. Before writing the book, Machiavelli held a number of positions in the Florentine government, which meant he travelled on a number of diplomatic missions. His observations later led to his writing of The Prince. At one point in Machiavelli’s career he served under the Borgia family, arguably the most infamous family in Renaissance Italy. The family were notorious for their many suspected crimes including murder and bribery. Their bloodthirsty approach to politics helped to convince Machiavelli of the benefits of ruthless leadership in order to claim and retain power. Machiavelli was writing

To understand Machiavelli and his opinions, the era which Machiavelli lived should be known. Before Machiavelli, Medieval was just finished by renaissance. Medieval was the era for church which people were under the God’s rules control and church was the only way to get rest but after the renaissance human and human activities have taken into consideration. West has started to seek a way to understand human without idea of God. Renaissance is spread out from Italy. It was the heart of renaissance because it was the only country that there was still a connection with old times and they have carried these old intellectual accumulations to that day. So Italy was different from other European states. There was no feudal pressure as other states because Italy has been managed by individualistic republics. This difference in management made Italy’s cultural and economic dynamism alive. However this dynamism was eclipsed by the wars around Italy. Lots of state around Italy was using mercenaries and this was making the environment more insecure. There was no balance between powers and in this blood bath, it was impossible to predict which dynasty would overthrow other. This gap has stood the church in good

A goal defines both your motives and your actions. If your goal is to make money, your actions and outcome will be different than if your goal is to help people. Same goes for the goal of a government. Are you simply trying to survive and grow, or do you want to create the most prosperous place for the people of your country? It was clear to me that Machiavelli was simply trying to grow the power of his country while keeping it alive for as long as possible. Doing this means silencing your enemies, putting fear into the people around you and to never give mercy. He had a rule that if anyone crossed you, you must prevent them from doing it again, not from a minor punishment, but from either impairing them physically, or simply killing them. The thought behind that was that then this person would not be able to get revenge or start a revolution. This makes sense if you want your country to survive, but not if you want your people to be happy.