The text I’m going to analyse represents a short-story‚ entitled "THE LUNCHEON"‚ written by a prominent‚ English novelist‚ short-story writer‚ playwright and essayist Somerset Maugham. First of all I’d like to say some words about the title of the text "The Luncheon". The title of the text is rather ironical. If we consult a dictionary‚ we can find out that the word "luncheon" means a "light snack"‚ but as we can see hereinafter a light snack turns to be an abundant and expensive meal. The text
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this poem "Ozymandias" to express to us that possessions do not mean immortality. He used very strong imagery and irony to get his point across throughout the poem. In drawing these vivid and ironic pictures in our minds‚ Shelley was trying to explain that no one lives forever‚ and nor do their possessions. Shelley expresses this poem’s moral through a vivid and ironic picture. A shattered stone statue with only the legs and head remaining‚ standing in the
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Andre’ Gibbons Roman Fever Analysis I believe the central idea of “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton is how present the past really is people judge you by your past‚ your life is determined by your past‚ and you are everything your past made you out to be. Her themes of choice‚ irony‚ destructive passions and the past is always present in the lives we lead today are clearly presented within her
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Compare and Contrast “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson And “The destructors” by Graham Greene Bwire Silas English 102 Virginia Dow Thesis Statement The society should let go of the past and traditions that are meaningless and embrace peace love and unity for the betterment of our future. Outline 1. Setting of the stories a. Location of the stories b. Time the stories take place 2. Main subject of the stories c. Message portrayed 3. Characterization
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Marissa R. York Professor Michele DeGraffenreid English 102 13 January 2015 Voices Paint the Perspective The poem The Unknown Citizen is questioning the moral worth of societies formalities. This man does everything expected by society; obeying all laws‚ paying all taxes‚ etc. Does this make him a good human being? Did he live a good life? This poem is dealing with the idea of the modern “man” and weather or not nothing was wrong but if anything was right? Just because something
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The Happy Prince The title “The Happy Prince” implied the main topic depicted by the author Oscar Wild-- emotions. It clarified the idea that there was a statue placed downtown as a monument of a prince who lived in the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam near Berlin and died early in his life‚ the prince lived in luxury which had been filled with empty pleasure throughout his whole life. Ironically‚ the happy prince whose feet were concreted on the ground saw poverty‚ sufferer and helplessness in ordinary
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Irony is the art of expressing two meanings simultaneously; the obvious surface meaning the majority will regard as the only meaning and on a deeper profounder meaning which lies behind the obvious. The tension created by this ambivalence can be and has been put to a variety of uses. Ironies abound in Shakespeare‚ so do they in Dryden and Poe.Shakespeare employs them to underscore the tragic plight of a man‚ while Dryden and Pope use them to mock at human follies and foibles.among the forty eight
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William Somerset Maugham. Stylistic pecularities. Maugham became a witty satirist of the post-colonial world and wrote over thirty plays‚ mainly light satiric comedies. At one time he had four dramas running simultaneously; only Bernard Shaw has had more plays on at the same time in London. The British Library holds many of Maugham’s published plays‚ and the Library’s Lord Chamberlain’s collection contains a considerable number of typescripts. Though Maugham doesn’t denounce the contemprorary
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Looking again at the end of act two‚ how does Priestley make the ending scene dramatically effective? At the end of act two‚ Priestley uses several techniques in order to make the scene dramatically effective. The carefully written script creates an atmosphere of suspense and tension. The techniques Priestly uses in the script are irony and the dismantling of the false sense of security amongst the characters and consequently the audience. Originally the characters feel secure because they feel
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Alice Tapsikova A Character sketch of Tellson’s Bank In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson’s Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson’s Bank‚ a type‚ which actually existed in 1780‚ is described by Dickens as "an old fashioned‚ boastful‚ small‚ dark and ugly place with musty odour"(p.51). His derogation with this bank is obvious through the whole description even when he relates staff as "the oldest men carried on bussines gravely" and when he directly says that young men
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