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Opera: "Salome" and "Heriodade", 2008.
This paper compares the operas "Salome" by Richard Strauss and "Heriodade" by Jules Massenet Different, both of which are based on the same story of John, the Baptist and Salome.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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This paper explains that Richard Strauss in the opera "Salome" and Jules Massenet in "Heriodade" treat the story of John, the Baptist and Salome in different ways. The author points out that these differences reflect the time of composition and the societies of which the composers were a part. The paper relates that the composers had different motivations for the characters, different theological concerns regarding the story and different musical concerns. The author underscores that the opera by Massenet was a product of what would be called in England the Victorian Age, while the opera by Strauss came during the Edwardian era. The paper discusses that the treatment of women in these opera are different.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Women and Opera
Women in Two Operas
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"The opera depicts two women, Salome and Herodias. In this version, Salome is quite different from the image the world would have of her later, for she is essentially moral, even virginal, and seeks to protect John rather than to destroy him. She is herself a victim and not a perpetrator. Indeed, she is also sentenced tob e beheaded and professes her love to John while they are both in a dungeon. Her mother is the villain in this version, and the character of the mother is more like that would later be attributed to Salome herself."
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"Salome", 2002.
An analysis of Salome's morality in the play "Salome" by Oscar Wilde.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the theme of morality in the character Salome and how he does not possess its qualities within the play, also titled, Salome. By revealing the aesthetic of the play in its form, as Wilde has done, an argument will based on how he chose to exclude morality in love as something of value from the behavior of the main character and his relationship with Jokanaan.
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Rivalry Revisited, 1999.
Power struggles in "The Legend of Salome" and Strindberg's "Miss Julie".
3,414 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 7 sources, $ 96.95
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This paper looks at the similarities between the Strindberg stories "The Legend of Salome" and "Miss Julie". The author uses extensive quotes from both in an attempt to show the common threads. The author further quotes critics that have also compared and contrasted these two stories.
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"When there is an unequal balance of power in a relationship, there is bound to be conflict and attempts to either sustain or reverse the roles of power. This kind of imbalance can be analyzed in terms of the relationships of the major players in Strindberg?s play Miss Julie, and The Legend of Salome. Although Miss Julie is often analyzed in terms of the Bible, including images of the fall, the crucifixion of Christ, and scriptural analysis of exactly who goes to heaven, the most striking similarity between the play and the Bible is the legend of Salome."
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Representations of Women, 2001.
The following paper explores the woman?s role and status and the way in which they have changed considerably during the last period that extended from the last decade of the 19th century until the years when World War swept across the earth.
2,750 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper examines how a woman?s status has changed along at least three major axes ? political rights, employment and health care, and cultural perceptions of the female body. It also explores how all of these changes were taken up by artists and writers as well as those holding power (and opinion in) the realms of politics, economics, and religion. The author makes reference to four plays that show some of this progress made by women? Oscar Wilde?s "Salome", August Strindberg?s "The Father" and "A Dream Play" and Andre Gide?s "The Immoralist".
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?While women?s status remained secondary to men throughout this time (and remains secondary to men through the present) in terms of such generally accepted markers of social standing as political power, economic independence and cultural importance, women during this period in many ways ceased to be regarded as only mothers, daughters or wives and became simply human beings with their own identities independent from the men to whom they were related.?
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Oscar Wilde, 2005.
This paper discusses Oscar Wilde as a writer and looks at his life and the external influences to his writing.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper is a long essay on the life, times & career of Oscar Wilde. Some major works are touched on, including 'Salome', 'The Importance of Being Earnest', and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism'. However, this paper is primarily looking at the external life, background, influences, and career of Oscar Wilde, rather than his writing. Major influences on his philosophy and career are mentioned including Ruskin, Mahaffy, his parents, family and lovers. There is brief mention and discussion of his "outing" and subsequent trials.
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"Oscar Wilde Irish playwright, author, and poet Oscar Wilde was a radical in many ways. His flamboyant lifestyle, open homosexuality, outrageous disregard for cultural norms, as well has his socialist and anarchist ways of thinking were more than a century ahead of his time. His ideas and styles are more common today than one hundred years ago, but are still outside of the mainstream and are considered quite "alternative" and radical. Wilde's radical nature was expressed throughout his writing, his lifestyle and his philosophy. George Bernard Shaw said of Wilde, "He plays with everything: with wit, with philosophy, with drama, with actors and audience, with the whole theatre" (Holland 96 1988). In this paper one will see how this clever, irreverent, playfulness was extended into the rest of his life, career, and philosophy. The details of Wilde's short life are fairly well known. Oscar O'Flahertie Fingal Wills Wilde was born October 16, 1854 in Dublin... "
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