An example of this can be the sort of sarcastic tone that is used by Stanley Johnson. He speaks of how he has so many “toys” that we all wish we had but don’t. Yet he says it in such a sarcastic manner. A more specific example could be when Stanley says “How do I do it? I’m in debt up to my eyeballs.” This choice of diction helps the audience gain a clear understanding of what the commercials purpose is and what it is that is going to be solved.
Self-Ridiculing Television The animated television show, Family Guy, created by Seth McFarlane, is often seen as having crude and inappropriate humor, but in the article, Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, the author Antonia Peacocke explores another take on the popular show. In her article Peacocke speaks to her belief that Family Guy does not merely aim to be offensive, but rather cleverly ridicules American culture. Peacocke also points out that the Family Guy viewers are more intelligent and receptive to the show’s humor than most believe. She reveals the obstacles and hardships the show has gone through as well as the creator’s intentions for the show. In her article Peacocke talks about her own skepticisms about Family Guy, before actually watching it, and she explains how it is easy for the jokes to be seen has ridiculously offensive if a person has not actually seen the show.
Similarly, in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, the male character Giovanni asserts his power over Annabella, but Ford does this in the opposite way that Chaucer did. Giovanni is fresh out of university, and during the 1600s logical and manipulative arguments were taught, so he uses his intelligence to lie to Annabella that he ‘asked counsel of the holy Church’, as he knows she is only worried about their love due to her religious beliefs. This shows Ford presenting males, usually the more educated gender of the time, as having the ability to have power over females by arguing using
This is the issue that mostly bothered Jefferson, since he wanted the creation of a perfect society. The most important information derived from this secondary source was the ideologies that Jefferson had towards the Slaves and Native Americans. Jefferson believed these minorities were intellectually inferior and basically considered them a parasite and a libidinal race. To support my statement, I took this quote from the secondary source, “It must not allow its people to be “stained” and become a nation of mulattoes.” I found it very ironic at how Jefferson contradicts himself in several occasions, especially on this last quote because he himself had had children with his slave. Jefferson believes that slavery should be abolished because not only did it deprive the Black’s right to liberty, it also undermined the self control white men had to self republic.
Puritan society came down hard on lawbreakers and held to strict traditions set on the interpretations of the bible by the Magistrates. Some may argue that Hester was “let off the hook” because, in Puritanical law, anyone who committed adultery would have been put to death (The Book of the General Lawes and Libertyes Concerning the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts…pg.8). Either way, members of the society in The Scarlet Letter vehemently followed laws that may have impeded on their free will out of the fear of punishment, loss of status socially and spiritually, and in order to preserve tradition. Mainly, Puritans obeyed oppressive laws because, like most people, they wanted to avoid punishment, especially in Puritan society because most of those punishments consisted of death. People in Hester Prynne’s society were scared for their lives and some couldn’t even trust their families not to turn them in for an offence.
This would keep slaves from protesting when others were being whipped in order to protect their family members. Douglass explains, however, that slave holders’ greatest weapon against slaves is the latter one’s lack of education. He comes to this conclusion when he hears Hugh Auld scold his wife Sophia by saying that “education ruins slaves”. He states that it makes them unhappy with their masters and with their
This article takes a different approach speculating that the duchess had to be unfaithful due to her husband’s impotence. The author goes on to point out specific lines within the poem that suggest this as being plausible. Gardner gives the explanation for another wife as being to increase the Duke’s wealth from his new wife’s dowry. I particularly like the fact that this author call the Duke a sociopath that loves to horrify others in order to feed his ego. I’m not quite convinced but other views interest me so I believe this article could be helpful in my paper.
However, when the master found out of his wife's doings he explained that "it would forever unfit him to be a slave" because learning would make him "unmanageable, and of no value to his master" (Douglass 34). Mr. Auld believed that Douglass would become undisciplined if he was taught to read or write because he would want to continue to gain an education, and at one point find a way to escape from slavery. After hearing Mr. Auld's warning, Mrs. Auld came to an accordance "that education and slavery were incompatible with each other" (Douglass 38). The realization that education could cease the oppression and inferiority of slaves, and that the
However both parties, the North and the South, deprecated war. Both parties are also responsible for slavery in the United States. The belief is that God is involved in the conflict because of the unjust that was asked and upset him. If the war continues the wealthy people of the nation will have to pay for the unpaid work. Lincoln says: “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous” He’s saying some people may not be able to see what’s going on in the world but the Lord can see it.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin shined a light onto their cruel, abusive lives. Although this book made people feel sympathetic towards slave, it also made working-class whites aggressive towards slaves because they now felt that African Americans were competition in the working world. Because of this book people thought she fuelled this war. Even President Lincoln said, “Is this the little woman who made this great