Day: May 27, 2016

Hardy describes love as a curse throughout the poem. This was done by using a range of language devices which present the love as a curse. I will be exploring all the different ways in which Thomas Hardy has used different language features and devices and explain them in great detail. Also, I will be making links to how Thomas Hardy may have linked his poem to how the love may have been cursed between the two people in the poem. The second point is when Thomas Hardy says ‘tedious riddles of years ago’. The fact that Thomas Hardy has mentioned riddles explains how their love may have been similar as they find it hard to understand and crack each other which is also the same scenario in a riddle. Also, he mentions it as a memory as it is something that has happened in the past and can be looked back upon as a bad memory. This is a curse as it shows how the whole love was not real and could be seen as a trap for him to be hurt.  The first way in which Thomas Hardy has presented love as a curse would be the way he was describing a pond on a ‘winter day’. This quotation has a sense of negativity because of how he mentioned the season. The season is during winter and the fact that he has mentioned this suggests that it is a bad memory due to the fact that cold, winter days are known to be dull and miserable. This makes a link to how the love may have been quite negative and how there was no real bond. This also links to how the love may be portrayed as a curse as curses generally represent negative things.

Introduction

In our drama production we used the stimulus of the young boy Aylan Kurdi and how it had a social,cultural and historical effects it had. Aylan Kurdi was a three year old Syrian who was forced out of his own country due to the growing power of ISIS in Syria. Aylan Kurdi’s family fled in a plastic inflatable boat, which was making a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean sea.The plastic boat capsized and the family was washed ashore on a Turkish beach. Only the father this horrible incident.

In our performance we decided to use the central question “when home becomes unsafe were can you call home”. we created this central question because we thought about  how the immigrants had to suddenly pick there stuff up and flee so that they were safe, because of this we wanted to see how the progression of the immigrants and how they tryed too find some place to call home.

from this we could have created a scenario were the migrant were settled down into a new home, but the stess of having to move and the media portraying them in a negative way, makes them feel more and more isolated causing them to feel like they cant accept there place they are living as home.one of the pros for this scenario could be that we could show how the media and the people wouldn’t want the migrants in their country. one of the cons for this scenario would be the fact that we wouldn’t be able to fully understand why they left there form country and what affects it had on them. Another pro would be that we could see how they couldn’t call anywhere home.

Item 1

In our performance we decided to use the situation of  a family and how the son was remembering(the words “I remember” being a keyword) how his dad was arguing to his wife about how they weren’t going to leave even though they weren’t safe, the scene later turns into the mum and dad protecting there child from the bombs and gun shots , the son and the dad survive but the mum dies. the son the goes on to remember how him and his father made a treacherous journey towards somewhere safe, when they get there they finally find a home but then it symbolically crumbles in there hands.This idea came from the central question, which made us think about how the journey was for the migrants and how they had to struggle to find a home.We discarded a scenario were the migrants selling stuff illegally on the streets to make money, the reason why we didn’t choose this as one of the scene’s was because it wouldn’t really portray how the migrants in our scene try to find a home, it also wouldn’t make sense due to our central question.

In our rehearsed improvisation we used 4 characters, 3 of which are main characters:                                       . Mum,Dad,son and a sick migrant