Who is the character.

I have chosen Sally Bowles as my character. She is a character from Isherwoods novel 'Goodbye to Berlin.' (1935 and 1939) She's a young 19 year old English women who came to Berlin to be a star and works as a performer in the Kit Kat Club. She doesn't care what people think about her, or what she says and is very flirtatious and outspoken with men. Sally Bowles continues to be adapted when the play 'I am a Camera' in 1951. The most famous adaptation of Sally was the film Cabaret 1972, where Liza Minnelli.

Sally Bowles in Cabaret. 

Isherwood described her to look like this:  'I noticed that her finger-nails were painted emerald green, a colour unfortunately chosen, for it called attention to her hands, which were much stained by cigarette smoking and as dirty as a little girl's. She was dark....Her face was long and thin, powdered dead white. She had very large brown eyes which should have been darker, to match her hair and the pencil she used for her eyebrows.'

The period that its set in was when Germany was after world war 1 when Adulf Hitler was on his accent to power, a period called Weimar berlin. This was time Berlin had a reputation for decadence. Prositution rose and almost became a normal way of living for many women and even men. STI's became more common too, so people did have a lot of money. Drugs and crime also increased alongside this at this time. Berlin also became famous for its errotic night entertainment venues, with the famous Anita Berber who was notoriously known for her drug use, eccentric and sexual behaviour. 
This helps really get a feel to what it was like in Berlin at that time and why Sally may have been like what she was. 

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