Essays On Irony

“Buy Local, shrink the distance food travels, save the planet. ” Locavore is a diet a person takes up to eat only local food. It consists of a group of people that insist to help the economy and reduce the size of carbon footprint by eating local food within a 100 mile radius. Alex Hallat […]

In this excerpt, which takes place after Tony has left for the Amazon, Waugh continues to allow his reader to come to their own conclusions about the characteristics and behaviour of Brenda by examining what she does and what she says rather than through the narrator or author’s own viewpoint. Nevertheless, the inclusion of irony, […]

In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, John Updike began to write the short story, “Giving Blood” (Lewis pg. 1). One year after “Giving Blood” was published; this Commission documented numerous incidences of how women were discriminated in the workplace, and recommended changes to improve female […]

Sophocles often wrote about ancient myths that were common knowledge to the people who viewed his plays. “Oedipus The King” was written knowing that the audience is aware of the outcome of the play, and therefore utilizes that foreknowledge to create various situations in which irony plays a key role. More specifically, this dramatic irony […]

Literature allows people to experience and learn life’s lessons through text. One of the most commonly used literary devices is irony. Irony can be defined as the difference between appearance and reality, or when a reader expects or assumes one thing and the opposite is true. It allows an author to engage and surprise the […]

Ken Kesey was born on September 17th, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. While he was in a fellowship to Stanford’s Writing Program he worked at a Californian Veterans’ Administration hospital in the psychiatric ward as a night guard (“KnowledgeNotes Study Guide”, par. 1). Kesey’s first published book was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which […]

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen. Satire is a literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and wit to the end that human institutions or humanity may be improved. The true satirist is conscious of the frailty of institutions of man’s devising and […]

Satire is often defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, t is also found in graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring out improvement. Although satire […]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if a close friend was gruesomely murdered? Can you Imagine the crazy mixed emotions you would feel? The heartache, betrayal, and hurt? What would you do to get back at the people who hurt you the most? In William Shakespearean Julius Caesar, the beloved leader, Caesar, […]

William Shakespearean Othello is a play of destruction, deception, and jealousy in which the mind of a valiant soldier named Othello is manipulated and cheated leading to his downfall. It is clear in the play that the contriving actions of others enable his weaknesses to be preyed upon and used as a tool of annihilation, […]

In Act 1 of “An Inspector Calls” how does J. B Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to members of the audience as well as interest them and involve them in the play. “An Inspector Calls” was written in 1945 but the play was set in 1912, a few years before […]

This is a fear that is inexpressible, incomprehensible to those who have never experienced it, a dread that strikes at the root of one’s survival – an existential fear. ” Experiences suffered by women and children in WWII Japanese POW camps are reflected in John Misto’s play, The Shoe-Horn Sonata. This is shown through a […]

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ” Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that is regularly hard to understand by most. William decided to put something in his play to make it more interesting and understandable. There are three literary […]

The text under the title “Dangerous Corner” was written by British journalist, novelist, playwright, and essayist – John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984). Priestley’s output was vast and varied – he wrote over one hundred novels, plays, and essay. The text under the study is a play. The society of several men and women sitting in a […]

Much Ado About Nothing is a play set in c1598 in England. The author of this play, William Shakespeare has used various literary techniques to construct and develop its characters. This essay will analyse some of the techniques including tone, character-specific dialogue, dramatic irony, soliloquy, and symbolism that has been used by the author to […]

The rhetorical expression of Ernest Renan in his article entitled, “What is a nation? ” begins with a proposal; a proposal that delves deeper into the subject of “nation” and re-defines the word in a manner that a nation is not an entity but rather a part of humanity. The article begins with a proposal, […]

Irony, generally described as expressing something different from or opposite to a literal meaning, is used as an underlying theme in Shirley Jackson’s short story, The Lottery. As an age-old tradition, the lottery is one in which a single person in the town is randomly chosen, by a drawing, to be violently stoned by friends […]

Unities the ‘unities’ from Classical Greek drama are based around three major things: time, place and action Introduction ‘An Inspector Calls’ is a play which explores social inequality in postwar Britain. Priestley uses many dramatic devices such as stage directions, dramatic irony, lighting and setting to expose what he perceives to be the ills of […]

Timberlake Wertenbaker was heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and ergo used a lot of his ideas in her work. For Example, when Brecht was writing a script, he meant it so that the audience could be immersed in the message and thoughts behind it rather than the emotions of it all. The case is exactly […]

My task for this controlled test was to create a presentation in response to the thematic area Irony. Our production was centred on the theme of irony and things are not what they seem. Although this theme ran throughout our presentation, we also used a different form of irony called dramatic irony. This is when […]

My essay is about Alan Bleasdale’s two plays “Jobs For The Boys” and “Yossers Story” from the series “Boys From The Black Stuff”. Bleasdale wrote these plays to show how serious unemployment really is. He tries to show that it is stupid that someone is employed to find out if there is anyone employed illegally. […]

As in most plays, the use of language is substantial and holds an essential role in the delivery of the production. In ‘Shirley Valentine’ there are several aspects of the use of language which contribute to the final product. A salient feature of the play would include the accent and dialect used throughout the whole […]