commedia dell'arte characters

Arlecchino was  an acrobat and a wit, childlike and amorous. He wore a cat–like mask and motley colored clothes and carried a bat or wooden sword.

Brighella, Arlecchino's crony, was more roguish and sophisticated, a cowardly villain who would do anything for money.

Il Capitano (the captain) was a caricature of the professional soldier—bold, swaggering, and cowardly.

Il Dottore (the doctor) was a caricature of learning—pompous and fraudulent.

Pantalone was a caricature of the Venetian merchant, rich and retired, mean and miserly, with a young wife or an adventurous daughter.

Pedrolino was a white–faced, moon–struck dreamer and the forerunner of today's clown.

Pulcinella, as seen in the English Punch and Judy shows, was a dwarfish humpback with a crooked nose, the cruel bachelor who chased pretty girls.

Scarramuccia, dressed in black and carrying a pointed sword, was the Robin Hood of his day

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The handsome Inamorato (the lover) went by many names. He wore no mask and had to be eloquent in order to speak the love declamations.

The Inamorata was his female counterpart; Isabella Andreini was the most famous. Her servant, usually called Columbina, was the beloved of Harlequin. Witty, bright, and given to intrigue, she developed into such characters as Harlequine and Pierrette.

La Ruffiana was an old woman, either the mother or a village gossip, who thwarted the lovers.

Cantarina and Ballerina often took part in the comedy, but for the most part their job was to sing, dance, or play music.

Laura Muvleys cinema narrative and visul pleasure

Laura Muvley- Believes that the way women are presented in film, is done in such a way to oprress them and establish the idea of patriarchy. The mans gaze is supposed to be the source of power that places women in this position. they are usually presented as a figure to be looked at erotic and beautiful. However when the women falls in love and marries she is not an important figure, and falls only to be the property of man. Female threat to men appears to be as a result of them believing that they may be castrated and their authority coming close to diminishing.........

Significance of various themes in Fairytales :)

Vague settings

Vauge settings are used in nearly every fairytale. It may be places such as 'far far away' or 'forests'
By using these names instead of places, perhaps is used to highlight it's distance from life and a place no one can visit. It also detaches you from anysort of reality of the tale, making you look upon it as nothing more than a myth. However these vauge settings allow the writer to make that place into anything they like. A place with, for example, talking animals or an enchanted creatures...  GRRRRR I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO :(

Fausus in scene VI

Throughout this scene we see Faustus switching his views quite considerably. He switches between repenting to God and then worshiping the 'Great Lucifer'.

This can be seen as at the begginging the first thing he says is 'when I behold the heavens I repent.' The fact this is the first thing he says after selling his soul to the devil the audience would think after all the time previous he has realised his god and now therefore wishes to repent. However just a couple of lines down after the Evil angel says that Faustus is a spirit and God will no longer 'pitty thee' after hearing this he lets the audience know that his ' heart's hard'ned' and that he can no longer' repent' and he has an adamancy about this by using the word 'resolv'd' makes the audience feel that he has no made up his mind and is definite he will not repent. The fact he wavers in this way could highlight the weak character that he is.

At the start of the scene Faustus does 'curse' 'wicked' Mephistophilis For depriving him of the 'Joys of heaven' It is previously known that faustus loved mephistophilis and would give anything for Faustus 'had there been as many souls as there were stars' This is a stark contrast to the way he is now viewing mephistophilis this could highlight there change in relationship and that it indeed was only based around Faustus getting what he wants.
Indeed Mephistophilis was the one warning Faustus from hell but is now blaming him failing to take responsibilty for his actions.

Looking through the play up to this point it appears that their is a battle between the Good angel and the Evil angel. If the good angel wins the argument or maybe faustus heart then he turns to Gods side if the Evil angel wins the argument i.e the last one to speak Faustus turns that way. This could highlight that their is not only a battle going on between the good and bad angel but Faustus is their pawn of their winnning or loosing state and therefore could just be a tool to highlight the battle going on in more divinitive battles.

It is apparent in this scene that although Faustus has sold his soul to the devil there is still chance to repent and turn to God this can be seen as when Faustus cries out ' christ, my saviour..' it is infact lucifer, Belzebub and Mephistophilis who appear. This demonstrates that they infact were worried enough that the king of hell had to come and tempt Faustus, as he was in danger of repenting and this could be played out more appaent on stage through the tone of desparation in Faustus voice.

Finally Lucifer tempts Faustus with ' The seven deadly sins'. Lucifer instructs Faustus to ' Examine' their names and dispositions  However we see that this is infact what Faustus doesn't do after each one infact he domes dismiss them quite readily. 'what art thou the second?' This could suggest that he is trying to remain confident in the fear of lucifer.

Some of the seven deadly sins appear to use really commical terms such as ' Petre picckleherring and Martlemas beef' Joking around with the severity of matters may have been done so that it appears even more dark and scary to the audience.

The end of the scene seems to end in resolution as if Lucifer has now one the battle.

The possibility of actually having the sins come on as people could emphasise to the audience that these are real things going on and it's from hell these things have come and here it could possibly be a mockery of the catholic church that ministers were doing these sort of things.

extra sceenne !!

Why is their a scene between Robin and wagner?

1) To make a comparison between Faustus and Robin highlighting the weakness in Faustus and how Robin understans what is important.

2) Marlow could be making a general point about the difference between people and that Faustus isn't a representation of everyone.

3) The fact that it is a scene with humour can almost be seen as dark humour, as Faustus is tempted in the same way but however gives in. The audience laugh at this scene but infact they are unaware but infact laughing at the critical Faustus situation

4) The light hearted feel makes the rest of the book seem more gloomy.

George orwell - Research

Wasn't very well off
his parents needed scholarships  to send him to school
They couldn't afford to send him to universityso he enrolled as an officer.
He want to burmah where his maternal side lived.
He found the police force a boring routinly life.
Orwell thought that all political ideoligies accept socialism was hopless  and disolusining.Not scocialism but their realistic view of life. His aim split up two types of socialism and find the realistic one.
Labour were just in the hands of trade unions.

marlow info :)

What could influence his writing ?

He was allegedly arrested for blasphemy in a manuscript he had written which claimed 'vile heretical concepts'.

His university was reluctant to give him his masters after rumours had gone around that he was converting to Roman Catholocism. going to an english universtiy to study.

These facts could be an influence in his writing as his writing is often sometimes an expression of your ideas.