who hides and what is hidden? how does deceit function in the world of the play, and how does it help the play comment on life in general? a central motif in the play is trickery or deceit, whether for good or evil purposes. counterfeiting, or concealing one's true feelings, is part of this motif. everyone seems to lie; good characters as well as evil ones engage in deceit as they attempt to conceal their feelings: beatrice and benedick mask their feelings for one another with bitter insults; don john spies on claudio and hero; don pedro and his 'crew' deceive benedick and beatrice.
Thursday 12th July 2012 How does dickens start to show a change in scrooge between stave 1 and stave 2? In this essay I will be writing about how money changes scrooge in stave 1 and stave 2, and also how he realises people’s feelings. Scrooge is moody and doesn’t like being interrupted whilst he’s working. ‘A merry Christmas uncle!’ cried a cheerful voice. ‘bah!’ said scrooge, ‘humbug!’.
Moliere’s Tartuffe In Moliere’s satire, Tartuffe, the author fires his caustic wit upon the social topics of religious hypocrisy and the inability of obsessed characters to hear the voices of reason around them. At first glance, the focus of this work seems to be religious hypocrisy; however, it is the underlying subplots of obsessive behaviors stay in the mind’s eye until end. Moliere’s portrayal of obsessive characters is certainly exaggerated, but there is a clear note of truth that rings through in their powerlessness to hear reason. Until the spell that binds them to their compulsion is broken, these characters are unable to hear the voices of reason that are shouting the truth to them. The main actor of this play who displays the deafness that comes with obsession is Orgon with his religious fervor that blinds him to his responsibility to his family.
People have become so defensive about even the smallest matters because of this. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the foremost sufferers. Twain knowingly wrote on an extremely touchy subject because of his love to make people aggravated and think more about the world around them. He was willing to point out the flaws in society by pushing the limits in his book. Twain puts a young white boy in a grand journey with an enslaved black man, running for his freedom.
He insults Polonius calling him a Whore-Monger. After this exchange Polonius remarks “Though this be madness, yet there is method in't” (II, II, 204). Meaning that Hamlet could be mad but that there seems to be intent behind his madness. When Rozencranz and Guildenstern visit Hamlet he receives them kindly until he learns they are spying for his mother. He then increases his feigned madness.
Family; The entrance of Scrooge’s nephew Fred at the beginning of the story shows the reader that Scrooge does have family but decides to ignore them. He chooses to be alone and in darkness while the Cratchit family- who are poor financially- are rich as a family. But family provides the antidote to this coldness. Scrooge does have a kind of family in his partner Marley, the inseparability of their names above the firm’s entrance shows how close they are—at least in business terms— Victorian Society; Dickens blames the huge class stratification of Victorian England on the selfishness of the rich and, implicitly, on the Poor Laws that keep down the underclass. Scrooge is the obvious symbol of the greedy Victorian rich, while the Cratchits represent the working poor.
Shakespeare and Marlowe use trickery and deception to present their characters with certain qualities. Prospero is presented as powerful and vengeful at the beginning by conjuring the tempest using magic to trick the characters on board. Throughout the play he becomes wiser and leans the values of forgiveness of those who have deceived him. Faustus is a character that is put in the position of power and doesn’t use it for valid purposes. He’s useless tricks display vanity and indicate his wastefulness to the audience.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Essay Examine some of the targets of satire in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy and assess the effectiveness of Adam’s satirical technique’s in question or condemning these targets. Douglas Adams’ ability to target various things such as human nature, science fiction and politics is very effective in creating the satire found in the novel ‘The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. Adams uses satirical techniques such as ridicule to show the arrogance that humans possess, creating humour that is easy to relate. Science fiction is another target of Adams comedy, using the satirical technique of parody to create unorthodox humour, shown through the personalities of robots and computers. Adams uses the character of Zaphod to create satire, by mocking the ability of politicians, and ridiculing the political systems that are seen in a majority of countries around the world.
Chaucer’s Amusing Caricatures versus Swift’s Biting Generalizations In literature, authors use the literary device of satire to discredit human vice and/or folly. Satire is a literary genre using sarcasm, wit, and irony to expose the idiocies, issues, and mistakes in hopes of improving an individual and society. Jonathan Swift and Geoffrey Chaucer were renowned satirical writers with inherent desires to improve their surrounding worlds. Chaucer’s Juvenalian satire is displayed in The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by pilgrims while traveling to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Chaucer engages gentle, light-hearted, humorous satire through his caricatures of stereotypes.
Iago, inspired by jealousy chooses to initiate conflict as a method of achieving power. Declaring to be “no worse in place”, Iago presents an argument to his worth, versus Othello’s choice of Cassio as Lieutenant. With the rhetorical question “and what was he?”, Iago offers his forceful argument, going on to label Cassio as “mere prattle without practice”. The plosive ‘p’ emphasizes Iago’s distaste for Othello in choosing a “bookish theoric”. Evoking erroneous empathy, Iago questions whether he “in any just terms (is) affined to love the moor”.