The Cherry Orchard

He has a typical upper class Englishmen personality of the time in which satire was used many times. His extravagance, nonsense, irresponsibility are all qualities that make one laugh at his careless personality. He throws expensive parties, even though he is in a state of being in debt. As Lady Bracknell points out, “he has nothing but his debts to depend upon.” A great example of satire is when Jack tries to force Algernon to leave his estate.

He does not feel anything toward women and in fact, refers to them as “the lower race” (1) and that “their beauty aroused hatred in him and the lace on their linen reminded him of scales” (118). As the story ends, the readers learn about Gurov’s consciousness and that his feelings towards women have changed. The motive for his alteration begins with Gurov’s love for Anna, and later these feelings makes him “sleepless and restless” because of continuous thinking and dreaming about Anna.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

The Monkey Garden by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of a young girl’s loss of childhood innocence. The story is narrated by a mature woman remembering her initiation into adolescence through the images and events that occurred in an unused neighborhood lot. She is not ready to mature into adolescence and uses her imagination to transform the lot into a fantasy garden--a place where she can hide from the adult world.

A story, of any type, is greatly affected by the characters’ outlook on life. A bright, hopeful main character will give the narrative a more lighthearted feel, and cause the reader to feel encouraged and satisfied. If the character has a negative perspective, however, it can elicit sadness, pity, or even irritation from the reader. In Voltaire’s Candide and Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilyich, two characters with very different worldviews are displayed. The lighthearted Candide maintained an attitude of cheerfulness and perseverance even through the hardships of his life, which stems from his deep love and care for others, while the coldhearted despair of Ivan Ilyich is only intensified into anger by the feigned optimism of those around him.

2. Explain Miller’s use of comic relief at the beginning of this act. How is this scene ambiguous?

This self-description of the narrator says it all. He gives a brutal, yet inflated description of himself and his friends that gives the reader a very round main character.

The presence of subtext is the hidden unspoken intention behind a character’s words and actions. It is the playwright’s intention for a play. Much can be gathered from the implications shown throughout a play, including reflections of any socio-political or cultural concerns the dramatist has. The dramatic importance of subtext is reinforced through thematic elements, and the use of symbolism shown through contrasting characters. This essay will explore these techniques, providing specific examples through a

The Alcott Family tried to make a utopia where they could live off the land and return as closely to the Garden of Eden as possible. But the Fruitlands utopia had many noticeable flaws in the plan. Established in 1843 in Harvard,Massachusetts it was poorly planned and based around economy. The founding family were transcendentalists and wanted to make a community around it. Transcendentalists are people who believe that what you sense or feel is right without correct reasoning or facts. The Alcotts felt that their “utopia” would supply everything for them despite the bad weather conditions for farming and no use of animal products. They tried to be separate from the world but their attempt at a perfect society failed.

During the play Cyrano de Bergerac there are often very deep and depressing moments and to pick the audience up Edmund Rostand used humor. This is seen in all of the acts throughout the play and is one of the main uses of humor in the play. This is not the only use of humor in this play it is also used by Cyrano to hide his insecurities. Throughout the play, Cyrano makes fun of his own nose to make it seem like he is comfortable with it and so others can not make fun of it. Humor definitely plays an important role in Cyrano de Bergerac and through this essay, I will be examining the role of Humor in the play in depth.

The stories of Anton Chekhov mark a focal moment in European fiction. This is the point where 19th realist caucus of the short stories started their transformation into modern form. As such, his work straddles two traditions. The first is that of the anti-romantic realism which has a sharp observation of external social detail. It has human behavior conveyed within tight plot. The second is the modern psychological realism in which the action in typically internal and expressed in associative narrative that is built on epiphanic moments. In consideration of the two sides, Chekhov developed powerful personal styles that presage modernism without losing traditional frills of the form. This essay will discuss the Chekhov's portrayal of women.

Nearly every character in the play at some point has to make inferences from what he or she sees, has been told or overhears. Likewise, nearly every character in the play at some point plays a part of consciously pretending to be what they are not. The idea of acting and the illusion it creates is rarely far from the surface -

That you should here repent you’. After his silly prologue the court start to make comments about his punctuation he puts the full stops in the wrong places Hipployta says that he is like a child on a recorder act 5 scene 1 lines 122-123. All of this adds to the humour.

Part I is really the start of it all, where we discover Dmitri Gurav’s honest opinion of women, and it is not a good one. He thinks all women are pretty dumb, and even cheats on his own wife all the time. He talks about her in a degrading way often. “She read a great deal, used phonetic spelling, called him husband, not Dmitri, but Dimitri, and he secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be home” (Chekhov 291)

Moreover, he adds on saying Mrs. Pearce, “… if she gives you any trouble, wallop her.” (Act II, 37). He also recommends Mrs. Pearce to; “put her in the dustbin” when she says that she has no room for