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Oscar Wilde’s use of satire in The Importance of Being Earnest “Ignorance is like an exotic fruit…” writes Oscar Wilde as he sets the literary table with a rich display of Victorian satire (Wilde). Born in Dublin to affluent parents, Wilde experienced a social advantage that gave him more than a taste of indulgent upper…

Heroic glory holds a significant position in the Indo-European epic tradition as the Greek society values honor and being recognized highly. Thus, the concept of kleos is an integral part of the bardic tradition, ensuring the heroic status of mythical heroes is perpetuated from one generation to the next. Consequently, kleos also plays a crucial…

Firstly the plot of the story conveys the horror and tension because Poe has in clouded a murder and that is a big part of the gothic genre and also has included dark sees this tells us that it is a horror and gothic story making the reader feel tensed. The setting of the story…

The cigarette case introduced in Act 1 acts as a source for introducing the conflict. It leads the audience to discover John and Algernon’s double lives and introduces the notion of ‘Bunburying’ as named by Algernon. Food is used as a prop quite frequently throughout the play. In Act 1, we see Algernon preparing cucumber…

ISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. What problems did Bohannan encounter as she told the story of Hamlet to the Tiv? The problem she encountered when she was telling the story was the comments of the elders. As she was trying to formulate her thoughts/ analyses on the story, the elders kept on commenting what they thought was…

Themes: William Wordsworth The Beneficial Influence of Nature Throughout Wordsworth’s work, nature provides the ultimate good influence on the human mind. All manifestations of the natural world—from the highest mountain to the simplest flower—elicit noble, elevated thoughts and passionate emotions in the people who observe these manifestations. Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to…

Throughout history, the concept of morality has been debated, regarded, and revered. However, there is still uncertainty regarding what constitutes moral correctness. Ultimately, it is subjective and dependent on individual perspectives. In Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, the protagonist, Doctor Frankenstein, faces a moral dilemma – whether or not to create a second monster. From a…

FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald is in many ways one of the most important American writersof the twentieth century. In his first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgeraldepitomized the mindset of an era with the statement that his generation had,grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, and all faiths in manshaken(Fitzgerald 307). Aside from…

In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream there are many instances of betrayal.Betrayal plays a big role in this play.Betrayal, according to the Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary and Oxford Student’s Dictionary for Hebrew Speakers means:1) To reveal unintentionally, disclose in violation of confidence. 2) To behave without loyalty or honesty towards (a person, a persons feelings)3)…

Other than Sophocles there were 2 other notable writers that lived during the same years as Sophocles. They are contemporaries to Sophocles. The older contemporary was Aeschylus and the younger contemporary of Sophocles was Euripides. They wrote the same genre but incorporated there own styles and unique ideas with in their brilliant plays. They have…