475 Search Results for Satire in the Writings of
This provision is based on the rationale that general damages do not represent financial loss to the injured person. A number of changes have also been made to the law in respect to assessment of damages for past and future economic loss.
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Earl of Rochester / Aphra Behn
Masks and Masculinities:
Gender and Performance in the Earl of Rochester's "Imperfect Enjoyment"
and Aphra Behn's "The Disappointment"
Literature of the English Restoration offers the example of a number of writers Continue Reading...
Thomas Hardy / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Considered purely as a poet, Thomas Hardy has earned the status of a Modernist, or at the very least an honorary Modernist. Claire Tomalin's recent biography of Hardy would have us believe that, in essence, Continue Reading...
Rather than allowing the scene to solidify a stereotype, the author of this book proposes that readers should, assuming they are understand the true voice of the novel Huck Finn, allow the scene to alter the stereotype of Jim as a servant to the Cau Continue Reading...
Gulliver's Travels And Other Writings
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings" main idea is all about Lemul Gulliver and the journey he made to the land of the six-inch-high Lilliputians and the sixty-foot-tall Brobdingnafians' royal Continue Reading...
South Park and Popular Culture
South Park is an animated television show that has aired on Comedy Central for nearly 19 seasons, beginning in 1997. It began as an irreverent cartoon show about 3rd graders who used "adult language" and was meant to b Continue Reading...
Aside from Candide and Pangloss, the character who suffers the most in this novel and demonstrates that the world is far from the best of all possible places is Cudgeon's servant, the old woman. With the characterization of the old woman, Voltaire Continue Reading...
" Katniss also represents a girl who is coming of age. In this sense, the film could be called a bildungsroman, which is a genre that is completely opposite of "The Lottery." "The Lottery" is sheer over-the-top satire. The Hunger Games does not set o Continue Reading...
Wife," Judy Brady uses satire and sarcasm to critique gender roles in traditional marriage relationships. To achieve her goals in the essay, the author writes in first person, specifically from the perspective of someone who lists the qualities she w Continue Reading...
..There is reason for concern, therefore, when aggressive acts are presented in a humorous context in the media" (622).
Although it is intended to refer to society and its misdemeanor, satire cannot be considered to be offensive, since there is a sm Continue Reading...
The chairman effectively uses Howard's schtick against him, cleverly manipulating the setting of their conversation (which the film augments with its particular editing choices) to the point that Howard actually believes him to be a god. As the chai Continue Reading...
A Vonnegut theme, however, is often hard to miss; especially since part of Vonnegut's style placed the author in a position where many readers could palpably feel him throughout the novel. Vonnegut seems to read alongside the reader and assist him; Continue Reading...
The poem emotionally appealing and with such invigorating language, is easily translatable as a sermon. The reader could easily manipulate the tone of the poem with slight incensed articulation by accenting the poem as horrifying, delightful, spirit Continue Reading...
But while it is true that he loved the funny side of life, he was also quite genuine and sincere in his purpose to expose the superficialities of social roles. "If we look at the whole corpus of his work, we see his tragic poems all interrupted, unf Continue Reading...
Feminism 19th and Early 20th Century America
Writing and woman suffrage were inextricably intertwined in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Suffrage gave them a voice, and they used that voice to challenge the early American patriarchal status quo. By Continue Reading...
Politics of Violence in Pinter's Late Plays
When Harold Pinter received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he spoke quite directly about the subject of political theatre:
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermon Continue Reading...
Sherman Alexie
There is no denying the fact that Sherman Alexie is a writer of considerable fame. A number of his literary publications have been transferred into film, which is generally a more lucrative market than books. When a writer's work of f Continue Reading...
Shame" is a novel that is bursting with anger. And yet to call it a novel is not quite true; it is a satire in the way that Sterne's "Tristram Shandy" and Gulliver Twist's works were satires and in the way that Candide satirized his own society. Rus Continue Reading...
According to Parsons (2003), "Coincident with the growing avant-garde fascination with silent film, cinema was becoming the ultimate embodiment of modern mass culture" (90).
The "modern mass culture" that was emerging in Europe at this time was a r Continue Reading...
