Wilde uses his wit in order to expose the hypocrisy and artificial nature of his social environment. This is conveyed through Jack and Algernon’s “bunburying”, which has negative consequences due to the encounter between them and their female counterparts. Literary devices such as tone, inversion, and parallelism are used to communicate the theme of the passage. The tone of the passage expresses Wilde’s attitude toward what he is depicting. For example, social interaction in Victorian England was very formal and serious.
Stoppard uses his play to mock the conventions of cosy crime fiction as some believe theatrical whodunits are inevitably shallow and dull thus Stoppard only delineates the obvious. Stoppard focuses on the melodramatic style of The Mousetrap that involves the audience in clues and suspense with complications and revelations at the end of each act through his notion of absurdist theatre. He exaggerates the conventions of the crime fiction genre through combining elements of British comedy in his play where the audience is aware of such humour. By utilizing the audiences’ knowledge of detective fiction as an iconic British genre he henceforth creates a parody and pastiche in The Real Inspector
Literary devices can frequently be the missing link in an ambiguous story. Although it can be frustrating, it forces the reader to dig deep into the story to find the meaning. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Gilman uses imagery and diction to reveal the narrator during her childish behavior and her increasing insanity. Gilman uses powerful imagery to paint a picture of the setting for the reader, which magnifies the narrator’s childish behaviors. The narrator begins to describe the summer estate as an ordinary old-English house with a beautiful garden, but the narrator is quick to point out that “…there is something strange about the house…” (244).
Adams also goes into the over all effect of the story. Critics such as DuBois and White both have opposing views on the story. White says that it’s the lies stringed together that make this story fun and entertaining to read, but DuNois say that because he stringed all of these lies together, it makes the story really phony. To explain whites stance more, he says that
Today, she can’t get enough of the show. In her essay, she says the show crosses the line of indecency. She also states that “I believe Family Guy has its intelligent points, and some of its coarse scenes often have hidden merit” (308). She does go on to conclude in her essay That “jokes all have their origins, and the funniest ones are those that hit home the hardest; if we listen to Freud, these are the ones that let our animalistic and aggressive impulses surface from the unconscious” (308). Peacocke describes just how the show has used its humor to talk about taboo subjects through humor.
Jamiel Pittman Professor Williams English 111 FE 30 October 2013 In this paper I will draw the parallels of good villains and bad villains. Often we characterize the “bad guys” as characters whom are not liked and not appreciated. However they are more likely to be more interesting than the heroes or “good guys”. I believe “bad guys” make stories more intriguing for a bunch of reasons. The idea of incorporating a fictitious character in a story that goes to great lengths to be “destructive” is always suspenseful.
Irony in Trifles: Little Things of Great Importance A trifle is a term used to describe something of little value or a matter of trivial importance or significance. These so-called “little things”, after which Susan Glaspell’s play, Trifles, is named, ironically represent overlooked details which are also important clues that expose a suspect’s motive for murder. Additionally, these trifles explain the background of the suspect, Mrs. Wright, which eventually garners sympathy from two important female characters who ironically, make the decision to conceal the very items that could have incriminated Mrs. Wright. The irony exists not just with the importance of those little things but due to failure to recognize their implications, the sheriff and attorney, who should have been the ones to uncover these clues leading to the motive, never succeeded in realizing their significance. Susan Glaspell's play, Trifles, was written in the early 1900’s, where at the time, it was a male-dominated society and women generally tended to the house, the children, and busied themselves with other domesticated duties.
These people are not real. The stories are fiction. But fiction has truth. How? O'Brien creates an intentional paradox for his readers when he writes the violent, but grabbing story of Rat Kiley and then at the end of the story, tells the reader that the characters and events of the story did not happen just as he described them, but that they happened in a totally different way to other people.
Poe implements obscurity as a mean to make the readers think and creatively connect the dots and solve the mystery that lies in the story. The ambiguity throughout the story interests yet twists and confuses the reader but enables the reader to use their imagination to what happened. Poe leaves particularly the end full of doubts and confusion in order to highlight and unveil the significance of the story’s resolution. This permits the ending to be interpreted as a physical, psychological or moral breakdown of Roderick and Madeline that caused the house to fall. A few paragraph into the story, the narrator already drop a hint about the cause of the eventual fall of the house.
Some of the main themes are; Good/Evil; Violence/Death; Strong emotions; highly emotive language; Dark and frightening settings; Pathetic fallacy; and finally Similes/metaphors. You will learn about each of these themes throughout the essay. The narrative structure: The narrative structure of ‘The strange case of Jekyll & Hyde’ is like a puzzle, which means it is not strictly chronological. Using this kind of narrative structure makes the novel more interesting to read, and leaves you trying to put the pieces back together. It makes you wonder what is going to happen, what has happened, and how they link together.