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. 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
In Act II where there is a party in Leonatos house Beatrice talks to a masked man and tell awful things about Benedick to him. “He is the prince’s jester: a very dull fool…” This is telling u that Beatrice knows that the masked men is Benedick but she wants to make him feel bad. After that Benedick explodes and go talk with Don Pedro. “But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not know me! The prince’s fool!
Priestley presents us with the idea that Mr Birling was disgusted with such an idea. He is accustomed to only respecting those in his social class and those in the social classes above him. The use of the word ‘hive’ illustrates an image of people who are impassable. Priestley presents to the audience that people such as Birling act in a way which only causes suffering to lower classes. Mrs Birling is clearly aware of class distinctions and she never forgets 'Girls of that class'.
Miss Bingley Miss Bingley is a foolish and scheming character. She is shown in such a light that she is the complete opposite to that of Elizabeth Bennett; she is desperate for Darcy’s attention. "'Eliza Bennett,' said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, 'is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own...but, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.'" Miss Bingley immediately shows the reader her distaste to Elizabeth by trying to show Darcy what she believes is Elizabeth’s scheming character when in fact it is her that is the one trying to fool Darcy and the reader into thinking lowly of Elizabeth. Miss Bingley uses lots of pauses in her sentence possibly to show the reader that she may be pausing to see the effect her words may have on who she is speaking to.
In Act 3 Scene 2, Don John enters Leonato’s house and says to Claudio “I came hither to tell you, and circumstances shortened the lady is disloyal.” Don John is presented as a ‘deceiver’ in this scene by his actions, creating uproar between the couple. The ways in which Shakespeare presents men’s attitudes to women are not used for comical purposes in this scene. This scene presents women to be promiscuous and untrustworthy characters. Also, the fact that Claudio believes Don John and assumes that the woman committing adultery is Hero portrays
The Tell-Tale Heart versus The Necklace Two short stories are being discussed in this paper, “The Tell-Tale Heart” written by the famous Edgar Allen Poe, which tells the story of a deluded man trying to convince the readers of his sanity using a rational explanation to explain an irrational behaviour but later proves to the readers how sane he is without still knowing the state of his own mind and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant is about a spoiled ungrateful young woman, Mathilde Loisel, who learns her lesson the hard way. She attends a ball and must have an expensive dress and jewelry as well which she loses and her pride keeps her from telling the truth and puts her into debt. When two things are lined up in this manner, there are inevitably going to be some similarities and differences, however, the differences between these short stories vastly outweigh the similarities. This paper is aimed at contrasting these two stories and pointing out a few of the many differences between the two stories using the each author’s perspective on short stories. One of the primary contrasts in these two short stories is the route in which the reader discovers the ending of the stories.
The characters in ‘Oliver Twist’ are successful as they are often labelled with some idiosyncrasy which represents Dickens’ distaste for society. He also loved to use melodrama, which is reflected in his characters, to create empathy and sympathy for a character. While Bumble has a complete lack of sympathy towards Oliver, Mr Sowerberry tries to win Oliver over by attempting to be nice to him, and therefore be seen as an author figure to Oliver. The characters in this chapter are presented as villains to show how Dickens felt about the authority figures in the 1830’s. As in many other of his books, Dickens uses his character’s personalities to represent the attitudes of society.
| “He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive.” –Tom describing Wilson (p. 26) | Ironic because Daisy is found to be unfaithful to Tom as well, later in the novel. Maybe Tom is just as “dumb”. I don’t like him, he is ignorant and cocky. | Myrtle selects a new taxi after rejecting older ones. (p. 27) | She is not really wealthy; maybe she is trying to show off for Tom?
An Inspector Calls- Act 1 What do we learn about the Birlings family In Act 1? During Act 1 the audience are acknowledged of the arrogance, vanity and carelessness of Gerald Croft and two members of the Birling family: Sheila and Arthur Birling. Their upper middle-class status is portrayed right from the beginning of the play; firstly through the presence of parlour maid Edna, present only to meet the needs of the Birling family, who Priestley not only uses to symbolize people of a lower class and the way in which they are used by the higher class to fulfil their own requirements but uses her presence in itself to indicate that the status of the Birling family are high enough to have a parlour maid. Mrs Birling explains to Edna that she will ‘ring from the drawing room’ when they ‘want coffee’ clearly expressing the purpose of Edna only to be someone to meet their needs. When the Inspector rings the doorbell later on in act one, Mr Birling is quick to say ‘Edna’ll answer it’ yet again expressing his higher status and control over her; her being a symbol of those lower in class.
Until, at the ending one finds out Lady Bertilak was tricking Gawain, the whole time. The two stories, Le Morte d’Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, compare because one would get the idea to never trust woman, although Lady Bertilak was just tricking him, but, in d’Arthur, Guinevere actually did have an affair with Lancelot, giving King Arthur the right to say, “Never Trust Woman.” At the time, in medieval times, men had the idea of anti-feminism, which is why woman were less dominant; why woman were more scandalous, because they felt the need of having their own