Dion Boucicault

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Celine Dion was born on March 30, 1968, in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada. In a family of 16 total, Celine being the youngest, their large amount encouraged a close-knit musical family base. Her parents, Adhemar and Therese Dion, formed a singing group called “Dion’s Family” that toured all across Canada when she was still a little girl. They also owned a piano bar where 5-year-old Celine would perform for their customers. Wanting to pursue her career, at the age of 12, Dion recorded her first

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Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon is an example of melodrama and artistic mastery. First, it has all the marking of a melodrama which was popular in the 19th century, where you have the villain poses a threat to a hero or heroine. Not only is there a villain but he is so villainous that he poses a threat to all around him, not just the hero and heroine (granted many will argue that Zoe cannot be the heroine, due to racial perceptions at the time of his writings) of the story. Moreover, I would say that

This ending shows me that boucicault altered his play to fit the British publics preconceptions of what a melodrama should be, therefore making it into a standard melodrama for the time. The fact that the plot in The Octoroon is based around the topic of slavery shows us that

From now on, the interesting and supernatural powers will follow Rip. Rip’s meeting with the dwarfs changed the direction of the main line of the story and made it more interesting with supernatural powers. The detailed depiction of dwarfs as typical American man allows every reader to imagine them and accept the America as an old country having own ancient traditions. When dwarfs enjoying the playing ninepins, the greediness shows itself in inside of Rip which makes him secretly drink the liquor

"-- we are all complicit and we all carry a certain responsibility for America's original sin: racism." -- David Bedrick, The Huffington Post, 10 April 2015 "Half-breed”, “Mulatto”, “Octoroon.” All of these terms at one point served to describe individuals of mixed race, particularly African and Caucasian. The controversy of interracialism has transcended generations, as well as cultures. It is a subject that, historically, has held the potential to incite savage racial discrimination

Branden-Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly are both sophisticated works centered around sociocultural problems in their respective settings. In An Octoroon, Branden-Jacobs Jenkins presents his own adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon critiquing Boucicault’s depiction of race and identity on the plantation Terrebonne in Louisiana. The play is centered around the sale of the plantation and a girl who is one eighth black by descent, an octoroon girl named Zoe who