Shakespeare gives the audience a false sense of security due to both Iago and Othello working together. Both Emilia and Desdemona, their wives have 'destroyed' their images as a result of their actions. However, the fatal irony of Iago's Machiavellian actions is clear from the start. Early on in the events of the play, we sense jealousy. Foreshadowing Othello's eventual tragedy of the character's death in the play. Therefore, Shakespeare presents husbands as the true monsters and they are the...
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The most important and unique subgenre of dramatic literature is tragedy. The term tragedy is greatly utilized for literary, and mainly for the dramatist, illustration of serious movements which eventuate in a disastrous conclusion for the protagonist. A tragedy is it genre of drama focusing on tales of human suffering. The drama normally consists of a human flaw or weak factor in one of the work's central characters, which then triggers a devastating match or sequence of activities for these...
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What do you first think of when hearing the word Shakespeare? When I hear Shakespeare, I think of the greatest playwright of all time and an actor. But also all the stereotypes that come with it such as how boring his plays are, and hard to understand. But believe me, after studying Shakespeare for over a term now, I have come to learn his language and show an interest in his plays. He has given me a personal understanding and...
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Hard upbringing can often destroy the best in people while bringing out the worst in the individuals who surround them. In the story Fences, Troy Maxon, a middle-aged African American man with a difficult and burdening past, uses the experiences of his ruthless childhood and struggles of early adulthood as an excuse for his cold-heartedness towards his wife and three children. Eventually, his actions shift his loved one’s feelings to those of anger and hatred as time passes by. Through...
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'What They Fought For 1861-1865,' is a book full of contradictions, irony, and conflicts. The author of the book, James McPherson, has an interesting perspective on the Civil War. When most people learn about the Civil War, they are taught that the South does not understand the agony that the slaves endured. They seemed to only fight because they had to. If they read this book, they would discover that it was not entirely true. The majority of American history...
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A segment in a story in which the outcome, is completely different from what is expected, or is contradictory to the segment, expresses irony. Flannery O’Connor was a southern born author who often uses irony. O’Connor was an author born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. At a young age, O’Connor began to develop a skillful interest and passion in drawing and writing. Around the age of 25, O’Connor began displaying early symptoms of lupus, and was forced to...
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Philosophical Fragments, written under the pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus,' is an important component of his philosophical and theological explication, explaining the conceptual distinction between Greek and religious philosophy. Soren Kierkegaard used Johannes Climacus to explain his ideas about how the concept of self fits into faith's vast eternity. In Philosophical Fragments, he starts with Greek Platonic philosophy, delving into the ramifications of moving beyond the Socratic knowledge of truth received via recall to the Christian experience of truth received through grace....
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As we know, in his early work on The Concept of Irony, Sren Kierkegaard examined the subject of irony in depth. Many of the issues raised in this work, such as defining the subject of cognition and subjective self-knowledge, will be addressed in Kierkegaard's following works. References to George W. F. Hegel's thesis also distinguishes this early work. Kierkegaard contrasts irony as an 'attitude' and 'pure' irony as a 'thought object.' Pure irony, according to Kierkegaard, is similar to romantic...
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He talks a lot about his lack of actual freedom in the opening monologue of ‘The Story of an Hour’. The thought of the husband now not believing his wife comes to the fore in this story in phrases of situational irony. From Webster’s New World College Dictionary, we get this definition: “Freedom is stated to be the absence of need, or of restraint, in the presence of either free will or compulsion”. Mrs. Mallard felt liberated after she had...
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In his novel ‘Shibumi’, author Rodney William Whitaker writes, “Irony is fate's most common figure of speech”. Irony is present in almost every situation imaginable—from the small talk made while waiting in line to the foundation of some of the most well-known, acclaimed pieces of literature in history. Simply put, irony is a contrast between expectation and reality— when what is expected to happen does not. Author Shirley Jackson utilizes this concept multiple times in ‘The Possibility of Evil’, a...
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Pahom was a hardworking man. But nonetheless, he was a poor peasant. He and his wife seemed content living a stress-free lifestyle, and not having much. “We may never grow rich, but we will always have enough to eat”, his wife would say. Although Pahom agreed, he thought in the back of his mind that his life would be perfect and he would have nothing to fear if he only had more land. Pahom learned of a neighbor selling land,...
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In ‘Bully’ Martin Espada uses the first stanza to introduce the theme of his poem. “In the school auditorium/the Theodore Roosevelt statue/is nostalgic” (lines 1-3). The statue described emanates a nostalgia for the Spanish-American war, which was considered by many to be a morally reprehensible act of hate upon Hispanic people. The author of the poem, Martin Espada, was introduced early on to political activism by his father, Frank Espada, who was a leader in the Puerto Rican community and...
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In the short story ‘Sweat’ by Zora Neale Hurston, the main character Delia is a hardworking woman who does tremendous manual labor as a washerwoman for white folks. Delia has been in an abusive marriage with her husband Sykes for fifteen years, and he enjoys treating her the way that he does. Sykes doesn’t like that Delia works for white people. Sykes decides to play a trick on Delia by using her fear of snakes. He decides to get a...
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Irony occurs when a reader sees that the author is showing that there is a gap between what is thought to be true and what actually is true. Irony is not always immediately apparent to the reader. If ironies are too obvious or heavy, the reader is likely to feel that he or she is being treated as a child. There are a few kinds of irony in literary techniques. First and foremost, situational irony occurs when the audience, or...
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In the play ‘No Exit’, Jean-Paul Sartre implements the ideas of the philosophy of ontology and consciousness. In exploration of these philosophical ideas, like ontology, which is the ‘study of what exists’, the author works to emphasize the importance of self-awareness. Ontology, itself, categorizes the nature of existence into three states of being. These states of being include: being-in-itself, being-for-itself, and being-for-others, which all hold connection to the characters. Likewise, consciousness, also explores the idea of being self-aware, and emphasizes...
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In ‘The Ransom of Red Chief’, the characters’ actions are the opposite of what is expected, which creates irony. O. Henry, the author, develops irony through contrasting character points of view and uses irony to create humor and surprise. O. Henry begins the story with Sam, the narrator and kidnapper, discussing how he and Bill Driscoll plan to kidnap a child to earn money so they can commit a crime in Illinois. The kidnappers select Summit because they expect the...
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Shakespeare ‘Macbeth’ was written in 1606, it’s based on a man named Macbeth who wanted to become the king of Scotland (where he resides). The main theme of Macbeth is the spoiling nature of his unchecked ambition, which is displayed through his struggles against himself, his wife, and society all driven by the want of power. Dramatic irony is foreshadowed throughout the play by the use of many dramatic techniques. Some language devices are used to create imagery such as...
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Section1. hyperbole- In rhetoric, hyperbole is a method of composing that makes a person or things sound bigger, better than they are. anecdote- An anecdote is a tale or a short story to make audience members laugh. It is a short portrayal of any occasion that makes the reader giggle over the subject displayed for reason. analogy - An analogy is a rhetoric device that makes one thing clear regarding another to feature the manners by which they are indistinguishable....
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The short story, ‘The Jewelry’, by Guy De Maupassant examines the theme of life being full of irony and never knowing what you are really dealing with. One may perceive something and think it is amazing until they see the reality of the situation and then truly understand what they were dealing with and how the person or thing they thought were something turned to be something completely different. The short story is filled with many ironic situations. Irony is...
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