Long Christmas Ride Home Analysis

The issue of cultural stereotypes and misconceptions thematically runs throughout David Henry Hwang’s play M. Butterfly. The play is inspired by a 1986 newspaper story about a former French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer, who turns out to be a spy and a man. Hwang used the newspaper story and deconstructed it into Madame Butterfly to help breakdown the stereotypes that are present between the East and the West. Hwang’s play overall breaks down the sexist and racist clichés that the East-West have against each other that reaffirm the Western male culture ideas. The stereotypes presented in the play revolve around the two main characters, Gallimard and Song. The play itself begins in the present with Gallimard, a French diplomat who has

Kyle stands in the middle of the stage and does another show-and-tell type speech on the play. Whilst he is standing in the middle of the stage, he incorporates direct address and space as he stands by himself in front of the audience. There are no sounds, the light is only on Kyle and this mood is made so that the audience concentrates on his story as it is an important information on the play. Like the previous speech, he begins with a very lovely story about how he founds and loves a cat. However, when he starts to talk about when his father found the cat, the story takes a dark turn and tension builds. Kyle’s voice becomes faster, louder and shaky to show the emotions which he feels. The actress which plays Jessie morphs into the cat at this point by using the conventions of multiple roles to assist in telling the story. This story is very important in the play as the plastic bag which his father used to kill his cat becomes a major symbol throughout the play in various types of scenes. Whenever he feels threatened, upset or sad, he pulls out the bag and put it around his head and neck. Thus, this shows the audience his emotions and let them link the symbolism with the scene without having to physically talk. This shows that Kyle’s life is affected by his violent father and

“The Boys in the Band”, is a play about male homosexual relationships and the revealing truths of being gay in the 1960s. The play gives audiences a distinct perspective of homosexuality on the stage up until that time. The setting is in a New York City apartment that is owned by Michael. He and his gay friends are preparing a birthday party for Harold. Alan McCarthy, a former college roommate of Michael, also shows up at the party unexpectedly. In this paper, we will focus on Alan and Harold and their behaviors and impacts in the play.

As the story develops, the reader’s thoughts are guided by the structure of the piece in a way that Tan is able to share an important lesson through the form of a personal narrative. The opening text immediately introduces the narrator and her insecurities as she wishes for a “slim new American nose” (Tan 1). The story initially takes on a negative tone as Tan proceeds to have a negative outlook throughout the entire evening. Her overwhelming anxiety can almost be felt by the reader as she worries what Robert will think of her “noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners” and overall “shabby Chinese Christmas” (Tan 1). With the tone set, Tan continues to amplify each dreadful detail of her family’s traditional Christmas Eve dinner. This includes the actual meal, that of which appeared to be

Violet is a pretty, popular, soccer player with an equally popular soccer player boyfriend. However, Violet 's world comes crashing down when the women 's soccer team is cut from her high school due to lack of funds. Violet in turn decided to impersonate her twin brother Sebastian at her rival school so that she can tryout for the male soccer team and show her now ex-boyfriend that girls can play just as well as boys. At her new high school she falls in love with her brother 's roommate. The problem is, he thinks she 's a boy. Violet is not your typical movie heroine, in the beginning of the movie she seemingly has everything a girl could want, however her passion for soccer drives her to step outside the norm and prove herself. Although the main character in this movie contradicts Denby 's view of teen movies, there are many other characters in the movie who fall directly in line with Denby 's theory. For example, Sebastian 's girlfriend Monique is a typical cheerleader type character. She has no regard for anyone 's life but her own. Also, Violet 's divorced parents are completely unaware that their son Sebastian is in London playing with a band, and their daughter Violet is impersonating him in order to play soccer.

The Parenthood film depicts average family that are changing life course which is the building block of many families. We have the father and mother with marital disfigurations of attachments, and lack of attachment between themselves and the relationships involving their four adult children and grandchildren. Furthermore, in this paper a description of accepting the shift generational roles and Structural Theory is analyzed and discussed in an article moreover, the Buckman’s family members accept financial responsibility for self and their families. Lastly, the subsystem chosen for the analysis, speculation is Larry.

