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«Up the Down Staircase» The text under analysis is a fragment from the novel «Up the Down Staircase», written by Bel Kaufman, an outstanding American writer. She worked as a teacher of the English language and literature in a New York high school for many years. She is best-known for her novel «Up the Down […]
âThe Simpsons vs. Family Guy: The Showdownâ The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening, is currently the longest running sitcom on television today, dating back to December 17, 1989 when it first aired. Family Guy, written by Seth MacFarlane, has been on since December 20, 1998 when it first aired. The Simpsons and Family Guy are […]
The Ironical Aspects in Li Ruiâs Electing A Thief âElecting a thiefâ, a short story written by Li Rui, is about a leader in the village who discovers the disappearance of a bag of grain from the storehouse and came up with the idea of âdemocracyâ to get clues on finding the thief. (Li 321) […]
Comprehension a) List the positive and the negative things Bingham says about the British. In the text are positive and negative things said about the British. Bingham is of the opinion that the positive things about British are that they are imaginative and original, permissive and that they are at least not French. But he […]
Explore the importance of disguise and deception in Much Ado about Nothing. Are they merely effective plot devices? Much Ado about Nothing was written by William Shakespeare in 1598, towards the middle of his career and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Disguise and deception are used to great comic effect, as well as to […]
1. Dramatic Irony: It is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters. Dramatic Irony is a literary term that defines a situation […]
Angus McAllister is a true example of a hot tempered, honest, righteous Scotsman. Far from being aristocratic McAllister had values that he was not willing to compromise. At the very beginning of the story the reader is introduced to Angus McAllister, head gardener to the ninth earl of Emsworth. As described by Woodhouse, while he […]
The article âSun Vampiresâ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience, including the younger generation, and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine, including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and […]
Tim Burton is a unique American filmmaker that grew up watching horror movies and even lived near a cemetery. He was surely a self-admitted oddball. However, Tim Burtonâs style always seems to appear in any movie he directs. A few of his movies are Edward Scissorhands, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, and Corpse Bride. These […]
Belonging can enrich our identity and relationships, and can lead to acceptance and understanding. This essay will be comparing and contrasting the ways the concept of Belonging is represented in the play, Rainbowâs End, by Jane Harrison as well as the Playstation 1 videogame Oddworld: Abeâs Oddysee, developed by Oddworld Inhabitants. Rainbowâs End is a […]
How does director Lewin Fitzhamon use both monstration (what appears within a single shot) and narration (how shots are connected) to construct and clearly convey the narrative of Rescued by Rover? Fitzhamon, very deliberately, makes use of narration and monstration to move the story of âRescued by Roverâ onwards. Within this essay, I will prove […]
Since beginning of times, humans need to make choices on a daily basis. Sometimes it goes for the best, however, it goes also for the worst. In the short story âThe Persian Carpetâ, the author Hanan al-Shaykh suggests that by making selfish choices, oneâs relationship with important people in its life can be seriously damaged. […]
In Act 1 Scene 4, line 50, the witches hail Macbeth as the “thane of Cawdor!” This creates dramatic irony because Macbeth is not yet aware that the king has given him this title due to his bravery in battle. Instead, Macbeth believes that his success is due to the witches’ prophecy. However, the audience […]
Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson start to foreshadow the ending in paragraphs 2 and 3? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story with an ordinary town? Where […]
Both The Whipping and My Papaâs Waltz focus on child abuse, depicting the violence children endure from adults. In The Whipping, a young boy is battered by an elderly woman, likely his grandmother. Conversely, My Papaâs Waltz portrays a boy being abused by his own father. However, these poems differ not only in terms of […]
Ironic by Alanis Morissette is nowhere near ironic. It’s more of a surprising serendipity or maybe a huge catastrophe, but definitely not ironic. Irony according to Merriam-Webster, is the incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result; an event or result marked by such incongruity. The subtleness […]
Some stories are meant for entertainment, others to educate but Kath Walkerâs, We Look After Our Own is written to draw change and develop an understanding of a darker side of life in Australia. Written in a time when change was dawing and aborignal rights was touchy subject, Kath Walker gave an insight into the […]
This might seem as being an unusual way of beginning an essay; but the best part about this is people are not perceiving it to be unusual at all. People here refer to 1,170,938,000 Indians, with few exceptions of children and the ones totally oblivious of English language. None the less, the numbers speak for […]
There are three types of irony: situational irony, verbal irony, and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when a character or the narrator says something but doesnât mean it or means something else; usually involves sarcasm. Dramatic irony is when the reader of the story has more knowledge on the plot than the characters. Situational irony […]
‘The locals will now tell you that when they visited the old man’s glasshouse, they discovered the most beautiful rose that anyone could ever dream of. It was twice the size of a man’s fist and was almost black in colour, with just the faintest hint of red in its velvety petals.’ Fragrance of Roses […]
Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English novelist and humorist. His books are loved by readers even nowadays, though Jeromeâs contemporaries didnât give high praise of his works and some literature critics thought that his novels and romances didnât concern serious and actual problems of life being a little bit senselessness. But these suggestions were erroneous. […]
Deconstruction is a criticism theory based on the work of Jacques Derrida. He believes that language is uncertain. In the practice of literary criticism, deconstruction is used to find fallacy, contradiction of accepted values, thoughts, structure or meaning. The contradiction in language might be described in paradox and irony. According to Miriam Webster on line […]
