Similarities Between Maole And Juno And The Paycock

I will show understanding of the plot, character and themes and Shakesperes use of language and dramatic devices within the play.

After watching the movie Juno I was left with utter admiration for the central character Juno because she is a confident and intelligent teenager . Directed by Jason Reitman Juno is a movie about a girl who falls pregnant at the age of 16 to her best friend, Bleeker. Juno played by Ellen Page is portrayed as a teenage misfit who confronts her unplanned pregnancy by deciding to keep her baby and give it away for adoption. Diablo Cody wrote the film based on many of her own high school experiences and those of a close friend who was pregnant in high school and Diablo’s husband was also adopted. This movie explores the issues for teenagers around an unplanned pregnancy, love, peer pressure and responsibility which

The story takes place in Dublin, where Eveline, the main character, sits by her window in a dark dusty room for almost the entire story; leaving the final scene the only part with action happening outside the room, although the time span from beginning to the end is only a few hours. The story begins with Eveline sitting at a window, watching the avenue. Years ago, when Eveline was a child there was a field on the street where she and the other children from the neighborhood, excluding her brother Ernest "who was too grown up to play", used to play every evening, but now bright brick houses filled the field. Life back then seemed to be easier and better, but now Eveline and her brothers are all grown up and their mother is dead. Eveline is planning to leave Ireland, just like most of her childhood friends have done. Still, she is not sure if it is wise to leave her home and venture into the unknown.

The beginning of Act one opens with a brawl in the street between the servants of the Capulets and the Montagues. The origin of the fight introduces the

The differences in styles of language truly brings alive the plays' various characters, from the lowliest drawer to the noblest knight. The playwright's audience would have been composed of a similarly diverse spectrum of society, from the groundlings at the foot of the stage, to the members of the court in attendance, and these disparate members of the audience might very well have come away from the plays with different interpretations of

various moods in the mind of the audience, in Act I. In Act I we

Consider ways in which Diane Samuels explores ideas of identity in this play in Act 1 Scene 2, and elsewhere in the act.

The main character of Boyle’s story is the nameless narrator. He is more round than flat, mainly because of the point of view of first person. The reader must of course get closer to the main character because they become them when they read the story. The reader sees inside the narrator and through his eyes out at the world around him because of his thoughts and actions. Boyle develops his main character through the point of view taken—they cannot be separated.

Occurring frequently throughout the play, but particularly predominant at the end of Act I is the use of stage directions to

Juno, is about a 16-year-old, high school girl faced with the challenge of an unplanned pregnancy. As she sits in an abortion clinic waiting to abort her unborn child, she decides to have the baby. She is aware that she can’t raise it herself and decides to give her child up for adoption. She stumbles upon a lovely couple on a newspaper ad and instantly knows they are the parents she wants for her child. However, problems begin to unravel when Juno and Mark start bonding, perhaps more than they should. Grief and loss are seen throughout the movie from the birth mother, adoptive parents, and the grandparent’s perspective.

First off, with two of the actors having written the play (Martin and Ticheno), it took on an innovative acting technique. Since they had written the lines themselves, the actors were fluently able to become their characters. This makes it easy to tell from the first scene on as to what type of characters the actors are

Although in the typical five-act play Act I contains only the exposition, Miller uses this to incorporate part of the rising action.The introduction of the setting occurs, which is in a small

Act one, scene one: Troy and his best friend Bono, are drinking on a friday after work. In this scene the audience can get an idea of how close they are and gather information between their conversation. Throughout their conversation, Bono eventually ask about Troy’s affair with Alberta who he has buying drinks and walking near her house. Troy eventually reveals his secret which causes one of the plot elements in the play. Another significance of the opening scene is when Troy forbids Cory from playing football and going to college. Their relationship falls furthermore where Cory ends up making a huge decision in his life.

This quotation proves that Act Ⅰ and Ⅱ create a good introduction because, the author described one of the most important parts of the play very well, which helps the reader/audience have a good understanding of what is going on in the play. With a simple clarification of what had happened in the story the reader/audience knows what to expect further in the

“Juno and the Paycock” by Sean O’Casey is set amidst the height of the Irish Civil War. Throughout the play, we can see the titular character’s, Juno Boyle and Jack Boyle, relationship deteriorate , and how dramatic events in their lives and the lives of their children, Johnny and Mary, cause the entire family to collapse. The play is set closely following the signing of the treaty dividing Ireland into sections and features the resulting conflict between the diehards who want a united, free Ireland, and the free-staters, who support the treaty, with this conflict representing the clash of fanatical nationalism and practicality, of idealism and a recognition that what the people truly wanted was peace. The play also explores some of the