Marcus Aurelius once said, “Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself…” Othello by William Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams both illustrate the critical lens. Both authors use literary devices to convey the critical lens. Both authors use characterization and theme of deception in their literary works. The critical lens means that if a person does wrong or bad thing it will eventually affect them at the end. The quotation is true because when someone does wrong thing it comes back to them.
Sexuality plays a key role throughout: Williams' homosexuality perhaps influenced his interpretation of these characters. The tensions of the play centre on a hidden homosexual relationship of the past and its long lasting effects. Within the timescale of the play we see the negativity of certain gender and cultural attitudes, and Williams' concern with gender and sexual identity within society. These stereotypes, while perhaps seeming over-zealous, are historical and current. Williams was concerned to use strong imagery to investigate human weakness, and Streetcar is certainly laden with obviously stated imagery.
On one level The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald comments on the careless gaiety and moral decadence of the period in which it was set. It contains innumerable references to the contemporary scene. The wild extravagance of Gatsby's parties, the shallowness and aimlessness of the guests and the hint of Gatsby's involvement in crime all identify the period and the American setting. But as a piece of social commentary The Great Gatsby also describes the failure of the American dream, from the point of view that American political ideals conflict with the actual social conditions that exist. For whereas American democracy is based on the idea of equality among people, the truth is that social discrimination still exists and the divisions among the classes cannot be overcome.
Also, the use of visual and auditory imagery allows the reader to depict vividly the surrounds of the slave times and the seriousness of the struggles they are faced with. The sound is shown in the phrase “voice high-sounding o’er the storm” and the visuals are shown in the line “Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways”. The poet concludes with the use of pathetic fallacy in the phrase “lonely dark”. This is used to evict emotion onto the reader with the depiction of the state of loneliness. Overall, Dunbar makes clear the message, as well as fulfils the purpose of this poem for readers of all
* Joseph Marie Eugene Sue (1804-1857) * French novelist at the time of Romantic Movement * His sympathy for the poor. * Victor Hugo (1802-1885) * Poet, novelist, * Les miserables (1862) offer another indictment of the conditions of the poor through the injustice of the era * From the roots of these works, we see a canon of characters, situations and tropes, which explore stories in VULGAR fashion. * That is, though their emphasis on our emotional connection to the events portrayed. * Arising between the Romantic period and the industrial revolution, melodrama as a genre appears to have been well suited to express the crisis of its time. * The persistence of melodrama in popular culture suggests a fascination the evolving nature of the social, political and ideological crisis of the day.
Instead for Williams the focus came in the exploration of the murky waters of internal truths, the lands hidden beneath the necessary social construction of man. The subtle shifts of emotion and temperament necessary for this type of exploration is achieved by adopting a more poetic stance and in doing so Williams makes a choice to avoid the more solid and clipped linguistic and dramatic modes of his Isben influenced contemporaries. As an American from the South, he was aware of the deliberate care in which the nation had cocooned its national identity, evoking images of the cowboy, the west and a refined romantic mythology to define self. His plays like Chekhov’s contain action of the internal rather than the external, and through the inner developmental action of characters such as Blanche, Tom, Stanley, Amanda and Laura the audience are allowed to glimpse through inaction the internal struggles, the action, of man. The difficulty for Williams comes in representing a nation which exists on two levels, romantic and mythological, the realistic and materialistic.
He wrote both tragedies and comedies as well some poetry. I will be analysing both of the characters Puck and Bottom and then coming to a conclusion about which one played a more important role. A midsummer’s night’s dream is a comedy. The comedy in the novel is based upon Puck and bottom once again or if it’s not fully them but it is somehow linked to them. The confusion of the Athenian lovers is a great example of this.
Both Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire are great literary works. Both the novel and the play have controversial aspects. Analyzing the similarities and differences in The Color Purple and A Streetcar Named Desire reflects the fact that both authors, while dealing with different points-of-view, tones, and forms/structures, achieve similar purposes in emphasizing the theme of personal growth in the characters of Celie and Blanche, whether it be positive or negative, in the two respective male-dominated worlds of each literary work. Both Alice Walker and Tennessee Williams utilize the literary device of character development to show the personal growth of Celie and Blanche throughout the works. Walker and Williams both use indirect characterization to show how Celie and Blanche grow as people throughout the works.
Sharon Olds organization in "On the Subway" uses incidents of anaphora, and asyndeton. Her use of anaphora gives her poem the repetition that it has to embody to have the meaning she is writing about a portrail. The meaning of the poem is the intensity of racial confrontation, and gender contrast. Olds use of asyndeton helps her writing seem more like someone who is in a scary situation from their point of view. The organization of these things helps to get the point of the poem
What do you believe Tennessee Williams is saying about human sexuality in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is a play in which the themes of both male and female sexuality are explored, and their destructive and vitalizing forces are analysed. The play, which caused shockwaves in the literary world when it hit the theatres in 1947 was subject to much controversy and was one of the first to portray the basic elements that drive humanity as a whole: death, violence and sex. The distinction between these factors is fine, and the nature of their intertwinement is examined by Tennessee Williams. Throughout the course of the play, the playwright seems to define sexuality in terms of winners and losers; Stanley a ‘winner’, is a powerful man who is assertive in his sexuality, and who eventually triumphs over Blanche both morally and sexually, whereas Allan, Blanche’s late husband is a ‘loser’.