YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Irony in Rite of Passage by Sharon Olds
Essays 151 - 180
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
great deal of information about the Birlings, even before they speak. It is a family dinner, but the setting is extremely formal a...
sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....
This essay focuses on the humor and Irony in Robert Frost's poems. The poems discussed are "Mending Wall," "Stopping by Woods on a...
This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
In five pages this paper considers the way these playwrights revealed social criticism through the irony of their respective plays...
In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...
the god Apollo sees" but Teiresias has not come (Sophocles 36). This initial perception of Teiresias capacity and Oedipus convict...
In five pages this research paper examines how irony is used in these tragedies in a comparison and contrast of characters and the...
Polybus, and his queen, Merope. After he is grown, Oedipus is told by a drunken man at a banquet that he really isnt the son of Po...
In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...
In five pages Robinson's poem is analyzed in terms of the poet's use of irony as a way of revealing how a wealthy man's life can b...
In five pages this paper examines how irony heightens the tragedy in William Shakespeare's Othello. There are no other sources li...
In three pages this paper analyzes how Shakespeare employed dramatic irony in these 2 plays. There are no other sources listed....
follow; and without irony, there would exist no sense of the dramatic. II. CHARACTERIZATION In Ibsens A Doll House, the characte...
In five pages this paper subjects Ibsen's social drama to a literary analysis that focuses on characterization, plot, and irony. ...
In six pages this paper examines irony as it shapes character development and relationships. Five sources are cited in the biblio...
is socioeconomic status. They point to evidence that there is a higher prevalence of abuse and a greater use of punishment in low...
In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...
In two pages Dennis O'Rourke's 1987 documentary is analyzed especially in terms of its effective employment of both irony and humo...
In five pages this paper discusses the novel's structure in terms of the influence of irony in its reinforcement. There are no ot...
In five pages this paper examines the translation of this story by Saikaku in a consideration of 2 themes and irony as used by the...
want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...
In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...
add that "Irony is likely to be confused with sarcasm but it differs from sarcasm in that it is usually lighter, less harsh in its...
In five pages these works are compared in a consideration of peace and issues of heroism along with war irony and symbolism as ref...
dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....