metafictional novel Atonement‚ Ian McEwan utilises narrative techniques to develop the central ideas of truth‚ war‚ and the desire to attain atonement. McEwan uses narrative structure to explore the nature of guilt and the courage required by one to atone for their wrongdoings‚ while he uses the interplay between narrative voices to explain how people have different interpretations of the truth. The narrative perspective of the character Robbie Turner is additionally employed to explore the nature and consequences
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Beatrice is depicted as an innocent girl‚ childlike and new to the world. Her forced isolation created a keen interest in this outside world. The reader begins to build Beatrice’s personality through Giovanni’s insight describing her as pure and naive because she responds with a “…half childish and half woman-like” tone when Giovanni fist interacts with her (Hawthorne). Beatrice’s innocence itself resonates when speaking to Giovanni‚ she instantly becomes too trustworthy‚ as Hawthorne writes that
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A soliloquy is an example of a literary device that is used in many dramas to real the inner thoughts of a character. In soliloquies‚ the character reveals his or her inner thoughts about a particular person or event without “acknowledging” the presence of any other character. In Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses soliloquies to provide reader with the understanding of Hamlet’s character who is the protagonist. Hamlet is a play about a young prince who returns to Denmark from his studies after his father’s
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How does Shakespeare use humor in the play? Though Othello is categorize as a tragedy‚ but in fact it can be display as a black comedy as well. Shakespeare uses humor through various kind of irony‚ such as verbal‚ situational and dramatic. He also creates comical characters in the play which adds humor to the plot. Verbal irony is mostly use that portrays how other characters see Iago and who Iago really is. Iago describes Othello as “an old black ram” or call him the “Moor” when talking
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revenge on his father’s murderer‚ Claudius‚ his uncle and now King. Shakespeare’s language in Hamlet powerfully explores the idea that reality is not as simple as we perceive on the surface and that there are layers of reality within everyone’s character. This causes our emotions to fluctuate throughout the course of the play‚ as more and more layers of complexity are revealed. Firstly‚ Shakespeare crafts his language
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makes Eddie’s downfall obvious with the use of foreshadowing and other language techniques. Eddie’s opposition with impossible obstacles such as trying to overcome the fact that his niece has grown up and his inability to admit his inappropriate feelings for Catharine along with his extreme loathing towards Rodolpho and later on Marco all comes to the final act that doomed the character Eddie Carbone . The writer starts to foreshadow before the characters are presented to initiate the readers to
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talk with an adult talking about how you should be kind to other and not being like everyone else.Dave Barryś letter‚ Dave Barry Teaches his grandson life’s lessons-beginning with the ketchup is high level comedy that uses Witty word play and humorous sequence of events to explain the idea that people have to be kind to others. In this text David Barry uses a lot of humorous elements to explain his theme to his grandson. One of the humorous elements David Barry use is witty word play. The word witty
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I read is the story about how the society was manipulated by the fear of the unknown or different. Therefore‚ in my opinion people in Salem were afraid of a devil and this fear shaped their society to judge and perceive normal women as witches and in consequences killed them. Fear was one of the most important things which shaped society but as Miller wrote in his book lies were affected society almost in the same way. Abigail‚ the main character in The Crucible‚ uses intimidation to create an
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example‚ A vice figure like Iago would use exaggerated words and gestures to stress his strong feeling of antagonism towards Othello. Likewise‚ a melancholic Hamlet would experiment with words in an overstated manner (to show his conflicted state of mind). The Tragedy of Othello‚ the Moor of Venice (Act I‚ Scene I) and Hamlet (Act III‚ Scene IIII) directs the plays to there catastrophic endings. However‚ the language portrays the relationship between characters in different ways. In Othello‚ Iago exploits
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No. Books Authors 01 My experiments with Truth Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 02 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 03 Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore 04 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn 05 The Merchant of venice William shakespeare 06 The Moon and Six pense Somerset Maughan 07 Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come John Bunyan 08 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 09 Utopia Sir Thomas Moor 10 Origin of species charles Darwin
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