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In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

have been no time called too early" (Wilson 9). This statement indicates the major theme of the play, which is Troys rage at the i...

hard we try to turn it aside. As far as ironic speeches, the play is full of them, but two that we can consider are at lines 59-6...

after all, they are completely covered, even if they are pushing the limits The second ironical situation is Sammys resignation. ...

In 5 pages this paper examines the uses of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony as it emphasizes the plot's paradox within the ...

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...