- •After reading tasks.
- •The Uses of Different Media
- •The mass media
- •The British Press
- •Why I Avoid Reading Ukrainian Newspapers and Magazines
- •Tv Invention
- •The Internet
- •Read the text, change or add new information to your notes.
- •Vocabulary Focus
- •I didn’t know that!
- •Questions 1-5
- •2.Questions 6-12
- •Indian cinema
- •Vocabulary
- •In pairs, use the context to work out the meaning of these expressions.
- •5 Найкращих історичних фільмів, які варто переглянути
- •Read the guidelines for writing a film review and confirm your answers
- •Directors
- •Interviewing Ingmar Bergman
- •Essential vocabulary
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •1. Paraphrase the following sentences using the word combinations and phrases:
- •2. Explain what is meant by:
- •3. Answer the following questions and do the given tasks:
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •1. Study the Vocabulary Notes and translate the illustrative examples into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the words and word combinations in bold type:
- •2. Paraphrase the following sentences using your active vocabulary:
- •3. Explain or comment on the following sentences:
- •4. Give English equivalents for the following phrases:
- •Violence On Screen
- •Дуже страшне кіно
- •Text interpretation
- •Intention/Purpose
- •Internal, deep structure?
- •Don't merely point out features. Say why the writer has used them and consider what the writer is trying to do. What? why? effect?
- •The scheme of the analysis of the fiction text (and some useful phrases)
- •The Sample of the Text Analysis The man of destiny
The Sample of the Text Analysis The man of destiny
G. B. Shaw is considered to be one of the most outstanding playwrights of the world. He began his career working as a journalist and later on he started writing plays. His elevated style of writing, the brilliant dialogues and witty paradoxes are distinguished features of his creation. His “The man of destiny” gained popularity among the readers, that’s why the phenomenon of his success is being explored.
The main problems raised in the play concern the personality of Napoleon, the characteristics of his surrounding and partly the role of a woman in the history of the country. These problems define the title of the play, which emphasizes the influence of the leader on the destiny of the nation.
The peculiarities of B. Shaw’s style are also one of those secrets which attracts the readers’ attention. The author widely uses remarks which depict and explain the state of the characters and the action in general. His brilliant dialogues are worth mentioning as they give the play an atmosphere of constant tension and interest. The hero’s utterance doesn’t often appeal to the question of the character.
By using these and other stylistic devices the author manages to give the readers the whole image of his characters deeply and in detail. The lady turns out to be a wise and a cunning woman. Being a graceful, refined and intelligent woman she uses her charm and her brains to reach her aim and to get the letter.
The lady plays as a wonderful actress. She kisses the hands of Napoleon, struggles with happy tears, sinks on knees before him or wipes away her tears. Her strategy is many-sided and she appeals to Napoleon both as a man and a great leader.
But Napoleon doesn’t give in before the charm of the lady. He unriddles her intensions and acts coldly and judiciously. He even treats the woman in a coarse way. In the end of their talk Napoleon still feels irritated and annoyed saying that the lady will drive him out of his senses.
The characters created by B. Shaw in the play are marked by witty satire showing off the vices of Napoleon and underlining the wisdom of the woman. The fact the woman dared to treat Napoleon in this way and even made him lose his temper shows that the leaders called men of destiny have their weak-points and it rouses our bitter smile while reading this play.