Botanical research and education institution. Attractions: Alpine house, Minka house, museums etc. Ealing Studios Television and film production company. The oldest film studio in the world. Over 60 films. Royal National Theatre Located on the South Bank. Building was designed by architect Sir Denys Lasdun. Presents a varied programme. Madame Tussauds It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. Dr. Philippe Curtius. Chamber of Horrors. Saint Margaret's Church Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square. In the 12th century by Benedictine monks. Has been rebuilt twice. Harrods Largest department store. Harrods Bank, Harrods Estates, Harrods Aviation and Air Harrods. All Things for All People, Everywhere. Piccadilly Circus famous road junction. Built in 1819. Known for its video display and neon signs. Thank you for your attention!
During the early years of the 20th century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist, once in Edinburgh and once in the Hawick Burghs, but although he received a respectable vote he was not elected. Arthur Conan Doyle statue in Crowborough. Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by the journalist E. D. Morel and the diplomat Roger Casement. He wrote The Crime of the Congo in 1909, a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors in that country. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, taking inspiration from them for two of the main characters in the novel, The Lost World (1912). He broke with both when Morel became one of the leaders of the pacifist movement during the First World War, and when Casement committed treason against the UK during the Easter Rising out of conviction for his Irish nationalist views. Conan Doyle tried, unsuccessfully, to save Casement from the death penalty, arguing that he had been
Cutty Sark the Cutty Sark is a clipper ship, built in the 19 th century. It served as a merchant vessel and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954. The Ship is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich, but was damaged in a fire in the spring of 2007 while undergoing extensive restoration. Madame Tussaud's is a famous wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. One of the main attractions is the chamber of horrors. That part of the exhibition included some victims of the French Revolution. Other famous people were added, such as Horatio Nelson and Sir Walter Scott. Some of the sculptures mady by Tussaud herself still exist. National Gallery it houses a rich collection of over 2300 paintings dating from the mid 13 th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square. The collection belongs to the British public and entry to the main collection is free, although there are charges for entry to special
sound the Inchcape Bell - the warning bell, put there to alert the sailors of a nearby peril. Southey creates tension by describing the location of the bell "Without either sign or sound of their shock / The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock;" - the ships are left clueless about the Rock that awaits, to tear them apart, under the clam surface. The mood immediately changes with this stanza. The word "shock" has an ominous under-tone, which gives the reader a hint of the future horrors, which are going to happen near the rock. In the third stanza we are explained how the Bell came to be there, where it now stands. The Abbot of Aberbrothok put it there, on a buoy near the Rock to warn ships of the hidden danger. During a storm the buoy swings and the Bell rings, by doing so, alerts the ships of nearby peril. The fourth stanza is pretty much the same as the third one, just written in different words. It
Poe the prose writer was forced to starts writing shot stories because he was poor. It was a success. Won a competition "MS. Found in a bottle" (MS manuscript). The story is characteristic of his art in general. The opening is almost realistic, becomes weirder and weirder. Closing passages are fantastic. Poe's favourite trajectory. The theme of solitary adventure. Also the encounter of physical and psychological horrors. To produce strong, emotional effect on the reader. Poe came to conclusion that The most basic human emotion is fear, so he turned to the supernatural. His stories became much more popular than his poems. His stories were More or less successful. Poe's stories became popular because of Climactic arrangement of the events and the poetic style, appropriate for their mood. Poe's style: vocabulary is not natural, extremely formal. He prefers the literary, bookish layer of vocabulary. Unnatural
Mippipopolous becomes infatuated with Brett, but, unlike most of Brett's lovers, he does not subject her to jealous, controlling behavior. Amid the careless, amoral pleasure-seeking crowd that constitutes Jake's social circle, the count stands out as a stable, sane person. Like Pedro Romero, he serves as a foil for Jake and his friends. Wilson-Harris - A British war veteran whom Jake and Bill befriend while fishing in Spain. The three men share a profound common bond, having all experienced the horrors of World War I, as well as the intimacy that soldiers develop. Harris, as Jake and Bill call him, is a kind, friendly person who greatly values the brief time he spends with Jake and Bill. Georgette - A beautiful but somewhat thick-witted prostitute whom Jake picks up and takes to dinner. Jake quickly grows bored of their superficial conversation and abandons her in a club to be with Brett. Belmonte - A bullfighter who fights on the same day as Pedro Romero. In his early days, Belmonte was a
public themes dominating Augustan age towards poetry more domestic and personal. Too often some banality, but some lyrics are delicately moving. Edward Young: The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality – melancholy meditations Robert Blair: the mood of Youngs and his major poems are predominantly sombre, reflective, melancholic, and moral. Both Central members of a loose groupng „The Graveyard Poets”. The Grave – a dramatic evocation of the horrors of corruption and of the solitude of death. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – draws together feelings of the era. Sense of isolation, withrawal into inner self, poet as man of feeling meditating on obscurity and death, time and history, fame and passion. 32. The „Comedy of Manners” (Goldsmith, Sheridan) Witty form of dramatic comedy, depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations (teesklus) of contemporary society
