ELIZABETHAN REVIEW

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Elizabethan Review: Group 3

" The Globe Theatre"

During the reign of Elizabeth 1, English drama was introduced and developed into a sophisticated and very popular art form. Preceding the reign of Elizabeth 1, it was customary that theatre companies explored the country, performing plays where there was an audience.

England's First Playhouse, known as The Theatre, was built by the actor, James Burbage in Shoreditch London. In that time, actors were looked down upon by the more affluent persons of society , but  were accpeted and supported by the commoners of society.

The Theatre was closed down in 1597 and was dismantled by Richard Burbage and  his men in the late 1598. Eventually, it was rebuilt and renamed the Globe, this was accomplished in a period of six months. It was speculated that the Globe was round or octagonal and could draw audiences as large as 2500 to 3000 viewers. At the time, there were no elaborate technology, such as sets or lighting and thus, performances had to be held in the broad daylight.

The Globe was destroyed in 1613, by a cannon that was fired as a part of the performance of Henry V111. Luckily, everyone escaped unharmed, but the Globe burned to the ground. It was later rebuilt, but was permanently closes in 1642 by the Puritans. The new Globe was then opened to it's full season on June 8th 1997.

BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARS

            Williams Shakespeare who was an author, poet and playwriter. He was born in Avon, April 1654 by the parents of John Shakespare and Mary Arden. He was the third child of eight children and also the eldest son of his parents. Biographers agree that Willliams Shakespare probably was educated at the King's New School in Stratford. They also posists that it was afree school chartered in 1533 and it was about a quarter mile from his home.

          During his youth years, rather his late teen, Williams Shakespare at the age of eighteen married Anne Hathaway who was twenty-six at the time. After six months later the couple beared their first child Susanna. Afterwhich, they produce twins, son Hathaway and daughter Judith. However, the family lost Hamnt at age eleven.

         Furthermore, there are several places that Shakespare has written. These include England and France. Also, Shakespare is known as the greastest playwriter. One, is that he wrote many plays and poems. Also, the fact that his own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other.

          The Elizabethan era was a time associated with Queen Elizabeth 1's reign and is often considered to be a golden age in English history. it was the height of the Englidh Renaissance ans saw the flowering of Englished poetry, music and literature.

         The Elizabethan theatre was erect a playhouse outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor, where the player would no longer be hindered by the authorities. Eventuallly, the theatre was built in 1576 at Shoreditch. Fortunately, the experiment was successful. Also, the Elizabethan playerswere accustomed to act on a variety of stages. 

QUESTIONS

2) INTERNAL CONFLICT is a conflict that deals with in the inner thouhts or feelings of  a person.
EXTERNAL CONFLICT is a conflict that deals with thing happen on the outside of people and the community.

3) Three types of irony are i) verbal irony
                                         ii) dramatic irony
                                         iii) situation irony

Letter to the Editor- 'Brother Man'

Cook's Hill

St John's

The Manager

Daily Observer

st John's

Antigua

Dear Editor,

As a youngster, I am totally embarassed and ashamed of thr way in which the society treats Rastafarians. We as  people must realized that they are created by God in spite of their dreadlocks hair and beard that covered majority of their face.

Furthermore, it aches my heart when I have witness the terrible and down-hearted act of the severe beaten of B'man. He was tortured by his own people whom he cared for dearly and loved. They beat him so harshly until blood dripped from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet. He was rampled and trampled. He was abused and abused over again until nothing was left in the poor Rasta man. 

Also, B'man was a peaceful Rastafarian who healed and work miracle for the betterance of his people. He even went to the extra mile to give them money. However, this was rather ironic becuase I expect the person who you take good care of will treat you acccording or even do better.  

In my opinion, i must say B'man was a survivor despite how is suffer bitterly by his own society. Also, this is the way we must operate in spite of the difficult situation we face. one last thing we must always remember and never forget is to forgive and forget.

Sincerely,
Concerned. 

BROTHERMAN ASSIGNMENT

1. The narrative techniques that Roger Mais used in the novel BROTHERMAN are flashback,

2. The author of BROTHERMAN, Roger Mais developed cahracterization by creating his character in such away that they play a sufficaint part in the novel. For example, Roger Maiscreates Minnette as a  young girl who is in need of protection, attention, peace and love from some. For instance, she may not get any fatherly or motherly love because of the the fact that from she was growing she move from one abusive person to another only B'man was the only one that show her that he cares.

