Menagerie Social Commentary When Tennessee Williams wrote his The Glass Menagerie‚ he intended for it to correlate directly to the everyday lives of the people around him in his time. He was very successful in this aspect. The main aspect of life that Williams intended to apply to his play was the struggle of African-Americans in their everyday life. The characters’ struggles in this play reflect some of the conflicts that black people faced every day in their lives. The social commentary made in
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Allegories in the Inferno The Inferno describes a journey that Dante‚ with his guide Virgil‚ goes through different levels of the Hell. There are nine circles in the Hell‚ and sinners in each level are condemned to different crimes. They receive punishments in coincidence with their sins. Dante’s depiction of the Hell‚ including how sinners are punished and the appearance of different levels‚ contains many allegories that illustrate Dante’s ideas about the meaning of life. I will give three specific
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Why can ’t we be friends? Do the numbers 3828 (US Fatalities by Month) and 47378 (R. Smith) mean anything to you? How about $502 billion and $536 billion (in today ’s dollar) (Wolf)? They should‚ these are the number of U.S deaths and the costs of the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War. "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die!" was once said by Herbert Hoover (Simoni). War though some people may not like to admit it‚ has shaped the United States into what we are today. War
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Furthermore‚ Nick Serpe’s article did not only show social commentary on class‚ the article also argues that TV shows explores bias towards gender in game shows. Serpe mentions‚ “Beauty pageant that collided with a high-stakes Dating Game: women were paraded on stage for a rich man‚ seen only in silhouette‚” (Serpe 269). When Serpe describes this‚ it illustrates that men sees women as lottery to choose from. This kind of show changes the way in which some of these women think‚ due to the fact that
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Social Comments Sitcoms tend to be funny because the characters drown in their own stupidity‚ yet beneath the surface one might discover more than which meets the naked eye. Using humour to examine social comments is an effective technique used by sitcoms. In every sitcom‚ social comments are expressed through the types of humour they use. This can be seen by observing the social issues the episode “Lisa the Tree Hugger” is exposing‚ clarifying the type of humour used to uncover the social comment
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The Inferno is a work full of imagery that describes the horrors of hell through the words of the author. What does Dante gain by going through Hell? What does Dante gain by all of this by taking himself through such an experience? I believe there are three elements of life that Dante realizes through his time in Inferno. Throughout the book I feel the three elements Dante learns of are confidence‚ clarification of his faith‚ and a release from his own personal hell of isolation. In the beginning
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Jonathan Tyra Period 1 5-26-13 Dante Alighieri “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis” -Dante Alighieri (BrainyQuote.com:Dante Alighieri‚ 1) Dante ’s childhood was filled with great pain and struggle‚ and love. That struggle is said to be the inspiration for some his great‚ later works‚ like The Divine Comedy. Other works‚ like Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy carry on as great classical works to this day and have inspired
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individuals helps those who are not as successful work harder. Ender’s Game conveys the social commentary that singling out successful individuals will encourage others to work harder with the use of imagery. For example‚ when their first battle room practice is over‚ Ender thinks to himself “[w]hy had he gone for the smallest‚ weakest‚ and possibly the brightest of the boys?” (167). Card expresses this social commentary by explaining how Ender chose to praise only Bean. When Ender only praises Bean‚ the
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Gustave Doré is a prime example of the type of images Dante tried to depict while writing “Dante’s inferno.” Dante wanted the emotion of the story to be dark and not at all bright or cheerful. When I view William Blake’s drawings I don’t feel frightened‚ petrified or even scared. He constructed his pictures in a bright cheerful and that takes away the feeling that Dante tried to create. I feel if William Blake didn’t fill his pictures with color and darkened up his sky‚ the pictures would have the
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In Dante’s Inferno we read of the nine circles of Hell and why souls are put there based on Dante’s Christian view of their sins. There are people suffering in the cores of Hell due to lust‚ adultery‚ suicide‚ gluttony‚ greed‚ etc. Souls suffer as they grieve their contrapasso punishment for the atrocities they have done while in their bodies on Earth. They have been traitors to the word of God and now they are destined to spend their eternities in Hell where they constantly remember the sins
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