So, the reader of this essay was set up by Orwell perfectly: blast away at the stinking rotting, drunken social scene in Paris, frequented in large part by Americans pretending to have talent, and mention that Miller thought this was cool to write a Continue Reading...
4. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps
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Alexandre Gabriel Decamps' "The Monkey Painter," 1833.
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Some of the mathematics of the book are shown to correlate to certain political aspects of the book, making the work perhaps more profound than Abbott ever intended (McCubbins & Schwartz, 1985). Certainly, the entire novel pushes for freedom, ju Continue Reading...
What is truly remarkable about Swift's novel is the fact that the protagonist rarely generates any kind of emotional response to what he encounters, and the adventures that befall him. In this sense, Swift's novel aims at challenging the norms, trad Continue Reading...
Penelope: The Crafty Ideal of Greek Womanhood
One might think of Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, as the Greek masculine ideal. He triumphs over his enemies in an open agonistic contest because he is a greater warrior than they. He shows the virtue Continue Reading...
Strangelove, put him over the top" (p. 61). The learning curve was clearly sharp for Kubrick, and he took what he had learned in these earlier efforts and put this to good use during a period in American history when everyone was already ready to "d Continue Reading...
In colloquial Polish speech, hyperbaton is associated with strong focus, optimally with symmetrical contrast. However, in literary prose hyperbaton can also occur with weak focus and with unfocused nonlexicals. When presented with examples of the e Continue Reading...
"Buonaparte" elucidates clearly how Nature and social interaction bring about human freedom and social progress.
The analysis of "Tables Turned" and "Buonaparte" brings into focus the important points that make up Wordsworth's political views. His Continue Reading...
Beggar's Opera, written by John Gay is the first ballad opera in the English language. It is interesting to note that it was also the most popular work of English theater during the eighteenth century. This is interesting because Gay used his opera t Continue Reading...
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) is a satiric novel aimed at revealing the trends of seventeenth-century philosophy, including ideas on human nature. For instance, as Gulliver, the main character embarks on a journey to Continue Reading...
An argumentative essay of Richard McGuires HereHere by Richard McGuire: A Satire of Humanitys ImportanceRichard McGuires Here is a quiet graphic novel, which imagines the same place in different points in time. By disconnecting place from a linear na Continue Reading...
Magistrate The why do you turn aside and hold your cloak
So far out from your body? Is your groin swollen
The humor in this passage pertains to the fact that the Herald has an erection. The reason he has an erection, of course, is because Lysistr Continue Reading...
The fact that he chose to use real Black people in the background, but white actors in the lead roles highlights the idea that Blacks were still supposed to be subservient to whites; even lead characters who were supposed to be Black were portrayed Continue Reading...
Aulis and the Ithy-Phallos
Excavation of Entranceway a-b of Pompeii's grandest single residence, the House of the Vettii, which opens onto the Vicolo dei Vettii and is positioned directly opposite the House of the Golden Cupids, revealed a somewhat Continue Reading...
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Brown, G. Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywod. New York: McMillan, 1995.
Byrge, D. The Screwball Comedy Films. New York: McFarland, 1991.
"Censored Films and Television." January 2000. University of Virginia. September 2010 .
Dale, Continue Reading...
Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita" is one of the brightest pieces of Soviet literature on the hand with such masterpieces as One day of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Soljenitzin and Quite follows Don Continue Reading...
W.E.B. DU BOIS' 'ON BEING CRAZY' - A REVIEW
On Being Crazy' is Du Bois' reminisces of his experiences with the 'crazy' whites, mindlessly fanatic against the ideals of social equality. With a tinge of satire, Du Bois brings out the irrationality of Continue Reading...
Rock n' Roll: A Reflection of American Culture
Music and art are products of the society from which they evolved. History tells us about events that happened in a certain time, but the events themselves do no tell the whole story. Behind these event Continue Reading...
al. 11). In the same way that European colonialism itself depended on a limited view of the world that placed colonial subjects under the rule of their masters, European theory was based on a view of literature and identity that had no place for the Continue Reading...
Mark Twain
The two institutions that Mark Twain attacks and ridicules in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- that will be critiqued in this paper -- are religion and government. There are multiple examples of Twain's brilliant use of his narrative Continue Reading...
Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
An analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in 2009, is a continuation of Tarantino's postmodern approach to cinema and may be Continue Reading...