and truthful‚ while playing on the male name‚ Ernest. The pun in the title is a case in point. The earnest/Ernest joke strikes at the very heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen wants to marry a man called Ernest‚ and she doesn’t care whether the man actually possesses the qualities that comprise earnestness. She is‚ after all‚ quick to forgive Jack’s deception. In embodying a man who is initially neither “earnest” nor “Ernest‚” and who‚ through forces beyond his control
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Journal response 1 In the Sun Also Rises‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ alcoholism is an important theme in the novel. Alcoholism is a large part of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises”. Drinking is the greatest escape that the characters use and the author employs it very often in the novel. All throughout the novel‚ the characters are drinking excessively. They use drinking to also help prove themselves. Because of Jake’s war wound made him physically unable‚ he feels that he must prove himself
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treated compared to modern standards. Both In A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Band of Brother by Stephen Ambrose‚ are first-hand-account about both WWI and WWII‚ respectively. In both books‚ there are instances when men with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are brought up‚ and the question is whether or not the authors’ portrayed it accurately compared to modern understanding. In A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway‚ parts of the book take place on or near the frontlines of
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‘What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle‚ whether of art or morals‚ creates its own canons and conventions and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?’ Does the dramatic comedy in ‘Earnest’ seek only to amuse an audience or has the play more of a moral message than might‚ at first‚ be clear? The importance of being Earnest is a satirical comedy‚ which ridicules the social values of the Victorian Era. Despite the farce used within
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Death is really hard to deal with‚ especially if it is someone you love. The protagonists from Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls‚ along with Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and others in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried are all forced to deal with death during wartime. The effects of death among these soldiers vary from emotional numbness‚ self-sacrifice‚ to guilt. Death in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a small but important part of the novel. The deaths of Catherine
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Brelan Asante Handy English 102/Dr. Becker Research Paper/Hemingway The life experiences and values of Ernest Hemingway converge with his scholarly work. Hemingway lived a life that was marked my pain‚ depression‚ and abuse from the day of his birth to the end of his existence. The stories he wrote deeply analyzed the troubles‚ curses‚ and damnation of life itself. His writing style was critiqued by literary scholars as both very detailed and fluid or simply lacking structure‚ going from climax
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Symbolism is the way we create ideas out of imagery. Ernest Hemingway was a well-traveled and an adventurous writer. He traveled to many places‚ including a trip to the African Sahara and to Mt. Kilimanjaro. His story “The Snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro” was inspired by one of Hemingway’s trips to Africa. This story introduces you to the characters Harry and Helen. Harry has developed a necrotic injury after getting scratched up on a hike and they are stranded‚ waiting for help to come. Symbolism is important
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elements: diction‚ images‚ details‚ language‚ and sentence structure. Two well-known American writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. Hemingway and Faulkner’s similarities and differences in style become apparent when comparing and contrasting two of their famous short stories‚ “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway and “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Diction involve word choices a writer makes for his story. These word choices may be
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race‚ culture‚ ethnicities and it is a subject of great pride. For others‚ nationalism is based on the simple fact of having the legal paper of a nation with a weak sense of belonging within the culture of the influential majority. Scholars such as Ernest Gellner‚ Anderson‚ and Samuel
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A famous quote from Ernest Hemingway‚ "Live life to the fullest." I choose to live by this saying cause you never know if you will make it to face tomorrow. I have seen so many people die without even knowing something is wrong. I have learned to live my life without looking back. I dont want to dwell on the past‚ when I’m able to look forward to the future. We only have one chance to live life. Life is the most precious thing anyone has. I try my best to do everything so I never have anything to
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