and mad. Higgins and Pickering shouldn't be thinking that they are better than Eliza. They…
Alliteration is employed to add a rhythmic quality to the text, to pique the audiences’…
In the first paragraph, Cooper expresses his infatuation with his ninth-grade classmate Theresa Sanchez. Every week he evaluates with curiosity the new books she hides under her copy of Today’s Equations and he is intrigued with the fact that she is more mature than everybody else. However, as the reader moves through the body paragraphs, the subject shifts from Theresa to Cooper’s personal experiences with his friends. Cooper intentionally organizes the essay between the two characters to show contrast, to keep the reader entertained and interested, and to also provide the reader with consistency while reading the essay. Even though Cooper jumps back and forth between characters, it is effective because interchanging between the two characters keeps the reader entertained and at ease. Behind his writing, Cooper retells the untold story of every boy who has ever had trouble accepting their selves.…
Priestley uses a range of interesting techniques in order to present Sheila’s change in this play form how we perhaps see her as not an entirely sympathetic character at the start of the play. One of the most intriguing methods he uses is language technique to express certain messages that J.B Priestley tried to present. At the beginning of Act One, Sheila is presented as a stereotypical young middle class woman-Naive and immature.…
It has been shown in the book “Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw, and in the movie “ A Knight’s Tale” by Brian Helgeland. The two stories incorporate ideas tied to culture. These culture’s helped show the train of thoughts of people along with their actions towards others. Everyone grows up with traditions. Traditions were shown in “Pygmalion” and “ A Knights Tale” displayed as giving much enjoyment to the people. Other people view the culture and ways of an individual and learn to assimilate it in their live or gain a different perspective on…
Diction is very important in the given passage from Trifles, it contributes to characterization and plot in multiple ways, making for a better piece of literary work. By using diction in this passage the writer was able to portray the characters very well due to the images of the characters that are clearly formed in the readers’ minds. Through diction and characterization we are able to get too know Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters and realize that they are two very different individuals. We can see that Mrs. Hale is much more laid back and innocent where Mrs. Peters is more blunt and to the point. Mrs. Hale seems to be much more concerned with children, and how Mrs. Wright used to constantly sing, but her husband took that away from her.…
I choose Jean Louise Finch to read out the first line, when I discovered she could read. I then made her read My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud. I was shocked that Jean was literate but I told her not to tell her father not to teach her anymore as it would interfere with her reading. Jean then replied to me trying to tell me that her father hadn’t taught her anything, I just smiled and shook my head somebody had obviously taught her, she wasn’t born reading The Mobile Register. Jean then told me Jem had taught her and he read a book to her where she was Bullfinch instead of Finch. Jem said she got swapped when she was born. She was about to carry on but I just interrupted her, she was quite clearly lying to me so I told her again to tell her father not to teach her anymore because it is better to begin reading with a fresh mind and that I will try and undo the damage. Her father does not know how to teach properly. At least at the end of it she mumbled sorry to me but then again it was her fathers fault for teaching her in…
The reader is able to take a view into these restraints on females in the Chinese society because girls and women are not allowed to speak, and when they do they are usually scolded or made fun of. Whenever Kingston tries to speak or express her feelings around her mother, she proceeds to silence her. As time goes on, Kingston begins to realize most Chinese children are silent. The contradictions and unfairness of Chinese society and culture are exemplified through the stories and treatment of Kingston’s own mother. She plays a large role in her silence since when the author is a child she talks about how she cut her tongue to prevent her from becoming tongue-tied, allowing her to talk more. This is ironic because her mother is part of the reason she feels she has to be quiet, even though she does not want her to be tongue-tied. She is unable to express herself or acclimate to a life in American due to the rigidity of Chinese expectations surrounding silence as a female. As a young child, her mother always tells her talk stories, and as the novel comes to a close Kingston is able to find a voice through telling talk stories herself. She finds a way through the talk stories to break away from the stringent rules her mother enforces and experience new…
The variety forms of sentence structure that varies from compound, simple to complex sentences, the terse, abrupt phrases and run- on clauses shown in some parts of the novel also reveal the unique characteristics of poetry. Examples can be found in the passages in pages 69 and 72.…
The syntax is particularly interesting because the conversation between the two main characters has absolutely no quotation marks. The lack of the quotation marks instigates a faster pace in which the audience reads the dialogue. The syntax generates the switching tones by creating a heated-versus-calm conflict throughout the story. The reader can tell the woman is angry from the repetitious use of exclamation points, whereas the man in the story appears calm because he only uses periods.…
Language is a very amazing thing, It allows people to carry out day to day tasks and communicate with others. But, it can also reveal certain clues to a persons social class. In the play 'Romeo and Juliet' written by William Shakespeare in 1596, their is very descriptive and creative language used through out the play. This type of language can be analyzed for many different reasons but one of the major reasons is to reveal social classes of the characters in the play 'Romeo and Juliet'. The Capulet’s use of formal language when speaking to others in the play conveys that they have a very high social class in the time that this dramatic and theatrical play took place. The Nurse's use of freely spoken language to her employer's, the Capulet's provides an assumption that she has a middle social class within the Capulet household. The formal language of the Capulet's and the freely spoken language of the Nurse effectively conveys their high and middle social status.…
Priestley uses a range of interesting techniques in order to present Sheila's change. One of the most intriguing methods he uses is language techniques to convey certain messages. At the beginning of the play, Sheila is presented as a stereotypical middle class young woman - immature and spolit. Priestley brings this out through Sheila's character through her childish language such as "I'm sorry Daddy and "go on Mummy". By adressing her parents in this manner, Priestley clearly wanted the audience to know she has an excited and strong- spirited attitude in life. This could suggest Priestley wanted to keep the pay as realistic as possible in order to indicate to the audience that the events could have happened in real life as the Birlings are a typical example of a middle class family during the set period. Furthermore, Priestley may have also chose to do this to show the audience that upper class conventional behaviour views start from a young age. Moreover, Sheila's stage directions are often describes as being "half serious, half playful.…
Shaw creates his own version of the Pygmalion myth by translating this allegory to reflect society in Victorian England. In doing so, he exposes the inadequacy of myth and of romance in several ways. For one, he deliberately twists the myth so that the play does not conclude as euphorically or conveniently, hanging instead in unusual ambiguity. Throughout the play, Shaw portrays the characters belabored by the trivial details of life like napkins and neckties, and of how one is going to find a taxi on a rainy night. These details keep the story grounded and decidedly less romantic. Society in Victorian…
We instantly see how nervous Mrs Danvers makes the narrator feel. In this passage she drops her gloves carelessly and the…
Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical constructions and localized vocabulary characteristic of regional dialects are avoided in RP. Therefore, it does not contain any clue of the speaker’s geographic background but it can reveal a great deal of their social or educational background. As for Eliza Doolittle, she speaks the Cockney dialect of English and is unconcerned about her pronunciation and grammar. Cockney dialect is one of the traditional dialects of London’s poor working class where it is known for its distinctive pronunciation and word choices.…