... their double identities to give themselves the opportunity to show opposite sides of their characters. They mock every custom of the society and challenge its values. This creates not only the comic effect of the play but also makes the audience think of the serious things of life. Oscar Wilde begins with a joke in the title that is not only a piece of frivolity. It concerns the problem of recognising and defining human identity. The use of earnest and Earnest is a pun, which makes the title not only more comic, but also leads to a paradox. The farce in The Importance of Being Earnest consists in the trifle that it is important not only to be earnest by nature bu ...

... is a collection of 19 short stories about Mars and the Martians. He opens the book with a very short story, “Rocket Summer”. “Rocket Summer” is a great exaggeration of how hot it becomes within a few miles radius of a rocket launch. Around this certain rocket, it was winter. As soon as the rocket’s booster ignited, all of the snow within the vicinity melted. “The snow dissolved and showed last summer’s ancient green lawns.”. Bradbury knew when he wrote this that a weather change that dramatic would never happen from a single rocket, it was simply to grab the attention of the reader. In “The Third Expedition& ...

... set out to tend to her husband’s need of a break from his work by secretly earning and saving enough money to take him on a retreat. His knowledge of this plan would show weakness on his part, and would degrade his power in the eyes of society. He would be humiliated. To prevent such an occurrance, I feel that both of them need to share equally in the responsibilities and descision making that goes on in their family. The first step towards this is for both of them to acknowledge that each of them is one half of a partnership, and that their abilities and sensibilities compliment one another, and should not create a shadow, like the one Nora is living under. Th ...

... descised as pleasure, the same way Montresor did this to Fortunato. Satan and Montresor are sneaky, insidious, and nefarious in their act towards Montressor and the world. This first characteristic that Montresor reveals in himself as Satan would is the characteristic of being sneaky. Montresor displays this in the cunning way he lures Fortunato into the catacombs to “taste” the Amontillado. This intrigued Fortunato’s senses because Montresor knew that Fortunato “prided himself in the connoisseurship of wine”. Montressor nonchalantly replies to Fortunato concerning the wine, “I have my doubts”. In other words, he blatantly blows Fortunato’s ego here by d ...

... took orders from no one, he made his own orders and everyone did as the old man said. When the old salesman, Dave Singleman dies, all the buyers came to his funeral. All the people Dave ever knew came. There were thousands mourning his death. From that point, Willy Loman found an awesome dream which he followed the rest of his life. Willy became a salesman. Willy is the most unqualified salesman ever! He never sold a thing. Willy stops seeing the truth at one point of his life and he relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain of knowing he cannot and wont be able to become Dave Singleman. He is Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the house. He ...

... and antagonists perspectives. While passing through the Thames with a group of other sailors, Marlow reminisces about how the land was once a place of darkness and uncivilized inhabitants. Beginning his story at dusk and finishing it in full darkness, Marlow speaks of how his dear aunt commissioned him a job aboard the fleet and of how he was sent down as an “emissary of light” to bring solace and transformation to an otherwise backward nation. His responsibility to the people of the Congo is evident when he sees the condition that the natives are in. In the beginning of the novella Marlow is repulsed by the state of the poor and starvin ...

... because they find her very attractive. This admiration of her continues through the entire story until men get tired of her or they just find her ugly. At first, Cunegund manages to controls her destiny by her solely utilizing her appearance. For example, when her father’s kingdom is ambushed and her family is slaughtered, the only the only reason she survives is because a Bulgarian captain takes pity on her. The Bulgarian captain finds Cunegund very attractive and he makes her his maid. He makes “her wash linen, cook victuals, and makes her take care of the house” (34). When the captain gets tired of her, he simply trades her away. He can trade her a ...

... Later, she discusses her “grief” caused by the “evil fate” that makes Caunus her brother (308-9). Myrrha points out her “misfortune” in having not been born to those tribes that would allow her to fulfill her desires. Instead she is “forlorn- denied the very man for whom [she longs]” (339). In Crane’s translation, Myrrha considers herself “most depraved” (on-line). All of these revelations compel readers to feel sorry for the girls in their situations; they seem to be victims of their desires. both denounce their passions. After Byblis awakes from dreaming intimately about her brother, she claims she would never want to see this scene in daylight (Mandelba ...

... daily before me. Instead of brooding and trying foolishly to pray, I could run and toam, mingle with the boys and girls, feel at home with people, share a little of life in common with others, satisfy my hunger to be and live.” Wright fills the chapter with a calm and mesmorizing tone; like that of a preecher drawing his audience into a hymm. Omisdt violence, under anger and fear, Wright converses with the reader as though he were a youth leader telling a story to a group of boyscouts outside by a campfire. His spellbounding words chant the reader into his world and produce a map through which the reader follows his life in the shadows of ...

... are not so religious and devoid of sin. Abby, a young seductress, was able to gain his attention while Elizabeth was bedridden. A fiery and passionate affair scared his relationship with his wife. Elizabeth struggles with his infidelity. When Reverend Hale questions the couple on the commandments, it is evident that there is still a void between her and John. All commandments could be recited except for adultery. In the puritan culture, adultery is a grievous sin, one punishable by death. She has to live through each day knowing that John was unfaithful, and that he did not fulfill the commitment of marriage. She feels hurt and betrayed, but what Abby tr ...