"ART, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos" (Look I Made a Hat). These words were spoken by a truly innovative composer and lyricist of the modern age, Stephen Sondheim. The emotional truthfulness and sheer complexity of his works have practically made Stephen Sondheim a genre in and...
The dialogue has a lyric quality and Thomas uses a complex pattern of sound devices such as assonance and alliteration, and the musical blending of a multitude of voices. ... He also uses incompleteness; got a man' which misses out the auxiliary verb to create a sense of realistic dialogue. ...
The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...
