defying them at the same time. Using his writing‚ Twain also points out the harsh treatment humans give each other based on factors such as origin‚ religion or race. Aunt Sally from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a prime example of this hypocrisy. After Huck‚ pretending to be Tom‚ tells her about a cylinder-head blowing out and killing a slave she responds‚ “Well it’s lucky [that nobody died];
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one of his many works stems the short poem entitled “Poverty” depicting the themes of poverty‚ penury and hypocrisy. Lawson attempts in two stanzas to capture the emotions of those who are under financial difficulties. He also touches upon several social issues of how people‚ specifically preachers and poets‚ often try to glorify and romanticize poverty as a virtue. He criticizes the hypocrisy of those who cite poverty as an asset‚ something to be thankful for and a building block of character when
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The irony of the case centers on the sheriff’s campaign promises to return integrity to the office of sheriff. In an interview with the Palm Coast observer on October 24‚ 2012‚ while Manfre was a candidate for sheriff‚ he stated ““violated the public trust. … You’re not supposed to use your position to get things other people cannot get. … He’s the sheriff; … ignorance of the law is not a defense” referring to the incumbent sheriff. The demise of Donald Fleming‚ the previous sheriff‚ was due in
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on a much larger underlying theme that is a highly symbolic rumination of the entirety of America in the 1920’s: the disintegration of the American dream. This decline came about rapidly‚ in step with the decay of social and moral values‚ empty hypocrisy of the aristocracy‚ and the vainness of the upperclass. Upon the beginning of the movie‚ Jay Gatsby (portrayed by Leonardo
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Festinger (1957) when faced with cognitive dissonance will often change their attitudes towards an issue or situation rather than their behaviour. Stone‚ Wiegand‚ Cooper and Aronson (1997) argued that dissonance was closely related to feelings of hypocrisy. People want to maintain their self-integrity‚ so when faced with situations in which they may be perceived‚ or may feel like a hypocrite‚ a ‘dissonance reduction strategy’
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In the Pardoner’s prologue and tale‚ by presenting the Pardoner as a professional hypocrite in a situation in which he attempts to justify himself by revealing the full truth‚ Chaucer identifies that the truth in which the Pardoner deals is what makes him such a disturbing and threatening figure. For instance‚ this is most evident in the lines that are often most confusing to readers‚ when the Pardoner states‚ “ –And lo‚ sires‚ thus I preche./ And Jhesu Crist‚ that is oure soules leche‚/ So gruante
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influence was great. He knew and aided John Brown in his efforts‚ welcomed the Civil War and until his death in 1895‚ spoke against Jim Crow laws and lynching. This famous speech is a masterful example of Douglass’ use of irony in illuminating the hypocrisy of the celebration of Independence day. Fellow citizens above your national‚ tumultuous joy‚ I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains‚ heave and grievous yesterday‚ are‚ today‚ rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that
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irony in between the theory and practice of revolution with implicit reference to the Stalinist regime in the USSR from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 onwards. Though it can be read as a critique of any kind of totalitarian doctrine and political hypocrisy‚ Animal Farm abounds with numerous judiciously moulded allegorical references to certain historical personalities and incidents – which resist its being generalized as an abstract fable of political morality. Orwell here employs the fantastic form
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Conrad: Kill Whitey Indigenous peoples of Africa die every day because of war‚ famine‚ and disease largely due to the legacy of European imperialism. Joseph Conrad‚ who saw firsthand "the horror" (Conrad 154) of imperialism as a ship captain‚ sought to change public opinion and call attention to the atrocities committed. In Heart of Darkness‚ Conrad articulates his negative view of imperialism as oppressive and hypocritical through contrasts and parallels of Africa and Europe Conrad ’s sympathetic
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He threatens to expose the inefficiency‚ moral degradation‚ and “the dream of domination and control which Americans wanted to realize” (Bogue 622) not only to the people‚ but he holds up a mirror for the leaders to see the faults in their own hypocrisy. For this betrayal Kurtz must be eliminated before “the horror” behind imperialism is exposed to both the people and the protectors of ‘the
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