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Literary Critique Of The Great
Number of Words: 353 / Number of Pages: 2
... Buchanan expresses her vanity in the words she says. For example, she once said, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and love everything," implying that she has been around the globe and seen everything there is to offer. She thinks that she can solve the problems of the world because she has gone to a few more places than other people have and that she knows more than other people do. Her wealth has given her the opportunity to visit extraordinary places, but it has also given her boredom. She has taken her money for granted and now she has too much free time.
Money has given the ...
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Pride And Prejudice - Pride
Number of Words: 2389 / Number of Pages: 9
... our generation. Nevertheless, the descriptions of the goings-on in that society are so lively and sparkling with irony that most people cannot help but like the novel. Jane Austen applies irony on different levels in her novel Pride and Prejudice. She uses various means of making her opinion on 18th century society known to the reader through her vivid and ironic descriptions used in the book. To bring this paper into focus, I will discuss two separate means of applying irony, as pertaining to a select few of the book's characters. The novel is introduced by an omniscient narrator, unknown to the reade ...
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Pygmalion 2
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... may not exist, depending on the interpretation of this theory. There are two possible translations of Higgins' philosophy. It can be viewed as treating everyone the same all of the time or treating everyone equally at a particular time.It is obvious that Higgins does not treat everyone equally all of the time, as witnessed by his actions when he is in "one of his states" (as Mrs. Higgins' parlor maid calls it). The Higgins that we see in Mrs. Higgins' parlor is not the same Higgins we see at the parties. When in "the state" Henry Higgins wanders aimlessly around the parlor, irrationally moving fr ...
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The Adventures Of Huckelberry
Number of Words: 370 / Number of Pages: 2
... view. In a first person point of view one of the characters tells the story, using first-person pronouns such as I and we. With this point of view the reader knows only what the narrator knows. The Adventure¹s of Huckleberry Finn is told by the novel¹s main character, Huck Finn. This point of view allows us to hear Huck¹s distinct voice and dialect, further familiarizing the reader with Huck¹s culture and surroundings. The skill with witch Twain elevates the dialect of an illiterate village boy to the highest levels of poetry established the spoken American idiom as a literary language. Twain also uses ...
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Macbeth A Story Of Our Time
Number of Words: 2844 / Number of Pages: 11
... pleaded poetic license. The result is timeless.
Macbeth, is a story of a man who's ambitions have brought him to commit treason and murder. Visions of power grew within his head until his thirst for power causes him to lose that very source of his ambition to the blade of Macduff's sword. It is the ironic and symbolic elements such as this in the play which contribute to much of the acceptance the work has enjoyed for centuries.
Three forms of irony may be found in the play, Macbeth: Dramatic irony, being the difference between what the audience knows and what a character knows to be true; Verbal Ir ...
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Othello - A Tragedy Without Meaning?
Number of Words: 2013 / Number of Pages: 8
... Act 1 Sc. 3 ll. 381), he still does despise him. Iago has to be examined closer to discover his motives: of course, he is jealous of Cassio’s appointment as Othello’s lieutenant and this is an ultimate irony in itself as he later mocks Othello for his own jealousy, having succumbed to the ‘green-eyed monster’. There is also of course Iago’s blatant racial slurs and hatred towards Othello, and his paranoia regarding the supposed infidelity of his wife, ‘And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets he’s done my office’ (Oth Act 1 Sc. 3 ll. 369-370). However, the latter excuse may seem less reasonab ...
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The Characterisitics Of A Trag
Number of Words: 688 / Number of Pages: 3
... been foreseen or stopped.The hostility of his destiny may be the result of circumstances,of the activities of his enemies,or some supernatural force hostile to him personally or to all humanity such as fate,the gods, or Satan.When it is too late to escape the victim comes to realize what has happened to him,and dies bitter,burnt-out,and desperate.The audience will know more about what is going on before the hero does,and sees his evil destiny at work long before he does. This sets up ironical tension,and is a powerful instrument for gaining the sympathy of the audience.The hero's death at the end ...
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Eugene Ionesco's "Rhinoceros": True Means Resides In Action Not Words
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... a doctor. Jean resists by saying, "You're not going to get the doctor
because I don't want the doctor. I can look after myself." (pp. 62) This
refusal comes from his arrogant view of himself as a "Master of [his] own
thoughts," (pp. 61) and "[Having] will-power!" (pp. 7) By seeing the
doctor, Jean would have put himself in the position of taking
responsibility for his actions and seeing that he wasn't always the "master
of his own thoughts" and that his will-power was actually quite weak. It
would be admitting the meaninglessness in his futile attempts to remain a
human. He didn't want to see ...
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The Story Of An Hour: Pain And Suffering From False News
Number of Words: 380 / Number of Pages: 2
... the house he was shocked at Josephine's piercing cry. At this point Richard tried to block Mrs. Mallard from seeing Mr. Mallard, but Mrs. Mallard saw him and dropped dead.
After you, the reader, reads this story, the author leaves you in a state of "awe". You have no idea why Mrs. Mallard died. Even though you knew that she had heart problems you don't know for sure the real reason of her death. The doctors said that she died from heart problems but the last sentence states, "she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills". This statement makes you, the reader, wonder if she died from the ...
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Odessey 2
Number of Words: 1167 / Number of Pages: 5
... and her supernatural power as a goddess. She directs the actions of men, such as Achilles, by making herself invisible to all others except Achilles, and then plucking his hair and warning him not to strike Agamemnon. Achilles does not strike Agamemnon, and a grand mistake is avoided. Athena also influences the actions of Achilles by handing him a spear during the final battle against Hector. By handing Achilles the spear, Achilles knows that he is to kill him. If Athena had not interfered, Achilles would not have delivered his fatal attack. "Odysseus is successful, because he has the hel ...
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