But there have been some excellent texts written and filmed that use this technique to its full extent. These include Unknown Citizen by W.H Auden and The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin, one of the greatest controversial films of its time. Satire adds to the enjoyment of many texts and without it our world would be monotonous and life wouldn’t be as fun had it not been for this great technique. The Unknown Citizen by W.H Auden was a fantastic poem that uses ridicule to portray its point to the audience. The poem is about a man in society, overlooked and status deteriorated.
Irony in The Crucible and The Lottery The Crucible by Arthur Miller and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are two stories that share many striking similarities. That of which include possessing the same underlying meanings in the plot and even resemblances to the same historic events, both of which can be tied in with some sort of irony; drama, situational, verbal, or otherwise. They each take on different variations of the same principles, such as mob mentality being detrimental to the greater benefit to society and irony playing a major factor in the plots of the two stories. Between the stories of The Crucible and “The Lottery” there are many relations of the irony used in the plots to grant ponderance, motivation, and feeling in the tone of the book. The stories utilize verbal irony to convey the sense of something more than the statement at face value, dramatic irony to feel the true ignorant and untrusting natures of the characters, and lastly situational irony as a medium for the former to glide through and provide the kick to the plot of the story.
The high praise of the show is largely warranted: the premise is fascinating, the photography and acting is superb and the drama intense. Some have even dared to suggest that "Breaking Bad" represents the best that modern television has to offer, even surpassing HBO's the "Wire" as the greatest show of its time. This, it must be said, is to give the show too much credit. As entertaining as the show is, it is important to understand what it is not: a serious analysis of the drug war, the health system, middle-class drug culture or the American experience at all. In fact, the show is very much a demonstration of a very conservative worldview that posits that life is but a series of individual choices.
Junot Diaz’s ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’, provoked this untold truth. His chosen dialect and seemingly personal account on the life of not just an immigrant, but on the life of a young adult who struggled with issues of cultural identity and self-esteem, helped to demonstrate that the world is a vast place, but the evils are all the same. Oscar Wao was just one of the many who have or is undergoing trying times but he just so happened to overcome them; even in his death. And although people today often like to pretend that individuality is respected, it is actually underappreciated especially due to the influences one with power may inflict. Trujillo turned out to be not just Oscar’s counterpart, but also as Oscar’s personal Fuku that he learned to eventually conquer in his own way.
“For all his failings, Gatsby is a far more admirable person than Tom or Daisy.” To what extent do you agree? Parading across the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s definitive novel ‘The Great Gatsby” are an endless array of hedonistic, shallow and corrupt characters. In the character of Gatsby, the readers see a man who creates extravagant wealth on the back of illegal activities and who is complicit in lies and deception in order to reunite with his past love Daisy. However, despite failing to reach this grandiloquent dream, Gatsby is nonetheless “worth the whole damn bunch put together” and a mixture of sympathy and esteem are induced from the readers for his bravery, self control and determination. On the other hand, in the world Gatsby inhabits that is filled with the vacuous party goers, the cheating Jordan Baker, the shadowy villain Meyer Wolfsheim and the parasiite Kipspringer, the most detestable characters above all are the adulterant and violent Tom Buchannan and the shallow and indulged Daisy Buchanan.
Lytton Stratchey, one of the most famous biographers in history, is best know for his style of biographical writing in which he incorporates humor and analyses of the subjects. His essay on Florence Nightingale is no exception to this. In the essay, Lytton contends the undisputed acceptance of Florence Nightingale's “saintly, self-sacrificing status,” suggesting her accomplishments were more selfish than most would believe, motivated by a need for a life that would satisfy her “queer imaginations” and satiate the “secret voice in her ear.” Stratchey presents a Florence Nightingale whose need to fulfill a desire for an extraordinary life, a desire to be different, is the driving force behind her actions aimed at becoming a nurse. “Why, as a child in the nursery, when her sister had shown a healthy pleasure in tearing her dolls to pieces, had she shown a morbid one in sewing them back up again?” The rhetorical questions Stratchey asks serve as a indicators that Florence Nightingale actions were outside the boundaries of what was considered 'normal' at the time. His diction, that her imaginations are “queer” and “filled with suffering patients,” contradicts the “healthy,” ordinary actions of her sister.
It's half a brilliant political satire, half a surreal comedy of errors. Causality of the characters and the “chilled out” dialogues only add to the brilliant script. The acting is top notch, deNiro and Hoffman are hilarious and spunky. The first and second part of the film is full of dark humour, excitement and sarcasm. The last third of the film is powered by too much of conventional drama giving away the ending way too easily.
“The Natural” at Writing In the 1800’s people in Europe believed that there could be no American Authors that rivaled their maestros in writing. They believed there could be no American Shakespeare equivalent, but American writers of the 1800’s, 1900’s and writers of today continue to prove these elitists wrong. From Mark Twain to Emily Dickens we have had authors of all walks of life become successful in writing. One of these great writers is Bernard Malamud. Considered a master of the short story, writing 54 of them, he wrote slowly but was successful in his writing endeavors.
On page 62, Beatty says, “Don’t let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.” Using words such as “drear” and “torrent” makes Bradbury’s diction distinguishable from other authors, while also being captivating. Also, his regular use of contradictions to show conflicting emotions is fascinating. For example, in Something Wicked This Way Comes, the father of a protagonist was debating whether or not he should follow his son, thinking to himself. “I’ll go there, thought Charles Halloway, I won’t go there. I like it, he thought, I don’t like it…Charles Halloway saw but chose not to see,” it says on page 41.
This book doesn’t remind me of anything in particular, other than the unusual streak of bad luck that both Candide and myself share. It is hardly believable that the main characters would get caught up in so many events (such as the quakes mentioned on pages 10 through 12) and makes this section sound outrageous and silly. As mentioned before, the roots of philosophy and theoretical thinking are found throughout the book. In my opinion, this gives us insight into what people were thinking at the time and helps to make this book a “Classic”. Although it is entertaining, the fast-paced plot, jumping from idea to idea, and the short chapters, makes the reader think that the author has some form of ADD and cannot keep his mind focused.