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The play The Importance of Being Earnest brilliantly exemplifies the concept of satire. Through the clever deployment of satirical devices like irony, sarcasm, and farce, the author ridicules the Victorian society. Wilde frequently targets the societal norms that were disregarded, while also critiquing the upper class for their self-perception as the patriarchs of British society….

Purpose, Audience, Strategy9/13/04 The first instance in which he sees the elephant he knows he should not shoot him. The whole reasoning behind the shooting was the village. The author was attempting to reason his actions, by blaming the people. He was willed to move forward and shoot the elephant. It seemed that he had…

“But think a big part of the reason I didn’t care about Corpora’s past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret. ” Come. There is a way to be good again” This quote is significant because it indicates that Ihram Khan has known Emir’s secret all these years, the…

Mid-term Break Seamus Heaney’s ‘Mid-Term Break’ is a shocking and heart-rending poem about a schoolboy going through the after effects of the death of his four years old younger brother. It shows the reader the emotions and events that the boy has to go through, and explains what the words ‘Mid-term Break’ really mean to…

            Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a death foretold is a unique novel. Its uniqueness is its narrative and in the way it successfully unites all the elements of storytelling in a powerful inextricable web to recount how justice is rightly dispensed, in a story where the murder of the protagonist is known beforehand by…

The Destruction of Sennacherib Before analyzing the poem itself and doing a comparative study with other poems of this particular genre it is important to discuss in brief, the background of England and the Romantics views regarding them which influenced their writings in many ways. It is noteworthy that the Late Romantic poets including Byron…

Tears, Idle Tears In the short story, “Tears, Idle Tears”, the author Elizabeth Bowen uses an indirect method of presentation for the portrayal of Mrs. Dickonson as a cruel and vain woman who is trying to make her emotionally sensitive son into a stronger man. One can see the type of person Mrs. Dickonson is…

Research Paper: In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, outward visual aspects are indispensable. They provide a glimpse into the unreal universe inhabited by Jay Gatsby, a product of his own imagination (Lehan, “The Road to West Egg,” 29) and Daisy Fay Buchanan, the incarnation of glamour and wealth (Brewley 44). These are two…

I. 1. What are some of the more important characteristics of trickster figures?All myths have a hero and an anti-hero. Most myths also have another important character that can act as moral examples and teach us lessons. They are usually a humorous character and also very clever. They are not typically the most moral characters…

            Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing is a classical Chinese text written in 6th Century BC. It was written by the scholar known as Lao Tzu, record keeper of the Zhou dynasty. The text is a renowned source of inspiration and considered an influential text inside and outside of East Asia. The collection…