Differing ways the poets use humour to criticise people Both poems are satirical commentaries addressing the themes of racial and social prejudice but the poems have differing approaches. Betjeman’s poem starts with the title In Westminster Abbey‚ a very grandiose place associated with Coronations and Royal Weddings‚ pomp and ceremony‚ which in itself invokes a smile and feelings of great expectations. It is very different from the banal‚ sombre title Soyinka uses. The form of the poems
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Rags to Riches Eliza Doolittle is a main character in the play Pygmalion. She is a poor girl from the streets of London who turns out to be a brilliant and beautiful young woman. Eliza Doolittle uses her skillful thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer to lessons with the rude Henry Higgins to become a lady in a flower shop. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle does not
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The scene shifts to Higgins’ laboratory in his home in Wimpole Street. It is eleven o’clock the next morning‚ and Higgins has been giving Pickering some demonstrations of the types of equipment that he uses in recording sounds which can then be studied at leisure in a scientific manner. As Higgins finishes his demonstration‚ Pickering admits that he is impressed‚ but he hasn’t been able to follow more than half of what Higgins has shown him. Mrs. Pearce‚ the housekeeper‚ enters to announce that there
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Dark humour Like the place itself‚ African humour is a berserk mix of people‚ languages‚ cultures‚ irony and contradiction. There is very little sensitivity in African comedy. But there is something refreshing in being politically incorrect and irreverent‚ saying without thinking and not reducing reality to a string of empty euphemisms. Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. Zulu Proverb When you take a squirrel out of water‚ it contrives a plot against you Duala Proverb
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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the way in which two different authors portray femininity in their respective dramatic texts. The two works I am using are Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Medea by Euripides. I will be looking at how the way men and women are portrayed can affect the way we interpret the texts‚ and showing that femininity isn’t necessarily a trait restricted just to women. I believe that femininity reflects expected female behaviour. There are certain traits which
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Stevenson shows a sense of humour throughout his novel “strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” by exploring such elements as the dark isolated atmosphere‚ a strong sense of fear and a presence of evil. He exploits each individual gothic convention by using several devices and techniques to put the reader into a state of chaos. In Stevenson’s book “Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” he explores the convention of a dark isolated atmosphere really well by inviting us into his fantasy world filled
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Alfred Doolittle’s Lower Class Representation in Pygmalion Realist author George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion challenges England’s upper class to realize the pointlessness of their flamboyant lifestyle and pokes fun at this society. Shaw writes to expose the differences in the lifestyles of the social classes and how different characters react to their status. Shaw uses Alfred Doolittle and his social status to depict a character that freely accepts his status and his reaction to eventually moving up
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of both sexes have made major contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously subordinate positions in society. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion‚ we see the main character‚ Eliza Doolittle transformed from an ill-mannered Cockney flower girl into a high society debutante with the help of some elocution lessons provided by Mr Henry Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics and financed by his well-travelled
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“Humour helps us come to terms with human weakness.” In light of this view‚ consider how writers use humour. Chaucer’s ‘The Wife of Bath’ and Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ are both considered ‘comedies’. Whilst ‘the Rivals’ is more of a “laughing comedy” than the ‘Wife of Bath’‚ both include various types of humour. Satire‚ irony and farce are examples of the types of humour that are portrayed within these texts. Sheridan explores a broader range of humour- a satirical work in the first instance‚ and
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what drives to care about something or to accomplish great things. In the myth “Pygmalion‚” author Bernard Evslin uses literary devices to demonstrate Pygmalion’s unwavering devotion to perfection and beauty. A literary device used in the first segment in which Pygmalion is talking to Aphrodite is repetition due to Pygmalion keeps saying “you.” For example‚ a couple of quotes in Bernard Evslin’s version of Pygmalion in which it displays the literary device of repetition showing Pygmalion’s obsession
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