Marie Antoinette e la sua vita!!!!

Marie Antoinette è uno del della Queens più famoso e maggior parte più discutibile di tutto il tempo. È accreditata spesso dire la frase famosa “se non hanno pane, quindi lascili mangiano la torta!„ Abbastanza stranamente, non ci è prova che Marie Antoinette ha emesso mai quelle parole. Marie Antoinette era il 2 novembre 1755 nato come Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von il Habsbourg-Lothringen. Era un'arciduchessa austriaca, derivato dell'imperatore romano santo Francis I ed imperatrice Maria Theresa dell'Austria. Alla giovane età di quattordici è stata sposata a Louis XVI, il nipote del re Louis XV della Francia. Sulla morte del re Louis XV, Marie Antoinette ed il suo marito Louis XVI hanno stato bene al nuovi re e regina della Francia. Marie Antoinette aveva soltanto diciannove anni in cui è diventato regina. Durante il suo regno come regina è stato conosciuta come una donna esagerata che ha speso le eccessive somme di denaro su vestiti, su mobilia, sul gioco e sui diamanti. Le voci delle abitudini di spese della regina e quelle della corte reale, hanno cominciato a circolare fra il francese. Con il governo francese nel debito tremendo e la gente della Francia necessitante pane, la gente della Francia ha cominciato a sviluppare un'immagine meno favorevole della regina e della monarchia. Il 14 luglio 1789 una calca dei cittadini parigini ha preso il controllo della prigione del Bastille a Parigi. Ciò ha contrassegnato l'inizio della Rivoluzione Francese. In seguenti mesi i cittadini arrabbiati di Parigi mobbed il palazzo di Versailles (vedi la foto) ed hanno forzato la famiglia reale a Parigi. Durante questo periodo del giro la regina è diventato il membro odiato della famiglia reale e spesso è stata osservata come “la donna austriaca.„ Dopo una fuga tentata dalla Francia che ha girato male, la famiglia reale è stata giudicata prigioniera per parecchi anni fino a metterli sulla prova per il tradimento. Dopo il bicchierino di Marie Antoinette e la prova ingiusta è stata condannata alla morte. Marie Antoinette è stato decapitato il 16 ottobre 1793 al posto de la Concorde a Parigi. Come con la maggior parte delle figure storiche popolari, il carattere di Marie Antoinette era comparso in molti film. Sofia Coppola recentemente ha diretto una pellicola nominata Marie Antoinette con una data di pubblicazione prevista nell'autunno di 2006. La pellicola del Coppola, Kirsten starring Dunst come Marie Antoinette, sarebbe un adattamento della biografia di Antonia Fraser nominata il viaggio.

Caricature!

In Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses methods of caricature to simplify characters and not delve to much into their characters, e.g. Mrs Bennet comes a cross as a woman obsessed by marriage and nothing else, but there is no depth into why  she is like this. However there are exceptions to the theme of caricature, who are Mr Darcy and Elizabeth, as their characters develop throughout the book.

Essay Question - Pride and Prejudice

Write about characterisation in Chapter 11 of Pride and Prejudice

Chapter 11 of Pride and Prejudice focuses on alternative methods of delving into the characters of Mr Darcy, Elizabeth and Miss Bingley in particular. Austen uses methods of describing their personality and the way they act and interact with others. Austen combines the narrator opinion with Elizabeth's view of people so she is powerful in being linked with the narrator's judgement.

The chapter focuses on showing how Mr Darcy acts and how people act towards him and around him. Miss Bingley is a prime example of a woman who is obsessed with securing Darcy as a husband and pays him a lot of attention which he finds off-putting, which also shows Darcy is not attention seeking. 'Miss Bingley's eyes were instantly turned towards Darcy,' this shows Miss Bingley knows what she wants and tries her best to get it. There is also the idea that Miss Bingley will copy Darcy in order to obtain his affections, 'Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same,' this also shows how Austen has tried to show how Darcy is the leader and Miss Bingley the follower, or copier. Miss Bingley can also be seen to be quite a shallow, fake character. 'Exhausted by the attempt to be amused,' this shows she tries to be the same as Darcy and fake her personality, however it can be argued that as the narrator is infused with Elizabeth's personality the portrayal of Miss Bingley may be biased and inaccurate. Miss Bingley is also ignored by the other characters in the book, 'No one made any reply,' this shows the other characters perhaps did not enjoy her presence and found her irritating, Darcy in particular.

