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Importance Of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde
1,347 words1. Irony. The use of words to express a different meaning than they are used for literally. In Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night he incorporates the use of irony in many of his scenes. Act II Scene 3. TOBY. A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after midnight, and to go to bed then, is early; so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes. Does not our lives consist of the four elements? ANDREW. Faith so they say; but I think it rather consists of eating and drin...
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1,711 wordsThe Grotesque Machinery of the Dubliners Joyce describes the spiritual poverty of the people of Dublin in the industrial age, with powerful images of mechanized humans and animated machines. In "After the Race" and "Counterparts" he delineates characters with appropriate portraits of human automation. Machines seize human attributes and vitality in opposition to the vacuous citizens of Ireland's capitalist city. Joyce's use of metaphorical language brings to life the despair of his country. In W...
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A Feminist Approach On Jonathan Swift Gulliver Travels
1,775 wordsThe purpose of this essay is to analyse Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from feminist perspective. To fully understand the views that Swift exhibited, with respect to feminist approach, it is important to have some background on Swift himself and womens role in society in the eighteenth century. In the time of Swift, women were considered the legal responsibility of their fathers or husbands. Whatever a woman said in public was a reflection of the ideas of her father or husband. The ideal wi...
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Anderson And Hemingway Use Of The First Person
1,182 wordsIt is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. " At one point in his short story, "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", Hemingway's character Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts, for one line only, the first person voice is an interesting question, without an easy answer. Sherwood Anderson does the same thing in the introduction to his work, Winesburg, Ohio. The first piece, called "The Book of the Grotesque", is told from the first person point of view. But af...
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Art Theories And Influence On Artists
1,841 wordster> Essay Question: Discuss how theories about art influence the practice of artists and / or art critics or historians Practice in art refers to the decisions and actions that affect choices, perceptions, ways of working and views of an artist or art historian. Tim Storrier sums up the practice of an artist by saying that A painting is really a graphic illustration of where a particular artist is at that point in his life and the art encompasses what the artist has gone through in th...
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Good Man Is Hard Man Is Hard To Find
1,043 wordsThe story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is a grotesque yet intriguing story trademarked by a strong religious theme and Flannery O'Connor's use of vision and foreshadowing. The author's foreshadowing techniques and literary devices keep the reader immersed in the text, while the extremely different views of the grandmother and the Misfit on Christianity add a thought provoking, religious flair to the story. These two components make up a disturbing anecdote about an ordinary southern family's ext...
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Philosophy In Edgar Allan Poe The Black Cat
1,243 wordsThe philosopher Thomas Hobbes is quoted as saying that life is nasty, brutish and short (Landry). This certainly turns out to be the case for the people and animals who live with the alcoholic, abusive, and murderous man in Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat. One shudders as he describes the horrific thoughts running through his mind. Even more terrible and shocking are the senseless acts of cruelty, and later murder, that he carries out upon his cat and wife. Edgar Allan Poe evokes a sense of terr...
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Salvador Dali Brush Strokes
802 wordsSalvador Dali is a master painter who has honed his abilities in the arenas of style, technical skill, representation, realistic rendering, concept, and thus, above all else, surrealism. His method and motivation, surrealism, he defined as the effort to take implausible situations, ridiculous ideas, the grotesque, and translate them in a manner that suggested their reality. This idea is something for which Dali came to be known. A great example of his surrealistic efforts and his masters skills ...
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Sense Of Smell Enables The Reader
1,855 wordsHow does the author enable the reader to share the experience of the main character? Patrick Suskind's use of visual imagery captures the audiences's else of smell by dragging the reader into this world of hideous stench. Perfume is unique as it creates a reality by 'painting a picture' in the mind of the reader through the olfactory senses. Suskind does, on many occasions, manipulate the readers' basic instincts through the novel's protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille. Suskind is successful in...
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Wife And Falstaff Wife Of Bath Quot
620 words" Carnivalization" is the term used by Mikhail Bakhtin to describe the shaping effect on literary genres. The idea of cannibalism is the discourse of structuralism. Carnivalism is the opposite of everything deemed " normal" . Bahktin describes it as: " the true feast of time, the feasts of becoming, change and renewal. (45) " Carnival originated from the Feasts of the Church. The feasts were a serious, formal occasion in which strict patterns were closely followed. ...