3.Setting is the time, place, environment and surrounding. it may be true or imaginery but all stories must take place somehere at sometime.

4. Some of the themes that emerged from the novel are unhealthy relationship, jealousy, obeah, miracle working, ill-treatment of Rastfarians, betrayal, deceive, death, sacrifice.

6. Fore-shadowing was displayed in the book because of the fact that we got a hint about the death of Papacita. For instance, two persons who are in an abusive will only have two solution, either they separate or one or both would end up death.

7. Flash back is displayed in the novel when  Minnette was reflecting where she was and the kind of treatment that she encounterd and she is glad for where she is at now.

8. Religous played and important and rather a major part in the novel be cause of the rastafarians perspectives. Rastas were a peaceful generation who preaches about peace and love. Also in the novel, the kind of attributes that Brotherman protrays tell us that religion plays a major role. He was given characteristics of Jesus such as he was crucified by the people (not by death), he worked miracles and majority worship him and considered hima s a Prophetic.

CRITIQUE ABOUT BROTHERMAN

A Comparison between the Setting of Pride and Prejudice in the book Brother Man. The most important elements of a novel must include the setting. The setting indicates the time, place and the literary context of the novel. Therefore it can be said that the geographical and social background of the novel is significant as it dictates the structure of the novel and the narrative techniques used. It even affects how the characters are represented in the novel. The geographical and social background of a novel tends to be incorporated into its setting. There are many types of setting such as the geographical setting, the social setting and the political setting. Pride and Prejudice is an 18th century novel that was set in England. At different times in the novel, there was a change in setting from the country to the town. The geographical and social setting of Pride and Prejudice is significant as one reads.

THE RELIGIOUS ASPECTS IN REGARDS TO RASTAFARISM AND HOW THEY ARE SEEN IN TODAY’S SOCIETY.

The Rastafarian movement is a "messianic religion-political movement" that began in the Jamaican slums in the 1920s and 30s. The most famous Rastafarian is Bob Marley, whose reggae music gained the Jamaican movement international recognition.

Generally said to be November 2, 1930, the year Emperor Hailie Selassie I (1892-1975) was crowned, but based in a movement of the 1920s. It was founded in Jamaica by Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), a black Jamaican who taught in the 1920s and is considered a second John the Baptist.

In today’s society there is significant variation within the Rastafarian movement and no formal organization. We as well as  Rastafarians see Rasta more as a way of life rather than a religion. The Rastafarian movement has a belief in the divinity and/or messiah ship of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I (whose birth name was Ras Tafari Makonnen. (The God of Rastafarians), the influence of Jamaican culture, resistance of oppression, and pride in African heritage. Rastafarians still as the hope of returning to African which they refer to as their homeland, also they are grateful of that opportunity.

The Rastafarian lifestyle usually and continue to includes ritual use of marijuana, avoidance of alcohol, the wearing of one's hair in dreadlocks, and vegetarianism.

 

 

BIOGRAPHY OF ROGER MAIS

Roger Mais was on August 11, 1905 in Kingston, Jamaica and died on June 21, 1955in his birth land. He was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. He was born to a middle-class family in Kingston, Jamaica. By 1951, Mais had won ten first prizes in West Indian literary competitions. His integral role in the development of political and cultural nationalism is evidenced in his being awarded the high honor of the Order of Jamaica in 1978.

Mais launched his career as a journalist and contributor for the weekly newspaper, Public Opinion from 1939 to 1952, which was associated with the People's National Party. He also wrote several plays, reviews, and short stories for the newspaper Focus and the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, focusing his articles on social injustice and inequality. He used this approach to reach his local audience and to primarily push for a national identity and anti-colonialism.

 Mais has published over a hundred short stories, where most can be found in Public Opinion and Focus. Other stories are also collected in Face and Other Stories and And Most of All Man, published in the 1940’s. His short stories were collected in a volume entitled Listen and The Wind, thirty-two years after his death. Mais play, George William Gordon, was also published in the 1940s, focusing on the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865. It played an important role in the rehabilitation of the eponymous character, who was in conventional colonial history described as a rebel and traitor, but who would be proclaimed, on the centenary of the rebellion, a National Hero.

