“The Escape” là một trong những truyện ngắn đặc sắc của W.S Maugham.The Escape vừa mới ra đời đã gây ra một sự tò mò và hiếu kỳ của độc giả.Truyện hấp dẫn không chỉ ở nội dung, cốt truyên mà còn ở ý nghĩa, bà họcmà tac giả muốn gửi gắm tới bạn đọc. Truyện là kết tinh những trãi nghiệm,tìm hiểu, khám phá của nhà văn về cuộc sống và nghệ thuật. Để cảm thụ sâu sắc hơn, chúng ta cùng nhau đi vào tìm hiểu những lát cắt tạo nên giá trị tác phẩm. I. Nội dung The Escape là một câu chuyện xoay quanh hai
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He established this church in 2014. The irony being the building used to be a place of sin. A bar room that was filled with people drinking sorrows away, rather than praising them away with the power of the holy spirit. The individuals who went to his old church then starting attending his new
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Shakespeare's great use of irony, helped this play become so popular. Verbal irony is when the speaker says the opposite of what they mean. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters don’t know. One theme or lesson you can take from this play is , “The course of true love never did run smooth” (1.1.134). https://www.shmoop.com/midsummer-nights-dream There are a lot of examples of dramatic irony in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. One example was when Titania fell in love with
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Irony is a part of our everyday life, and most times we fail to even realize it. It can be difficult to notice if you are not expecting it. Irony plays a great role in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello. Most of the irony in the play relates to the main villain in the play, Iago, who is motivated by his jealousy. Iago is jealous of Othello’s military success and Cassio being promoted to Othello’s lieutenant position instead of himself. Iago plans to take revenge against Othello by manipulating
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Ms. Dobeck English 3,4 14 December 2016 Right and Wrong The Stranger by Albert Camus shows plenty of irony because Meursault was killed unjustly. The crisis of Meursault being killed is a serious problem because he is mentally unstable and the jury should have acknowledged it. Through Meursault’s death Albert Camus suggests that he was unlawfully killed. The author uses irony to illustrate how people can be wrongly convicted in the federal justice system. For example the speaker says
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Juliet is one of the most famous plays ever written. Shakespeare wrote this tragic play in 1595 about two star crossed lovers. In the play, Shakespeare included several literary devices like dramatic irony, soliloquy, and monologue. These made the play more interesting and gave it more detail. Dramatic irony was included in many parts of the story. “Thy lips are warm.” (Act 5, Scene 3) Juliet stated this after Romeo consumed poison and she kissed him. As a reader of the play, we have knowledge of Romeo
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Shirley Jackson wrote about these events by using various literary terms such as imagery, irony, and tone. Shirley Jackson uses these literary terms in her story to make her readers understand how these two women felt after being turned on. In The Lottery and The possibility of evil both have different types of irony that occurs throughout these stories. In The Lottery Shirley Jackson used situational irony. When people hear the title The Lottery most people would assume that it would be a positive
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thought that he was going to get away without a consequence, but he did suffer a consequence, his grave - guilt and regret. In "The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe utilizes situational irony and tone to express the theme that revenge is sometimes a fruitless and damaging experience. For example, Poe uses situational irony to convey Montresor’s feelings about taking revenge on Fortunato. Before Fortunato’s murder, Montresor couldn’t wait to kill him and to get the satisfaction he desires. Just thinking
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explains how meaningful life is. Kurt Vonnegut takes readers back into WWII with Billy’s wild encounters. Billy thinks about how life is meaningless and it never ends, just repeats and repeats. Kurt Vonnegut uses a lot of black humor and a lot of irony throughout this novel. Corresponding of this, readers are able to realize the disgust of the war, but at the same time laugh at some of the absurd situations Billy goes through. Vonnegut beautifully shows that life is simultaneously worthwhile and
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movie Home Alone have many examples of irony. One is verbal irony. It states on page 61 “There is a town down there and it is as flat as a pancake. It is called Summit”. That shows verbal irony because a town can not be as flat as a pancake. In Home Alone, it states “say goodnight Kevin” and Kevin said “goodnight Kevin”, and she didn’t mean for Kevin to say goodnight to himself. The movie ad short story hav many examples of irony. One is situational irony. On page 75 in Ransom of Red Chief “ Bill
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