Marxist Criticism on The Importance of Being Earnest Excuse me Geoffrey, could you get me some more water. ... This is even demonstrated by the literature of our time and that of other era's, such as the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. ... He leaves room for these critiques when he writes about the servants, the nobles, and the middle class. ... There can be class structure in the world, but the need for class discrimination doesn't need to be there, and another interesting critique can be made of the nobles of that time. ... In the play The Importance of Being E...

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• Grade Level: High School

He talks about his beliefs as a Negro and being part of a minority group, which led to his decision to help fight in the Spanish Civil War. ... Rolfe talks about the importance of the "Salude" and what it means to the people of Spain who are caught up in warfare. ... Historical texts such as the artwork "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, the literary works of Earnest Hemmingway, along with old newspaper articles and critiques on these published within the Chronicle of the 20th century; also portray the passion of freedom for minority groups, and the concurring of fascist armis who tried to eliminate...

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He received the Berkeley gold medal for being the top student in Greek. ... His writing style includes social satire, critiquing social issues, and dealing with hypocrisy. For example, in "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar focuses on critiquing the myth of love and bond. ... This is quite unusual being that "The Picture of Dorian Gray" centers on the love between a young man and woman). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Pope here is showing the lack of differentially of importance amongst possessions, a loss is a loss, whether it be a lifelong partner or a furry friend. ... Thus pope's mock epic resembles a true epic in that central themes are serious and often moral, but the fact that approach must now be satirical opposed to earnest, which shows how far culture has fallen. ... He is further allowed critique of the situation through his supernatural machinery-Sylphs-with his satirical light he exonerates individual women from too severe judgement. ... Pope's use of language portrays the view ...

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Truths lie inside the inner soul of all human beings, it is just a matter of when and where they will come out. ... An epiphany, a passing glimpse, the realization of what he has created and destroyed, willingly, or blindly going about hacking through the jungle blindfolded, searching for something of extrinsic importance. ... I believe Conrad wanted his audience to judge for themselves the importance of Kurtz's words. ... The intricate woven fabric, with each tiny fiber being a thread of knowledge, experience, and lessons learned make up the blanket of our personality. ... A variable mon...

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Toynbee understands modern as referring to the historical phenomenon of The most significant of the conclusions that suggest themselves is that the word modern' in the term Modern Western Civilization', can, without inaccuracy, be given a more precise and concrete connotation by being translated middle class'. ... We think of the new chapter of Western history that opened at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as being modern' par excellence because, for the next four centuries and more, until the opening of a post-Modern Age' at the turn of...

• Word Count: 5543
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate