"Life’s but a walking shadow‚ a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage‚ and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot‚ full of sound and fury‚ signifying nothing." (V.V.2527). The famous quote of Macbeth‚ life: a tale told by an idiot’ indispensably proves how Macbeth has fallen into a psychopathic state of nihilism where even after his own wife is dead he feels that it does not signify anything; from a valiant man of prowess to fall and become such a petty pessimist
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There is no clear definition of what postmodernism is. However‚ City of Glass is considered to be the by far the text which is most visibly postmodernism. This is precisely because it “offers the kind of narrative that zigzags visibly‚ deliberately missing at all angle the sense of a foundation.” The postmodernist discourse remains central to the understanding of City of Glass. Perhaps the only thing that makes the story alluring is the fact that it is steeped in postmodernist features. Otherwise
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According to David Lodge realistic literature is based on “ their obsession with form to neglect the content and the third person omniscient mode is more often used to assert or imply the existence of society or history‚ than of heaven and hell. Therefore‚ modernist fiction eschews the straight chronological ordering of realistic material and the use of reliable omniscient intrusive narrator”. In her novel‚ Jeanette Winterson uses a “method of multiple points of view” and her novel “tends towards
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Beckett is considered to be an important figure among the French Absurdists. “Waiting for Godot” is one of the masterpieces of Absurdist literature. Elements of Absurdity for making this play are so engaging and lively. Beckett combats the traditional notions of Time. It attacks the two main ingredients of the traditional views of Time‚ i.e. Habit and Memory. We find Estragon in the main story and Pozzo in the episode‚ combating the conventional notions of Time and Memory. For Pozzo‚ particularly
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‘Everything in the play is ambiguous’ (Innes) Discuss this assessment of ‘The Caretaker’ When I saw the Caretaker‚ I told Pinter I knew what it meant‚ “It’s about the God of the Old Testament‚ the God of the New‚ and Humanity‚ isn’t it?”. Pinter replied‚ “No Terry‚ it’s about a caretaker and two brothers”. With this quote Terence Rattigan succinctly highlights the absolute ambiguity of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’; in this story of two brothers and an elderly derelict in close quarters
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There are many themes in the novel White noise written by Don DeLillo. One of the main recurring themes is death. Death is present through out the book and is also everyones "white noise." Another theme that pops up frequently in the story is the tension between reality and artifice. Most of the characters realize the difference‚ but understand it is interchangeable. Death is probably the most feared word in the English language. Its undesired uncertainty threatens society’s desire to believe
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Riders to the Sea From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Sara Allgood as Maurya‚ photo taken by Carl Van Vechten‚ 1938 This article is about the play. For the opera‚ see Riders to the Sea (opera). Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on February 25‚ 1904 at the Molesworth Hall‚ Dublin by the Irish National Theater Society. A one-act tragedy‚ the play is set in the Aran Islands‚ and like all of Synge
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Skyler Vincent English 2333 Amanda Cuellar April 04‚ 2012 In The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter‚ they are both known to be a part of the Puritan religion. The puritans are known to be very strict. Often people are put to cruel punishments for mistakes or sins they had committed. The actions they take to “punish” a person are extreme. The Puritans act and seem so committed to their religion. The people seem “Holy” but you never really know what happens behind closed doors. The Puritan religion
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In some works of literature‚ a character may not appear at all but play an important role in developing other characters or the action of those characters. Waiting for Godot is a prime example of such plays‚ where a character‚ Godot‚ never appears but is the basis of the play. The absence of Godot in Waiting for Godot‚ affects the characters’ actions and the development of the theme‚ that society is characterized by inaction and the ability lacked by individuals to communicate effectively. Godot
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Discuss the dramatic effects [meaning: plot‚ character‚ dialogue‚ language‚ stage directions]* of the passage [ refer to your photocopied text Start- pg 16. Estragon: (Violently.) I’m hungry. / End pg 18. Estragon: Nothing to be done. (He proffers the remains of the carrot to Vladimir.) Like to finish it?] and how it reflects the concerns in Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot presents a bleak caricature of the human condition in order to examine more closely the key theme of existentialism.
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