Film Review
The Damned United is a biopic based on Brian Clough, a manager in the 60s and early 70s. This film was released in 2009, and received a 4/5 rating from The Guardian. Brian Clough appointed Peter Taylor whilst managing fourths division Hartlepool United. In this film Brian Clough displays many acts and characteristics to show why he is an individual. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor went to Second Division Derby County in 1969-69. In the film he is anxious to play against Leeds as they were one of the biggest clubs, there rough playing style and strong players always prevented teams to beat them. Derby Went on the win the First Division in just three years. The reason I think he is a individual is because he carried on to battle against the big teams and came out victorious, even though he was nervous to play them. He went on to manage leads after Don Revie accepted the England job offer. Brian Clough had been given a lot of criticism whilst he was at Leeds, he struggled to have a healthy relationship with the players and the staff. Brian Clough was sacked after 44 days in the job. He is an individual because he kept battling through tough times in his managing career and went on to manage Nottingham Forest and won two European trophies and four league cups. Brian Clough retired in 1993. He has achieved many records and an OBE. That’s why Brian Clough is a rugged individual
Compare and contrast Brutus and Caesar are they similar or different.
Julius Caesar and Brutus were two well respected people. Caesar not for his egotistic characteristics but for his power and his arrogance. Brutus, for his nobility and liberty loving. They are both loyal Romans and play a crucial part in Roman society. The way the two express the way they feel are very similar for example, refusing to let someone take advantage of their position in Rome. In the play Brutus wants to keep Rome a Republic,while Shakespeare’s idea to make the viewers believe Caesar’s ambition was to become the head of the monarchy when really there is no evidence of Caesar saying that. In this essay I will analyse and compare the hubris and other literary devices shown by both Romans. Also, quotes to back up my opinions. My main points I am trying to put across are that they both show similar personality traits throughout the play.
One of the similarities Brutus and Caesar share is a device called hubris. Below is a quote used at the start by Brutus while Cassius is trying to brainwash and manipulate Brutus into joining the conspiracy by identifying what they believe as the downfall of Rome and how the people consider Caesar to be a god and worship him. Shakespeare makes Cassius use rhetorical questions, persuading techniques and other devices which makes Brutus finally resort to joining the conspiracy. This quote is an example of hubris as Brutus talks about himself in the third person (something Caesar tends to do) Brutus is basically saying that ‘he would rather be a poor villager than call himself a citizen of Rome under the hard conditions that this time is likely to put them through’.
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‘Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us’.
Below is a quote where Caesar displays hubris at the inclining action of the play where Caesar speaks to Calphurnia about planning to go out after she had just had a nightmare of the Ides of March, she insists he stays in. This is where the quote is used, Caesar is technically saying ‘I will go out, the things that threaten me have only seen my back, when they see the face of Caesar, they will vanish’. This is hubris because he is also talking about himself in third person showing arrogance as well as cockiness. Caesar carries this kind of attitude the duration of his time in the play.
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‘Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten’d me
Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished’.
The two have, and also show, many differences throughout the play. Again, I will present an example of how Shakespeare inter prates and shows the audience their differences using quotes from the play.
Shakespeare intended for Brutus to be shown to be very humble towards the citizens and Caesar that is until Brutus becomes brainwashed by Cassius and realizes after the tragedy of Caesar’s death that a guilty conscience could interrupt his thoughts at Sardis. Brutus’s suicide in the denouement was a major part in the play. His death makes viewers realize his nobility with a quote below from Mark Antony stating about Brutus. This quote took place at The battle of Philippi were Brutus runs on to his sword, held by Strato, then Antony and his crew discover him deceased on the battlefield.
‘This was the noblest Roman of them all’.
Caesar is more of an ambitious character and never shows a hint of weakness. A born fighter. The quote below shows how brave Caesar is, despite Caesar defying three warnings of his fate he describes himself as the brightest star, at the senate, with the noblemen on their knees begging that he would repeal Cimbers banishment he fount himself butchered on the scene with the strength to fight back to one of the conspirators and manage to wound one of them. Caesar was surprised to see the menacing face of Brutus, who he thought was his friend, turned out to betray Caesar, and put a stop to the ambitious Caesar.
“I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”
Those are most of my main points into why I think Brutus and Caesar share many similarities and differences. To conclude this essay I have to say that Shakespeare affected the viewers maybe even the actors on the stage the way he has directed he play.
By Jack Welsh
Autumn 1
Define the following keywords and provide examples:
Personification – Personification means to give human qualities to an object or animal. eg. The fire devoured the entire Forrest. This a good use of personification because it tells you that the fire has burnt down the entire Forrest as quick as a human would devour something.
Anthropomorphic – Anthropomorphic is defined as the act of giving the characteristics of humans to other things. eg. The pictures of God that depict Him with human male characteristics without indication or evidence that his appearance is that of an evolutionary current human. I have used this example because we have no evidence in what Gods appearance is but yet we still see him and worship him as a human and for what he concluded.
