Irony In The Kugelmass Episode By Woody Allen

Protest! But sitting or kneeling on the National Anthem doesn’t resolve anything. All it has done is bring attention to this athlete. Who is under performing in the first place. Put your money where your mouth or in this case is protest is. Not only is he a millionaire but 90% of all his friends are. Create a mindshare group of your buddies, develop a plan and find a way to implement it - MAKE A DIFFERENCE to those who you claim you’re protesting for. You truly have the money, fame and platform to do something positive.

Most everyone longs for some type of satisfaction in life, whether it is a career, love, or accomplishing some sort of goal. However, many times when someone reaches the point at which they feel

In the short stories “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, irony is the main element used. Like many authors, these authors both use irony to their advantage. One story is about a hunter being hunted, an ironic twist, for a reason yet not stated. And the other is about a murder being committed using reverse psychology which takes place in a family catacomb with a fondness for wine ironically enabling the crime.

Perhaps it is safe to say that most everyone in the deranged world that we live in today aims for happiness. Some would even say we are simply slaves to our primal passions, shackled in our endless pursuit of fulfillments and shaping our existence around them. Gravitating towards the things in life that bring us pleasure, and recoiling away from those that could cause us pain. A lot of individuals think of happiness as an overall end goal, while others consider happiness the starting point of being great. Nevertheless, happiness is drawn from different things based off the individual.

Without doubt, Edgar Allan Poe’s story is one of the author’s masterpiece. The story is an exhibit of artistic genius with various literary features well incorporated. Among them, irony, defined as, “A figure of speech which is a contradiction or incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs”, is the most evident. Allan Poe demonstrates the use of various types of irony throughout the play, which he uses to pass the intended message to the audience.

Many different forms of figurative language I used throughout the story to exhilarate the irony. The opening description of Ethan is full of ironic expressions. Figurative language is also used to the describe reactions to events in the story. The author is very descriptive in this short story. The use of figurative language aids in description of events, the setting, mood, and characters’ appearance and response. Edith Wharton, the author, use of literary devices allows the story to come alive and to also require the reader to think deeply about the true meanings.

The desire satisfaction theory accommodates the thought which hedonism does not accommodate. According to the desire satisfaction theory, our lives go better when the world actually is a certain way, and doesn’t merely appear to be a certain way. An individual experiences pleasure when the desires are satisfied but it is not a guarantee that the desires cause pleasure.

We come into this world wanting things that are not ours, and things we do not deserve.

“For we may be said to desire all things as means to something else except indeed happiness, as happiness is the end or perfect state” (page 230, Mayfield). As Aristotle said that our ultimate goal is happiness but in order to reach happiness you have to succeed. “Relaxation then is not an end. We enjoy it as a means to activity; but it seems that the happy life is a life of virtue, and such a life is serious, it is not one of mere amusement. We speak of serious things too as better than things which are ridiculous and amusing, and of the activity of

There are certain things that are in the control of the humans, at the same time there are several things, which are not under the human’s control. Thus, to persist a happy life, the humans are required to put an end their desire such that the satisfaction of

“Happiness is in the enjoyment of man’s chief good. Two conditions of the chief good: 1st, Nothing is better than it; 2nd, it cannot be lost against the will” (Augustine 264-267). As human

cannot have it. And once it is attainable it does not look so golden anymore.

is beyond question that everyone is their own person; the American culture takes great pride in illustrating individuality just to embrace this idea. Each physical appearance to every human emotion is so unique that it takes years just to study one person, and even then there is uncertainty in aspects of personality and feelings. So why does society believe that every person need only one source of true happiness? The term contentment, meaning a state of happiness and satisfaction, stems from the Latin word contentus and came into use in late Middle English with the intent of denoting the payment of a claim. Contentment is the goal of humanity, and most think everyone’s source of contentment is the same and that there is only one common source

Attention Materials: Many times I have wondered what is true happiness. Is there such thing as true happiness? Can it even be attained if there is such a thing? Is it more of fulfilling desires, or satisfying psychological needs? Every person attempts to realize happiness in its fullest essence. It seems like today people are too busy trying to get rich. Nowadays it is believed that happiness lies in that new mansion, or a nice Ferrari. People are mistakingly assuming that wealth will bring to them a personal significance in which they will achieve happiness.

Humans are never content because, if any person is earning 2000 Dollars at this time a person is happy with that much. But after some time the same person will want to earn more because as a person earns as he or she Spent let’s suppose I am earning 2000 Dollars now days so according to that I eat I wear I use products and if my salary will increase from next month so then my expenses will increase as well even most richest persons are not content. I simply mean to say it’s a nature of Humans that they never be happy.