Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value of this mixture of elegant and tawdry furniture. Nevertheless, the price for the furniture and for experience is always constant according to the appraiser. Miller uses similar parallels between the set and the dialogue, and between the dialogue and the characters' actions to solidify the basic theme of his play. But these symbolic effects also point out the flaw in this work...
Drama is a unique form of literature in that it enables the author to have an emotional contact between his audience and his characters. Miller in effect, negates this power of the theatre by demanding that his audience focus so closely on his theme. I felt compelled throughout the play to try to discover the importance of each line and of each symbol. Esther's repeated comments on the meaning of the play, the symbols in the set, in the gestures, and in the speeches ("The price hasn't changed.") cries out to be noticed. The play did not allow...
...early days everything was politics. Pot was politics. Peace was politics. Black and white marching together was politics. Saving NO was politics. And wanting to control your own life was the most important politics of all. Controlling your own life remained the theme of SDS activity for a number of years. Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, summed it up best...
Margaret Drabble is a presumably emancipated young Englishwoman in a presumably emancipated world. But her stories-at 30, she has written five brilliantly uneven novels-return atavistically to the primal theme. The difference is, society no longer really punishes the girls who dare to. They do the job themselves, wryly, with masochistic lashes of good old late-20th-century guilt...
...mistaken for stumbling and obsession." Une Femme Douce, Bresson's newest film, may go some small way toward razing the barrier. Adapted from a Dostoevski novella about the suicide of a young bride, Une Femme Douce finds Bresson dealing once again with the corruption of innocence, a theme that has dominated his work from Diary of a Country Priest to last year's Mouchette. For the first time, however, his central character is something more than a passive, symbolic victim. Her suicide is portrayed as a positive act of defiance, not desperation. Bresson's customary stylistic austerity...