Simile – A figure of speech which compares one thing to another of a different kind. eg. “As blind as a bat”. This indicates that the person can not see any better than a bat.
Metaphor – A metaphor is used to make an even stronger image in the reader’s head by describing a place, subject or object as something unlikely. eg. “He was a speeding bullet”. This metaphor is trying to compare a male human or animals acceleration to the lightning speed of a bullet which could travel up to 1,700 mph and 2,500 feet per second which is very unlikely for a human or animal to run.
Assonance – The technique assonance is defined as the act of repeating a vowel sound in a phrase or sentence, often in poetry eg. “Men sell the wedding bells.” The same vowel sound used in this sentence is e the vowel repeats itself in almost all the words excluding definite article. The words do share the same vowel sounds but start with different consonant sounds unlike alliteration that involves repetition of the same consonant sounds.
Sibilance – Sibilance is a special case of consonance in which the repeated consonant sound is either s, sh, z, or any of the other recognized sibilant sounds.
Allegory- A story, poem or a picture which can be translated to discover a hidden meaning regularly a moral or political one.
P.R.E Homework Mr. Merrick
“The Bible is the best guide we can have when making moral decisions”
I disagree with this statement because I think people can make their own decisions for themselves. The reason behind my opinion is that people may not have read the bible so they would of not been aware of what’s inside it. The main reasons to back up my opinion are about who the people are or how they feel in the predicament.
Others may disagree with my opinion, depending also on who they are. With this statement their opinion could get stronger if they are religious, they would try to repent their sins or do the right thing no matter what condition.
These are just some of my thoughts on the statement hopefully now you can see the sides between both of argument.
Write about McCarthy’s methods of telling the story from the top of page 284 to the end of the novel
One of the main methods employed by McCarthy in bringing the story to a close is tone, for the majority of novel the tone varies from emotional to to factual through which McCarthy is able to convey the most minute details pertaining to the daily lives of the two men as well as showing their relationship. However towards the end the tone cascades from an almost hopeful tone to a more drab reflection of the goings on. After the man is injured and needs to tend to his wounds it is explained that he takes the first aid kit ‘without comment’ in the light of the his treatment of the boy earlier in the book the father appears cold and unfeeling as opposed to his previous seemingly joyful demeanor. Furthermore prior to this display of stoicism from the Father he is described as shouting to the boy ‘Get the first-aid kit, damn it’ this random outburst of anger adds to the tone of hopelessness and the emergence of what appear to be true emotions. McCarthy also provides a dark omen in the dialogue, earlier in the book a hopeful tone is maintained through the reassurances of the father but on page 298 there is a swift change. The boy says ‘You said you wouldn’t ever leave me’ which is met with a reply of ‘I know. I’m sorry’. This piece of dialogue is drastically different from other examples, there is no reassurance and no motivational response, the Man has accepted his fate and wants to make peace with the Boy before his death; this dark, macabre tone continues on to the point of the Father’s death when the child awakes to find his dad lifeless and ‘stiff’. During the ending few pages of the book McCarthy does return to the hopeful tone in both the character of the long-awaited ‘good guys’ and the unseemly discourse on ‘brook trout’ both of which giving the idea of a new beginning or evolution into something greater and better.
McCarthy also makes use of third-person narrative that doesn’t only give the reader an outside perspective but at times appears to show the goings-on through the eyes of the two characters as well. One of the most profound examples of the transition into a first-person view is on page 299 when the Father wakes up a short time before passing away: the narrator states ‘He woke in the darkness’ but a short while after the perspective morphs into that of the Man ‘Drip of water. A fading light. Old dreams encroached upon the waking world’ these short sentences from the psyche of the older protagonist are indicative of him understanding that his death is imminent, proven true by the fact that his last part of dialogue follows on from the passage. The third-person, pansophical narrator also proves to be an effective story-telling method, the freedom because of the narrators steady presence means that McCarthy is able to describe what happens to the characters but also go into descriptions of the landscape.
A final, less explicit method employed by McCarthy is that of imagery and symbolism. Despite the eponymous road being an actual physical structure it can be perceived as what is also a reflection of the characters’ mindset. From the opening of the book it is made clear that the aim of the two is to travel south and reach a warmer climate, such a concrete objective is popular within post-apocalyptic novels but the road seems to be a constant presence throughout the events that transpire on their journey. Also regardless of what happens to the pair they always seem to return to the road and continue along it as if intense events did not occur beforehand which does seem to insinuate that the road might not only be a structure but additionally some sort of entity that draws in all manner of individuals. The Road serves not only as a major plot device but as a symbol of all the novel represents, change, transition and seeking new beginnings. The concept of ‘carrying the fire’ is also an allegory reiterated throughout the book, obviously the named fire is not physical but most likely a way of referring to the principles passed onto the boy by his father, this depicts the boy as a sort of messianic child responsible for transporting a code of ethics and passing it on this brings an optimistic end to an otherwise dark novel but also gives the reader a chance to develop ideas about what would happen after the book comes to a close.
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