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        ANIMATED DISNEY MOVIES INSPIRED BY ENGLISH LITERATURE

        PETER PAN, THE SWORD IN THE STONE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist,  in full Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, novel by Charles Dickens, published serially under the pseudonym “Boz” from 1837 to 1839 in Bentley’s Miscellany and in a three-volume book in 1838.

The novel was the first of the author’s works to depict realistically the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime. Written shortly after adoption of the Poor Law of 1834, which halted government payments to the poor unless they entered workhouses, Oliver Twist used the tale of a friendless child, the foundling Oliver Twist, as a vehicle for social criticism. While the novel is Victorian in its emotional appeal, it is decidedly unsentimental in its depiction of poverty and the criminal underworld, especially in its portrayal of the cruel Bill Sikes, who kills his girlfriend, Nancy, for helping Oliver and who, in a harrowing scene, is himself accidentally hanged by his own rope.

Oliver Twist started life as one of Dickens’s “Mudfog” sketches, a series of papers written for the early numbers of Bentley’s Miscellany. The first two monthly parts, depicting Oliver’s birth and upbringing in the workhouse, formed part of a series of radical melodramatic attacks on the 1834 New Poor Law.

Oliver Twist is at once a picaresque story, a melodrama, and a fairy-tale romance in which the foundling is revealed to have noble origins. It is also one of the first novels to feature a child as the central character; though, in contrast with Dickens’s later children, Oliver both stays a prepubescent and remains untouched by the traumas he experiences. Oliver’s curious blankness is central to Dickens’s multiple purposes. It enables him to remain the passive victim of institutionalized violence in the workhouse—even the famous scene where he asks for more gruel is not an act of self-assertion, but the result of drawing lots. It allows him to remain free of corruption when he falls in with Fagin’s criminal gang so that he can be recast as a middle-class child by his rescuer, Mr. Brownlow. The conspiracy between the wicked master of the den of underage thieves, Fagin, and Oliver’s half-brother, Monks, to turn Oliver into a criminal produces the tension between imprisonment and escape that drives and unites the novel. Oliver escapes from the workhouse and from Fagin’s underworld den, only to be recaptured until he is finally united with his aunt, Rose Maylie, and adopted by Brownlow. The fact that this dismal pattern is eventually broken is entirely due to the intervention of the prostitute Nancy, who brings the two worlds together but at the price of her violent murder by her lover, Bill Sykes, in one of Dickens’s most bloodthirsty scenes.

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Don’t judge a book by its cover.

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LITERATURE

Literature most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera: letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, though contemporary definitions extend the term to include texts that are spoken or sung, oral literature. The concept has changed meaning over time: nowadays it can broaden to have non-written verbal art forms, and thus it is difficult to agree on its origin, which can be paired with that of language or writing itself. Developments in print technology have allowed an ever-growing distribution and proliferation of written works, culminating in electronic literature.

Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction, and whether it is poetry or prose. It can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorized according to historical periods or their adherence to certain aesthetic features or expectations.

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Freedom, well, that’s just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.

The Eagles, Desperado

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MURALS IN NORTHERN IRELAND

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SUFFRAGETTE

Suffragette (2015) is a Directoral collaboration between Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) and writer Abi Morgan (Iron Lady), funded by the British Film Institute. The Historical drama, set in London follows the early members of the Women's Social and Political Union and the story of their radicalisation from peaceful protesters to law breakers. The film documents WSPU's secret meetings to discuss tactics when protests and parliamentary evidence fail to win women the vote. After further mistreatment by employers, police and political lies the suffragettes decide to increase their activism with civil disobedience causing damage to Oxford Street windows, postboxes, churches and politicians homes. Police surveilllance and arrests lead to the suffragette's imprisonment and hunger strikes. The film's characters are Laundry workers, Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) and Violet Miller (Ann Marie Duff), Shopkeeper Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter), Gentry Mrs Haughton (Romola Garai) and WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep). Mrs Withers and Emily Davison's activism is included in the script and their struggle to gain the vote acknowledged. The Director also includes the suffragettes husbands struggle to support their wives activism, Mr Watts ( Ben Wishaw), Mr Ellyn (Finbar Lynch) and Mr Haughton (Somuel West).

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The Chords Of My Escape

The chords of my escape. The feeling of a beat. The vibration of my soul. It sends me to my peak. I just love how it makes me feel, But there's no way the feeling is real. I can close my eyes and look up to the ceiling. It's the most pleasurable feeling. The way it makes me move. Just gracefully on my feet. In the chords of my escape. There are no expectations to meet. I'm free to be myself. I can dance, I can sing. I can twirl around on the floor. That's how it's supposed to be. But of course, all happiness has to come to an end. I look at the ground I sigh and frown. It's time to let go of my only true friend. I lift my hand to my ear And pull out the plastic. I suddenly feel blank again. But soon again, I will feel ecstatic With the chords of my escape.

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Let your imagination take you away....

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♥“Venice on a Mandolin tune” ♥

 This work was made by J.L Benac in 2004.

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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

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MUSIC IS MY ESCAPE