English IV-College Prep‚ Chandler 2nd Semester (‘08) The Importance of Being Earnest Essay Exam PURPOSE OF AN ESSAY EXAM: The purposes of this type of exam complement the purposes of this course: 1. to prepare you for college English and 2. to prepare you to write in all college classes. This essay will require that you synthesize the major concepts in the play we have studied and further develop your writing skills. This type of essay is very common in college. You will frequently be asked
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“the school of Athens” does all that with his depiction of many of the greatest thinkers and philosophers such as Aristotle‚ Plato‚ Socrates‚ Epicurus‚ and many more. The painting was painted between 1509 and 1511 during the High Renaissance art period‚ a period in which artist are creating works with more balance and are characterized to be having a burst of creativity‚ and is a fresco painting using oil paint as its medium. Raphael uses a few different techniques to create a sense of balance in
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Restoration Comedy Restoration Comedy refers to English Comedies written during the Restoration period from 1660-1710. The re-opening of the theatres in 1660 after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime signalled a renaissance of English drama. Restoration comedy is notorious for its sexual licentiousness‚ a quality encouraged by Charles II personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court. English Drama witnessed great changes during Charles
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about a narrator having an urge to kill the old man because of his vulgar eye‚ but when the deed is done‚ not everything goes according to plan. Poe creates fear and dread throughout the story with the charters‚ build up of suspense‚ and the explicit details. Poe creates fear and dread within the two main characters‚ the narrator and the old man. He creates fear through the narrator with his voice and repetition‚ his insanity‚ and his deceitfulness. Throughout the story‚ the narrator has continuous small
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How does Dickens create sympathy for Pip? ‘Great expectations’ is a novel written during and set in the Victorian era‚ a time in which status‚ class and money were extremely important and where a discrepancy between the rich and poor was evident. The novel follows the ill-fated life of the protagonist in the novel‚ ‘Pip’. Dickens writes in such a way that each character is a subject of either sympathy or scorn. Dickens implies that Pip is a subject of sympathy through his use of guilt and
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Scarface (especially when he died because of the atrocious acting)‚ awful slow motion of Vito running away from the attackers because that creates a lack of suspense that is needed at a faster pace. The useless fantasy of Vito dreaming of a peaceful life by being a hawk is also a problem since it doesn’t render anything. It’s as useless as slow motion because all it does is disrupt the actual story and it causes complete confusion to the viewer. The prettiness of the film is futile to
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believed that tragedy served a higher purpose than comedy because of its cathartic effect. Therefore‚ comedy is delegitimized. But comedy does serve a social purpose that can be considered cathartic. It can be an outlet for social angst. At the time Lysistrata was written‚ Athens‚ a superpower of their time‚ had just lost a battle with Sparta. This probably shattered the conceptions of Athenians. And as a result‚ Aristophanes used a ribald comedy about the less-than-citizen women of Sparta and Athens
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The Comedy of Hamlet Shakespearean plays are often known for their outstanding entertainment and classic comic conflict. In his masterwork‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses these aspects to serve his thematic purpose. He has used comedy throughout many of his historic plays‚ but in this play‚ comedy is the drawing point that makes it fun and entertaining‚ yet clear and intuitive. Generally‚ his tragedies are not seen as comical‚ but in reality‚ they are full of humor. However‚ these comic elements don’t
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The History of Comedy. From Old Greek to the Present Day What does Comedy mean? In old Greek times comedy was a village festival where people came together and sang‚ there were jesters to entertain the audiences. The Greeks created theatre; comedy soon followed which to the present day is known as ‘old comedy’. Old comedy is seen as very political‚ meaning that the performance
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leaked when the narrator reveals himself to the old man. Therefore the narrator feels proficient that he gets to destroy of the horrendous eye. Henceforth‚ the old man is dead because he only had a moment to shriek once and not twice. Therefore not only does the Tell Tale Heart build suspense‚ but it also contains horrifying
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