"A great text is full of important ideas and messages" The plays The Importance of Being Earnest, and An Ideal Husband, composed by Oscar Wilde, are both great texts, as they discuss the important messages of love, truth, social classes and the idea of Art over Nature. ... In The Importance of Being Earnest, John Worthing adopts the name Ernest to win beautiful Gwendolen's love. ... It is this fact that makes The Importance of Being Earnest such a great text: it rejected all the mundane conventions of its day. ... In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde explores the themes of love, s...

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Perhaps the single reason that Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest has endured as one of the greatest and most popular works of literature to emerge from Victorian England is its brilliant wit, which conveys both humor and social satire. ... The Importance of Being Earnest, like so many of his works, focused on the elite, and while making fun of their absurdities and excesses, it also reveled in their witty banter and rambunctious lives. ... In the figure of Lady Bracknell in particular, The Importance of Being Earnest lightly shows the limitations and unhappiness produced by su...

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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. ... The events and attitudes revealed in these letters seem to be consistent with many other primary historical texts circling in society during the Spanish Civil War, and secondary texts which describe and account the event. Historical texts such as the artwork "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, the literary works of Earnest Hemmingway, al...

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Through his descriptive text Confucius breaks down many aspects of the expectations of ruling forces. ... He is to be earnest and faithful, overflowing in his love for living beings and intimate with those who are humane" (45). ... Being able to recognize oneself in others, one is on the way to become humane" ( 50). ... Confucius described the five characteristics to becoming humane as respect, liberality, trustworthiness, earnestness and kindness. ... The king must place the importance upon the upright, and put them over the crooked. ...

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Through his descriptive text Confucius breaks down many aspects of the expectations of ruling forces. ... He is to be earnest and faithful, overflowing in his love for living beings and intimate with those who are humane" This idealistic view embraces the moral ideologies that Confucius sought after. ... Being able to recognize oneself in others, one is on the way to become humane" . ... Confucius described the five characteristics to becoming humane as respect, liberality, trustworthiness, earnestness and kindness. ... The king must place the importance upon the upright, and put them over...

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Earnest Hemingway was a very well-known and highly praised American author who greatly influenced fiction literature in the twentieth century. ... Another way that he achieved this strategy was being very particular and wise about word choice. ... This proves that Hemingway paid great attention to syntax and did not use a lot of adjectives or unnecessary description to take away from the importance of what he wrote. ... Lastly, Hemingway was much known for the technique he used to convey theme and purpose called the iceberg principle, which is when he added depth to his stories by hiding deepe...

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The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. ... Through it all, she tells her story in such earnest that modern readers can almost hear abolitionists and colonialists of Prince's time gasping, "It wasn't that bad, was it?... For this reason, the narrative is often criticized as being, in A. ... Sexual assaults are not stated outright in the text, but are alluded to. ... Likewise, writing of being forced to bathe Mr. ...

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That is why, this essay is dedicated to highlight the importance of family through Jane's quest to find a substitute family and a sense of belonging in her journey for independence. ... Reed, Jane was to be differentiated until she "was endeavoring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner " something lighter, franker, more natural " (Bronte, 2006, p. 9). ... That is why being orphan makes Jane an outsider from Reeds family as well as the larger society. ... She helps Jane, particularly when she is humiliated in fr...

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Paulo Freire analyses the disadvantages of education with no critical thinking involved in his The Banking Concept of Education which argue the importance of the interaction between the students and the teacher. ... The exams were based on pure memorization of the text. ... Yet it was not necessarily harder, since during the critical thinking process I did get a taste of "being alive" - making critical observation, self interpretations, and combining of what is heard and learned to be my own knowledge. ... Being oppressed by this worldly view on pursuing efficiency, we all have been attempte...

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He rejects the monastic ways, of silence and prayer, as being out-dated, where he says "Thilke text heeld he nat worth an oystre", and that he is for the "newe world". ... This line of reasoning is being repeated sarcastically, since this suggestion makes a mockery of his religious craft, and is so absurd, though the Monk himself does not realise this. ... Continuing on the theme of misplaced interests, the Prioress is described, without supposedly realising the importance, as a lady obsessed not with her religious duties, as one in charge of a nunnery should be, but with looking and acting a...

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It was performed in front of a xenophobic, Elizabethan audience who were not particularly well educated or literate but they understood the complexities of the issues being raised in the play and would have been less sympathetic towards Shylock than a modern day audience. ... The city was also a trading centre of great importance; Venice itself was a Catholic city and was politically independent. ... Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?? ... Portia, in effect, personifies mercy as being like the qualities of a king. ... Shylock is being forced to convert his religion. ...

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Introduction Many events of the 18th century impacted the abolition of Slavery. In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. It first started in the United States when Ch...

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The true definition of what makes a feminist text remains undecided, but can largely be received in light of strong female characters, social commentary, themes and the political stance taken by the author. ... The first person narration is personal, intimate, and we come to know Jane as a three-dimensional character as opposed to the 'automaton' she feels accused of being. ... Jane's actions in escaping Thornfield after discovering Bertha Mason would have been considered fiercely controversial in context- for a mere governess to cast off her one chance of financial security w...

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They believe that there was one pervasive Supreme Being who is all things known and unknown, both Creator yet defined through his creation. ... According to Hinduism, divine beings exist in unseen worlds. ... He, being a man of reserved temperament and an addict to prayer and fasting, was subject to epilepsy. ...

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Therefore, readers appreciate s poetry, as they are almost taken in by the fallacious pseudo-logic, seeing the brilliance of the deception, and then seeing that there was a point being made. ... Wide variety of rhythmic patterns - Wide-ranging emotionally - Earnest and challenging, even when appearing casual, never trivial - Struggle between spiritual and bodily impulses - New use of old poetic forms: 1. ... His tone is personal and he speaks earnestly and directly, exploring a full range of emotions. ... Courtly love seems to depend on the lover being unsuccessful, whereas Donne rej...

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"And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the invisible world, or the dull conversation of the ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of response; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant." ... "To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordianry voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed". ...

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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...

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