Essays Tagged: "didactic"
Jurassic Park
hile the humans are fighting off the velociraptors, Malcolm (the mathematician) delivers a long and didactic speech about how science is to blame for messing up the world because it has no morality; s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan's" tragic Flaw, The Epilogue.
-rounded believable individuals. His plays have also been described as lacking action and being too didactic. In Saint Joan, Shaw reduced the intensity of these previously criticized typically Shavian ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
While some people find reading poetry challenging, others find it inspiring and enjoyable. What to you is the 'appeal' of poetry?
ongs or prayers used for religious ceremonies. Poetry can tell stories and present philosophical or didactic meanings, such as poetry in verses from the bible, ballads and neoclassic or romantic poems ... es us, the readers not only understand the poet's nature and perceptions, but our own.Poetry can be didactic, a teaching implement which at it's extreme is merely material that has been versified as a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry
"Literature and Lives" by Allen Carey-Webb Ascertaining the efficacy of reader-response and cultural studies in the classroom.
When it comes to the teaching of literature, there are, perhaps, as many didactic methodologies as there are literary genres. Until recent decades, literature has primarily ... social and economic forces and their effect on youth violence, in an attempt to use literature as a didactic tool to understand their own plight, and racism in America in the 1800's and in the classro ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
The Rise of Christianity.
that existed in Roman times all helped in the growth and success of Christianity.Christianity had a didactic message, which taught how to live a moral life without sin. It attracted many pupils becaus ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Analysis of the short story "Good Man Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ically, Goodman Brown begins his trip at sunset in the streets of Salem, Massachusetts. Hawthorne's didactic narrative exemplifies loss of innocence through the use of archetypal motifs, symbols, and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
o watch a Brechtian piece is to follow through the process of the play, instead of the outcome. His didactic, meaning to teach, methods of expressing the plays include the means such as historificatio ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Bertolt Brecht and Epic Theatre
deas were maintained and are now commonly used in modern theatre.Brecht uncovered "Epic Theatre", a didactic type of theatre that confronts the audience using different entertaining techniques. Brecht ... stern countries were being influences by the concept of Brecht's "Epic Theatre".And the confronting didactic theatre remained to this day with many contemporary issues being raised using Brecht's techniques.
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Reading strategies
y reading strategies.Kam is my college classmate. She likes to read. She likes nonfiction books and didactic books which can teach you a lesson. Psychology books and sociology books are her favorites ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Everyman
mous author. The morality plays were created in the bosom of the church, and their main purpose was didactic, that is, to instruct every individual in the Christian way of life and the Christian attit ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Hamlet
play Hamlet and the 1967 transformation play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Stoppard are didactic examples of how context have shaped form and meaning. However, a changed context has ushere ... : "Fortinbras. He has my dying voice".Despite the seriousness of Shakespeare's work, there are many didactic examples of humour and this is reflective of the Elizabethan era because this source of ent ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
How does the concept of text evolve from the 18th century onwards? Show how the role of the actor is integrated into the idea of text. Underline any contrasting views on the subject.
ublic. The emphasis made was that theatre should reflect the contemporary issues of the time having didactic characteristics. The most radical changes took place during the 20th century where the conc ... duced a new concept to the development of text. Shaw insisted that the primary aim of art should be didactic. The concept of a play must include social and political issues to reflect the society of t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Why Beowulf Should be Taught in Christian Schools
ly graphic book, the author did not intend this to be a purely entertainment book; he wrote it as a didactic piece of literature (containing a moral message). Throughout the book, the author creates s ... d Biblical characters and between his fictional events and Biblical events. Beowulf is a Christian, didactic novel and therefore should be taught and discussed in all Christian schools.Firstly, Beowul ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Anagnorisis of the 'gilded cage': Comparative study of the female protagonists in "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg
he oppression. Strindberg's view coincides with phallocracy but Ibsen's view contrasts it, they are didactic in their plays in how women can act. Both show a degree of verisimilitude in the likelihood ... s turns out to be her strength and Julie's strength turns out to be her weakness. Each playwright's didactic ending to the play are contrasts. Ibsen's is optimistic telling women to rise to the occasi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Mr. Big Stuff: Hubris In Dr. Faustus"
g the epic poem "Hero and Leander" and the poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". However, his didactic play The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus is among one of the most influential plays because ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
about a neurotic and dysfunctional southern family which is swept up in rivalries and tension. The didactic theme is largely about greed and lies, things most counter productive, lesson that is learn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
CHARLES DICKENS: HARD TIMES
mment on the place of relevant issues such as the Industrial Revolution.Hard Times is essentially a didactic satire upon the Victorian social, industrial and educational systems, like Charles Kingsley ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers