sábado, 27 de febrero de 2010

A DOLL`S HOUSE


A DOLL`S HOUSE


Characters


Nora - The protagonist of the play and the wife of Torvald Helmer.

Torvald Helmer - Nora’s husband. Torvald wants his new position at the bank, just as he wants in his position of authority as a husband. He treats Nora like a child.

Krogstad - A lawyer who went to school with Torvald and holds a subordinate position at Torvald’s bank.

Mrs. Linde - Nora’s childhood friend.

Dr. Rank - Torvald’s best friend. Dr. Rank stands out as the one character in the play who is by and large unconcerned with what others think of him.

Bob, Emmy, and Ivar - Nora and Torvald’s three small children.

Anne-Marie - The Helmers’ nanny. Though Ibsen doesn’t fully develop her character.

Nora’s father - Though Nora’s father is dead before the action of the play begins, the characters refer to him throughout the play. Though she clearly loves and admires her father, Nora also comes to blame him for contributing to her subservient position in life.

This play talks about the low status of women at Ibsen`s time, around year 1879. This play performances about is a sharp critique of the traditional roles of men and women in the area of marriage. According to Ibsen`s play women did not have the choice to choose their own destiny. They just grew up from their childhood and when they were twenty years old at least; their parents took the decision to elect their husbands in order to get a strong economic situation with no care about girls’ feelings. However this is happening nowadays in our world with the girls from the country side, where their parents just think about a man who can get marry with their girl, help her in order to study and help her family a little bit. Let say economic support. At that time, men thought they were more important than woman, also they thought women did not have the abilities in order to get their goals by themselves. If woman got her goals, it was because of man`s support.

Some ideas about feminism from the play

1. The woman should be weak and passive (because it has a lower body strength than men)
2. It follows that has been created to give pleasure and submit to him
3. The man has to use its power when looking for pleasure, but must follow the wishes it.
4. The stronger sex should, apparently, own and depend, in fact, the weakest.

"CONCLUSION: "Woman has been created to give pleasure and be subject to man."

Nowadays, times have changed as example, our new president. Our president is a woman who got to the power because of her firm decisions and her strong character. These are some characteristics about her. It represents that people can get what they desire if they really want it.

sábado, 20 de febrero de 2010

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY



Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


SETTING The first part takes place in Mr. Bucket`s house and the rest is developed in Mr. Wonka's factory


CHARACTERS Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, Grandpa Joe and Josephine, Grandpa George and Georgina, Charlie Bucket, Mr. Wonka, August Gloop, Veruca salt, Violet Beauregard, Mike Teavee and Oompa Loompas


CLIMAX Mr. Wonka offers his factory to Charlie


COMPLICATION 1 Charlie and his family were poor, so Charlie wanted a chocolate for his birthday, so he got it from his parents in order to get the golden ticket.


COMPLICATION 2 Golden Ticket, Charlie found the golden ticket, the last one.


COMPLICATION 3 August Gloop is so greedy and do not stop eating and his behavior leave him to fall into the river of chocolate.


COMPLICATION 4 Veruca Salt, rich, vicious and selfish person. She is so desesperated when she tries to catch a squirrel, she falls down into the pipe which takes her to disposal garbage.


COMPLICATION 5 Violet is an obsessive fan chewing gum. She loses her mind when she is chewing gum meal and tastes it, however Mr. Wonka tries to stop her. She turns purple and blew up like a balloon (Giant grape), then she becomes flexible.


RESOLUTIONS
Violet still purple but she does not blow up
August Glood gets flat and thin
Veruca Salt gets dirty and full of garbage
Mike Teavee stretched out
Charlie lives in the Chocolate Factory with his family

lunes, 8 de febrero de 2010

Twilight
This story is about vampires and gothic situations that give to our world the real mean of life. How? Because the story tries to get into a normal world like we know or we are with normal people at the high school and families, but with the pass of the time the story becomes interesting with a lot paranormal activities make by the characters in order to protect or to get what they desire. Also this story is about love, it is represented by Eduard Cullen and Bella. At the beginning of the story, she as a normal teenager thinks that Eduard Cullen is handsome and her desire to know him is strong, later they begin a real story of love, but with several problems. One of them is she does not know who really is Eduard Cullen, I mean, he is a vampire. Another problem for them is that every time they find Jacob (he is half man and half wolf), they get on troubles because of Jacob loves Bella, but she is with Eduard Cullen (vampire). There are several characters; of course they have different characters or moods. The most important are: Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Jacob Black, Alice Cullen, Carlisle Cullen, Esme Cullen, Rosalie Hale, Emmett Cullen, Jasper Hale and Renesmee Cullen. From these characters, we can learn many things like: in the case of Eduard, he is a vampire, he knows that any relationship can be catastrophic, because he as a vampire have to feed of humans, but he know that if he is far away from people, humans are safe. So the abstinence he has, it represents why he is a solitary and a little shy teenager. On the other hand we have Bella, who gets whatever she wants, and she follows Eduard in order to know him and get in love of him, then the story begins. Its point of view is protagonist, because twilight saga, Bella is the narrator, Bella`s point of view and also Bella`s feelings. Some real different between twilight world and our world are:


Our world Twilight world
People do not fly People fly or they can jump very high
People are not powerful Vampires and wolf men are powerful Humans and Animal are normal Animals can change their form and become humans.
People eat normal food They can feed on humans blood