In Spring Ford Community Theater’s production of A Christmas Carol, the rhetoric utilized by the director and actors in the creation of this play helps strengthen the argument that the tale is still relevant and connects to the modern era, which is proposed in Stephanie Allen’s Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” Told Uncomfortable Truths About Victorian Society, But Does it Have Anything to Teach Us Today?. Through the use of emotional appeals and the chronological progression of the play, this production makes the tale believable and reconnects it to common themes found in modern literature. The purpose of this production is to reinforce how these themes affect life and to display a positive outlook to the holiday season, which is done by the connection of this production with the viewer.

A quote from Author Truman Capote “Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.” Buddy, from A Christmas Memory, has one friend, his distant cousin, and is loyal and kind to her all the time. Like the quote, Buddy does not have many other friends and is very friendly with the one friend he has. Jimmy and Bob’s friendship starts to deteriorate, because they don’t spend enough time each other.

The purpose of this critique is to analyze the various aspects of a modern family through the film, “This is Where I Leave You”. Different components of marriage, families, and relationships will be explored to better understand the central theme of the movie.

Single Asian Female by Michelle law was a thought provoking and challenging play presented by La Boite Theatre Company. Single Asian Female is the story of newly single Asian women and her two daughter’s lives as they all fight their own issues, run a Chinese shop, get their dream careers and most importantly be a family. This breathtaking piece explores issues and the behind the door lives of international people living in Australia. This play is brought to life through the Alex Lee’s, Hsiao-Ling Tang’s and Courtney Stewart’s realistic characterisation and vocal tones of the three main characters, Zoe, Pearl and Mei. Lighting, musical undertone and the tensions of drama helped turn this play into a heart-warming

Mitzi presents another view of gay men. ‘She’ is more embarrassed about being a drag queen, especially in front of ‘her’ son stating “Sorry about last night. I don't always dress up in women's clothes. I mean don't get the wrong idea. I do lots of different stuff……… You know, like Elvis and Garry Glitter and…….” Although in the end ‘she’ loosens up when ‘she’ realizes that ‘her’ son accepts ‘her’ for whom she is. Mitzi.

A morality play, not unlike some of the popular plays I have seen. I think we all have seen this familiar theme many times over the years. As we head into the Christmas season, where reflective thinking becomes this very theme. I can compare this play with some of these seasonal plays. The play that comes to my mind immediately is, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, “Doubt: A Parable”, and Paula Vogel’s play, “How I Learned to Drive”, both have strong themes of sexuality in the forms of sexual predation and pedophilia. Although these two stories are considerably different, the message is the same. “Doubt” is a play that concerns a mystery over whether or not a boy (Donald) has been raped by a priest, and “How I learned to Drive” is a play about a woman (Li’l Bit) who reminisces about the sexual molestation and the emotional manipulation she had to endure at the hands of her uncle. Although these plays both have main theme of sexuality, they each have vastly different settings, desires, and outcomes. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in both of these plays.

Rashomon (1950) is a film by Akira Kurosawa that deals with themes of truth, humanity, and morality. There are multiple approaches one could take to analyze this iconic film, this essay will focus on how each character performs their gender and how that affects how they are perceived by the other characters. While there are obviously many different personalities within each social class, these characters are primarily identified by their roles in society: the bandit, the husband, the wife, the commoner, the priest, and the woodcutter. These archetypes play out their gender roles through both how they present themselves in their own tellings, as well as how they are utilized as characters in the film, in fascinating ways.

The strongest issue that plagues the lives and consciences of people from any walk of life is issue of what is more important: duty to family or duty to one’s self. This conflict is present in three plays: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, and Hamlet by William Shakespeare. The Glass Menagerie is a play that discusses the struggles of a family dynamic and the decision to leave, or stay and build the family. In A Doll House, this drama is set up to discuss the role of females in families and their reactions. Additionally, the conflict in Hamlet is the choice of who should be loyal to whom when family bonds are put to the test. These three plays explores both sides of the arena in these family issues as