Sentimentality, By Anthony Savile And Oscar Wilde

In today’s society, young girls have been taught to believe in their perfect Cinderella wedding where they will marry their Prince Charming in a beautiful dress and eventually live happily ever after. The film industry portrays marriage as picture perfect, in which every girl has their dream wedding and true love always finds its way. Contrary to the media’s view, marriage was not always a fairy-tale because women had the responsibility to help provide for their family. During the English Regency period, young girls married for financial security and social benefits to improve their family’s status. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet rebelled against this mainstream idea of marriage set by society, in order to marry for true love.

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813(Gary vii) a time when women had “few legal and economic rights or even receiving little respect, women can be seen as oppressed victims of a patriarchal society, subordinate first to their fathers and, then, to their husbands who had, of course, been selected by their fathers” (Swords, 76-82). At first glance one might think that Pride and Prejudice reinforces sexist stereotypes, however upon further examination of Jane Austen and her heroine Elizabeth it is clear that Pride and Prejudice in fact erodes the sexist stereotypes of women.

Although everyone is their own individual, society determines who is considered “normal.” In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon struggles to fit in with the people around him because of his mental illness. Elie Wiesel faces the same struggles while trying to survive in a concentration camp in Night. Charlie and Elie have both been challenged by the concept of identity. In Flowers for Algernon and Night, these characters have faced many conflicts including not having their identity accepted by society, having insecurities about their identity, and being mistreated based on their identity.

Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonestly may be intended either to help or to hurt. In Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen, George Wickham deceives the characters within the novel. Wickham fooled the Bennet family, especially Lydia, and attempted to fool Mr. Darcy and his young, innocent sister. Wickham purposefully lied to these characters to benefit himself and continue to live in his lavish lifestyle.

This notion is a product of logical positivism, feelings do not provide a utilitarian value, someone could not use feelings to power a car or turn on a light bulb. As a result a logical positivist would find feelings to be useless. Gaius and Titius could have redeemed the importance of feelings and statements with a predicate of value, but they continue to dig a hole for themselves. They use an ad for a cruise as an example of bad literature, they are correct in the fact it is bad literature, but Lewis does not think it should stand alone. He says if Gaius and Titius are to “teach their readers (as they promised to do) the art of English composition, it was their business to put this advertisement side by side with passages

Pride and prejudice is a novel that was written by Jane Austen concerning manners, pride and intolerance. Austen is a writer of distinction that manages to catch the attention of the audience in issues such as marriage, class, love and deceit. The novel is a love story; however, its author was also aimed at explaining the unfairness and discrimination that presides over the relationships that exists between people as well as how it impacts the choices of men and women. She was also concerned about how women make decisions concerning marriage. Austen depicts a society where different choices for people are rather limited, on the basis of almost entirely on a family 's connections and social ranking (Austen, 13). Austen 's novel “Pride and Prejudice” brings into spotlight various critical moral concerns in relation to the subject of the institution of marriage as well as other significant issues related to it.

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Wyndham Lewis recognizes, “Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.” Most readers don't recognize this until they feel insulted, mostly due to the fact that humans don’t acknowledge their lifestyle flaws until others make them known. This concept has come to be the brick and mortar of the wry play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde was written in the Victorian Age of England. During this time morality was connected with sexual restraint and strict codes of conduct in public. This play hilariously critiques Victorian moral and social values while the characters in the play try to figure out the meaning of “earnestness”. Wilde uses humor and irony to publicly ridicule the self-aggrandizing attitude of the Victorian upper classes, as well as to expose their duplicity and hypocrisy in regards to their social behaviors.

The inability to feel emotions makes someone not fully human and in the book, Lois Lowry shows the devastating consequences of suppressing emotions. WIthout emotions and feelings, we are not so different than robots. Because of this, emotionless humans can be easily led and controlled by the command of someone with a higher position. Consequently, the Elders can order around the citizens without any objections. After all, it only takes a certain amount of anger to revolt. Not only they are deprived of the opportunity to be unhappy, but also the opportunity to be happy. They do not experience envy or jealousy, but they also don’t experience love or sexual desire. The only exception is when the Giver shares memories of love and pain does Jonas understand what he and the community has been missing. Somehow, the community doesn’t understand that it’s not possible to experience positive emotions without negative emotions. Even negative emotions can lead towards a good result, such as leaving a bad relationship or overthrowing a tyrant. But the people in the community cannot make their own choices because they cannot feel anything. After I read the book, I realized that to feel is to be

the natural power of emotions. One of the most famous authors is William Shakespeare, he had written acts 400 years ago, his era was when people around the world started to study and teach themselves natural philosophy of life, this means that Shakespeare had a very deep thought on how the emotions are controlled by nature. In every work of his, he has included every possible clues to make his message clear, but we realize his message now, in the modern period. Among the tragic novels is “Romeo and Juliet”, this act has made its message to us clearly, and gave us an example of how emotions work with us.

Hume believes that we have instances where we start with the instant reaction of sentiment but when we lack the ability to reason we loose the ability to explain why we have sentiment. Nevertheless in cases, such as fine art, we need reasoning in order to produce the feelings of sentiment.

What are emotions? Emotions are a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, or mood that would trigger an emotion. In the science fiction novel, The Giver written by Louis Lowry, a character named Jonas, lives in the community where feelings that average people have nowadays are not show At the ceremony of twelve you are assigned your job that you will pursue for the rest of your life. The job that you are assigned you did ot get to chose indicating that the society might make the wrong decision. In the novel Jonas left the community to bring back everybody’s memories before the society changed at that decision resulted in a positive way because the government does not control what the people think anymore, Jonas becoming a hero giving back all the memories and the emotions so the people can feel, finally all the people can know how life was like before the society was created, and the history behind this utopia.

The Importance of Being Earnest written by Oscar Wilde takes place in 1895 and exposes the hypocritical social expectations of the end of the Victorian era. During the Victorian period, marriage was about protecting your resources and keeping socially unacceptable impulses under control. The play undeniable reveals and focuses satire around differences between the behaviors of the upper class and that of the lower class. Oscar Wilde uses comedic symbolism of specific objects and witty satire to uncover a flawed society and its views on marriage.

Vanity and undeniable ego are characteristics of self-destructive properties. In the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde shows how these can lead to a man’s downfall. He displays this through the character of Dorian Gray. The novel explains how as Dorian grows up and through his life, he is ultimately destroyed by his own ego, vanity and inability to change or realize how what he does affects not only him but the lives of those around him. Dorian Gray struggles throughout the novel with the daunting facts that he is Vane, has an enormous ego and cannot realize the full extent of his own actions