Obras

victorian drama
staging: realistic and detailed.fornitures and costums are historically correct.setting: the tipical middle-class or aristocratic living-room.plot: lively,complex,full of events,misunderstandings.dialoge: brilliant,comic,hilarious,full of plays on words and paradoxes.characters:they have clear aims in the story end menage to achieve them.social position: is relevant because itaffects life.

modern drama, beckett,waiting for godot
staging:minimalistic,the stage is almost bare(few object are visible).setting:a country road with few bare trees(it looks like a desert).plot:alomst non-existing.no incidents,no changes,no logical sequence of events.dialogue:respetitive.lack of communication.characters:isolated,lonley,waiting i vain,without certitudes or referencepoints.their actions are pointless.the situation at the end of the play is identical to the beginning.social position: is irrelevant because the characters represent the human conditions.

james joyce eveline
is the fourth of the short stories which compose the collection Dubliners.it is from the group called "stories of adolescence". eveline hill 19 old.
dubliner is a collection of fifteenautobographical short stories,this stories explain the inhibition that paralyse the will and the limit the lives of the dubliners.this stories are usually divided in 4 categories: stories of: childhood,of adolescence,of mature life and of public life.in all the stories the climax the stories the climax consists in the speial moment of sudden revelation of a reality than as yet been recognised,joyce use theword epiphany to describe this breaking in of light.the style of this novel is full of meaning,and some stories anticipate the evolution to come, for example eveline,in which all the action goes on in th maind of the girl.

samuel beckett:

waiting for a godot is a play diveded in two acts which developed along simmetrical lines.it begins with two tramps,vladimir and estragon which are waitingfor the arrive of a mysterious mr godot on a lonley country road.they are bored and anxious and have to invent how to pass the time.then appear two other characters: lucky and pozzo,,after a short time a boy arrives to inform them that mr godot will not come that day and goes out,the second scene is similar to the firts.and agein the boy says that mr godot won't came that time.in this play the onlyfacts that the pubblic can notice are the suffering of the tramps,their trying to pass the time and the waiting for mr godot.basically it is a play in which nothing happens.the title chaacter,who never appears is very intriguing.everyone must make his own conclusions.

george orwell
when orwell wrote 1984 in 1949 he chose the future date to alert society of the possibility that this vision ofthe future colud soon became reality.the boo is an attack against totalitarian oppression.it describe an immanginary future world dominated by the state,and shows the distructive consequences for individuals.without ignoring the important part that the state has to have in society,orwell expresses the idea that a governament may enslave its people through controlling the media and trough a widepolice network.

Dubliners, by James JoyceThe DeadLILY, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not toattend to the ladies also. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies’ dressing-room. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come.
It was always a great affair, the Misses...