At the end of the play he gauged out his eyes to show that he was and forever will be blind to the world. “O dread fate for men to see, O most dreadful that I have met my eyes.” Oedipus, gauged out his eyes because he had seen the truth and it was too much to bear and see. Even though Lear and Oedipus have authority of their kingdoms they seem very naive. I find it interesting that men of such power are unable to tell others are misleading them. How is this so?
NAME Teacher CLASS DATE Literary Analysis on “A Rose for Emily” For as long as anyone can remember, great authors have come and gone making their marks in history. In the most recent of those centuries, we have been blessed with the sensual vividness of remarkable writers such as Flannery O’Conner or Edgar Allan Poe. However, being perhaps the most provocative writer of southern sensibility, William Faulkner certainly stands out from the rest. Though he has written numerous novels and short stories, his most famous would have to be “A Rose for Emily.” Being a model expression of American Gothicism, “A Rose for Emily” uses strong characterization, a stimulating mystery, and an ironic twist at every turn. Perhaps one of the most interesting things I find about this story is the unique use of characterization.
Elizabeth sees his inner goodness shine when he refuses to lie about being involved in witchcraft, and she realizes how unfair she has been. John Proctor saves the lives of the others who are accused when he unselfishly declines to save his own. He acts as a martyr when he places others before himself. He would rather die an honorable death than live a dishonorable life, which is what precedes him to be the tragic hero of the play. John Proctor, being a very complex character stuck in a world full mischief, madness, and chaos shows a major change as the play unfolds.
This is a problem because if he wants to save everyone he has to sign his name to a piece of paper saying that he is a witch but he cannot do that because he is to proud of his name to tarnish it with such a thing, and in return he dies and cannot save the community. John proctor is a tragic hero in the novel The Crucible because he won’t let himself ruin his name. Edward Murray says “John Proctor is a physically powerful, distrustful of authority, and strong willed. Struggling against his own fears and guilt, reshaped by a new understanding of self at the end of the play.” In this quote Edward is saying that John is a strong willed person that struggles against his own fears. Meaning that he wants to save the community by admitting to everyone that Abigail is just trying to get back at Elizabeth, but his own fears of what the people will then think of him is holding him back from being the savior of the community.
In the end there was a clever twist of finding out what “rosebud’ actually ment. The last image of the burning rosebud (what semed a chair) is an unforgetable mtion picture and left me with somewhat of a dissapointment and grief for Kane. It makes me believe that Kane just wanted a simplistic and calm life, but he couldn’t since he was always trying to prove himself something, maybe that he could love. The film ‘Citizen Kane’ is a powerful dramatic story about the uses and abuses of wealth and power. It shows how a man that has everything will never fullfil his life because as the saying goes ‘money cannot buy you happiness’ and that is exactly what the movie portrays.
He subjects the poor characters of his novel to every imaginable evil that man has been wont to commit in order to prove that this could not be the best of all worlds. Secondarily, Voltaire also seems to have other bones to pick. Hardly a paragraph is written that does not contain a sarcastic comment about or outright mockery of some person, idea, or institution. It is a credit to the skill of the author that he is able to present his criticisms with a humor that is as intoxicating as it is relentless and controversial. The sheer number of insults and implications made by the author coupled with a healthy sprinkling of aristocratic inside jokes would indicate that he essentially wrote this book for himself and other like-minded intellectuals of the enlightenment that disapproved of the status quo or could at least appreciate his cheeky sense of humor.
In a paragraph, discuss how these three essays meet the criteria for literary nonfiction. Use specific information from the content of the unit and quotations from the readings. Literary nonfiction is a form of storytelling as old as the telling of stories. It is a form that allows a writer both to narrate facts and to search for truth, blending the empirical eye of the reporter with the moral vision. The first essay written by Jaschik meets the criteria for literary nonfiction because it discusses the huge controversy of plagiarism and how it affects literature today.
In chapter 7 of book one, Winston is talking to a man about life before the revolution and questioned “the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life” (p93). The Party has weakened the people’s minds with “doublethink” and if their minds are weak, they can not challenge the Party. In this case, if no one can remember life before the revolution then there can not be any challenges towards the party. No one can say that the Party has truly failed in the current conditions. The Party has successfully done this by altering history in the form of rewriting books and documents.
The book that corrupts him further is described on page 104. "It was a novel without a plot, and with only one character, being indeed, simply a psychological study of a certain young Parisian, who spent his life trying to realize in the nineteenth century all of the passions and modes of that belonged to every century except his own, and to sum it up, as it were, in himself the various moods through which the world-spirit had ever passed, loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin." This book absorbs Dorian to the point of him obtaining a dozen copies of its first edition and telling Lord Henry on the last day he sees him on page 180 "Yet you poisoned me with a
The theme reminds me a little of Flannery O’Connor (in a very different setting). The colonel is too narrow for his own good, but well-intentioned. His assumptions about the world seem mainly intended to please the ego. Like all such assumptions, they can only remain intact by a careful tailoring of circumstance, which he perpetrates until his wife’s book forces a confrontation with some unsettling truths. That’s the gist of the story.