Counter-realism is quite an absorbing style of theatre. This style, created by German playwright Brecht, proposed that audiences should not only go to productions to experience emotions but to think. Because of this, in plays utilizing this school of theater attempt to present a social dynamic and display how this dynamic can be changed throughout the course of the production. A successful method of achieving this goal is through the implementation of visual imagery. Two plays that employ visual imagery in this way are Our Country's Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Trail of Her Inner Thigh, by Erin Cressida Wilson. Despite the fact that both of these play's scripts are intensely visual, both focus on different images.
Our Country's Good tends to focus upon negative images. The two prevailing feelings of these scenes conjure up are those of pain and hunger. During the eight plus months the convicts are on their prison ship both of these emotions are displayed continuously. Scene one of the play begins with the excessive flogging of Robert Sideway. Immediately following this heart-wrenching scene, John Arscott begins describing the mental and physical pain of hunger that culminates in his describing a roast beef sandwich "eaten long ago". This trend continues towards the end of scene eleven during the convicts" first rehearsal. Each of the inmates are told to imagine what they would want if in fact they were rich rather than in their present situation. All of those asked come up with poignant visions of unavailable delicacies such as "hearts of palm" and "four fried eggs, six fried eggs, eight fried eggs". .
Another trend of imagery that is prevalent in Wertenbaker's play exists in the world of the Aborigine. In the beginning of the play, the Aborigine tends to speak of the intangible world of dreams and ghosts. This realm he creates in his first two "scene-asides" make the reader believe as if both dreams and ghosts have animalistic tendencies.
He does this by the use of persona, imagery, settings, rhythm/rhyme and words. ... "It is his personal story of lost love which achieves its unique effects through its narrative voice"(Reilly pg. 2). ... Imagery supports the emotional qualities of Poe. ... These visual imageries allows him to keep her memories alive in his life. ... Rhythm and rhyme play important roles in bringing sound and music to the poem. ...
Think Piece #2 Even before I was in high school I knew I wanted to become a high school history teacher. ... Because history is in the past you have to find a way to create imagery. ... You can do this with field trips, guest speakers, role playing, or movies. ... After creating a visual image it crucial to prove how it relates to their own lives. ... It is also necessary to create visual imagery in order for them to have a more clear idea of the past and to relate the importance of the past to now and the future. ...
(Ebert 2) This important theme becomes somewhat apparent when the movie begins. ... He uses characters as visual props and visual superficiality. ... It plays with its gruesome imagery of heads being chopped off left and right with a real sense of humor that only B-horror films know how to provide. ... These concepts help the film play as kind of "B-Movie" horror film, while still adhering to the concepts of a full-fledge Hollywood thriller. ... It has great humor, beautiful imagery, an entertaining ghost story, and chilling thrills. ...
We are looking at the language in Act 2 Scene 2 and examining how it educates the audience about the characters and setting. ... We live in a visual society where we have televisions and film visual impact is what appeals to a modern audience. ... Act 2 Scene 2 begins after the party where Romeo and Juliet first saw each other. ... This is factual imagery, which contrasts with Romeo's imagery. ... She uses simple but effective imagery. ...
This essay will discuss how Shakespeare adopts the use of imagery, language and dramatic construction throughout the play in portraying Antony as deeply flawed plus maintaining his stature as a tragic hero. Charles Moseley states, 'Renaissance plays are not books, but a visual and auditory experience played in a special building on a stage that carried out a great deal of symbolic charge for the audience.' ... Both these honour codes are apparent in various parts of the play; hence the men of the time could identify and relate to Antony. ... We can see by the end of Act 2 Antony is...
In addition, they discovered that the children's violent behavior in free play increased after they had played or merely observed a violent video game. Playing with video games can be an immense source of violence for the youth. ... During the past four decades, rock music has become increasingly explicit--particularly 2 with reference to sex, drugs, and violence. ... Music videos are self-reinforcing: if viewers hear a song after having seen the video version, they immediately "flash back" to the visual imagery in the video. Teenagers watch an averag...
As Organic Honey, Jonas saw her work "Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy" as a depiction of Organic Honey's imagination. ... Video Installation is simply an extension of the Single Channel Video art, which is to say, rather than a single tape, it encompasse projections of many different monitors and/or many different tapes creating far more imagery, and it may or may not contain sound installation. ... The vertical panels show drops of water, ripples and disturbances on colour fields, thus bringing the energy of the audience from high levels to a calm level ...
The latest is Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), a contemporary realisation in a familiar New York whose visual style owes more to the fast cutting of MTV than the solidity of the stage. ... The film achieves the same effect whilst reducing the required cast and running time and creating a pleasing translation of the "play within a play" device (often used in Shakespeare) to the "film within a film". ... A soliloquy taken from Act 2 Scene 2, which originally comes during the "fishmonger" dialogue, powerfully introduces Ethan Hawke's characterisation of a maladjusted film-student...
Cocco 2 Shakespeare's Othello portrays the growth of unjustified jealousy in the protagonist, Othello, a Moor serving as a general in the Venetian army. ... Shakespeare's Othello demonstrates the usage of imagery to create a vivid account of the characteristics of the persons represented in the play. ... The visual imagery that Shakespeare uses in this particular speech by Roderigo strongly describes the main character, Othello, as a grotesque, bestial figure who has taken Brabanzio's delicate daughter into his grasp. ... Although subject matter differentiates, the use of lit...