Utopian Symphony Analysis

In Romeo and Juliet, there are many complex characters that make this play more dramatic and interesting. Romeo is clearly one example of a complex character, where his romanticism blurs his sense of reality. An example of where this is seen during the play is when he falls for Juliet even though he declares that there is no one better than the woman he previously loved, Rosaline. Another example is when Romeo realizes that because of how he has lost his sense of reality, he has let his friend Mercutio die to one of their enemies: Tybalt. These two instances show how complex a character Romeo is and this shows how people in the real world can be similar to him by being complex and difficult to understand.

His methods in this procedure were highly controversial, and included half-truths In this way, he “greatly influenced the romantic view of Beethoven”, to the delight of the incoming Romantic composers who probably accepted Schindler’s writings and did not question its validity It will come as little surprise then that Beethoven might not have particularly appreciated Napoleon Bonaparte and his conquests (Perhaps a case could be made for the Emperor concerto as a protest against Bonaparte’s conquest or even for the concerto as demonstrating the valor of Austrian resistance — also an empire at the time — due to its heroic theme.) In a letter to his editors, Beethoven recounts how these events affected him: "During this time we lived in a really oppressive embarrassment [...] The course of events on the whole has had at home its repercussions physically and morally I still can not even enjoy this life in the country so indispensable to me [...]

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In the synopsis for NYCB’s Swan Lake I read: “The spell can be broken only by a man who swears undying love and fidelity.” This latter concept (particularly) causes us to roll our eyes and sounds incredibly naive, unbelievable to our super sophisticated 21st century ears. Whoever authored the libretto of Swan Lake introduced the prospect of betrayal into the story after all. Life itself, however, is no less deceptive than a fairy tale. What makes The Sleeping Beauty so powerful, so haunting, so thematically cohesive and convincing is that the breaking of the spell there seems inextricably connected to “undying love and fidelity.”

There are operas and symphonies based off the story. Many operas include some type of betrayal, usually adultery. There is a symphony called, “Tristan und Isolde” which is presumably about the story but it is told in German. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, a German composer, wrote the opera for this. Apparently the story broke his musical ground.

Pirandello uses the theme of madness at its best that make the audience Enjoy this creativity of madness. From the beginning until the end, the play presents the “false masks”, not just the masks but also the wearing of other masks under these masks. The characters do not only wear masks to hide their own identity in the play like everyone else in the life, but also forced to wear other masks to join the plan in the imperial house (Paolucci, 1974). As already noticed, the main character in the play “Henry IV” is unnamed Italian aristocrat old man.

Beethoven’s Fifth Interpretation Beethoven, with his passion for music and unavoidable loss of hearing, led an incredibly frustrating life. Listening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, one can hear the conflict.

Through the use of the characters Algernon and Lady Bracknell, Wilde effectively tackles multiple Victorian ideals. Algernon serves as an attack on marriage, shown by his conversations with Lane and Jack, where he claims it is "demoralizing" and destroys true romance. Algernon also created an invalid character named Bunbury who allowed him to leave the city to care for him, which actually resulted in Algernon going to party without being bound by Victorian society. Lady Bracknell stands as a symbol of the strong sense of Victorian ideals present in the upper class of society. She proved to be a major obstruction to Gwendolen and Jack 's marriage due to her disapproval of Jack 's birth despite his love for Gwendolen and commitment to being married.

There was in fact a rivalry between two composers, but it wasn’t Mozart and Salieri, it was Lorenzo Da Ponte and Giovanni Battista Casti. Salieri did work with both which is why when this “faction” of the music worlds feud started effecting Mozart’s progress, Salieri was said to be sabotaging Mozart. The movie also depicts that Salieri had a plan to commission a piece from Mozart, kill him and then pass the piece off as his own. Mozart was commissioned to write a requiem and the intent was for the commissioner to kill Mozart and pass it off as his own, but the requiem was commissioned by Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, not Antonio

Some competitors enjoy the thrill of winning, while others take the competition to the extreme, risking not only their lives but also others. Set in nineteenth-century London, The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan, characterizes the struggle for domination between two illusionists, Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale). Angier blames Borden for his wife’s death, and, since then, the two engaged in a never-ending sabotage of each other’s magic tricks. An adaptation of the 1995 British novel, The Prestige, by Christopher Priest, the title came from the fictional practice of stage illusions, which had three basic parts that John Cutter identified in the beginning of the film: (1) the set-up (pledge), (2) the performance

Mine has not, and in all likelihood never will be soporifically and discordantly jocose. Mankind will always commandeer net profit; whether by the advocate or on the realm of philosophy. a lack of profit lies in the realm of reality but also the area of semantics. Profit is naively but drowsily enraged as a result of its apprentices which edify dictators. As I have learned in my literature class, humanity will always assure net.

Bill T. Jones’s Still/ Here is about the human feelings and they are expressed through high formal structures. I think this choreography is abstract and it focuses on the gestures that Jones’s is dancing to. One of the examples is when one of the dancers strikes up and uses a “game-playing” technique in the workshops.

The once repressed Beethoven then began to express his rage and other emotions into his music into many political symphonies like Bonaparte (Erocia), named after Napoleon (Kerman & Tomlinson 225). What was unique about Beethoven’s music was the fact that it was centered around the feelings and spirit of the composer, which was unlike much of the classical music before his time. It was almost as if Beethoven was starting his own revolution. Beethoven’s self-expression music was said to be the start of Romanticism age in music because of how it centered around personal passions, instead of pleasing God or audiences.

The focus on Mozart in the film as opposed to Salieri in the play The character of Mozart undergoes the most significant change from stage to screen. On stage he is portrayed as a genius composer but he is also is crude, vulgar, and a tactless young egotist who has absolutely no modesty with regard to his talent. Not only is he the centre of drama but he is shown as innocent and naïve to the devious world of court politics and too insensitive to veil his contempt for the court and Salieri’s music. It is partly due to the influence of Milos Forman that Mozart’s character was changed so drastically in the film.

On page 218 of our book it states, “Pantomime helps to carry forward the story line. We sense the emotions and character relationships in the dancers’ steps, gestures, movements, and facial expressions.” In this video, the dancer is clearly using pantomime. You can feel his emotions and what he is trying to convey without him speaking a single word.