The Hills Were Joyful Together (1953) is written in the style of a narrative. It takes place in a "yard" consisting of individuals and families living in a confinement of shacks shaped squarely, leaving a yard in the center. In this yard, daily and public life of the tenement unfolds. Mais took inspiration from Trinidadian C.L.R James's novels Minty Alley and Triumph, which illustrated "yard" life. The Hills Were Joyful Together is basically a depiction of slum life, portraying the upset of poverty in these yards. Mais claimed that he was "concerned with setting down objectively the hopes, fears, and frustrations of these people". He wanted the novel to be "essentially realistic, even to the point of seeming violent, rude, expletive, functional, primitive and raw".

shalniel: FORMS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: FORMS OF PROSE FICTION: "NOVEL is a long fiction almost alway concentrating on character and incident and usually containing a plot. NOVELLAS applied to a story tha..."

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION: "NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer. POINT OF VIEW refers to the ..."

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

shalniel: ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION: "NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer. POINT OF VIEW refers to the ..."

shalniel: LITERARY DEVICES

shalniel: LITERARY DEVICES: "IMAGERY refers to the description language that evokes sensory expense. SYMBOL is something that represents something else. IRONY is sayin..."

shalniel: STRUCTURAL DEVICES

shalniel: STRUCTURAL DEVICES: "STREAMS OF CONSCIENOUSNESS is an attempt to contain all the content of a character line. For eg. feelings, mind, thought and etc. INTERIOR ..."

shalniel: TYPES OF FICTION

shalniel: TYPES OF FICTION: "REALISTIC FICTION is stories that tae place in modern time. MYSTERY/SUSPENSE is stories usually realistic, about a mysterious event which i..."

shalniel: LITERARY CONTEXT

shalniel: LITERARY CONTEXT: "SOCIAL is of having to with humsn beings living together as agroup in a situation which they deal with one another affect their common well-..."

LITERARY CONTEXT

SOCIAL is of having to with humsn beings living together as agroup in a situation which they deal with one another affect their common well-fare.

POLITICAL is of or concern with government; the state or politics.

HISTORIAL is of or concern with history.

RELIGIOUS is characterized by adherances to a religion devout.

ETHNIC is designated or of a population subgroup having a common history.

MORAL is a practical lesson about life right and wrong conduct.

INTELLECTUAL is the ability to reason or understand.

CULTURAL is he training and refinement of the intellec, interest, taste, skills and arts.

TYPES OF FICTION

REALISTIC FICTION is stories that tae place in modern time.

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE is stories usually realistic, about a mysterious event which is not explained or a crime that is not solved until the end of te story to keep the reader in suspense.

SCIENCE FICTION is stories that includes futuristic technology.

HISTORICAL FICTION is stories which take place in a particular time period in the past.

FOLKTALES/TALL TALES/FAIRYTALES are stories with no known creator.

MYTH FICTION is stories that usually explain something about the world and involve god and other supernatural beings.

POETRY FICTION is verse written to create a response of thought and feeling from the reader.  

STRUCTURAL DEVICES

STREAMS OF CONSCIENOUSNESS is an attempt to contain all the content of a character line. For eg. feelings, mind, thought and etc.

INTERIOR MONALOGUE is an attempt to convae in words the process of conscienousness or thought.

FLASHBACK is a sudden jump back in time.

FORE SHAWODING is the use of hints that suggest events that are to come

TIME FRAME is a given interval of time when something is to happpen.

MOTIF is some aspect of lierature which occur frequently.

JUXTAPOSITION is to put side by side or close together.

LITERARY DEVICES

IMAGERY refers to the description language that evokes sensory expense.

SYMBOL is something that represents something else.

IRONY is saying one thing while meaning another thing.

SATIRE is literature which exhibits or examine vice and folly and makes them appear comtemptile.

ALLUSION is a figure of speech that makes a reference to be representation of a place, event, literary work, myth or work of art either directly or by implication.

ELEMENTS OF PROSE FICTION

NARRATIVE TECHIQUES are simple the technique in having narrative skills, styles of writing used by the writer.

POINT OF VIEW refers to the way in which a narrator appproaches his or her materials.

CHARACTERIZATION is the way in which the writer creates character in a play.

SETTING is the time, place, environment and surroundings, circumstances of an event of a short story or a play.

THEME is the central ideas of story.

PLOT is the arrangement of incident or plan in a story.

STYLE is the manner in which a writer expresses his or herself or the particular manner of an individual literary works.

FORMS OF PROSE FICTION

NOVEL is a long fiction almost alway concentrating on character and incident and usually containing a plot.

NOVELLAS applied to a story thast is somewhat longer than a short story, but not long enough to consider a novel.

SHORT STORY is a story that is short.