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    Essay Two: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight & The Canterbury Tales For your second essay you are going to analyze both Sir Gawain and The Canterbury Tales and explain their relationship to each other. You have three options for this assignment. Choose one of the three options. Do not choose more than one. Option One: Compare and contrast the use of humor in the two works. How does the use of humor help to support the central theme of each? Does one author make better use of humor? Be

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    In The Canterbury Tales Prologue‚ Geoffrey Chaucer relays the people whose stories he will tell. Chaucer sets his Prologue in Old England during the Middle Ages‚ when the Church was corrupt and men thought that they could buy their way into heaven. The characters are all described in detail. The demeanors of the characters‚ their clothing- even their horses are described in preparation for the main stories: The Canterbury Tales. The way Chaucer describes his many individuals as if he is purposely

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    of circumstances‚ settings and times. Medieval knights were warriors‚ and whose prime was in the late middle Ages: the twelfth though fourteenth centuries. Dominating the medieval battlefield during these years‚ they fought from horseback‚ wore body-covering armor‚ and used many weapons‚ most commonly the sword and the lance. Their skills at riding and in the use of weapons came from years of training. The special dress and training of medieval knights made them prepared for battles that would decide

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    Verbal‚ situational and dramatic‚ three types of irony‚ are commonly used by authors in their literary works to grab the attention of the readers. Verbal irony refers to when a character says something contradictory to what he means‚ situational irony is when the audience believes something will happen but a different scenario occurs‚ and dramatic irony is when the audience knows what is happening but the characters do not. In the short story “The Mark of the Beast‚” the author‚ Rudyard Kipling‚

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    there are many examples of irony. The three main examples of irony in the novel are Baba living a humble life in the United States of America‚ Assef joining and being one of the leaders of the Taliban and finally Hassan being able to see the flaws in stories that Amir writes. Irony could be considered one of the main topics of the book. Throughout the book certain stories come true and people from Amir’s childhood come back to affect his life forever. The first example of irony is one that you

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    though they cannot be with each other and that did not stop them they still loved and cherish each other. Shakespeare in the story uses a lot of irony to show that you should do anything for true love. Shakespeare’s play is full of all three different types of irony in Romeo & Juliet: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal. For example‚ he demonstrates dramatic irony‚ Mercutio and Benvolio thinks Romeo is still in love with Rosaline but the audience

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    Fahrenheit 451 has many forms of irony and it is a strong driving force used by Bradbury to push his point across to the reader. There are many instances where Bradbury uses irony to drive the point home. For example‚ the elephant in the room would be the fact that firemen start fires. This is a huge driving force to the theme that society is falling under the spell of censorship. Another good example of irony is how Clarisse is considered antisocial in this novel for being what the reader considers

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    Irony in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn For centuries‚ irony has been used as a literary device by writers Thesis: Irony is heavily used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through religion‚ racism‚ and the fact that Jim is a free man throughout the majority of the novel. One theme that possesses a rather unsurprising amount of irony is religion. At the very beginning of the book‚ Tom Sawyer gets it in his mind to start up a murderous gang of robbers with the neighborhood kids. One

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    Burroughs to Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston. Each story includes their own twists and turns. Out of all the stories‚ I choose to write about The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. While reading this story‚ you can tell that Poe utilizes a lot of Irony with all of his characters. Fortunato (the main character) but at the end of the story‚ he is killed by Montresor. “No answer still. I thrust a torch through the remaining aperture and let it fall within. There came forth in reply only a jingling of

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    May 6‚ 2014 Period 2B Irony The Stanger written by Albert Camus and The Truman Show both have irony in them. In the beginning their life is in a sense meaningless and nothing really to it. Trying to live a “normal” life is what they are striving for. Truman from The Truman Show and Meursault from The Stranger both have things that foreshadow their ultimate choices in life‚ which include symbolism‚ existential themes‚ and irony. In The Truman Show‚ there is irony present throughout the whole

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