“Harrison Bergeron” and “Revelation” also share similar irony. Both use irony in a humorous way to make the characters situations seem less bleak. While “The Lottery” and “Cathedral” use irony to emphasis the allegory in “Harrison Bergeron”, it is funny and ironic that George says he does not want to lighten the weight he wears because then everyone would start cheating, and they would all go back to the dark ages. In “Revelation” the book the girl is reading and later throws at Mrs. Turpin is called human development. It is funny that she is
Whereas Browning’s protagonist in The Laboratory sustains her feminine qualities this is reflected in the line “The colours too grim” in which she is referring to her dislike of the colour of poison and that it needs to be 'brightened' up in order to convince her victim to drink it. She also assumes a strong element of jealousy within her “They laugh at me” “He is with her, and they know that I know” these quotes can be
Though feminists are an intently focused group of people, advocating for women’s rights; that does not mean that all feminists interpret things the same way. The way Poe writes his poetry, consistently killing a beautiful woman’ is taken as a compliment by some because it shows how she is always on his mind, and yet to others, it is an insult because the repeated killing of the girl seems disrespectful. Looking at this from a feminist’s point of view, you can draw a few conclusions: the first of which being female liberation, another being female power, and the final one being the oppression of females in society. Some believe that Poe is trying to liberate Poe Girl through his poetry. The continuous dying of Poe Girl in his poems represents Poe Girl being freed, allowing the release of her spirit.
Emily Dickinson and the use of death as symbolism One of the best ways to portray a feeling or expression is by using symbolism, which most poetry does a good job of, however, there are few better than poetry by Emily Dickinson. The poems written by her are abstract enough where she could be talking about death and she is really talking about how she barely left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. She also uses symbolism to show the internal struggle of some things, such as losing your mind, symbolizing the felling of emptiness and loneness. “Because of I could not stop Death” is one poem that has the feeling that she is not saying what she means. The overall theme in the poem of death is actually another form of symbolism.
When Lancelot is going to see the Lady of Shallot, she knows she is stepping into dangerous waters, but still goes along with it. Her image of herself turns so bad, that the basically kills herself and unhappy and lonely woman. After she is dead, Lancelot sees her and only says that “She has a lovely face,” demonstrating that he only cared about her looks and not really her inner beauty. The Lady of Shallot is a round character because she changes throughout the short story. At the beginning, she believes in herself and who she is as a person, but she is lonely.
Rita is desperate to aquire the knowledge that Frank has from his highly educated background. However, she is unable to see how unhappy Frank actually is in his world, using alcohol to escape. Frank “you should be careful with that stuff; it kills your brain cells, y’know”, Russell portrays Rita initically as a ditsy sterotypical working class woman. However, deep down she clearly has more underlying understanding than first thought as she is able to visualise the danger of substance abuse. Ironically Frank being the well educated half of the comic duo he is slowly killing his knowledge with the drink, as this creates a humorous effect for the audience as they are able to see that Rita longs for the intellegence that Frank has.
My Mistress’ eyes are Nothing Like the Sun 1. Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg 2. The initial tone of the poem is Satirical and mocking. The poet does not direct the mocking tone at his Mistress, but rather at the world, who seems to believe that women and love is perfect and that no fault can be found with the one you love. The poet gives the impression of repulsiveness when he speaks of his Mistress’s hair and breath (“Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.” “If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.”) He uses a tone of honesty when describing her unpleasant voice (which he loves to hear) and the way she walks (“I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound;” “My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.” He uses nature’s beauty to describe her complete imperfection in comparison to nature.
This conflict between them causes comedy as there are misunderstandings, which are amusing and the audience feel superiority over the characters who do not understand some of each other’s references. At the start of the play when Rita refers to a poem about “fightin’ death an’ disease”, Frank automatically assumes its “Dylan Thomas” as Thomas’s poem about death is a part of the literary canon. However Rita replies it’s “Roger McGough’s” poem that she’s describing. This misunderstanding conveys to the audience that these characters would not conventionally associate with each other. It could be amusing to the audience as it highlights the absurdity of the situation.
These characteristics are summarised when Rita says, “I mean when he painted it do y’ think he wanted to turn people on?” Furthermore, Rita is shown to be significantly less sophisticated than Frank, when she begins discussing the literature which she has read, “I read this poem about fightin’ death…” “Ah – Dylan Thomas…” “No. Roger McGough… You probably won’t think it’s any good.” The contrast in interpretation of the same topic between Rita and Frank shows the gulf between the two of their levels of education. Significantly, Rita is aware of this gulf and exhibits a desire to do what she perceives as growing, however Frank understands the superficiality of his world and fears that Rita will not grow but simply change who she is through her journey. “… if you want to change y’ have to do it from the inside don’t y?” … “…you’re the first breath of fresh air that’s been in this room for years.” Rita shows that she understands that her journey must be an internal one, and also that she does perhaps not understand completely what this will involve and what she will have to risk, and the metaphor of fresh air highlights how Frank
These kinds of stories were highly upheld by the public because it had given them the opportunity to temporarily forget their own troubles and fantasize about the fortunes of others. On the flip side, some of the writing was straightforward about how bad the Great Depression really was and openly challenging America’s dominant values at the time. Some of the more significant pieces of literature depicted portraits of the meaning of how empty American life is. For example, Dos Passos’s trilogy U.S.A. (1930-1936) attacked what he believed was America’s love for objects, being materialistic, and so on. Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) told the story of an advice columnist who had discovered how terrible the sadness in others he talked with