not ironical.Irony is her very forte;it is in fact the very soul of her art. Pride and Prejudice‚ for instance‚ is steeped in irony.To put it in other words‚ it is an artistic blend of ironic and dramatic design.almost everything in this novel‚ be it related to the context or to the style‚ points to an ironic contrast between ’appearance’ and ’reality’.it is the complex handling of "First Impressions" that lends to Austen’s irony. Perhaps the opening sentence of the book offers the aptest illustration
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In the poem‚ "Out-Out" by Robert Frost; the speaker has a somber‚ serious‚ regretful attitude‚ an ironic tone‚ and a vivid descriptive voice towards the events occurring throughout the poem. He (the speaker) is shown as a witness to the story that takes place. Frost uses this dramatic take on a chain of events to guide you through a series of emotions as the poem develops. The first thing I noticed in reading the poem was the calm and serene atmosphere that the speaker was describing. "The buzz
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no chance of saving Gary‚ or even possibly reaching his unresponsive body‚ they tried their hardest. 3. I think she uses statements such as “Class II was not an unreasonable challenge to novice paddlers” to foreshadow events because it is kind or ironic. She has such a positive and fearless attitude in the beginning that she does not possibly see anything going wrong. The reader is likely to be aware of the inevitable outcome when Anne sees the first canoe fall over but didn’t assume anything wrong
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Lorraine Hansberry‚ author of the play A Raisin In The Sun‚ was the first ever African American woman to ever have a play published and later have it performed on Broadway. Hansberry was born on May 30th 1930 in Chicago Illinois into a middle class family where she lived with her grandmother who was a freed slave‚ her father‚ mother and the 3 of her siblings. Her father was a very successful real estate broker and her mother was a teacher. Once Lorraine was 8 years old‚ her family moved into a white
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explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans? He says that Capulet worries that his daughter is grieving too much over her cousin’s death and he thinks that Juliet needs to be quickly married to someone so she will stop her crying. 3. What is ironic about the conversation between Juliet and Paris? The irony is that everything Juliet is saying has a different meaning than what Tybalt understands. It refers to her and Romeo’s love sometimes‚ while Tybalt thinks she is talking about himself.
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in his final play‚ The Tempest‚ into which he imbued his personal experiences. By doing so he was able to highlight the differences between illusion and reality through the actions of his characters. Shakespeare used his characters‚ their actions‚ dialogue‚ settings‚ and references to the real world to create many layers of illusion. He illustrates the idea of illusion primarily through Prospero‚ who is an illusion himself‚ to manipulate and control the island and the people who chance upon it. Prospero
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The book All the Pretty Horses is a western drama about teenage cowboys as they transition from adolescence into manhood. The author‚ Cormac McCarthy‚ structures the book using echo words and parallel structure that links dialogue exchanges and makes the scenes flow smoothly. McCarthy is a master of this sort of repetition and uses this structure throughout the entire book. There are many examples of this used throughout the book‚ but the author primarily focuses on the interpersonal relationships
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David Kennedy DC 205 Scene Analysis Project 2/25/13 The Godfather (1972): Opening Scene The Godfather is an American crime film based on crime families in New York. The 1972 film was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy. The screenplay was developed by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola‚ based on Puzo’s 1969 novel of the same name. The Godfather is ranked as second in the greatest film in American cinema history (behind Citizen Kane). The opening scene of The
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Hills Like White Elephants: Themes 7. Hills Like White Elephants: Style 8. Hills Like White Elephants: Historical Context 9. Hills Like White Elephants: Critical Overview 10. Hills Like White Elephants: Essays and Criticism ♦ Hemingway’s Use of Dialogue in ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’ ♦ Hemingway’s Autobiographical Inspiration for ‘‘Hills Like White Elephants’’ ♦ The Hemingway Heroine: Study in Female Characterization in “Hills Like White Elephants” ♦ Isolation and Estrangement in “Hills Like
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William Shakespeare’s ironic play Julius Caesar (1599) and James Cameron’s film Avatar (2009) similarly display conflicting perspectives as a result of self-interest. Shakespeare develops a contemporary context‚ representing the fears of 16th Century England to display his views on creating an ethical society. Correspondingly‚ Cameron displays his own representation of a dying world and the self-interest which plays the foremost part in destroying it. Each text provides a representation of the self-interest
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