Why Irina Longs For A Life Of Hard Work

Though language each character tried to define life and their struggle in hope of controlling it. In one scene, Masha in her drunken state unmasks her true emotions and declares her love for Konstantin, upon rejection she proclaims the meaninglessness of life without love and how in the end the only result of it is misery. Her pretence of having a callous exterior was to masks the underling pain that she is unable to deal with. Dim lighting accentuated the foreboding mood of misery and her off centre positioning on stage underpinned the neglect of sympathy she was receiving from other characters, most importantly Konstantin, due to the seemingly “unimportance” of her character. At the pinnacle of emotional pretence, Irina as a character constantly maintains a façade of extravagance. Upon returning to the lake, she vociferates the “perfection” of her life and career, but moments’ later runs off stage and sobs in despair. The use of split staging depicts Irina’s battling emotions and her fear of showing emotional sincerity least it enhances her vulnerability. Throughout the play the seagull is a recurring motif and appears in peaks of tension in the play. In this case it reinforces the theme of the existentialism revealing the characters denial of their misery and unwillingness to change their

We sse this today with the way certain celeberties such as Kanye West dress and how they seemingly are able to wear any "hat" they wish. We look at the rich to be role models simply because of their money and refuse to look at the heart of a person. She hit on the fact that those with little money do all they can to look like something they are not. She talked about the struggle of haveing womens club in the poor neighborhoods as many wouldn't leave a home adress or even attend becase everyone knew they finacial situation but they were going to differnt parts of town to those that didn't to seem like they were a person who were very well off in life. The piece hit om the fact that these chidren were often asked to stop their develepment and work to help the family and for some parenst it was an expectation that the children would care for them. LAstly she talked about war and how it preys on the untutered and poor to fight a battle they knew nothing about. One huge theme of the pieces were that we cannot keep using history and old customs to justify our shortcomings in

This play was directed by Rick Lombardo and performed in the Howard Logan Stillwell Theater on the KSU campus. The play is follows the lives of three sisters who had lost their father and have moved far from the city they loved. They hope that one day they will be able to return to Moscow, but the play starts out with them in rural russia. The three sisters live with their brother, Andrey, who spends a lot of his time studying downstairs. They oldest sister, Olga, is a teacher who seems to be the most mature of the three. The middle child, Masha, is married to a school teacher named Kulygin. She eventually has an affair with a military man named Vershinin, but this affair doesn’t end well. The youngest child, Irina, seems very optimistic and

She is very vain but at the same time she is insecure. Her need for male attention and approval causes her many problems throughout the play and gives the reader a character to represent a theme of the play.

Desire can be used as a tool to set goals and motivate people to accomplish objectives over their lifetime. People may desire various elements of a good life including success, happiness, or easy wealth. Desire takes many forms in Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears, where three female characters starts a new life in a new era, where they believe that desire is rewarded. The film begins in the Thaw period Moscow, with three protagonists who are part of the urbanization movement of Soviet people that have high hopes for a better future. Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina each have their own ambitions that actualize over a period of twenty years that lead up to the stagnation period. Through the depiction of the rewards and punishments of the three

The play discussed a 16-year old girl who joined a girl gang after witnessing so much in her life. She was mentally and physically abused and taken advantage of. She experienced being raped at the age of five and her mother being beat everyday by that same person which was her stepfather. As a result, she turned her life to the streets as a way of escape because she had no one to depend on.

The play portrayed the life of two couples and their close friendship, but once an act of generosity came their way, their world was shaken up and true feelings about their relationships began to emerge. In their mentality an act of generosity became about being in debt to the person giving, and having to always return the favor in order to not look bad as a person. If somebody did a generous deed, it meant that they wanted something from you and the reality of the concept of generosity was forgotten. In the play the theme of generosity was expressed through the character of David Nathan Bright, and through his acting the audience got see this concept. The way the actor carried himself showcased a sense of genuineness, and through his calm voice and secure body language the audience got to see a true

The dramatic love story takes place in the Russian countryside and follows the maturation of Tatyana from a young girl in love to a married women loyal to her aristocratic duties and marital union. The opera opens with her younger sister, Olga, awaiting the arrival of her fiance Lensky and his friend, Onegin, visiting from St. Petersburg. After a brief conversation with Onegin, Tatyana realizes she is deeply in love with him and

Another contemporary adaptation of the original Greek play is from The Gate theatre, adapted by Anna- Louise. I believe this production plays strongly on the subject of the killing of children as the production focussed around Medea's two children, where the audience get to view the play from the children's perspective as they are the main characters in the production. "Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sacks’s take on Medea shifts the focus sharply away from the engineers of these stories to the innocent victims, depicting Medea’s children in the last few hours of this particular tragic tale. Leon and Jasper are locked in their room while their parents “sort out marriage stuff”. They laugh, they cry, they joke, they fight – and they play dead.

