Hypocrisy Essays

Losing My Religion: Exposing the Hypocrisy of Religion in Emily Dickinson’s “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-“ Who does society consider the faithful? Is it the man on the street corner screaming for everyone to repent their sins before the apocalypse? Is it the zealot who straps a bomb to his body, and walks […]

As you read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” Hypocrisy is plainly evident throughout the entire book. The story begins in seventeenth-century Boston, then a Puritan settlement. The characters of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and the very society that these characters lived in, serve as prime examples of this sin. It’s within these people […]

In the play “The Crucible”, by Arthur Miller, the theme of hypocrisy seems to correspond with today’s society. Miller writes a fictional story that revolves around true characters consumed with hypocrisy, much like real people and leaders today. Both the characters in the book and real people share the traits of hypocrites. In the book […]

The above passage is a dialog extracted from the third act of Chekhov’s play The Three Sisters. The work was written In Russia in the year 1900. This was during the final years of the Russian Empire, where the small portion of upper-class families would live in luxury and languor, while the peasants in the […]

Any story can be a story about social expectations but Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is one story that points out the fact that it is the people themselves who perpetuate such social expectations and senseless traditions. Nevertheless, this act of perpetuation is a rather unconscious process going on in a person’s mind. Jackson’s “The Lottery” […]

  There are no acts that separate the scenes from each other. The effect of this is that the play is continual, therefore the action will not stop until the end. This forces the audience to question what they see and not be given the chance to switch off until the play is over. The […]

An Inspector Calls is a controversial play set in the subtle society of 1912. Written in 1945, the play script critically analyses the hypocrisy of a symbolist group of characters living in the Edwardian era (1901 – 1914). During this period many revolutionary changes happened ; there were dramatic rises in business and many factories […]

yGeorge Washington: Slavery and the Hypocrisy of the War for Liberty History tells us that George Washington was one of our country’s leaders who acted as a commander in the American Revolutionary War, a war that fought for freedom from the Parliament of Great Britain and our natural rights as a people. What some people […]

Emily Bronte also convey’s aspects of the class system within Victorian society through the use of imagery. Bronte depicts two English households which both resemble slightly different classes but for which could not be further apart. The heights is described as “narrow windows being deeply set in the wall” and then Thrushcross Grange as “the […]

The play Tartuffe written by Moliere depicts two fundamental themes, Hypocrisy and Deception. Tartuffe is a satire of the religious fanaticism and hypocrisy and deception were the major ideas that Moliere was trying to point out. Hypocrisy is one claiming to have moral or religious believes, but doesn’t really possess it. It’s the act of […]

Set in 1948, immediately following the second World War, P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang is a tale of Alan’s painful coming-of-age journey. He slowly sheds his naivety and begins to understand the real character of the individuals around him. Miss Land and many other grown-ups in the play show hypocrisy; this includes her interaction with youngsters experiencing […]

Australia is a unique region that is a country, an island and a continent on its own. It is a commonwealth of the Australian continent and mainly comprises the continent of Australia mainland, the Island of Tasmania, and many other smaller surrounding islands. It is characterized by cultural diversity, stability and democratic society that have […]

Animal Farm, written by Orwell, aims to artistically depict a political script. It serves as a poignant reminder of the Russian Revolution and exposes Stalin’s rise as a totalitarian dictator. In contrast, capitalism is a political and economic system that centers on private organizations accumulating wealth through trading goods and services in an unrestricted market. […]

William Shakespeare was one of the best writers and his writings have got usage over the years. King Lear is one such writings from him. The story of King Lear depicts different personality and characters in the way they behave. In double characters, the two of the eldest sisters seem to share the same traits. […]