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Michael Mcintyre is the britainians fuuniest man, joking about the british everyday life. When most people hear about performance they only think about a play and maybe dance recitals, but one well known performance at the states is stand up comedy. 

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All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperatly unrehearsed 

- Sean O’Casey

LIfe is a performance where we are the actors, the world we live in is our stage. But in this performance, our life, we do not have the opportunity to rehearse as we only live once. 

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It looks like TENET challenges conventional action movies. TENET approaches the issue of time invention in an unfamiliar way.

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Review of The Great Gatsby

An important classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an acclaimed work loved by critics and readers across generations. Set in the fashionable and turbulent ‘Jazz Age’ of 1920s America, it tells of the attempts of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby to renew the love affair between himself and Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he adored in his youth. Yet deep at the heart of this beautifully crafted story lay darker themes - the seductive lure of the American dream, decadence and corruption, and the irretrievable past.

Though essentially a love story, rips apart The American Dream by way of a complex plot and literary devices. In an age of materialism and rising consumerism, it examines the enduring class structures and attitudes of a super-rich elite in American society. However wealthy he has become through his own hard work, from his ‘old-moneyed’ neighbours’ point of view Gatsby will forever be a “Mr. Nobody from Nowhere.” 

Becoming from nothing to something even though his wealthy largely rests on illegal dealings Jay Gatsby personifies the achievable American Dream. Yet the carefree, self-interested and irresponsible behaviours of his old moneyed neighbours are arguably more decadent and corrupt. Fitzgerald wants to show the emptiness and boredom of a luxurious life without purpose but also, as Gatsby’s acquisition of the trappings of wealth and his ultimate goal reveals, the misguided belief that money can buy you anything – including love.    

Fitzgerald is determined that we should ‘know’ the people in his novel and his in-depth descriptions of them guarantee that we do. Yet with the exception of Carraway, and possibly Gatsby, it is hard to like or sympathise with the book’s characters. More often they arouse our pity or contempt as they each chase dreams and desires which are doomed to failure or tragedy. Though we may grow to dislike Daisy and love the secretive and mysterious Gatsby, classic heroes and villains don’t appear in this novel. Instead, against the glamorous backdrop of upper class America with its endless leisure time, carelessness and wild, extravagantly expensive parties, Fitzgerald point to the casualties of wealth and excess, or the pursuit of it. As the novel progresses we see monsters and misery crawling from beneath the beds of pleasure and privilege. From a dazzling tale of romance and the high life emerge the themes of poverty, dissatisfaction, social entrapment and impossible hope.

 As well as describing an epic and entertaining time in American history, The Great Gatsby is a fantastically written case-study of an idea of success that is as popular today as it was in New York’s roaring 20s - of wealth bringing security, freedom and happiness, and how easily that can turn into failure and disaster. For fans of romance, it is a love story every bit as compelling as Romeo and Juliet. But perhaps most importantly, it is an example of how human nature doesn’t really change.     

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Jorge Luis Borges

“If I could live again my life,

In the next – I’ll try,

- to make more mistakes,

I won’t try to be so perfect,

I’ll be more relaxed,

I’ll be more full – than I am now,

In fact, I’ll take fewer things seriously,

I’ll be less hygienic,

I’ll take more risks,

I’ll take more trips,

I’ll watch more sunsets,

I’ll climb more mountains,

I’ll swim more rivers,

I’ll go to more places – I’ve never been,

I’ll eat more ice creams and less lima beans,

I’ll have more real problems – and less imaginary ones,

I was one of those people who live

prudent and prolific lives -

each minute of his life,

Of course that I had moments of joy – but,

if I could go back I’ll try to have only good moments,

If you don’t know – that’s what life is made of,

Don’t lose the now!

I was one of those who never goes anywhere

without a thermometer,

without a hot-water bottle,

and without an umbrella and without a parachute,

If I could live again – I will travel light,

If I could live again – I’ll try to work bare feet

at the beginning of spring till the end of autumn,

I’ll ride more carts,

I’ll watch more sunrises and play with more children,

If I have the life to live – but now I am 85,

- and I know that I am dying …”

 We loose the real meaning of life and forget the power our mistakes hold. we loose our inner child by worrying too much and by trying to be society's ‘’ perfect’’ we are afraid of taking risks. The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all. Geena Davis notes “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” 

We worry about things we shouldn’t worry about and because we only live once we should not waste our precious time worrying. we get into a routine and we forget that life isn't only about us.

This poem could be used at a play as a monologue of an old man/woman that is now reached an age were they cant live there life again. There could also be a comparison of two adults, one living there life strictly caring about everything and wanting everything to be perfect, whereas, the other person would be shown living his life the exact opposite of the first adult, and there would be a narrator narrating this poem.