ONCE there was a high school text called "How Does a Poem Mean?" Given what could be a soul-nourishing dose of classical, or classically derived, theater in New Jersey before season's end, it is essential, for directors and for audiences, to investigate just how an old familiar tale means.
In an earlier essay for The New York Times titled "Margaret Atwood on What 'The Handmaid's Tale' Means in the Age of Trump," the author weighed in on whether or not she considered her novel to be feminist.
Unraveling the tale meant in-game chases, fights and clue-gathering, paired with jumping out to the web to follow leads and decipher puzzles on websites created specifically for that purpose, including a mythical corporate intranet for the in-game super-terrorist police task force.
By W. H. Auden The New Yorker, July 31 , 1965P. 34 All folk tales mean by ending View Article By Phil Klay By John Cassidy By Troy Patterson By Andy Borowitz.
She's certainly thought carefully about what fairy tales meant to her. "Fairy tales and princesses get a bad rap, because it's this idea of Prince Charming sweeping you off your feet," she says.
"You know," he said, "after a while we get to thinking about what these tales mean to the young people, these old stories, and sometimes it's hard to know".
The traditional myths were to them mere fairy tales meant only for children and those content with "the unexamined life".
In Mr. Walsh's "Camille Claudel" (2012), he tries to tell the title sculptor's tale by means of the written word, photographic illustration, tableaus, a motley assortment of popular and classical music (mostly French) and dance for biographical characters and Claudel's sculptures.
For Moira (Wiley) in The Handmaid's Tale, that means running away from the Red Center, abandoning her best friend Offred (Elisabeth Moss) and then, when she's caught, deciding to become a prostitute an option that at least allows her good food, strong drugs and a modicum of autonomy.
A Country of Two Tales: By means of narrative nonfiction, Siddhartha Deb's "The Beautiful and the Damned" and Katherine Boo's "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" vivify India's social troubles, in particular, the abject poverty that still afflicts much of the citizenry.
Is her story meant to be the appreciatively told tale of a canny New York predator?
