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Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath Depression in America Banks and profit overtaking good people Wrath=Dignity: the women watch for the break in their menfolk and relieved when fear turned to anger | Tractors moving like insects having the incredible strength of insects Man looked like part of the monster, a robot in the seat |
Casey used to be a preacher now he has lost his faith and is a strike organiser Rose of Sharon full of hope with her man 'going to learn how to make radios' | Rose of Sharon baby dies How: Steinbeck did makes you feel. Lost and very sad, Why: Great Depression and people losing their homes Women taking over |
Virginia Woolf ‘is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. | Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display . . . ?’ |
Rakes Progress Stravisky Score WH Audin Libretto Based loosely on 8 paintings by Hogarth | Scenes are vivid and ridiculous Romantic yet cruel How = stage setting nudism bad language |
Vivid portrayal of the devil Innocent girl conjure up heaven Obvious black and white morals | Why = To show that life was changing and that as this libretto was written in 1951 in came after WWII where governments had behaved in a immoral way, particular the atom bomb on Japan |
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