Sardonicism

Elizabeth Minchin’s “The Expression of Sarcasm in the ‘Odyssey’”, published in 2010, analyzes Homer’s usage of sarcasm in the “Odyssey” and explains its significance. Minchin’s critical analysis peaked my interest specifically because it studies not only the expression, but the reception of sarcasm as seen in the “Odyssey”. Minchin suggests that in lines 397-399 of Book XVII, when Telemachus tells Antinous “…Antinous, as a father of his son you take good care/ of me, when you tell our stranger

The idea that the killer would next target Emily was one even I admitted to being highly improbable. The actions I was taking now were not grounded firmly in logic. As someone who was not normally dependent on emotive reasoning, this disquieted me a fair bit. We arrived shortly, and despite thanking Henry hurriedly, I didn't wait for a response from him before I dashed off into the building. The receptionist normally situated at the front desk was absent at the moment. Wether she left or was simply

manipulative and vengeful actions of the narrator, Montresor, including luring his victim, Fortunato, into his family catacombs with alcohol in order to bury him alive. Poe reflects his foster father as the murderer of the story, and shows the sardonicism of his life through dramatic and verbal irony. When Poe was in school, his foster mother died. She instructed her husband to wait until Poe returned home before her burial, but John Allan disregarded this and buried her before Poe returned. Although

workings of the website, and left malicious software on the servers for healthcare.gov (Yadron, 2014). Project Support and Cleanup As soon as the project failed, the administration appointed a contractor to fix the website. In a move of ultimate sardonicism, the government chose QSSI to fix the issues with the website. Being one of 2 contracts that were responsible for the original work on the website, they were charged to clean it up and make it work after failing the

A Passage to India: Race, Inequlity and Suppression A rape trial unveils more than an ethic issue, but an ethnic opposition. In A Passage to India, the rape trial of Adela Quest to Dr. Aziz aggravates the opposition between the British and Indians, at the same time, crystalising how nationalism as well as colonialism thoroughly lead everyone in India to be powerless. Under the colonial system, no room is for individuality or individualism with everyone struggling for defining themselves, not by the

In literature, a character’s unique perspective on common human experiences can both engage the reader, and vastly contribute to a text’s endearing value and significance. The Catcher in The Rye offers a rich portrayal of such themes as, the impact of alienation as a form of self-preservation, resistance to change, and the psychological effects of unresolved grief. By telling the story directly through the first-person narration of Holden Caulfield, Salinger offers an unusually in-depth perspective

Kelly Zhang Mr. Hadley English 2H 1 1 October 2015 Novel and Play Review Notes  2.) Bibliographic Information Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. London: William Heinemann, 1958. Print. Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 - 21 March 2013) Modernism — Post- Modernism Period 3.) Key Quotations Through a significant passage in chapter seven, Achebe uses analogy to foreshadow the arrival of Europeans. The description of, “And at last the locusts did descend. They settled on every tree… they settled on

equally excellent natural history collection. After we have spent several hours visiting both …I turned to my father and asked, “why do they show Indians with all the mammoths and dinosaurs? My father replied, in a comment that came as close to sardonicism as his usually gentle nature permitted, “I believe they must think we, too, are dead.” “Museum Different”would not look anything like a natural history museum or a museum of anthropology. There are a lot of exhibitions currently open to