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    Fahrenheit 451 has many forms of irony and it is a strong driving force used by Bradbury to push his point across to the reader. There are many instances where Bradbury uses irony to drive the point home. For example‚ the elephant in the room would be the fact that firemen start fires. This is a huge driving force to the theme that society is falling under the spell of censorship. Another good example of irony is how Clarisse is considered antisocial in this novel for being what the reader considers

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    Anntotated Bibliography 1) Shoba V‚ Nagarai P. “Lovers of Nature in Willa Sibert Cather’s O Pioneers! And My Antonia –An Econcritical Analysis Language in India [serial online]. February 2013..13(2) 637-653. Available from: Communications & Mass Media Complete. Ipswich‚ MA. Accessed November 9. 2013 a) This articles speaks of the relationship with man and nature‚ how the Shimerdas undergo a struggle that faces them right against nature itself. It also relates the land from Nebraska to death.

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    Irony in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn For centuries‚ irony has been used as a literary device by writers Thesis: Irony is heavily used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through religion‚ racism‚ and the fact that Jim is a free man throughout the majority of the novel. One theme that possesses a rather unsurprising amount of irony is religion. At the very beginning of the book‚ Tom Sawyer gets it in his mind to start up a murderous gang of robbers with the neighborhood kids. One

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    them at high risk of committing suicide. In My Antonia‚ by Willa Cather‚ Mr. Shimerda was one of those unfortunate people. Many circumstances had led to his death‚ which had tremendous effect on his family and people around him. Mr. Shimerda came to America with his family from Bohemia in order to start a new life. He and his wife had four children‚ two sons and two daughters. Ambrosch was 18‚ an eldest son and his brother‚ Marek‚ was youngest one. Antonia was Yulka’s big sister and they were a few

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    of ashes to his Morning Heights apartment where she meets her sister Catherine with whom she engages in a conversation. During their exchange‚ Myrtle discusses how people solely care about money and material possessions and goes on to provide an example of such behavior (Fitzgerald 35). What she fails to realize is she is not any better than the people she scorns‚ for she stopped on their way to his apartment because she wanted him to purchase her a dog which demonstrates she is with him not because

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    Contrast and Irony in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn During the 19th century in Southern society‚ it was uncommon to find a white person who saw racism negatively or even dared to criticize its ways. Society was integrated with the feelings of racism and discrimination of blacks who most whites almost automatically saw as inferior. Rather than conform to these ways of society‚ Mark Twain‚ in his novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ instead criticizes the racist nature he viewed in southern

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    priceless jewels just to find out that they each sold their priceless jewels to get something for one another. One a comb for the now missing hair‚ the other a golden chain for the now sold watch. Man once said that irony allows us to see the flaws in a person. alas in this story‚ irony did not show the flaws of the person‚ it showed the depth of love each felt to each other. When Della looked at her hair and decided to sell it for

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    by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author uses irony to expose the true character that Arthur Dimmesdale truly is.Dimmesdale is known‚ to the townspeople of the Puritan village in Boston‚ as a well spoken and profound minister who is their vision of God. Although Minister Arthur Dimmesdale has many qualities that make him stand out in the puritan community; his sinful secret that burdens him severely every day is heavily shown through the three main types of irony. The people of this Puritan community view

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    Dramatic Irony In Hamlet ; act II‚ scene I of the play; Hamlet finds out that his father was murdered by his own brother. Rather than him dying from a snake bit‚ that everyone else knows of. Hamlet had decided to act crazy and tell no one about what his father told him. His father told him that he wasn’t bite by a snake; Hamlets‚ fathers; brother put poison in his ear and killed him.After his fathers’ death‚ Hamlet didn’t know how to control his emotions. Anguished‚ he laments his father’s death

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    There is actually lots of irony in this story. The key piece is that the two characters in this story hate each other. They want each other dead and in the end‚ both of them end up dieing. Irony is the best thing to have in stories in my opinion. They make it interesting and funny so at the end you can say “ha sucks doesn’t it”. Ulrich and Georg have grown up hating each other and wouldn’t mind killing one another. They show this from a young age‚ “as boys they had thirsted for one another’s blood”

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