Dramatic Irony play's a trivial part in drama. Dramatic Irony is: incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the occupying words or actions that is understood by the audience, but is not by the characters in the play ( American Heritage) Horace says, "Whose man graces. ... This excerpt was taken from The School for Wives and the passage is an example of dramatic irony because it is ironic that Horace is telling Arnolphe about this "dolt" not knowing that he is referring to him. Irony is often used in novels, the definition of Irony is quite similar; "The use of words to expr...

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The Role of Secondary Characters in the Plague and the Metamorphosis In the novels The Metamorphosis and The Plague the role of secondary characters is a crucial one. ... In contrast to much of Kafka's fiction, The Metamorphosis has not a sense of incompleteness. ... This change represents her metamorphosis from adolescence into adulthood but at the same time it marks the final demise of Gregor. ... In strange irony, he tells the story of a Bishop who exiles himself in an ancient time of plague only to have "corpses rained down on his head." ... Gregor's reaction to the violin p...

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Salinger's respective masterpieces, The Metamorphosis (1915) and The Catcher in the Rye (1951), examine the universal themes of personal relationships within the context of painful change. ... When Gregor's manager visits, the morning of Gregor's metamorphosis, Gregor says, "Sir! ... Kafka adds humor and irony with the modifier "if possible," which only serves to exacerbate Gregor's pain at being totally abandoned. ... Though Metamorphosis and Catcher are distinctively different in style and in content, the protagonists of each struggle with the same themes...

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But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other" (Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories, page 197). ... An element of realistic irony is present in this sentence as it is shown in the form of a confession. ... Just like in The Metamorphosis where Gregor became a cockroach-like insect, in this case the man is brought down to the same (or maybe even a lower) level as the fleas. ... By using the parable structure, Kafka brings a level of irony to the story as the bureaucracies of such religious and political systems that are being raised to question becomes appare...

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Oxymoron and ironies give an additional meaning for the reader. ... The ancient idea of metamorphosis is also expressed in Shakespeare's comedy. ... Bottom transforming into an ass was a good example of metamorphosis. ...

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A journey is the metamorphosis of perspective and development of a traveller, which can result in dissolution, or enlightenment. ... The irony is as Michael senior leads his son to the literal town of Perdition; he also, through his criminal deeds, consequently leads his son down the road he himself has led: a road to perdition, or eternal damnation for the sins he has committed. ...

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One can see that irony is the platform that brings about entertainment in Vonnegut's tale. ... The irony is that the reason the three didn't burn his body right away was to see a ceremony for a group of soldiers who were trying to help save the world, and this ceremony, in a sense, ended the world. ... Another truth of life that can be seen through allegory is a theme that Kafka discusses in The Metamorphosis, the enslavement of man to the forces of materialism. ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralp...

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"Fire is the omnipresent image through which Bradbury frames metamorphosis and rebirth. ... It is the ultimate irony, almost poetic, that in all of his mentioning of censorship, he is the one censored in the end. ...

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Nora's reaction is overt, contributing to the irony of the scene; elements of dialogue and character business reveal her horror and shame: When the children ask to come in and play with her, Nora exclaims, "No, no, no, don't let them come in to me!... Note how staging, specifically Nora's costume, reflects this metamorphosis: Nora changes out of her costume, symbolic of shedding her false persona, her old self, and she "enters into her regular clothes,"" symbolic of her entrance into this new, truer, life (1096). ...

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The irony is looked at as Gandhi receiving educational assistance from the society in which he later feels aversion towards. ... "Gandhi's early political career transpired only though his moral metamorphosis. ...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of life and the patterns that society are prone to following. This brought about curiosity and the religious affiliated explanations were no longer sufficient. The dissatisfaction for many, and believing mindlessly in something with no real evidence was intolerable. Society's ...

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Major themes in which Samuel Beckett illustrates is religion, eternal return, and metamorphosis or lack there of. ... Instead, they heed the cries of desperation and seize the opportunity to immerse themselves in a game of suffering that does nothing but increase their own.The scene in which the suffering protagonists deliver blows to another defenseless creature projects a bitter irony: sufferers promote suffering in their search for salvation"(Karic 239). ... In Friedrich Nietzsche novel Thus Spake Zarathustra, it deeply explains the themes of free-will, religion, eternal return, and me...

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Henri Talon, the author of the critical essay "Irony in Lord of the Flies" states, "The game is a game no longer. ... This encompasses the full metamorphosis of the boys into savagery. ...

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Hoffmann's Kater Murr(1820/21), and James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner(1824) are four novels of the earlier nineteenth century which develop their irony through varieties of structural bifurcation. ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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