I want to write about how Shylock is both a villain and a victim. I feel, personally, that one of my best characteristics is to be able to be understanding of people’s perspective. In this Shylock’s case, I feel that …
After reading this long, and at times, hard to follow play I believe that Portia is the protagonist of the play as the dramatic events and her heroism in pretending to be a lawyer and receiving the rings as payment …
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The purpose and description of the setting is very important to the context and overall tone Oscar Wilde attempts to set for his characters. Wilde describes the scene, “Garden at the manor house. …
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Both The Importance of Being Earnest and Pygmalion are set in the early 20th century, but their issues are still highlighted in the 21st century, especially pertaining to marriage. In The Importance of Being Earnest lady bracknell (mother) of the …
Social class disparity is evident in both Shaw and Wilde’s theatrical plays. Both plays have a timeframe setting of late 19th or early 20th century England. Both author’s appear to place an importance not just on economic class standing but also …
The setting in the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, was simple but allowed for the plot to began and create the theme for the play. To summarize the setting I would say that the play starts in the quarters of …
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This week I was selected to do this week’s forum on a poem written by Langston Hughes called, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” As I learn about the different critical approaches, I have related the historical critical lens and the …
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I was assigned Uphill by Christina Rossetti. I feel that the two most useful methods of interpreting this poem is going to be Analytical and Psychoanalytic methods. The Analytical method is going to take us down the road of looking that …
The poem I was assigned this week was Walk Whitman’s “Out of the “Cradle Endlessly Rocking”. I definitely had to read this poem several times but as I did, I began to see more and more and things started to …
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The poem I got assigned this week is “Go Down, Moses” which is actually a hymn. It was first published in the Jubilee Songs (1872) and made popular by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. The two critical approaches that …