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Horror Genre Horror Films
1,211 wordsMorbid Fascinations: Carroll on Horror The Philosophy of Horror; or Paradoxes of the Heart by Noel Carroll is an in depth look at the reasons why so many people are intrinsically drawn to images of horror and gore and death in film, art, and life. Carroll discuss the many avenues that people have taken in the past to explain this phenomenon, this apparent paradox of how artistic presentation of normally averse events and objects can give rise to pleasure. (Carroll, p 161) This paradox is a parti...
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Divine Comedy Rhetorical Question
1,638 wordsDante Dante Dantes Canto XXVIII Dante begins Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader: Who, even with untrammeled words and many attempts at telling, ever could recount in full the blood and wounds that I now saw? (Lines 1 - 3) The rhetorical question draws the reader into the passage ...
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Divine Comedy Rhetorical Question
1,634 wordsDante begins the opening of Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader: Who, even with untrammeled words and many attempts at telling, ever could recount in full the blood and wounds that I now saw? (Line The rhetorical question draws the reader into the passage because we know by this p...
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Murders In The Rue Morgue Point Of View
1,020 wordsThe Murders in the Rue Morgue In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends, they live together in seclusion, departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see Dupin's intimate knowledge of th...
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Good Country People Wooden Leg
656 wordsFlannery Oconner and Grotesque Characters One of the most interesting characteristics of Flannery Oconner's writing is her penchant for creating characters with physical or mental disabilities. Though critics sometimes unkindly labeled her a maker of grotesques, this talent for creating flawed characters served her well. In fact, though termed grotesque, Oconner's use of vivid visual imagery when describing people and their shortcomings is the technique that makes her work most realistic. Oconne...
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Flannery O Connor Rises Must Converge
1,525 wordsThe Symbiotic Relationship of Violence and Grace Extending reality outward until it embraced religious mystery, says Gilbert H. Muller (56), is something that Flannery O Connor did with extraordinary finesse. The mystery of grace captivated her and she used violence to shock both her characters and readers into making a decision about grace. O Connor used violence to illustrate the pointlessness of a purely secular world and the indispensable need of God to correct the absurdity of man s conditi...
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Animal Farm Gulliver Travels
1,780 wordsGeorge Orwell was chiefly interested in justice and equality. He was a deeply pessimistic man who had powers of imagination which few of his contemporaries dreamed one man could have. Orwell s character and writing style was so deep that qualities that were and still are manifest in his work, did not reveal themselves in his life (Scott-Killer 273). In his short life, Orwell distinguished himself as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary critic, and political polemicist. In his writings, Orw...
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Truman Capote American Literature
2,688 wordsAmerican literature in the thirties and forties, was dominated by social consciousness. The preferred fiction was sociological prose, much of it naturalistic. Thus, when Other Voices, Other Rooms was published soon after World War II, it was criticized as being out of the main stream. Within a decade, however, as other young writers gained renown, it became apparent that Truman Capotes novel was a piece in a new pattern of fiction, one that was described by terms such as narcissistic, grotesque,...
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Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
483 wordsCarroll s Looking Glass During the Victorian age, many poets flourished in the spotlight of being independent in their own creative way of composing poetry and literature. During a time of strict morals, many people felt that there was a need to break loose. Lewis Carroll, a math professor, had a tremendous imagination and used it to his advantage to create some of the most profound stories for children. At this time in society, the Industrial Revolution began. Social reform took place, and the ...
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Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy
1,056 wordsAlthough there seem to be similarities between Dantes vision of Satan and his vision of God, Satan is actually an inversion of the Trinity and God. There are also significant differences between the two visions, which are essential to understanding this inversion. The most obvious instance of inversion is Dantes construction of the world of his Divine Comedy. A simplified version of this world looks like this: EMPYREAN (God) PLANETS PURGATORY HELL SATAN From this depiction, it is obvious that Go...
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