least, Stoker, like Harker, can be said to participate in a homoerotic lifestyle. Finally, and perhaps most influentially, Stoker saw a new definition of homosexuality based around the idea of a thirdspace become popular in the aftermath of his friend Oscar Wilde's trial and conviction in 1895. </body From <http://journals.sfu.ca/thirdspace/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/olson/66> <body Transylvania is also a site of gender inversion for Harker. Throughout his stay at the
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comment about the dramatic genre of comedy is relevant to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest? The philosopher and literary critic Sigmund Freud agreed with Bentley’s statement on the dramatic genre of comedy, agreeing that ‘every joke contains an element of seriousness; a joke is never just a joke’. Wilde uses many aspects of comedy to back this opinion. The character of Lady Bracknell was created as a comic tool by Wilde to generate fun for the audience; her dialogue is essentially
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The short story The short story -- Alice Munro an exception, (perhaps) -- is an illustration of one facet of human nature. Often a character undergoes some event and experiences something which offers him change. This is why it's said that short stories usually "say something", often a narrow or small something, but sometimes delivered with such precision that the effect is exquisite, even a life-moment for the reader, something akin to a religious experience or seeing a never-to-be-repeated scene
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Kitchen written by Banana Yoshimoto and the play The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde. While the main characters Mikage in the novella and Gwendolyn in the play reflect the shifting role of women in the Japanese society and Victorian era respectively, Yuichi and Algernon, on the other hand, however reflects the role of men through unconventional means. Through subtle use of symbolism, Banana Yoshimoto and Oscar Wilde highlights to what extent these two characters accurately reflect the role of
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“The real importance of Earnest is the thrill of brilliant repartee. And as we laugh, an amazing thing happens: Oscar Wilde comes alive.” The Washington Post commends the 2002 comedic motion picture version of Oscar Wilde’s well-known play The Importance of Being Earnest. The director, Oliver Parker, maintained the farcical humor of the original play while integrating cinematic staging elements such as elaborate costumes and deft acting to seamlessly create a new depiction of Wilde’s notorious play
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Oscar Wilde once said “Any fool can make history, but takes a genius to write it”, but how does one interpret this quote? This quote means anyone, regardless of their education, can create history as long as one does something significant. However, it does require someone who is well educated to record history. One needs to be well educated in order to avoid bias, and document down all important events as accurate as possible. For example, many Japanese soldiers went down in history as a result
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Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through
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Oscar Wilde uses setting in the opening of his novel, ‘Dorian Gray’, in a similar way yet different way to Iain Banks and his novel ‘The Wasp Factory’. Wilde uses nature to set the tone for one of the major themes of his novel as he describes the air smelling like “the rich odour of roses”. The adjectives “rich” and odour” connote intensity and this may exemplify the plot of the novel as it possesses density and deep and meaning, especially with the philosophical Henry Wotton who poses statements
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attitudes to marriage and respectability satirised in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’? Oscar Wilde uses the play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ to mock and ridicule the attitudes and popular conceptions towards marriage and respectability of the upper class in his own time which he believed to be purely superficial. Through the use of controversial satirical caricatures- in particular Lady Bracknell - Wilde often exaggerates behaviour and language when addressing the topic of marriage to instigate
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Comedy of Manners as Wilde as immediately introduces some of the key ideas behind his satire of the middle classes, for example triviality and a lack of moral values. The setting of a flat on Half Moon Street immediately gives a sense of affluence. The description of the furniture with the adverbs ‘luxuriously and artistically’ deliberately focuses on aesthetic and makes no reference to substance or function, which reflects the superficiality of the upper classes whom Wilde will be satirising throughout
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