A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum : Film Analysis

A League of Their Own (Marshall, 1992) explicitly characterizes an American era when a woman’s place was in the home. Even our modern perspective implicitly follows suit. Although women have gained rights and freedoms since the 1930’s, sexism remains prevalent in America. This film offers an illustration when men went to war and big business men utilized women as temporary replacements in factories, sports, and so on. Here, course concepts, such as gender socialization, gender expressions, role stereotypes, emotion expressions, and language, correspond to the film’s characters and themes.

The Oscans also brought their own type of theatre and ideas about such to Rome. The Oscans had their own type of comedy called Atellan Farce. It was a kind of improvised comedy played with five main characters for each show. There was the fool, the stupid one, a foolish old man, a wise fool, and a monster with big jaws. Respectively the names to these characters were Maccus, Bucco, Pappus, Dassenus and Mandacus. These stock characters brought life to those of Rome 's own stock characters named the same.

Mirroring that of a superhero, we analyze specific characteristics in major characters in order to determine whether or not they are good or evil. From the immediate reaction to a character, to their evolution through their conflicts, into the qualities they develop along the way, all the way to their final destination, we use these as a reference of whether they are moral and upright or simply despicable. Ransom from Out of the Silent Planet and Sir Gawain from Gawain and the Green Knights are two prime examples of this. In examining Ransom’s and Gawain’s stories, and through comparing their chief attributes it will become crystal clear the true temperament of both. Immediately, virtue and honor are key aspects in Ransom’s personality.

Each of the characters of Pseudolus has comic potential. According to Bergson’s theory of laughter, ‘ The ingredients of comic character are rigidity, automatism, absentmindedness, and unsociability.’ ( 1956:156)

Many aspects of the film pay clear homage to New Comedy. The plot is simplistic, focusing on the desire of a young man to get around the restrictions of his parents and gain the affections of the girl he loves. The characters, although not boring, are one-dimensional. Hero, the love-sick youth, has one hope in the film: to unite himself with Philia. Pseudolus, his slave, only wishes to earn his freedom. The life's work of Erronius is to find his children, each bestowed with a ring bearing an engraved gaggle of geese; and so on through the inhabitants of this depiction of Rome. Each character does whatever it takes to achieve their one goal in life, and this is what builds the frenetic disposition of the plot, causing twists and turns especially where the very determined instigator Pseudolus is concerned. There is no character development, however, and every character finishes the film with same endeavor he

in the movie “On Golden Pond”, the individual must resolve these crises so he/she can develop healthy. Each stage involves a positive and a negative reinforcement. The success of this outcome of each stage is the development of a virtue or strength. The first stage is Basic Trust versus mistrust. The age is birth to 12-18 months. The baby makes a judgment if the world is a safe place. The infant needs to learn to trust or mistrust the world and the outcome of this stage is virtue. The second crisis is Autonomy versus shame and doubt. The age is 12-18 months to 3 years. In this crisis the individual develops a balance of independence and self-sufficiency over shame and doubt. The virtue of this crisis is will. The third crisis is initiative

The qualities a tragic hero, in Shakespeare's plays, normally displays consists of the hero falling from a place of glory, or rank, or happiness. We are astounded by the extent to which they fall, or allow themselves to stoop. The resulting catastrophe from the hero's mistake is of monumental proportions. With the discussed play Julius Caesar, Cassius exhibits Jealousy, Rashness, and Impulsive behaviour. Cassius makes mistakes, each with a disastrous effect.

Kazakhstan was chosen as the country of choice for the final portfolio project and the film chosen to explain or demonstrate how the country functions was Meet the Stans: by BBC correspondent Reeves (2003). In this paper the film will be analyzed to determine whether it accurately depicted the country. The important information from the film will be extracted and compared to the information that has been gathered towards the portfolio project for accuracy.

