I do not like how she criticizes everything about others and attacks people by putting them down all the time, but I was still curious to find out what this book was all about. Unfortunately, this book did not change my opinion of the author and the message she sends to her readers and viewers. I Hate Everything Starting With Me is crudely humorous. Her signature sarcasm starts on the first page. It is just one of those books that when you read it in public, you start laughing out loud, and people give you some weird looks
Additionally, it is likely that the fact Tess murders was enough of a controversial subject, without Hardy having to describe it, to shock the readers. The heartbreaking tragedy which radiates throughout the novel is particularly poignant when Tess gushes, ‘Say you do now, dear, dear husband; say you do love me, now I have killed him!’, with which Angel replies, ‘I do love you... it’s all come back!’ (page 448). Tess’s complete naivety and desperation for Angel’s acceptance and love has lead her to the extent of questioning her moral duty. As a reader we are unaware if Angel’s love has ‘come back’ because he’s finally seen Tess, or that it is because of Tess murdering Alec. Either way, further distress is created for the reader, as it is not possible for love to go away and then return and Tess seems completely oblivious to this.
The wallpaper shows the characteristics of the environment of hell (hot, sticky, nasty feeling). It is until he meets Charlie (who I feel that is Barton's imagination of what the "common man" looks like but cannot go into depth and find any inspiration) who is always sweaty, drinking, giving somewhat bad advice and swears constantly (almost like Satan, so the bible says). It feels like the scene after Barton and Audrey have sex wasn't exactly Audrey really dying. I got the idea that Barton was still dreaming. Because Barton was so angry that Audrey wrote most of Mayhew's latest work, Barton dreamt that Audrey died.
All of my books are basically romances; they’re stories about reconnecting with community”(Williams). The disorders in life that The Narrator and Dr. Jekyll experience on the edge of being inhuman, “My Characters are not people. They are machines that do a job. They are machines designed to destroy themselves” (Williams). Through the minds of Palahniuk and Stevenson a common ground is reached in the two books Fight Club and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; both the narrator and Dr. Jekyll create their own misfortune in trying to fix the problems of the world, or better yet what they perceive the problems to be.
Helene Cioux: The Laugh of the Medusa The Laugh of the Medusa is about how women shouldn’t be afraid to express themselves through literature. The article is written from a feminist’s point of view. According to the article, women are afraid to write in a world that is controlled by men. I chose a paragraph from the article to summarize: “Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.
Censorship is also ridiculous because most classic novels involve questionable language, or somewhat violent material. If the library removes these books, the patrons under eighteen lose the opportunity to learn valuable lessons from them. A last reason that censorship is unbelievable is patrons over eighteen will most likely want to check out the books that are in question to be removed. If the town council decides to remove them, many patrons will become enraged. Deciding if a library patron under eighteen should be aloud to read a questionable book is the decision of the patron and their parents.
Parker directs this article at the reader and attacks the reader’s emotions through her harsh tone, graphic content, and lack of rhetorical appeal. The message that the writer is trying to show is told through the caustic comments and creative hints throughout her essay. If we look past the wall of emotion that she throws on the reader, she tries to explain the true meaning of poverty so that her audience does not feel sympathetic, but relatively understanding. She goes on using literary techniques, and emotions that grab hold of the reader’s heart, which is pathos. After reading Jo Goodwin Parker’s essay, I did not feel a pity but instead I felt respect.
Chaucer uses the narrator to describe each of the pilgrim’s flaws either through physical description, or by describing the pilgrim’s actions, or ways of life. To describe each of the characters flaws Chaucer seems to use mostly metaphors and long methods of characterization so that the reader has to make inferences about what the narrator sees as a bad trait in the character. Although Chaucer mostly points out flaws, he still points out some of the good in the pilgrims as well. He admires something in every single character except for the Pardoner, for there is nothing positive about him. The metaphoric satire is best shown in the narrator’s descriptions of the Friar and Monk, two characters with revealed problems.
Do you agree? Discuss the character and motives of Iago drawing on the examples/evidence from the text that you have collected. Write about 2 pages. I do agree that Iago is the perfect villain as he does not believe in love and has persuaded himself that it is just the “lust of the blood and a permission of the will”, in other words you feel love because you feel lust and you have no willpower to control that lust, so it becomes his possessive goal to prove that one can fight it, persuading the audience that Iago is lost and paranoid. Shakespeare develops him as an amoral character as opposed to the typical immoral driven villain that every audience is accustomed to and this amorality and lack of humanity allows Iago to easily manipulate others and use their weakness against them to achieve what he wants without feeling any doubt or guilt.
People of the Lost Generation felt that they had no place where they belonged and felt as if they were merely drifting blindly through life. Writers from that era, particularly Hemingway and Fitzgerald, often expressed these feelings of anguish and despair through their novels. For example, Hemingway, in the Old Man and the Sea, portrays Santiago as having that feeling that he is drifting away from when he was once a great fishermen. Similarly, Fitzgerald, author of the Great Gatsby, wrote about society during the 1920’s. In the Great Gatsby, when Nick goes with Tom to New York and the book that Tom is reading are both perfect example of why this decade will forever be known as the Lost Generation.