YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Use of Irony in Fences by August Wilson
Essays 241 - 270
In two pages Dennis O'Rourke's 1987 documentary is analyzed especially in terms of its effective employment of both irony and humo...
the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...
In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...
add that "Irony is likely to be confused with sarcasm but it differs from sarcasm in that it is usually lighter, less harsh in its...
want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...
Dr. Mody and Jehangir get together and Dr. Mody shows his stamps to the boy, Jehangir is incredibly mesmerized. Dr. Mody can see t...
Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...
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...
camp designed to assimilate them into white society. Despite the odds that are stacked against them the three girls escape the ca...
and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
the literal meaning of utterances that are deemed ironic does affect the perception of the intended meaning. That said, other rese...
Company (Einwechter, 1999). This agreement stated the purpose for traveling to the New World, which was basically an affirmation t...
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...
In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...
In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...
Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...
and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...
large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...
A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...
the opportunities that were available to the African American in the 1960s, in terms of employment, have changed drastically in th...
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...
Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...
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...
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 ...