In a frenzy of sadness and frustration on the night that Allie died‚ Holden smashed all the windows in his garage with his bare fists. I was only thirteen‚ and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all‚ because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don’t blame them. I really don’t. I slept in the garage the night he died‚ and I broke all the goddam windows with my first just for the hell of it. …. My hand still hurts me once in a while‚ when it rains and all‚ and I can’t make a real
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broaden your circle of friends. If your children and grandchildren have friends of different races and groups‚ ask to be introduced to them. The younger generation will appreciate your efforts‚ and your world may become more interesting. Avoiding Hypocrisy Older people who pretend to be morally superior may alienate the younger generation‚ according to one generation gap expert. In an speech in 1969‚ anthropologist Margaret Mead‚ who wrote a book about the generation gap‚ said that "the young feel
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everything In Arthur Miller ’s "The Crucible"‚ the people of Salem are in a crisis and sometimes people who claim to be good aren ’t what they seem and may be in fact a hypocrite. Judge Danforth a senior judge during the Salem witch trials exposes his hypocrisy in his conflicts between Giles Corey‚ Mary Warren and the people of the town for the sake of his own reputation. Judge Danforth is a powerful man who comes to Salem to stop the hysteria and prosecute the witches. Danforth believes he... "does not
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Is Holden Claufield a misfit in societyI do think that Holden Claufield is a misfit in society. It doesn’t seem like that is society fault that he is‚ its just the type of person that he is. He describes everyone around him as them being a phony as he likes to describe it. The way Holden cant fit into the society around has drove him to hate it‚ instead of him coming to realize this he just judges other people on the fakeness and dishonesty. Holden even thinks that his own school is hypocritical
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or true is a phony as well. Holden has different things that classify people as phony and one of the many things is that he believes all hypocrites are phonies. A person that he claims is a phony due to hypocrisy would be Ossenburger. Holden starts with what Ossenburger has to do with him and he explains that Ossenburger used to be a student at Pencey and after graduating he had become a bigshot through his business. What
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In Tartuffe‚ a play by Moliere‚ one of the main characters named Orgon brings in a hypocrite named Tartuffe‚ who is the antagonist of the play‚ into his household. Tartuffe pretends to be very religious and Orgon falls for his act. The scene I am selecting consists of Cleante‚ Organs’ brother-in-law‚ trying to convince Orgon of Tartuffe’s deceit . Cleante‚ in a secondary role in the play‚ is actually a strong character who voices reason to stabilize the conflicts of other individuals in the household
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Tartuffe Analysis Prior to and during the development of Tartuffe there were many occurrences that shaped theatre. In 1660‚ theatres open up again after 18 years of being closed by English Parliament. Charles II‚ who allowed the theatres to reopen‚ also allowed for the first time in history‚ women were permitted on the stage. Aphra Behn‚ who was born in 1640‚ would become the first professional female playwright. Female playwrights would soon become more common in 1695. During this time of theatre
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Tartuffe was written by a well-known French playwright named Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière. According to the Eight Plays by Molière‚ “he is the unquestioned champion” in the genre of dramatic comedy (Bishop vii). Tartuffe was first presented in the festival of Versailles as a three-act play. It is about a hypocrite‚ named Tartuffe‚ who poses as a religious and pious man in order to gain trust‚ so he can manipulate people around him. Orgon wants to be closer to God‚ so he accepted Tartuffe into his
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instance‚ Tartuffe attempts to get Orgon arrested‚ but the King reasoned that Tartuffe was the one to get arrested. Ignorance is also avoided through reasoning‚ where Dorine‚ who is Marianes maid‚ seems to be very ignorant‚ presumably because of her low social class. The story however shows that DORINE
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While Tartuffe is hilarious play that doesn’t seem to take itself seriously‚ there is various themes we can interpret through this play. Religion is one of most important theme and is the story’s main focus. In a sense‚ Moliere is trying to teach us the difference between a piety fraud and a true Christian through this comedic play. He sees the absurdity and danger of such religious hypocrisy. Throughout the play‚ Tartuffe uses religion as a tool and demonstrated how potent religion can be through
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