I will attempt to answer the question: Who is the protagonist in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The story for me was difficult to comprehend and follow, so I decided to watch a version of the play on YouTube. I will …
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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The purpose and description of the setting is very important to the context and overall tone Oscar Wilde attempts to set for his characters. Wilde describes the scene, “Garden at the manor house. …
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Both The Importance of Being Earnest and Pygmalion are set in the early 20th century, but their issues are still highlighted in the 21st century, especially pertaining to marriage. In The Importance of Being Earnest lady bracknell (mother) of the …
Social class disparity is evident in both Shaw and Wilde’s theatrical plays. Both plays have a timeframe setting of late 19th or early 20th century England. Both author’s appear to place an importance not just on economic class standing but also …
The setting in the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, was simple but allowed for the plot to began and create the theme for the play. To summarize the setting I would say that the play starts in the quarters of …
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Phillis Wheatley’s On Being Brought from Africa to America is a short eight-line poem that is written in a closed poetic form. The poet writes the poem with first-hand experience, having been brought to the United States as a slave from Africa. …
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. I was quite surprised to have this selected for me because this was one that I’m quite familiar with as I have heard the song many times. It always seemed to me to be a very cheerful and patriotic …
This Land Is Your Land” by Woodie Guthrie Overview Read more »
This poem is written in iambic tetrameter and there are elements of rhyming and repetition. The last word in each line rhymes with the last word of the line before, for every two lines. The repetition of the line “live …
Starting off, I am not much of a poetry reader so understanding this poem was a bit challenging for me. It is clear enough to be understood as a poem written by a man to a women that he highly desires. Not …
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During this week’s lesson I was nervous to dive into poems because I know there are many different spectrums poems can fall under. A lot of times I have to read one poem at least 3 times to have an …
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