Who Knows Who

Shakespeare knows that, while he set most of his plays in exotic locals, the culture and values are always contemporary England. This doesn't hurt the film, but it displays a lack of necessary knowledge. Where Radford kills the film is in making it so dead serious. He manages to suck every joke out of the script, leaving the whole production flat. Every ounce of passion is beaten out of the characters. Even Shylock's 'Do we not bleed' speech is a mild, awkward ranting from a choleric who seems to

Mr. Hyde R.L. STEVENSON 1886 Published in 1886, R.L Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is, along with Frankenstein and Dracula, one of the best-known stories of 19th-century British fiction. It is often remembered, by those who have read it or seen one of the numerous filmic adaptations of the novella, as the sensational dramatization of the conflict between good and evil within man. As you know, the names of the ‘two’ protagonists are also often commonly used to oppose good

friend of Jim Burden, who is the narrator for the remainder of the novel. The anonymous speaker in this introduction tells us that last summer, he unexpectedly met his friend on a train and that they spent the journey reminiscing about their childhood in Nebraska. It is hot and dusty on the train, and it reminds them of the weather growing up on the frontier. According to the speaker, Jim Burden now works for the railroad in New York and is unhappily married to a dull woman who is a patroness to a

also find comfort in her friend's arms, Jacob who she discovered that he is a werewolf. One day, Alice (Edward sister's) came to Bella's house because she had a vision of her jumping off a cliff. She thought she was dead so when Edward learned the sad new, he went in Italy to provoke the Volturi,vampires royalty who are able to kill him. Alice and Bella tried so hard to stop the situation and they arrived in time. Volturi tell them that a human who knows vampire's existence, they have to kill him or

Love in their mature years The strong and gentle cats, pride of the house, Who like them are sedentary and sensitive to cold. Friends of learning and sensual pleasure, They seek the silence and the horror of darkness; Erebus would have used them as his gloomy steeds: If their pride could let them stoop to bondage. When they dream, they assume the noble attitudes Of the mighty sphinxes stretched out in solitude, Who seem to fall into a sleep of endless dreams; Their fertile loins are full

are the first inhabitants of this continent. Archaeologists are not sure where these people are coming. There are several theories about their origin, but none is confirmed. Before the colonization of Australia, there was more than 750 000 Aborigines who occupied the territory, but now there still only 400,000 persons representing 2% of the entire population. In the past, Aborigines lived as nomads in small huts they built themselves. They were hunters and gatherers. Women most often picked fruits and

you have a clear understanding of a topic. If you'd had it, you could have written it. Writing is hard also because what you know about your topic is radically di®erent from what a reader knows and also from what he or she wants to know. To succeed in communication, you must ¯gure out what the reader knows and wants to know. That means developing the discipline of reading your own words, from beginning to end, and simulating the reality in the reader's mind of knowing only what can be known

de lecture Of Mice and men is a novel by John Steinbeck published in 1937. It’s a tragedy written in the third-person singular and in a past tense. The narrator is omniscient It deals with the American Dream of two friends, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers. Lennie has a mental disability and George looks after him. At the beginning of the book, it is said that they got fired of a ranch because Lennie was accused of a rape. They are walking on the road, on their way to another farm

eighteenth century and early nineteenth This era includes the reign of four kings, George I to George IV and underwent major upheavals in the British Empire. Indeed, the territory has been reduced due to the American war of Independence (1775-1783), who had lost thirteen Colonies. But his influence and his power were not affected by this loss since the other colonial empires were in difficulty, particularly France, defeated by the British and undergoes a regime change because of the failure of the

past is then disclosed . In fact, Harry is an ex-art dealer, ex-millionaire, ex-convict who changed his name “Dunkel” (meaning “dark” in German) for “Brightman” and who has now paid his debt to society. He was at the heart of a forgery business with an accomplice called Gordon Dryer, a conman and art forgerer who will imitate the technique and style of Alec Smith, the late talented painter who previously worked for Harry. But one day, the scam is discovered and the two crooks go to jail.