Princess Victoria: Do you ever feel like a chess piece yourself? In a game being played against your will. Prince Albert: I should find one to play it with you, not for you. This quote is from the film "The Young Victoria", which is a film based on a true story on the early life and reign of Queen Victoria and her marriage with Prince Albert. The film was directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and was published in 2009. The main character, Victoria is played by Victoria is only 18 when she becomes the Queen of Britain. But Victoria feels controlled by everyone around here, especially by her mother and Sir John Conroy (comptroller of the Duchess’s household) who controls her every move. The reason they control here this way is because they want to get Victoria to signing her power over to her mother (something they do not manage). But after she becomes the Queen she manages to get more independent and free. I think the quote here, represents that. When she is playing chess with Prince Albert she is asking him if he also feel controlled and forced by people around him. But he is than answering that she have to play the game better than they do. Sources: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1948663,00.html |
mandag 12. desember 2011
The Young Victoria
onsdag 28. september 2011
Humphry Davy and the Davy lamp
Humphry Davy was a british chemist and inventor. He started to experiment with lamps and soon he is a safety lamp with a wick and oil vessel burning originally a heavy vegetable oil, devised in 1815 by Sir Humphry Davy. It was created for use in coal mines, allowing deep seams to be mined despite the presence of methane and other flammablegases, called firedamp or minedamp. Davy had discovered that a flame enclosed inside a mesh of a certain fineness cannot ignite firedamp. The screen acts as a flame arrestor; air (and any firedamp present) can pass through the mesh freely enough to support combustion, but the holes are too fine to allow a flame to propagate through them and ignite any firedamp outside the mesh. The first trial of a Davy lamp with a wire sieve was at Hebburn Colliery on 9 January 1816.
tirsdag 20. september 2011
Comparing The Painting "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth with the short story "The Story of an Hour"
In the picture we see a girl crawling trough the grass, trying to reach a house or a farm witha sort of handicap. This demonstrate hopelessness which I get the sense that Mrs Mallars in "The Story of an Hour" is having too. She wants to be free from her husband and if we compare Mrs. Mallard with the girl in the painting we can see that they both are kind of trapped. I also think the mood in the painting is quite similar to the mood in the short story but at the same time i don't think it fit that much. The girl in the painting has obvious some physical damages of some kind of sort, but the girl in the story feels trapped because she can't leave her husband.
So in many ways the painting and the story has some similarities, but not in everything.
fredag 26. august 2011
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingsway was born in 1898. He was an American journalist and author. He played a major role in defining twentieth-century American literature. Many of his works are classics in American literature and he even won the Publitzer price in 1953 and the Nobel Price in Literature in 1954.
His first novel was published in 1926 and was called "The Sun Also Rises". All together he has written seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works.
Ernest Hemingway was married four times. He married his first wife, Hadley Richardson in 1921 and together they had a son called Jack. They were relatively poor but survived on the money Ernest made from his writing of short stories. But Ernest divorced Hadley in 1927 and married his second wife shortly after.
For his actions in World War I he also won the Italian Silver Medal for Valor and he also reported on the Spanish Civil War and World War II. During World War II he spent most of his time in Cuba and Key West where he patrolled the seas, searching for German submarines. It was during the second World War he met his last wife, Mary, which he married in 1946.
In the late 50's Ernest got really sick, and he got threated for high blood pressure and depression. He also suffered from his war injuries and there were also several signs which seemed to indicate suicidal tendencies.
Ernst Hemingway died in the summer of 1961 where he shot himself just as his father had done in 1928.
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