The Importance of Being Earnest
In Oscar Wilde's play ,The Importance of Being Earnest, he expresses many different types of tone to his play. He goes through it with witty and sarcastic characters that also have sifictication in them as well as some not so smart moves made by them. By using these characters with sarcastic tones and different ways of talking that was in the Victorian era. Oscar Wilde creates a new form of writing by having his work being more comical and witty then a play written in tragedy. Even though he still uses the journey and strive for love with others it is different from what was normal in his time.
In Act I there are many examples of how Oscar Wilde uses the different tone of the character Algernon. He is mainly portrayed as a sarcastic character that in the Victorian society was unusual do to having the idea of always being polite and respectful. A great example 0f this is when he tells Jack, Earnest, about Mr.Bunbury. He said " nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury." In reading this you can sense the sarcasm and pride that would be in his tone as he tells Jack how a man he made up will be helpful for him in the long run when Jack would have marriage problems. Being back then one was thought of that as no joking matter yet here that is exactly how marriage is seen, as a joke.
Also in Act I I there are some examples of good use of language in the way that Cecily and Gwendolyn find out that they have both been proposed to by Earnest. When Cecily says " I am afraid you must be under some misconception. Earnest proposed to me exactly ten minutes ago." Then Gwendolyn said," It is certainly very curious, for he asked me to be his wife yesterday afternoon at 5:30" in doing this twist in the story with both of their to e's being prideful and sure of themselves. He expresses how humanity can be played by others and made to look as if they have stupidity for not knowing what is really going on and then showing specific examples of them being right. This was important because it showed a sort of scandal that was costumed to have happened back in the Victorian era.
In Act III it shows how Oscar Wilde presents another twist to the play when it is found out who Jacks family really is. An example of how Jack brings out the fact that Cecily was wrong for accusing him of lieing would be when he said, " Algy's elder brother! Then I have a brother after all. I knew I had a brother! I always said I had a brother! Cecily,- how could you have ever doubted that I had a brother." When he said this he presented it with a pride for not being wrong and for not have been lying after all about having a brother. Which in turned made the other feel ridiculous for the judgment that they had about him.
In conclusion Oscar Wilde show ls how the play uses different forms of writing that was unique to the Victorian Era. His play was filled with the sarcasm and pride of other and yet also had themes of lust for other and the feeling of stupidity for others and is a great example of a work that was different from others during this time. This play had characters that in the Victorian Era considered to be very weird and unthought of and was considered to be wrong. The mixing of the family name on a person who came from a bag at the train. Station was thought to be beneath people of the higher society like Gwendolyn.
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poem rough draft essay
"Harlem"
In Langston Hughes "Harlem" poem the author expresses a sense of wonder and curiosity towards dreams. The speaker gives diferent similes through out the poem to try amd establish different feelings towards ideas of past dreams.He asks the question of what happens to a dream deferred and tries to come up with an answer. Going through you notice that he uses similes and a metaphor to try and compare what exactly happens to a dream when after you have had it.
A example of this would be when he first compares a dream to a raisin that drys up while it sits in the sun. By looking at this simile it gives you an image of seeing a shriveled up raisin that just stays in the sun with no thought to it. Which is what I believe the author is trying to get across as that once a dream has happened it is just left in your brain and not really given much thought so it becomes a shriveled up memory that stays in your brain with no other use. He gives the feeling that maybe after we dream it isn't very important as to what the dream was so it doesn't matter if the dream stays there with not a second thought.
Next he takes a different feeling towards what happens to a dream but comparing it to a festering sore. By doing this his feelings have changed to a to be able to say that maybe after we have our dreams they stay in our thoughts and we keep thinking bout them. They keep growing and growing till they just keep going on and on. He is curious to know if dreams grow and grow till they just leave like a sore when it runs from becoming to big.
After compare dreams to things that become forgotten or grow to big the author shifts his view to as making dreams go bad like rotten meat. He brings to light the feeling that maybe dreams like meat go bad or rotten. The idea of is dream is shifted from a curious thing to rotten idea left behind by a dream. Yet he also gives the feeling of a sweet memory from a dream when he said "or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet" giving us the idea that dater a dream had happened it gives you a sense of good feeling that is sweet and pleasant to have afterwards .
Towards the end he expressed the feeling of being somewhat overwhelmed by the dream and that afterwards it becomes a heavy load that just sags there. In doing this he expressed that that dreams left behind just become burdens us. Yet leaves is last line as a metaphor saying "or does it explode" giving us a while new way to look at it. By saying that he expressed that maybe the dream just disappears after we have had the dream leaving a forgotten feeling in its place.
In conclusion Langston Hughes shows ma yang different feelings about what he feels can possibly happen to a dream after it has accord. These feelings range from being a dried up memory to one that is gone in an instant. Making it left for us to try and decide whether or not we too may have the same option of figuring out what exactly happens to a dream when you have had it and awake from it. Is it fogotten, left behind, thought about, made into a burden or may it just disappears from us forever.
In Langston Hughes "Harlem" poem the author expresses a sense of wonder and curiosity towards dreams. The speaker gives diferent similes through out the poem to try amd establish different feelings towards ideas of past dreams.He asks the question of what happens to a dream deferred and tries to come up with an answer. Going through you notice that he uses similes and a metaphor to try and compare what exactly happens to a dream when after you have had it.
A example of this would be when he first compares a dream to a raisin that drys up while it sits in the sun. By looking at this simile it gives you an image of seeing a shriveled up raisin that just stays in the sun with no thought to it. Which is what I believe the author is trying to get across as that once a dream has happened it is just left in your brain and not really given much thought so it becomes a shriveled up memory that stays in your brain with no other use. He gives the feeling that maybe after we dream it isn't very important as to what the dream was so it doesn't matter if the dream stays there with not a second thought.
Next he takes a different feeling towards what happens to a dream but comparing it to a festering sore. By doing this his feelings have changed to a to be able to say that maybe after we have our dreams they stay in our thoughts and we keep thinking bout them. They keep growing and growing till they just keep going on and on. He is curious to know if dreams grow and grow till they just leave like a sore when it runs from becoming to big.
After compare dreams to things that become forgotten or grow to big the author shifts his view to as making dreams go bad like rotten meat. He brings to light the feeling that maybe dreams like meat go bad or rotten. The idea of is dream is shifted from a curious thing to rotten idea left behind by a dream. Yet he also gives the feeling of a sweet memory from a dream when he said "or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet" giving us the idea that dater a dream had happened it gives you a sense of good feeling that is sweet and pleasant to have afterwards .
Towards the end he expressed the feeling of being somewhat overwhelmed by the dream and that afterwards it becomes a heavy load that just sags there. In doing this he expressed that that dreams left behind just become burdens us. Yet leaves is last line as a metaphor saying "or does it explode" giving us a while new way to look at it. By saying that he expressed that maybe the dream just disappears after we have had the dream leaving a forgotten feeling in its place.
In conclusion Langston Hughes shows ma yang different feelings about what he feels can possibly happen to a dream after it has accord. These feelings range from being a dried up memory to one that is gone in an instant. Making it left for us to try and decide whether or not we too may have the same option of figuring out what exactly happens to a dream when you have had it and awake from it. Is it fogotten, left behind, thought about, made into a burden or may it just disappears from us forever.
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