Woland's Power In The Master And Margarita

Act III offers happy resolution to the problems of identity and marriage that drive much of the humor in the previous acts. Wilde continues to mock the social customs and attitudes of the aristocratic class. He relentlessly attacks their values, views on marriage and respectability, sexual attitudes, and concern for stability in the social structure.

The main confict in Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich are Ivan's struggle between the carnal and spiritual. Tolstoy's own midlife crisis and search for the meaning of life are reflected in the story, as well as his religious transformation. "Religion doesn't come up often in The Death of Ivan Ilych, but it's always in the background. Tolstoy wrote the story after his own conversion (to a more radical form of Christianity) convinced him that only a religious outlook could provide meaning to life.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde can be termed as a complete satirical work because of the path it chooses on harshly, but at the same time humorously criticizing and ridiculing social issues, such as marriage, wealth and death. The author approaches these issues with absurd mockery evidently with the intention of tickling his audience while driving his point home. Regarded as one of the most humorous and witty plays of all time, Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest has also been criticized for lacking meaning and being too farce. The author, however, does not seem perturbed or concerned with the criticisms hurled his way, but his is the agenda of correcting the social flaws noticed in his characters, such as the concern for trivial things as names over bigger and more important issues as serious relationships and true love, the love of money over morality and the carelessness of lying in order to “avoid unwelcome social obligation” (16).

Fyodor Dostoyevsky once stated “Even if someone were to prove to me that the truth lay outside Christ, I should choose to remain with Christ rather than with the truth,” (Jones 7). How could a man who can capture the essence of a deranged axe-wielding murderer proclaim something so blindly devout? This was the piousness that was intrinsic of the Russian author. Instructed in the teachings of Catholicism from a young age, Dostoyevsky dedicated much of his philosophical inquiries to the concept of God. However, despite this declared devotion, a gap exists between the Orthodox teachings of the church and his personal beliefs (Apollonio 24). His studies in the faith, interactions with fellow Catholics, and unique sense of morality all contributed to the shaping of his perception of religion. Yet he was still not without his personal spiritual doubts. Dostoyevsky funneled his intellectual religious questions into his writing. Elements of Catholicism can be found in Dostoyevsky’s work, often paralleling his own experiences and distinctive ideals surrounding the faith.

This shows one similarity and influence on the story of “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” Another similarity is Tolstoy’s conversion to Christianity from his old ways of religion and influence. “About 1876 the doubts that had beset Tolstoy since youth, fed by his puritan temperament in conflict with his sensuality, gathered force. The result of his painful self-examination was his conversion to the doctrine of Christian love” (CE). Tolstoy realized that he had been living wrong for his life and was able to convert and dedicate himself to following his new was life.

Death is a word that comes with several different connotations. For some, it feels grim, like the termination of everything that they have ever been or have accomplished. To others, it may sound peaceful, like an escape. In this way, death can be feared, but it can also be eagerly anticipated. Much of what contributes to one’s view of death, is his or her religious affiliation. For example, an atheist’s uncertainty of an afterlife correlates as logically as a Christian’s certainty of heaven and hell. However, John Donne was not distinctly on one side of this spectrum. Donne tottered in the middle, torn between his fear of death and God’s promise of salvation.

This film begins with a poor Jewish family located in rural Anatevka Russia in 1905. Tevye, the main character and narrator of the film lives with his wife and five daughters. The beginning of the film begins with a song explaining the Jewish culture and traditions. During this time it was a Jewish tradition and practice for a matchmaker to choose husbands for Tevye’s daughters, however, his daughters had a better idea of how they will be matched with their suitors. While three of Tevye’s daughters fall in love with men that is not whom their father, or matchmaker would hand pick.

As a schoolgirl, Olga epitomizes these values through her genuine sense of self and unrestrained behavior which provide a stark contrast the the vain dispositions of her classmates. “How carefully some of her school friends did their hair, how clean they were, how careful and restrained in their movements! But she was afraid of nothing--neither of ink-stains on her fingers, nor of a flushed face, nor of dishevelled hair, nor of a bare knee after a rush and a tumble” (par.

Roald Dahl’s realistic fiction story, “The Landlady,” is set in Bath, a city in England. The main character, Bill Weaver, is looking for a place to stay. He meets a kind and sympathetic lady, who is offering a room in her house for a very cheap price. Although, she is not a typical lady. By using foreshadowing and sentence variety the author portrays the theme of appearance being deceiving.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn intended his speech for whoever would give him ear. He saw outside the box of a strictly Christian audience, desiring to arouse all people with his sweepingly absolute statements. He knew that his words, as truth, carried eternal value, and that they had the potential to influence generations beyond 1983. Today, his address reverberates in the minds of seekers, skeptics, and scholars as they weigh carefully his case for

This film really challenges the idea of binary gender as a stable category. The people in the film were born as males, but they do not adhere to the normal gender roles and behaviors that the society created. The film does not only explore the challenges and problems of these individuals because of their new gender category, but also what they do in the ballroom. The film stresses that these individuals are usually deprived of the opportunities and they have a hard time to get anywhere in life. The ballroom is where they can do and become anything they want. In this place, they have the freedom to express themselves, which was taken away from them by the

If he's nothing quite a vain, uncaring, greedy chauvinist United Nations agency treats wedding as associate act of domination, then the play becomes a dark comedy concerning the materialism and hunger for power that dictates marriages underneath the colour of code of conduct. If on the opposite hand, Petruchio is truly capable of fond Kate and conceives of taming her simply as a method to comprehend a contented wedding, then the play becomes associate examination of the psychological science of

The brief amount of time after Tolstoy turned fifty, a critical spiritual crisis engulfed his life. His best pieces of work were behind him, and he found his sense of purpose draining as his celebrity and public acclaim weakened. He then began to sink into a deep state of depression and melancholia despite having a large property, excellent health, a family, and literary fame. During this crisis he was on the brink of suicide, but made one last attempt to turn the darkness into light. He turned to the world’s greatest philosophical and religious folkways for answers to the question(s)

Conceiving a novel-yet-valid interpretation of a piece of writing is a dilemma that has plagued English students for centuries. Fitting every detail of a literary work to one theory is oftentimes complex and taxing, and occasionally there is no clear answer, as is the case with Christina Georgina Rossetti’s narrative poem Goblin Market. Rossetti crafts a magical story of two sisters (Laura and Lizzie) who overcome adversity together, but multiple feminist readings have failed to come up with a compelling theory that explains the significance of the poem while accounting for all of its details. The contradictions of the poem undo any attempt to decode it, and the reader is forced to view the poem exactly as Rossetti wrote it: a tale of

Have you ever read a book, and felt that their was a different meaning? When the classic fairy tale “Alice in Wonderland” is analyzed from the critical viewpoint of feminism, readers may discover some very interesting and remarkable surprises. In this book, there are parts where Alice is being treated poorly by men. Also the story suggest that women are irrational,emotional, and loud. Mainly showing that they can’t be relied on to do some of the tasks that the men do. However most of the men in the story seem to act in a more rational way than the woman do. In similar fashion this story also identifies women as gullible, and stupid,people who are incapable of going through a thought process. Now I shall elaborate on each of these points,showing how this story can be viewed from a feminist point of view.