Ken Loach's "Ae Fond Kiss". A Multicultural Romeo and Juliet Story?

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, Free University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The life of the "Ae Fond Kiss" protagonists, Casim and Roisin, is made difficult when they start a romantic relationship that brings Casim's Pakistani background into conflict with Roisin's Irish Catholic background They are condemned to experience how long standing prejudice and narrow-mindedness get in the way of what looks like a promising, almost harmonious love story -just like it tragically happens to Romeo and Juliet.

Product details

• Authors: Clare Stalder
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2013
• EAN: 9783656437796
• ISBN: 978-3-656-43779-6
• No. of pages: 36
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 68 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V214353; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V214353
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Secondary school levels I and II