The author uses satire to accomplish his objective because it is the most effective way to awake the people of Ireland into seeing their own corruption. He uses rhetorical strategies such as sarcasm, juxtaposition, and paradox to compile his proposal. The sarcasm mentioned in the first paragraph, “It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms.” The sarcasm in this speech is that it’s not obvious whether it is a melancholy for him to see homeless people every day or for the beggar’s way of life. Someone would think that he really sympathizes with the beggars and their way of life almost as if he too was a beggar. However as one later finds out it is not the way he makes it appear because he is nowhere near a beggars state or class and is being only sarcastic showing how the lower class are a nuisance to the select few in society.
‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’ Blake uses marks as an abstract noun to describe the sadness of the people that he meets and also as a concrete noun to describe the physical cuts and scars. This is also commented on in Jon Crook’s critical reading of London where he states that the word shifts from a verb to a noun and that by making marks Blake discovers worlds, in London he has discovered a world of misery marked in the faces that he passes. The second stanza has a semantic field of sadness and pain, the repetition of ‘in every’ is an effective way to show that this sadness is affecting everyone in the city of London at the time. It shows the emotion in ‘cry of every man’ and ‘infants cry of fear’ that they are all going through the same pain. It also symbolises the lack of freedom when he says ‘in every ban.’ The last line in the second stanza is ambiguous ‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’ is a metaphorical phrase that reinforces the feeling of being trapped in London, the word manacles has connotations of slavery and that the people of London are enslaving themselves.
He continues this idea by using “wander” later in the line. The transferred epithet of “mean” conveys the hostile environment and makes us question the kind of people who live on the estate, suggesting they are perhaps cold, hateful and aggressive. The use of word choice immediately introduces the theme of purposelessness to the reader and creates a vivid portrayal of the scene. Despite the classical sonnet rhyming of the poem, it has been given an unconventional structure using enjambment throughout the octave, which modernises the poem overall and creates a stream of consciousness, engaging with the reader and ensuring the persona’s words appear genuine: “Play fortresses of brick and bric-a-brac spill out some ash” The plosive alliteration of “brick and bric-a-brac” creates a harsh and unwelcoming sound, signifying the worthlessness of everything on the estate and expressing society’s disgusted attitude towards the neglected area. “Ash” could connote the remains of the dead or of a crumbling building, insinuating decay and sorrow.
The Broken Wine Cask was one that symbolized the desperate quality of peoples hunger. Madame Dafarges Knitting was symbolizing the stealthy, cold, revengefulness of the revolutionaries. The Loadstone Rock was one of the more complicated examples of symbolism. It had the force to lure someone or thing in and ruin them, much like Dr. Mannett sending him back to France. Charles Dickens also wrote ironies very well.
The ‘curse’ could also insinuate that prostitutes were a curse on society, yet Blake uses the phrase ‘blights with plague’ which suggests that it was the sexually transmitted disease syphilis that was the curse. He emphasises this with an oxymoron ‘marriage-hearse’. The wealthy men sleep with the harlots then go back and sleep with their wives, spreading the killer disease. Syphilis destroys lives and harlots destroy families and family was the most important part of English society. Simon Armitage’s poem ‘A Vision’ is a contemporary piece based on a balsa-wood model of a new updated Huddersfield town, he had seen as a child in the local Town Hall.
In the “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell we find a study of violence and death; caused by the savagery of humanity when reason and compassion give way to selfishness and unquestionable feudalism. Both authors use prose, tone and setting to articulate the darkest regions of humanity. Even though the settings differ greatly; one is post war era rural America and the other a deserted island. Both authors use setting and tone to effectively mislead the reader from a sense of safety to the surprise conclusion of each story. What could be more familiar than the beauty of a summer afternoon?
The simile represents the attack as a corruption of a mother child bond. Both writers’ use vampiric imagery to stress the bloodthirsty nature of the act; however Sethe’s attack can be viewed as more degenerate than the slave woman in Loveact. Sethe is physically oppressed by grown men, not children. The mental oppression that slavery inflicts upon Sethe is evidently seen throughout Beloved. “I’m still full of that”, “full” could be a metaphor for Sethe’s past, the iniquitous memories that slavery has
additionally, "silk" is a luxurious item, and the phrase suggests that war removes luxoury, affecting the child's life as they no longer are able to have more than they need, making them less privileged. the poet uses symbolism to explore children's feelings during the war. The image of a "jaw of glass" gives the idea that the house is screaming, symbolising the children's pain. the word "jaw" gives the connotation of sharpness, linking to the bitterness and pain. The poet is explaining how the aftermath of bombings can be worse than during them, as you see the destruction and scream in horror.
Being compared to the devil in a novel set in a heavily catholic country shows that she is evil, and the subtitle ‘The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, With the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan’ supports this. The fact that she is a ‘famous curtizan’ supports the idea that she is to blame for the events in the novel, as it is her promiscuity that causes the murders of so many, sparked by jealously in Brachiano. Vittoria is immediately at a disadvantage in the novel and entering the trial however. She is not even given the grace of being the centre of focus in the subtitle, added on at the end almost as if her presence is an afterthought by Webster. This shows how she is handicapped by the fact that she is a woman, in a society controlled by men.
The poem “London” describes Blake’s dislike of London and how he views it as the downfall of modern society; he continually repeats the word “Chartered” and sees the city as fake, regulated and unnatural. Wordsworth, on the other hand, expresses his feelings towards London in the form of a sonnet. This – along with his admiring language such as “Majesty” and “Splendour”- make it clear to see that he adores the city. The moods created in the two poems vary greatly, from dismal and hopeless in Blake’s, to proud and ecstatic in Wordsworth’s rendition. In the following essay I will explore in greater detail the emotions and romantic aspects of the poems, and the opinions of the writers and audiences.