1. lapham's views on money
The only thing that weakens this article is in the last paragraph where she states, "For all that the maiden is figured as an aristocratic lady, especially, of course, in the eyes of the Jeweller, her diction also engages very precisely with the mercantile. Just as her register is not sustainedly aristocratic, neither is her use of figurative diction insistently courtly." ...
This corruption of chivalry stretches even to the language of the text itself; we see a distinct corruption of courtly diction within the novel; "using double entendres to reveal the ambiguities and duplicities concealed in words themselves," (Alstad 158). For example, he parodies courtly diction in letter 47 which includes the words "la situation où je suis en vous écrivant me fait connaitre, plus que jamais, a puissance irrésistible de l'amour," a point of dramatic irony, as it is also revealed that the naked courtesan Emilie's body has served as ...
William Shakespeare has come to be known as arguably the finest sculptor of language through his plays and poems. Many of his plays are so remarkable, not necessarily because of the complex issues they raise, but rather the ideals they "challenge-. Shakespeare's tragedies are notorious for startin...
Pretty Woman is an appropriation of the play by Bernard Shaw called Pygmalion, because it's characters, plot and central theme can all be closely linked. Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in character development similar to each other. Both women come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and through the help of their male counterparts, in the text, achieve confidence and self worth. Through the women's evolution of self, the narrative also enables the reader to see t...