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Using Lionel Abel’s explication on metatheatre, where he opines “the world is a projection of human consciousness” (61), it can be understood that the real world is akin to the fictional world in metatheatre because both are a product of human perception and imagination. More importantly, metatheatre is self-reflexive, it challenges and questions the validity of theatre as a medium to communicate and subvert pre-existing assumptions about the real world. Hence, by challenging comfortable assumptions about reality and illusion in the play, Pirandello is also challenging comfortable assumptions about reality and illusion outside of the play, in the real world.

What is a false appearance? False appearances happen all the time. They can be defined as a facade, which is a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect. People try to hide their bad deeds by using a false appearance, attempting to make themselves look better than what said bad deeds make them appear to be. Macbeth is said to be a timeless play and in order to prove such a statement there will be examples used from the play and from our everyday life.

In this issue of Famous Flops in Theatre History, plays by Anton Chekhov, John Millington Synge, and Luigi Pirandello will be analyzed, comparing their initial performances with their legacy in the realm of theatre history. All three authors are hailed as masterminds, regarded as some of the best writers, not just in theatre

He declares, “to forget them [the slaves], to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world,” (para. 5). He discusses that slavery is unjust, and says that celebrating freedom with slavery would be treason. This helps the audience realize that celebrating freedom in their country is not a peccadillo, and they naturally will try to right the wrong because of their moral instincts by stopping their celebration. He also says, “to him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages,” (para.

There isn’t much experience in learning because books are illegal in this community. The schools are not common in this community and books aren’t in this community unless they are stolen. Beatty meets montag " School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored"(Bradbury 53). It’s clear that schooling isn’t popular in this community and books are not allowed in this community. It also shows that a lot of teachers are not heard of in this community.

As well as that, Shakespeare uses imagery to show deception. This can be seen in the quote of "To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself." In this quote, it moulds a sense that the character, Macbeth, has betrayed himself, his pride and his ego along with those around him. Moreover, Macbeth states that to acknowledge the awful crimes he has been committing, he would be unsure of his own actions and thoughts, therefore this shows that he has changed dramatically from the previous scenes when he tried to convince himself he has no reasons and motivations to kill Duncan. In the wording of "deed" suggests that Macbeth is still trying to deceive himself that this is something he must accomplish.

He becomes wreaked with dreadful acne, of which he had no or little power to control or manage. Getting out of the lower class becomes unattainable to him as he says, “I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor, and I was going to stay poor” (Bukowski, 2008, p.192). While he initially fantasised of becoming a stardom, he lowers his expectations and desires to be a dishwasher as he notes that he had no interest in anything and no way to escape (Bukowski, 2008, p.174). He is reduced to a shell of his dreamer self and believe to be a failure for the entire life.

(Question 7) There is a vast degree of ways in which our culture’s traditional definitions of “masculinity” can do harm to social relations and people’s well-being. An example of this is shown in the film Tough Guise. Tough Guise presents the issue of violence in America, and how that issue spans beyond simple violence or guns, but instead is an issue of the patriarchy and the cultural norm of “masculinity.” When violence is discussed in America, “real or imaginary,” (Tough Guise Film) it is almost always male violence that is being discussed. However, when the media talks about this violence, it becomes a “youth problem instead of a men’s issue” (Tough Guise Film), and the few times that gender is acknowledged, it is excused as testosterone, or boys will be boys. The reality of this mindset, and the violence that goes along with it, is that the traditional idea of “masculinity” is portrayed through male dominance and aggression, this in turn is presented throughout the violence we see in the media.

WHAT EXTRACT EXACTLY After reading the chosen stimulus of Sarah Kane 's '4:48 Psychosis ', we began to explore and devise a performance in the style of our theatre practitioner Antonin Artaud and his 'Theatre of Cruelty '. This particular style of theatre seeks to unleash a pain, suffering and symbolism rather than language to an audience. Kane 's artistic intention was to awake the spectator 's mind and soul. Likewise, Artaud believed "that in our modern world, the body has lost its importance and that theatre is the only way to awake it again". Our main aim is to highlight from a patient 's perspective, how doctors are unable to understand and sympathise with mental illness due to lack of support from the NHS; thus conveying the

When this is challenged by other characters’ defying their unwritten set of rules of society, Antipholus of Ephesus is driven into an even more abusive authoritarian state: “buy a rope’s end. That I will bestow among my wife and her confederates” (138). The way Shakespeare develops Antipholus’ confusion into an irrational rage makes the point that those in power tend to be pushed to extremes when challenged. In the case of Antipholus, the preset state of entitlement became amplified over time. This is how Shakespeare

By watching this play on video I also learned that the video took away the realism. It made the set and props look fake, as in this play the animals and trees were all cutouts and looked unrealistic. In a video version of a play it also loses the interaction and reaction of the audience. It makes it hard bring out the same emotion, tension and energy of the production that you would get in a live version. The last thing I learned is that you don’t get the same level of excitement from watching a play unfold live knowing there are no retakes or editing when the actors mess up like there would be in a video version of a

In the book, The Wave, which is based on a true story, there are many themes. One of the themes are Apathy which is a lack of feeling or interest; indifference. The second theme is Fanaticism which is a person who is obsessed and unreasonably devoted to a cause. There were some moments in the book where apathy took place. The students skipped their classes and didn’t do homework, they really didn’t care about school.

At the same time, the problem of homosexual military trauma is widespread in the armies of the countries where exists the phenomenon of subordinating humiliating activities against the newcomers. Military sexual

When her husband finds out about her death he reflects back on how isolation can ruin a person. He claims that isolation basically turns a person into a walking shadow, ”Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and the is heard no more (Shakespeare 256).” This also proves that to live doesn’t necessarily mean a person is alive. In today’s society everyone has a different definition as to what it means to truly