Almost every single person that has ever lived has pride. Almost everyone takes pride in what they accomplish. (Hook) Whether that be earning a promotion or earning a spot on the football team pride helps keep people going. (Transition) These are both examples of positive pride. However, there is another type of pride which is corrosive to the narrator. This pride corrupts causing a person to become arrogant and shortsighted. This is a flaw is apparent in the narrators of many short stories. (Thesis)
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J.D. Salinger's repeated use of the word "phony" to describe characters illustrates the protagonist's internal conflict toward accepting adulthood. Holden Caulfield perceives reality with a cynical point of view. For example, he deems Mr. Spencer's remark, "Life is a game that one plays according to the rules," as shallow and superficial (Salinger 11). Through indirect characterization, readers ascertain that Caulfield is repulsed by hypocrisy and disingenuous appearances. In addition, Caulfield
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the characters in Othello as well as the author, Shakespeare. We learn how Othello's race makes him different and a outsider from the rest of society. We look at the beliefs of the characters, which in Othello they believe strongly in Christianity, this is where they get their beliefs and opinions of the world. The cultural lens also looks at how their culture shaped who they are and how they act/treat others in particular women. Cultural Criticism is seen all throughout Othello. From how Iago and
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Gene’s Slowly Growing Green-Eyed Monster “It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock. The meat it feeds on.” This quote from William Shakespeare’s “Othello” portrays jealousy in an accurate way. In John Knowles’ novel, “A Separate Peace,” Gene Forrester is the host body of this “green-the eyed monster.” When I first read this novel, I noticed that as Gene’s emulousness grows, more beleaguered he becomes. Gene’s best friend Phineas is an extraordinary athlete. Gene instinctively caused him to
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In Thomas C. Foster’s Chapter 11 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, “...More Than it’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence,”compares violence in literature to violence in the real world. Violence in literature can mean a lot of things and be a lot of things like “symbolic, thematic, biblical, Shakespearean, Romantic, allegorical, transcendent,” etc. while violence in the real world is exactly as it sounds, aggressive and mean (Foster 95). Joseph Conrad killed off his characters by having
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The evolution of pirates from their villainous golden age status to their near legendary standing in eyes today is derived from numerous revisions of the piratical phenotype that have arisen throughout the past three hundred years in both literature and popular culture alike. The development of a love struck pirate, however is unquestionably the most important evolution to the pirate phenotype, undoubtedly responsible for transforming figures who, in their day were regarded as the scum of the earth
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“Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.” This proverb would’ve been crucial if Othello had heard this before he killed his wife, Desdemona. Although there were supposed signs that she was being unfaithful to him, it would’ve done him better to actively look into the situation first. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, deception is used to distort Othello’s perception of Desdemona from being a faithful wife to a shameless whore. But how did such a malicious image
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Othello has one major character flaw: his jealousy and gullibility which causes him to consistently fall for Iago’s lies. It is the prime emotion that Iago had suggested to him in Act 3 of the play and serves as the major driving factor that slowly begins to consume Othello. Iago believes that he is knowledgeable on the subject, having practically engraved in his wife's head that jealousy is a normal characteristic of men; however, it is fairly dim compared to the storm he’d spurred in Othello’s
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Hello and welcome to another episode of Othello Exposed, where we delve beneath the words and into the mind of Shakespeare to see the meaning behind his plays. As discussed in our recent episode The making of show, back in 1604 when Othello was first performed there were many racial ideologies towards black Africans–although they were not yet regarded as slaves, ‘the black race was considered inferior’ (shakespearetheater.org). Shakespeare was inspired and constantly looked to challenge his audience
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Othello In the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare, there is a wide variety of Criticism examples. One that is very distinct is Feminist Criticism. The time period in which “Othello” is set plays a key role in why the ladies where seen as lower than the male gender. Shakespeare makes it clear in all his scenes women were thought less of and seen as peasants bound by their husbands’ will. Two characters in this play, Emilia and Iago, show up an abundant amount of times confronted with the criticism
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