Communication Essays

‘A Lady of Letters’ is a play about a mature spinster who is very lonely and spends her time writing letters to strangers, often getting her into trouble. It stars Patricia Routledge as Irene Ruddock who is the opinionated and irritating lady of letters. The play is written in the …

For the Nazi party, uniformed acceptance of their aims and ideals was the most important aspect of Nazi life. In order to get people to accept and conform to these values the Nazi party became one of the most extreme propaganda machines of the 20th century. The Nazi Government extensively …

Goebbels said at a press conference establishing the Ministry of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda on 15 March 1933: ‘it is not enough for people to be more or less reconciled to our regime, to be persuaded to adopt a neutral attitude towards us; rather we want to work on people …

The poems ‘Telephone Conversation’ by Wole Soyinka and ‘You will be hearing from us shortly’ by U A Fanthorpe both discuss prejudice and discrimination through the use of tone and language. The poem ‘You will be hearing from us shortly’ uses the voice of the interviewer to convey the prejudice. …

William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a play based upon the drama created by a series of deliberate deceptions between the central characters; some benevolent, others malevolent. The play opens with the return of Don Pedro of Arragon, his “bastard” brother Don John and courtiers Claudio and Benedict to …

The conversation held between Beatrice and Benedict is shocking because it is contradictory to the persona they both have been presenting since the start of the play. Even before Benedict has arrived in Messina, Beatrice is insulting him to the messenger. She asks the messenger things about Benedict like: ‘how …

Shakespeare clearly shows the audience from the beginning of the play that Hero and Claudio love each other. Both characters play quite important parts in the play, but their characters are quite simple and plain. Beatrice and Benedick, however, are both strong, outspoken characters that appeal more to the audience, …

Much Ado About Nothing is a short play by Shakespeare, which has comedy, romance, suspense and a lot of drama twisted into several hundred lines of verse. The ending is happy, however, and little has changed albeit two marriages. The play is important, not because of its subject matter, but …

The Great Gatsby is observed as a social satire of the United States in the roaring twenties, where Fitzgerald exposes the American Dream as a flawed fantasy merely generated by over-indulgence. America was established in the conception of equality, where any individual could have equal opportunities and success on the …

The play opens on a ghostly, supernatural note with the three witches brewing a spell amidst thunder and lightning as an omen of what is to come. The incantation is not in iambic pentameter but in an archaic and enigmatic language. During this short scene, we hear Macbeth’s name for …