The contrast between Darcy's view of Elizabeth and Miss Bingley is interesting as Darcy appears to have no concern for Miss Bingley, 'but Darcy, at whom it was aimed, was still inflexibly studious,' this shows that Darcy felt nothing for Miss Bingley and did not care she was leaving. However when Elizabeth leaves, 'Darcy looked up,' this shows he has feelings for her and obviously cared about her presence. There is also a theme of how he has no control of his feelings, 'unconciously closed his book,' this shows he did not even have to acknowledge his own emotions for Elizabeth, they forced him to act.

During the conversation between Elizabeth and Darcy there is in depth conversation as Austen feels there no need to write the name of the speaker as there is a sense of unity and flirtation as the conversation flows. During their conversation, Elizabeth shows she is in control of Darcy in a sense as she unconsciously allows him to changes his mind when on the subject of 'vanity and pride.' 'But pride -,' this shows he pauses, as if he was going to say something else but re-evaluates his opinion. During their conversation Miss Bingley's jealousy is shown, 'Your examination of Mr Darcy is over, I presume,' this shows she feels uncomfortable with Mr Darcy and Elizabeth's conversation as she shows a bitter attitude. It can be seen that there is a mild flirtation between Elizabeth and Darcy as they repeat and perhaps mock each other in a teasing way. They both repeat 'and yours' which also gives the idea of marriage as their is the idea of 'yours.' Finally there is a sense of self-awareness from Darcy as he realises he may be focusing on Elizabeth a little too much, 'He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.'

Overall Austen uses a variety of techniques to form characterisation. The idea of characterisation is centered around Darcy in this chapter as the way characters act, particularly Miss Bingley, depend majorly on Darcy's actions.

Maude Clare

Maude Clare is a poem by Christina Rossetti which focuses on characterisation. There is a contrast between the two leading women, Maude Clare a Nell. Nell is described as looking like a 'village maid' compared to Maude who the narrator describes as a 'queen.' Rossetti gives Maude more attention in the poem however portrays her as a bitter character who is perhaps arrogant in her role. Yet again Rossetti shows the male as being weak and gives him little voice, the only words he says are 'lady' and 'Maude Clare' showing the focus stays on the women, particularly Maude.

Lesson11

In this lesson we discussed how settings can be significant in Pride and Prejudice. We then went on to practice A01, A02 and A03 when writing a Part B essay. This was interesting as it gave us an insight into what our exam will consist of and also the time limits we will face. I found that the essay was difficult to an extent as we were pushed for time however I did feel that I was capable of constructing an essay which covered everything in this time limit.

Jessie Cameron - lesson 10

In this lesson we began an essay plan for Jessie Cameron, this was interesting as it is good practice to evaluate and learn about the poem and to practice methods of essay writing. During the lesson we also discussed our previous essay with Mr Francis to get to know our strengths of the essay and how we can strengthen future essays.

Lesson 9

In this lesson we devised a drama script to increase our understanding of the story of Jesse Cameron. This was interesting as it helped us to understand the concept of different narrative methods and way in which Rossetti tells the story. Also it helped to show how the story can be told through other viewpoints other than the narrator e.g the sea, which although is personified still gives an opinion which we would not get if Rossetti didn't feel the need to incorporate this. We also discussed essay writing techniques for AO2 such as form, language and structure.

Jesse Cameron

Jesse Cameron is poem which focuses on entrapment and uses descriptions and pathetic fallacy to increase the reader's understanding of the emotions conveyed by Jesse and the man who is proposing to her. The poem foreshadows the death of Jesse throughout and uses the mood and defiance of poem to show the end will be tragic. The sea is representative of the emotions which eventually drown them as it shows the intensity of their feelings and how stubborn Jesse was. Christina Rossetti yet again uses the theme of feminisn as she focuses on Jesse as the victim and the man essentially kills her by not giving in continuing the 'men are evil' theme.