President Obama’s victory speech was filled with many instances of humour and wit which surely would have raised the spirits of his fans and followers. Obama began by thanking his supporters and the people of US for his victory. He makes a rather witty note when he says‚ “I want to thank every American who participated in this election. Whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time – by the way‚ we have to fix that – whether you pounded the pavement or picked
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Shakespeare uses many different ways to portray humor in his play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Puck is a mischievous‚ outgoing fairy who just likes to have fun. He often makes silly mistakes‚ the most memorable one being that he put the love juice in the wrong man’s eyes! So instead of Demetrius falling in love with Helena‚ Lysander does. Then Puck makes Demetrius fall in love with Helena too. This creates a whole mess of dramatic irony‚ for all the lovers know not what happened‚ and fight amongst
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Comparison of Metamorphosis and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Metamorphosis and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich are two novels in which the main character is living an imprisoned life. One of these men is being forced to reside alone in his room due to a maddening illness that has overtaken his mind while the other is an actual prisoner in a Russian war camp. Gregor Samsa and Ivan Denisovich are just two examples of how a world gone mad can change how life is lived in almost no
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around them. Postmodernism was no different‚ this was a pivital time in history. Unlike the modernism era people were questioning science and logic. Thess change can be best documented in the two literary texts: The Metamorphosis and The Man Who Was Almost A Man. The Metamorphosis which was written in the modernism era is a story about a boy named Gregor who life changes one morning when he wakes up as a bug. To any normal person this would be the biggest of your concern‚ but to Gregor the biggest
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stories better by using dark humor? Poe doesn’t need to add humor to his stories to make them better. Yet he writes this story and adds multiple humorous moments and it just makes the story creepier. I think that Poe’s choice of adding humor to this story was a good idea on his part. Poe’s use of humor in this story adds to the horror because it makes the story more suspenseful‚ it adds to the creepiness‚ and some of his words of humor have a double meaning. Poe’s use of humor in some cases builds the
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In Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde creates humor in the scene where Algernon and Cecily talk about their relationship. Wilde not only personally makes fun of the characters themselves but also of the values that the Victorian Era upholds. Such values include cherishing looks over personality and the confusion between them. Wilde cleverly does this by also uses satire‚ characterization and irony to not only ensued laughter in the audience but also deliver an undertone message
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Gregor‚ from the story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka‚ is a very unique character. He undergoes a unique transformation in the middle of the night and faces many hardships because of it. He lived a very normal life at first but suddenly one night things changed dramatically. As the story goes on his view and opinions of things change and also his quality of life changes. Gregor Samsa was a travelling salesman‚ a stressful job that includes day in and day out on the road‚ riding on trains to and
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In Franz Kafka’s enigmatic novel The Metamorphosis‚ Gregor Samsa lives the life of a bug. The traveling salesman awakens one morning to find himself incredulously transformed into a “monstrous vermin.” At First‚ Gregor is apathetic towards his “metamorphosis” and immediately begins describing his room and slight discomforts in great detail. At the same time‚ Gregor incessantly comments on unimportant aspects of his – almost dismissing the fact that he is now a cockroach. When his family starts knocking
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During the era that "The Metamorphosis" was written‚ many families relied on their husbands and sons to work and support the family. This story illustrates this concept and also shows how a family can fall apart with the slightest change of the family workman. Many of the points and details of this story show how a modern day family in this era lived and adapted to necessary change to support their needs. It also points out the dependability of men and their perception as the main supporter of the
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Stability versus Change and Metamorphosis in T.S. Eliot ’s The Waste Land. When one reads The Waste Land for the first time‚ it may be difficult to extract some clear meanings out of the poem. The common reader is used to expect some uniformity and wholeness‚ some kind of unity or continuity in one or various aspects in any piece of writing he or she comes across. Therefore‚ when one has to face a poem like this one‚ the sensation of puzzlement‚ confusion and powerlessness is unavoidable. Even
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