Tales of the South Pacific

Halli Herring Herring 1 Mrs. McCasland Pre-AP English II 25 April 2017 South Pacific “South Pacific was a highly popular Broadway musical and hit movie. “ “The story for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1949 musical South Pacific, is drawn from a Pulitzer-prize- winning novel by James A. Michener, entitled Tales of the South Pacific, which dealt largely with the issue of racism” (Kurtus). It is also considered by many people to be among the greatest musicals of the twentieth century

completely riveted by the performances, the costumes, the acting, and the singing. The story of South Pacific was not one I was completely familiar with; before seeing the play, I had no idea it took place during World War Two. The setting is therefore a curious combination of tropical paradise and war. Thankfully, there is more of the former than the latter in this lighthearted comedy musical. South Pacific is not just a comedy, though. There are comedic elements, but it would be best described as a

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Coleridge writes of a sailor bringing a tale to life as he speaks to a wedding guest. An ancient Mariner tells of his brutal journey through the Pacific Ocean to the South Pole. Coleridge suffers from loneliness, because of his lifelong need for love and livelihood; similarly, during the Mariner’s tale, his loneliness shows when he becomes alone at sea, because of the loss of his crew. Having a disastrous dependence to opium and laudanum, Coleridge, in partnership

Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music (Rodgers). Within Rodgers and Hammerstein’s show, South Pacific it has an underlying theme dealing with race. Rodgers and Hammerstein instilled a social change dealing with racism through, insistence on including a message about racial tolerance within South Pacific and how it is directly dealing with miscegenation and its tragic after-effects in the 20th century South. When South Pacific first

on race. Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most famous musical theater writing team, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Jr., both reflected and powerfully commented upon these racial tensions in two of their most famous musicals: The King and I and South Pacific. These musicals reached immense

was shot dead by a marksman in Vietnam. His carcass was transferred home for burial the day before Memorial Day. For Don’s family, the holiday would become an annual visit to Bachelor's Grove Cemetery to lay flowers at his grave. Another war, another tale of tragedy: Franz Lucols was awarded, post

conquered the South America area where Peru now stands. He is best known for overthrowing the Inca king Atahualpa and establishing the capital Lima in Peru. Pizarro was born an illegitimate child of Gonzalo Pizarro, who was a spanish captain who did several campaigns in Italy. When Pizarro was a boy he was intrigued of stories of the New World, he gained a quick interest in exploring. So he joined Vasco Núñez De Balboa on an expedition to the Americas. On this expedition they discovered the Pacific Ocean

through South America he and his crew found trouble. Ferdinand Magellan proceeded to stop at the Philippines. Other important accomplishments were also made too. Ferdinand Magellan changed the knowledge of The New World.

wanted to invade. He did this with his failed conquest of the regions in modern Vietnam after his failures in Japan, each time trying to commit a navy he could support, robbing his empire of money and resources it could have used elsewhere. Khan’s tales of overstretching his empire came from lots of sources around at the time, all saying the same thing. Delgado answers this question fully and convincingly as it is one with little mystery surrounding it. Delgado’s main questions are those surrounding

Stevenson went on to inform his readers that “you will know more about the South Seas after you have read my little tale than if you had read a library” (Booth and Mehew, 1994-5). We shall discuss The Beach of Falésa’s realism in its description of the island life, religious beliefs and the supernatural, use of language and its depiction of the “contact