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Recently, I watched the 2002 film ‘Bend it like Beckham’. The director, Gurinder Chadra, teaches the viewers many life lessons to learn along the way. Today, I will be be analysing three life lessons that Grinder added to the film. These will be “Being true to ourselves”, “The importance of family”, and “Following our dreams”. The first lesson, “Being true to ourselves”, was shown through to the movie through Jess and Jules. Jess, always wanted to be a soccer star. Even from at the very beginning

The cultural issues of Bend it like Beckham are breaking Indian traditions, what is a socially acceptable relationship. First issue is Jess breaking many Hindu traditions of showing too much leg when wearing her athletic shorts, showing the scar on her upper thigh, and playing organized soccer, falling in love with her coach who is not Indian. Second issue is gay couples we observe when Tony admits to Jess that he is ready likes David Beckham. Paula Jules’s mother freaks out when she thinks her daughter

As You Like It:  The Importance of the Secondary Characters       As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, is a radiant blend of fantasy, romance, wit and humor. In this delightful romp, Rosalind stands out as the most robust, multidimensional and lovable character, so much so that she tends to overshadow the other characters in an audience's memory, making them seem, by comparison, just "stock dramatic types". Yet, As You Like It is not a stock romance that just happens to have Shakespeare's

disguise in many of his plays. It is used as an escape from the characters’ personalities and sometimes for comic effect. In As You Like it, the disguise becomes very comical as in the time it was written only men could act on stage. This could lead to much confusion and comedy in the roles of those in disguise. Disguise can give the freedom to a character to act how they like and a chance for them to show their views. It was in the 16th Century that there became an increased sense of self consciousness

Abstract This paper was influenced through Laura Esquivel’s, Like Water for Chocolate, a tragic romance novel that is denied of love by family tradition. The key topics of this paper that analysis will be touching on are over main characters, theme, and symbolism. This paper explains the importance and the analysis of each main character by their description the author is providing a visual image for the readers to picture. Tradition is not only the theme of the novel but it shows how Mexican tradition

As You Like It unravels one of William Shakespeare’s greatest pastoral comedies. Set in France, the play emphasizes the tension between the city and courtly world from the country or, for the purposes of this play, the green world. Shakespeare intensifies the tension between city and country by intertwining major themes of love and performance. Although the play begins in France, it mostly takes place within the confines of the forest of Arden. Through her transformable identity, Rosalind demonstrates

Violating the Established Social Order in As You Like It       The recent White House sex scandal raised issues about gender, desire, and an established social order - issues that questioned established social norms and ideas about the power and politics of sex. Our society is not the first to recognize the effects that sexual politics and gender relations have had on social order, however. The works of William Shakespeare are ample evidence that Elizabethan England was firmly in touch with

Discuss the relationship between court and forest in As You Like It One of the most deep rooted themes in As You Like It is the contrast between city and country life, which in the play manifests itself as the contrast between life in court and life in the forest. Many of the poets and writers in Shakespeare’s day lived in the court, or at least in the city of London, and they spent much of their time pondering the instability and intricacies of court life, and wondering if a simpler life in the

Gender and Social Norms in As You Like It        Shakespeare based his comedy As You Like It primarily on three other works.  Its plot follows the basic structure of Rosalynde, published in 1590 by Thomas Lodge.  The Tale of Gamelyn, written by an unknown author in the mid-fourteenth century, is a violent Middle English narrative that was found among Chaucer's papers and provides further details for Shakespeare's work.  With the Forest of Ardenne serving as an escape for our main characters

William Shakespeare's As You Like It As a Study of Perception and Misperception The concepts of perception and misperception are common themes in many of Shakespeare's plays and can be found in his comedies, tragedies and histories alike. Shakespeare explores these often-parallel elements through several different forms in his work, such as disguise, mistaken identity and blindness, and events caused by these can lead to amusing, confusing or sometimes tragic consequences