For much of the play, the present and onstage actions are the result of offstage events. The offstage is an area where no rules exist – it is a representation of the imagined. For Nora, this preview of freedom is dangerous because of her ignorance. Ibsen may have inferred that without outside experience, humanity is simply limited. As Jakovljevic writes, “Ignorance is not the lack of learning, but the lack of experience, the lack of empirical knowledge” (Jakovljevic 440). Torvald is an educated bank manager who spends his days outside in the real world, experienced in the offstage area. In contrast, Nora is a housewife who spends her day with her children and is rarely subjected to the hardships of life outside the household. The laws that Nora must follow are not those of society, but those that are constructed in the household for the purpose her marriage. Once Nora is unchained and placed into the world outside the house, she is uneducated about society as much as a child is. Gilman iterates this by writing, “In its central movement A Doll’s House is a drama of preparation, pitched beyond sexual differences, a play of encounter with the obstacles-in this exemplary case the institution of marriage-that act to prevent us from knowing ourselves and the world” (Gilman 65). It is unreasonable to blame Nora for her

“These Shining Lives” is about the lives and telling the story of those women with strength who work in a watch factory. This happens during the period when women increasingly starting working. This play is interesting of the aspect that how it starts in comic, but ends with tragic look at how women find jobs concerned with profit rather than safety.

In the novel each character has a challenge that deals with the pressures of wealth and high society hierarchy. Gender rules are a big thing to follow and if broken the society looks down upon you. In the novel, Countless Ellen Olenska, undertakes a huge gender breaking rule: she tries to divorce her husband (which in that society is a big no-no) and moves to Europe alone. Ellen represents death of the old order of society because a woman of that time period would never go against the innocent role of a woman the way Ellen did. Although Ellen claimed she was ready to get out of the city, “It is confoundedly dull anyhow; New York is dying of dullness” (87). To the people of her society it was

Throughout the dramatic play titled “A Doll House”, Henrik Ibsen’s creation of the character Nora changes immensely from the beginning to the end of the work. Some people may argue and question the intentions of Nora, and describe her as a despicable and selfish woman; however, I see her as a courageous and selfless woman, who longs to be treated as an equal to men. Nora’s sacrifice for her husband at the beginning unravels throughout the entirety of the play, and reveals a boundless transformation of Nora into strong woman, who thrives off of the idea of becoming an equal, self-sufficient lady as she makes the brave decision to leave her family to better herself.

In very last act of this play, It is revealed that Mrs. Linde had a past with Krogstad, and has come to an epiphany about her own marriage. However, they are not the only ones that have a moment of realization and go through a transformation in their lives. Nora and Torvald go through an emotional metamorphosis in their marriage, and it causes Nora to find who she really is as a person. The great significance that is brought to this play is the not just the definition of equality between men and women, but other social injustices that go on throughout society.

The first act of the play opens the scene as a pleasant time of year, Christmas. Nora is excited to show her husband Torvald the gifts she has bought for their children. The interaction between Nora and Torvald is what appears to be playful. However, Torvald's pet names are leading to the other childlike behaviors to come. When Mrs. Linde a long lost friend of Nora's arrives Nora is excited to see her. At first, Nora does not recognize her old school friend. Mrs. Linde has aged, lost weight, and had a harder life than Nora. They sit down to catch up, and Nora hijacks the conversation. She brags about all the beautiful things she has, and that is coming to her and her lovely husband. Nora does apologize for not letting Christine speak about her life. However when Christine does get to talk Nora does not fully understand the depth of what she is saying. Christine can quickly see that Nora has had an easy way to go besides losing her father. Christine calls Nora out on not having any life experiences by saying "for you know so little of the burdens and troubles of life," and "small household cares and that sort of thing! You are a