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    American International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Available online at http://www.iasir.net ISSN (Print): 2328-3734, ISSN (Online): 2328-3696, ISSN (CD-ROM): 2328-3688 AIJRHASS is a refereed, indexed, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary and open access journal published by International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR), USA (An Association Unifying the Sciences, Engineering, and Applied Research) The Marginalized Groups in Indian

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    Beyond just that, as conformity was normal, people that were different were not accepted into society. Homosexuals, for example, were looked down upon and often arrested for “gross indecency.” Wilde was arrested and mistreated by his peers for being gay. Homosexuality, although frowned upon, was still found often in the “underworld of male prostitutes” (Stade). In order to appear principled, people didn’t act principled. They simply kept their unsuitable acts where they couldn’t be caught. As a result

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    The prominence of Jonathon Swift and his work is undeniable in the Eighteenth Century. Swift’s emergence into the literary world was spurned on by writing about politics and religion with his strong opinions and wit. Other famous works by Swift include A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books based on the corruptions in religion and learning at the time. Swift’s works in literature were often written to further a cause or reaction. The idea of the antagonising satirist is reiterated in a conversation

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    The more common acceptance that not everything is the way they seem and that every mental event in life its self can be perceived and interpreted many ways which are all true for each of the participants but not as a truth for all. This fed the cold war paranoia that even your next-door neighbor would be a communist. With the impending insanity of the M.A.D. policies of the cold war cultivated a nationwide paranoia that was brought out in many films like Dr. Strange-Love. In 1967 Theodore J. Flicker

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    have a career or direction. He had a problematic relationship with his father. His father introduced him to a friend of his who he instructed to take him under his wind and make a man of him. Unbeknownst to his father the friend likes young handsome gay men. The friend took him to Berlin and introduced him to cabaret amongst everything “else”. He had a difficult life and worked as an interior designer and did have had some influence on the Australian artist Roy de’Maistre. While waiting to start his

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    Shantata! Court Chalu Ahe (Silence! The Court is in Session, 1967) was his first play in which he marked out as a rebel against the established values of the society. This play combines social criticism with the tragedy of an individual victimized by society. The play represents the mental conflict of the protagonist, Miss Leela Benare who appears during the mock-trial as an accused. The plot of the play revolves round the trial of Miss Benare. Her role eclipses the roles of her male-counterparts

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    presented uncountable themes of the age like, In Montesquieu Persian Letters, the lethal dangers of the pursuit of knowledge and freedom is shown in the form of the stark parable alike in Voltaire’s philosophical novella Candid –an air of caustic satire on the “optimism” of philosophical rationalism is witnessed. So in a similar gesture, Mozart’s operas convey infinite sunnier Enlightenment ideas-from the thread of social and gender egalitarianism. The movie Amadeus, which was directed by Milos Forman

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    1 How do different forms of entertainment media (like TV, movies, video games, comic books, etc.) create and re-create cultural values related to gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and technology? What do fictional worlds, societies, technologies, and creatures tell us about our own society and the values we hold? Are the cultural values expressed accurate reflections, or are they more like the distorted reflection of a fun house mirror? Do they reinforce the status quo or challenge cultural

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    theater critic and a philosopher. True 3.  Aristotle's famous analysis of tragedy is found in a work called: The Poetics 4.  Aristotle's work on comedy is how long? 5 acts long 5. What did the Commedia delle'arte specialize in? 6.  What is satire? a literary genre or form, although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts, or a literary technique that attacks foolishness by making fun of it. 7. ( T or F ) The prophecies in Oedipus Rex turn out to be wrong. True

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    How does the composer of Clueless use film techniques to transform the social, historical and environmental context of Jane Austen’s Emma to the modern context of Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s Clueless involves a storyline, which closely follows the text of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. However, there are some key points of difference in the transformation that has taken place. This is due to the individual context of the nineteenth century prose text and that of the modern appropriated film text. The

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