In Roman comedy, the use of stock characters helped to represent common archetypes in society. Stock characters were also used to allow for audiences to easily understand a production, as the characters were so commonly seen. In modern movies and specifically American comedy, stereotypical characters are often used that demonstrate society’s beliefs about certain types of people. These characters are often used satirically to mock the stereotypes that lead people to judge others. Regardless of when stock characters are utilized, they point to the ideas that a society has about certain types of people during a specific time period.

The concept of a tragic hero exists when a character prevails the traits of bravery, honor, and loyalty, much like the main character of Cyrano in Edmond Rostand’s 17th century play, Cyrano de Bergerac. In the year of 1640, Cyrano realizes his love for Roxane, his intelligent and exquisite cousin. With the help of a young and handsome nobleman named Christian, Cyrano expresses his love for Roxanne through eloquent love letters that Christian delivers to Roxane, pretending that Christian himself wrote the letters. In due time, Cyrano proves to be a tragic hero through verifying himself to be a brave, honorable, and loyal man.

Plautus was a popular Roman playwright of the old Latin period. Roman theatre was still largely undeveloped during his time, but Plautus managed to write more than a hundred comedies, including The Pot of Gold, The Prisoners, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Swaggering Soldier, and Pseudolus. Most of his plays contained a prologue that introduced the play or over shadowed what would happen later in the development of the story. His characters would have side comments and taking themselves out of the scene, who then to some extent interact with the audience. He also incorporated common themes, situations, and stock characters throughout most of his plays. The gist of it all was funny, but hidden with chuckles were topics that Plautus seem to want

Part 1 - In American author's 2009 book, The Help, the primary thesis is the relationship between Black maids and white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s. The story is really told from three perspectives, Aibileen and Minny are Black women, both maids, and Skeeter is the nickname of Eugenia Phelan, daughter of a prominent White family. Skeeter has just finished school and hopes to become a writer. In general, the relationship between the Black maids and the White employers is six sided: On one side we have the White employers who have three views: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that can range from extreme scorn and bias to kindness regarding race; 2) Their public persona that must have the "proper" attitude about Blacks and "the help," and 3) Their employer attitude, which is condescending and parental. The Black view also has three segments: 1) Their personal and private beliefs that usually range from understanding not all Whites are the same and an extreme love and empathy for the White children for whom they care; 2) The public persona that is deferential, polite, and stoic to their White bosses; and 3) Their attitude and view among the Black community, which usually separates the "poor and ignorant but rich" White souls from the Black view of family and common sense. All in all, the relationship is contentious, phony, and based on economic advantage.

Many live attempting to decipher the riddle of life. What is life? What is the purpose? What makes? Even though we only seek happiness why can’t we ever seem to achieve it? When we do reach happiness why can’t we seem to grasp it and hold it for more than the few short hours that pass like seconds? The question we must answer first is “What makes happiness, true?”

“A Day In The Life: Maureen” (Socialcarecareers, 2009). is an emotive film that presents a day in a social worker’s life. In this film the social worker shares about her duties, challenges, and the positive outcomes of doing social work. The film also presents the process of assessment and key points to keep in mind through the course. Maureen approaches the assessment through developing an individualized plan that is “constructed specifically for that person and not a cookie cutter approach to supplying services.” As discussed in the text “the purpose of this interview is to begin the assessment process. In order to develop an individualized plan one has to interview the family to discover the client’s history, strengths, weaknesses, current problems, potential problems and a sense of who this person is (Summers, 2014). As seen in the video clip, Maureen follows this process through speaking to her clients giving them the right to participate in the planning of their care. Maureen is a good listener; she has one to

It is very easy to fall in love with the hero. The nobleman who commits no wrong, saves the day, and usually looks good doing it. But the best characters aren’t thoroughly perfect and selfless like we would like them to be, because in the end, that’s not real-life. The best, most relatable characters are those in which we can associate, abhor, and admire all at the same time. Sophocles, William Shakespeare, and Arthur Miller were able to capture this character in the tragic hero. A character who, despite their human nature, ends up destroying themselves because of their own faults. Though these three playwrights display the tragic model in different ways, they all come back to point out the flaws in human nature through five stages; nobility,