Eventially she takes a overdose of sleeping pills because he is bored with life. Savage helps the working class people. ,,1919" study of American society during the WWI. It's tone is sharper, represents the obscenety of war. We get a glimpse of war thorugh camera eye. John Reed-famous american journalist who travels to Moscow, he is fascinated by the revolution, writes a famous book about it. Only american who is buried in the Kreml, the communist's loved him. Novel describes the horrors of war, lice, starvation, bed bugs, machine fire and two horrible deseases-typhus and cholera. Ambulance corps, gets a high position in there, makes a huge profit out of war while other people suffer. ,,Big Money" shows the development of American society after the war. The tone here is much more optimistic. The war is over but people are not happy, the central figure is Charlie Anderson, who comes back from war as an aviation ace. Very good pilot, has killed many enemies
some social evil. Oliver Twist opposes workhouses; Nicholas Nickleby concentrates on children’s education in boarding schools. Child characters – not used as protagonists before him. 1842 Dickens goes to America. At first enthusiastic; soon shaken as he sees the horrors of slavery. Late 1840s – writing on general issues in England; money, power positions, reputation, etc. 1850 bildungsroman David Copperfield, criticizes child labour and unhappy Victorian marriages. Great Expectations, published between 1860 and 1861,
Kantorek - A pompous, ignorant, authoritarian schoolmaster in Paul's high school during the years before the war. Kantorek places intense pressure on Paul and his classmates to fulfill their "patriotic duty" by enlisting in the army. Read an in-depth analysis of Kantorek. Corporal Himmelstoss - A noncommissioned training officer. Before the war, Himmelstoss was a postman. He is a petty, power-hungry little man who torments Paul and his friends during their training. After he experiences the horrors of trench warfare, however, he tries to make amends with them. Read an in-depth analysis of Corporal Himmelstoss. Franz Kemmerich - One of Paul's classmates and comrades in the war. After suffering a light wound, Kemmerich contracts gangrene, and his leg has to be amputated. His death, in Chapter Two, marks the reader's first encounter with the meaninglessness of death and the cheapness of life in the war. Joseph Behm - The first of Paul's classmates to die in the war
Farewell! Exit REYNALDO Enter OPHELIA How now, Ophelia! what's the matter? OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God? OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced; No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd, Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle; Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other; And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors,—he comes before me. LORD POLONIUS Mad for thy love? OPHELIA My lord, I do not know; But truly, I do fear it. LORD POLONIUS What said he? OPHELIA 52 He took me by the wrist and held me hard; Then goes he to the length of all his arm; And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, He falls to such perusal of my face As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so; At last, a little shaking of mine arm
effect, so clearly visible. Little did they know that this was only the beginning. By the end of the century, the number of people who died a violent death at the hand of their fellow humans would rise to more than one hundred million. They died not only through wars between nations, but also through mass exterminations and genocide, such as the murder of twenty million “class enemies, spies, and traitors” in the Soviet Union under Stalin or the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. They also died in countless smaller internal conflicts, such as the Spanish civil war or during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia when a quarter of that country’s population was murdered. We only need to watch the daily news on television to realize that the madness has not abated, that is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is the
Eesti muusikast ja muusikutest : valik artikleid (About Estonian music and musicians. Selected articles) (Tallinn: Estonia Selts, 1997) 6. particular importance. It seems that puppet films both for children and adults were the most popular element in Estonian cinema production. At the turn of the decade a young generation of composers vigorously appeared in the domain of symphonic music. They proceeded in different directions. These young musicians ponder upon world problems: the horrors of war; the future of mankind; the place of Man in the universe; submerging into their own inner world and into the modern and humdrum city life. They are in search of inner peace and equilibrium in the bosom of nature, attempting to mark contemporary music with its natural origins. There are also echoes of the painful and seemingly hopeless near past. The common denominator in this search and discovering is the growing importance of
M a y n a r d knocks out Butch and summons his brother Zed, like him, a S H A D O W projection of the worst aspects of white American male culture. Marsellus and Butch wake up, chained and gagged with S & M gear, in the still deeper cave of the dungeon beneath the store. Zed brings up a leather-clad creature, T h e Gimp, from a still deeper pit beneath the floor. W h e t h e r he is their retarded brother or a poor victim driven m a d by their torture, T h e Gimp suggests the horrors that await Marsellus and Butch. Marsellus is chosen to be the first victim of the evil brothers' sadistic attention, and is taken into a room once occupied by another victim, Russell. There is a sense in this adventure that others have gone before and have not won their round with death. 277 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION Christopher Vogler
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