Articles for tag: Beckett, Gogo, Literary Analysis, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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Abstract: A Literary Analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a Modern Play

Literature often reflects history; many authors incorporate common historical conflicts to create the main struggle in their work of fiction. The same is true for Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. According to James Martin Harding, Beckett’s play identifies the historical ‘dialectic’, which in this case means a conflict between two opposing ideas, of “lordship and ...

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Movie Review: St. Louis Blues

One of only three films in all of the 50s that featured an all black cast (the other two being Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess), St. Louis Blues tells the exceptional tale of musician Will Handy. Somewhere along the way however, the film loses its focus on entertainment, as it tries to uproot the ...

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The 25 Greatest Green Cartoon Characters

If you’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at home with your kids, rent some television shows or films on DVD starring some of these great green cartoon characters, or search for some printable color pages featuring them: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Watch these “heroes in a half shell” and your kids will be saying “Cowabunga, ...

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‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair”

Quentin Tarantino closed out his month of movie programming at New Beverly Cinema with “Kill Bill.” The movie was of course split into two volumes as it turned out to be much longer than anyone expected, but the print shown at the theater he saved from being turned into another Supercuts was the one shown ...