NAME: Danielle Granderson TEACHER: Mrs De Silva SUBJECT: Literatures in English QUESTION: “The title of the play Twelfth Night or What You Will promises joy and festivity‚ but expectations are not fulfilled in the play.” Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. Twelfth Night has often been called the most perfect of all Shakespeare’s romantic comedies. The very title of this play refers to the saturnalian revel where‚ according to Frank Kermode‚ the world ‘lost its normal‚ sane
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integrated into mainstream culture. However‚ especially with more recent waves of immigration‚ some pieces of their culture remain uniquely their own and sometimes cannot be directly translated into English and American culture. In The Joy Luck Club‚ the concept of “joy luck” remains untranslatable from mother to daughter‚ from Chinese culture to American. This is not because the words do not make sense in English‚ because they do‚ but simply because the daughters do not live the same lives their mothers
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“BOY OR GIRL‚ SMALL FAMILY IS JOY” In olden days there was a conservative society. People gave more importance to boys as compared to girls. According to them boys were the pride of their family and were given more importance as they had to go outside and had to do a job and thought they needed more care and more strength. A girl child was considered a curse as parents had to give them dowry on their marriage‚ neither were they given education as they had to live inside their house and take care
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In Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ each female character experiences different degrees of tragedy‚ but Suyuan Woo’s life appears to the most tragic. Despite suffering many misfortunes in her life‚ Suyuan is a willful woman who does not focus on the hardships in life but instead attempts to create happiness. With this personality‚ she creates the Joy Luck Club in China to find happiness while the Japanese invaded China. Later‚ Suyuan leaves China and comes to America in hopes of starting fresh
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Amy Tan’s book‚ “The Joy Luck Club”‚ is centered on the idea of the difference in generations between a Chinese mother and her American daughter. The plot of the novel is in the perspective of three mothers and their daughters. In “The Joy Luck Club”‚ Tan uses rice‚ dreams‚ legends‚ and traditions to show one of the main characters‚ Lena St. Claire‚ struggles to combine her mother’s Chinese heritage with her American life. In the chapter‚ “Rice Husband”‚ Lena St. Clair’s mother‚ Ying-Ying‚ in concerned
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As we age‚ we forget (parallelism). We forget the joys of being a child. We forget (repetition) how to play‚ how to laugh (parallelism). We tend to become so fixed on growing up that we forget many of things that we found wondrous as children as they have faded away like the night (simile) as the sun of time rises and illuminates the harsh reality of life. I have found however‚ one thing from my childhood seems to stick with me even as I have grown up and that is bandaids. This is not because they
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Beethoven’s ninth symphony was the climax of all his symphonies. He has begun work on this symphony many years before ultimate completion. It is titled “The Symphony of Joy” because of the great moments of happiness captured in multiple parts. Because of the great diversity of each movement‚ I will capture the essence of them individually. The first movement is the epitome of Beethoven’s musicality. This movement is in the traditional sonata form. The opening of this piece is a great crescendo in
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Skiing was not my forte or my favorite activity to do. My emotions were enraged at the way I tumbled down the slope. My body ached by falling and tumbling through the freezing cold snow and ice. Home sounded so marvelous right now‚ anywhere but here‚ my confidence had hit rock bottom. My face red and frozen from sobbing. I concluded that there was some other way down‚ nevertheless there wasn’t. It was a gorgeous day about five years ago. My family and I had left to Sugar mountain to practice skiing
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The moment I once grew my brain was when I learned how to drive. When I learned how to drive‚ I went to driving school‚ drove on long straight highways‚ my parents and siblings even helped out‚ and I even watched a couple videos on the dps website. I first started going to driving school when I was fifteen‚ then I didn’t know how to drive. School taught me all the basics such as don’t text and drive‚ wear a seatbelt‚ stuff like that. Also the most important things it taught me was the signs and
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Tragedies Can Be Life Changing The Joy Luck Club is a book that explains the tragedies that happened to four Chinese women during World War Two. All four of these women have daughters whom they hope will have a better life in America‚ but also wish to share their Chinese culture with them. Their Chinese daughters have assimilated to the American culture‚ so their mothers explain the pain and anguish they had in China to show them how good they have it in America‚ and shouldn’t abandon their original
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