How Far Do You Agree With The View That Lady Bracknell Does Create Comedy in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’? When deciding if a character creates comedy or not it is important to weigh up the pros and cons of their main attributes. For me‚ overall Lady Bracknell does create comedy so I agree with the view but as with anything else it is arguable. It is clear the her triviality‚ character inversion and Wilde’s use of stock character create comedy although it can be argued that she is nonsensical
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Through the course of the novel‚ the quest for redemption remains a key motive for both Amir and Baba. In rescuing Sohrab‚ this quest is near completion‚ but in fact will never be entire in the case of Baba‚ having taken the truth about his betrayal with him to his grave. With the rescue of Sohrab from the clutches of the tyrannical Assef‚ Amir does find close to redemption‚ but not for his father‚ only himself. True redemption is when one atones for his own sins; Baba will remain restless in his
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time: In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time‚ Mark Haddon explores the importance of communication and both its positive and negative impacts on the characters of the novel. While Haddon emphasises that communication is the key to starting or keeping a relationship‚ he also clearly shows how communication is sometimes problematic‚ in life and throughout the novel. This is because of the idea that logic is sometimes flawed‚ the lack of
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A scutcheon is a crest of arms‚ that is‚ a general token of status. Falstaff means that honour is often waved about and trumpeted‚ but rarely means anything about the individual that claims to possess it. Characters like Falstaff‚ Hal and Henry all recognise the worth of honour but are all aware that it is only a implement to look better in the eyes of others‚ it has no real use‚ especially if you die trying to claim it. Although Falstaff has no use of the common code of honour‚ he will go to
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During the two hundred years between 1400 and 1600‚ Europe witnessed an astonishing revival of drawing‚ fine art painting‚ sculpture and architecture centred in Italy‚ where artists began to look back to the way in which Greek and Roman artists had worked. Not many classical paintings had survived‚ but there were descriptions from which artists tried to copy them. Those two centuries which we now refer to as the Renaissance (Rinascimento) was given this name (French for ’rebirth’) as a result of
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Propaganda and terror were equally important for enabling Hitler and the nazis to keep control over Germany. How far do you agree? I this essay I will explore the merits of both methods in keeping control and analyse the arguments for the different cases associated with the statement before concluding with my own personal opinion. There are some who believe terror was more important than the use of propaganda. Fear was a powerful tool and one that the nazis had no issue in exploiting. They
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Do you agree with the view that Party Politics was the main reason that the suffrage campaign failed 1860-1914 Sources: I (pg.49)‚ J (article) Despite many years of campaigning‚ by 1914 the suffrage women had not achieved the vote. There were many things holding back suffrage progression from 1860-1914 and came most significantly in the form of the Prime Minister W.E Gladstone. But how much party politics had to do with the liberals position against suffrage is not a certainty. The liberals
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‘Incompetent leadership was the most important reason for the outbreak of revolution in 1905’. How far do you agree? The revolution of 1905 occurred due to many different reasons. Arguably the most important of these reasons was the incompetent leadership of the Tsar‚ Nicholas II‚ but there were other factors‚ such as the poverty among the peasants‚ the frustration at lack of political power in the autocracy‚ and also the impact of the Russo-Japanese war. As mentioned‚ the most important reason
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‘The Suffering in ‘Frankenstein’ is undeserved’ – How far and in what ways do you agree with the view of Shelley’s presentation of suffering? Frankenstein’s characters suffer in a couple of ways‚ psychologically such as through loneliness or through emotional pain of the death of close ones‚ and physical suffering. Shelley herself was an only child‚ so could have been considered lonely when she was younger‚ and her mother died‚ which is obviously a death of a close one. While suffering is deserved
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The world has become a safer place now than it was ten years ago. Do you agree? Ten years ago‚ people hoped that the future generations will have a better‚ safer place to live in. Ten years on‚ it has seemed that their hopes have been fulfilled. As Martin Luther once said‚ “Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” In the world now‚ crimes rates have been decreasing steadily and the world has been inventing new protection equipment. Moreover‚ the world is winning the war against terrorism
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