Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...
In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...
In nine pages this paper discusses the author's use of satire in this analysis of physical and moral evil in Candide. Three sourc...
In five pages this paper examines the combination of Machiavellian principles and satire in this work by Alistair McAlpine. Two s...
This paper of 5 pages review the poem that brings to life the atrocities of war, and includes a discussion of similes, iron, and t...
In seven pages 2 questions on any expressed ideology preference and 20th century social satire contained within Umberto Eco's The ...
a companion, and returns again after a longer lapse of time. In Part Two, he sets out once more, but his journey takes him much f...
This paper consists of five pages and discusses the element of satire that exists within Walden by Henry David Thoreau. There is ...
In three pages this paper compares Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift with Candide by Voltaire in terms of how each author used ...
In five pages this paper examines how food symbolism or anecdotal references provide satire on human suffering in Jonathan Swift's...
In twelve pages this paper considers how Aristophanes criticized the politics, morality, and society of his time through the use o...
In 5 pages literary satire through history is examined in a discussion of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, As You Like It by William Sh...
In six pages this paper analyzes the ironic satire of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Reeve's Tale.' There are no other sources cited....
In eight pages this paper examines how Chaucer employs satire to address serious issues in 'The Miller's Tale.' There are 6 sourc...
reason, and his virtue is merely appearance" (Galloway). In relationship to the Lilliputians we note that a great deal of pride...
be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...
addresses the audience. Twain perhaps understood that critics were bountiful and that his work would be critiqued in many respects...
to look up as there was a new way of thinking emerging, but this fictitious view features the protagonist Candide in an extraordin...
the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....
his own set of biases that he probably brought into the telling of the story, and it can be assumed that he did not have as good a...
himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...
British traditional literature tended more toward social realism and classical literary language (Bradbury et al). This awareness ...
an understanding of the fact that individual liberty is an essential element of the story we present the following excerpt that fo...
uses to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). ...
It seems that Popes "Rape of the Lock" came about as the result of a real life disagreement between lovers, one whose pride was wo...
Clinton did not get the popular vote either. At least, because the vote was split between Perot and Dole, Clinton came in a shade ...
period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...
in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...
finds himself in Lilliput, which is in a constant state of war with their enemies, the Blefuscudians over the ridiculous issue of ...