While all texts originate from the imagination of their composer‚ they also explore and address the issues of their contexts. This is clearly the case with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss
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These poems imitate Robert Frost’s mock-heroic dialogue and conversational style. Three of these poems in particular‚ “The Boxer”‚ “The Boy In My Dreams‚” and “The Interview” draw from Frederick Turner’s “The Neural Lyre” and Maurice Charney’s “Robert Frost’s Conversational Style‚” in attempting to emulate a style that is an artfully fabricated imitation of ordinary conversation. My poems‚ like those of Frost‚ characterize a tone of amused and ironic detachment. Robert Frost has a unique conversational
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Machine that Won the War” and “The Interlopers” have in common‚ this being an ironic ending. “The Machine that Won the War” contains a dialogue of different men arguing who’s information the commander put into the super computer that helped them win the war. They are all stunned to learn that the commanders ultimate decision was made by the flip of a coin‚ rather than by using the best information. A similar ironic ending is found at the end of “The Interlopers.” Two men who have been enemies
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story is written in a radiant way which displays several ironic situations and statements. Here are four examples of different ways irony is present in the emblematic short story‚ "The Rocking-Horse Winner".
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to comment on‚ and pass judgement on the events around him with the involved immediacy of a first-person voice. Dialogue & the scenic method Narrating the story from Nick’s perspective could have resulted in a monotonous voice. This is avoided by having Nick recreate dramatic exchanges as dialogue; he recreates the voices of the characters he
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this dialogue symbolises Rita struggle entering into the world of education and academic. ‘Great thing about booze makes one believe under all the talk one is actually saying something’. This dialogue conveys Franks struggle with alcoholism which leaves hi‚ with a low self-esteem. ‘might go to France‚ might go to my mother’s‚ might even have a baby’. This Dialogue shows that Rita is finally taking control of her life. ‘Denny found out I was on the pill again and burnt all my books’ Dialogue represents
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he always win in everything except for the frog bet. He was cheated‚ however he didn’t have any grudge about the person. He stayed positive and you wouldn’t see anything bad going on there. The humor in this particular story‚ is that it is so much ironic. Jim Smiley who is a professional gambler just lost to a stranger because he was cheated. He was cheated because of his unwariness and stupidity. Another is that‚ the persona in the story or the narrator wanted to get some information about this fellow
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woman? What has she denied him? How has she habitually “kill[ed]” him? What is his objective in the poem? 2. In many ways this poem is like a miniature play: it has two characters‚ dramatic conflict‚ dialogue (though we only hear one speaker)‚ and stage action. The action is embedded in the dialogue. What happens preceding the first line of the poem? What happens between the first and second stanzas? Between the second and third stanzas? How does the female character behave and what does she say
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Meno “As to my being a torpedo‚ if the torpedo is torpid as well as the cause of torpidity in others‚ then indeed I am a torpedo‚ but not otherwise; for I perplex others‚ not because I am clear‚ but because I am utterly perplexed myself. And now I know not what virtue is‚ and you seem to be in the same case‚ although you did once perhaps know before you touched me. However‚ I have no objection to join with you in the enquiry” (Meno 80d). Plato‚ in his book Meno‚ defines whether or not virtue
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Oedipus the King‚ written by Sophocles‚ has a central theme of “one cannot escape their fate.” This theme is created using elements of dramatic irony‚ including diction‚ dialogue‚ and situational irony. This play is a Greek tragedy and it means the audience is already somewhat familiar with the main characters and the plot. The advance knowledge the audience has about what happens is known as dramatic irony. Dramatic irony in Oedipus the King affects the theme of “one cannot escape their fate” because
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