Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde portrays several binary opposites using the characters and themes of the play, such as the town and country, class, age, gender and morals. However I don’t think that the binary opposites are the main source of comedy in the play. The reason I find it comical is from the fact […]
The Role of Reason in Tartuffe Moliére’s Tartuffe speaks volumes about reason by highlighting it in some of the main characters, while at the same time exaggerating the lack of it in others. The period known as the Enlightenment overemphasized the importance of the ability to reason, often leaving man feeling that he alone was […]
“It is far better to be trusted and respected that is to be liked.” In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is told from a child’s point of view, a girl name Jean Louise Finch that goes by the nickname Scout. Atticus Finch, her father, is the lawyer defending a black man, […]
1.Atticus is extremely disappointed and walks out of the courtroom after the verdict is announced. 2. When Miss Maudie is explaining that they had people like Atticus, she was telling Jem that there were people in this world who do not fall into mob mentality. She tries to explain that even though Atticus did not […]
Prescription drug abuse has had a strong hold on American society for decades and it does not appear to be diminishing. While some drugs have decreased in popularity over the years others have increased. For instance, there has been a surge in the popularity of Ecstasy and other “Club” drugs and an increase in marijuana […]
The “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost is forty five lines long and is structured into a single paragraph verse. There are no stanzas and visually looks like and metaphorical represents a wall. Frost’s writes this poem in first person with the use of “I” which makes the poem narrative – as if the narrator is […]
A Cry for Change of the Beat Generation “The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationali- ties, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.” – John Clellon Holmes. What Citation Formats Do You Support?We hear “Can you write in APA or MLA?” all the time—yes, and more! Our […]
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, he examines the impact of communism and the post-war anxiety of World War II. Orwell uses allegories to thoroughly explain the pain and worry following the clash between countries. He uses farm animals and a farm to represent the major events and figures in the time of Stalinism and the […]
Part One, Essay Option One: Short Term Profits for Long Term Problems Image coming to a new land that was filled with peaceful streams and brooks, tranquil woodland creatures, and jaw-dropping trees that reach as high as the sky and you can see what the European colonists saw when they arrived in the New England […]
The word imperturbe means care-free. The title of the poem, Me Imperturbe, means I am carefree. The poem starts off with Walt standing out in nature. As Walt stands out in nature he feels as if he is the master of everything and still has confidence even as the world is in turmoil. These things […]