The analysis is conducted on the basis of the short story written by Oscar Wilde titled “The Nightingale and the Rose”. The subject matter of this paper concerns the deictic expressions occurring in the aforementioned story which are further investigated by the quantitative research taking into account their categorization, strictly speaking, person deixis, temporal deixis, and finally, the spatial deixis. 2. 2 . The analysis The analysis in this paper concerns the frequency of occurrence of the deictic expressions in relation to the whole text, that is to the non-deictic phrases. The data are shown in the form of the numbers presented in the tables, as well as in the form of the percentages in the pie charts. 2.2.1. Deictic expressions alluding to person The subject of the research, that is the Oscar Wilde’s story, includes various person deixis, which may be further divided into subject and object pronouns, possessive pronouns and determiners, and lastly, reflexive pronouns. The first group, that is subject pronouns, contains words as I used twenty nine times, you that reoccurs twenty one times, he appearing nineteen …show more content…
In comparison with the indexicals pointing to the person, there are exactly sixteen deictic expressions emphasizing time in the Wilde’s story, however, those indexicals reappear markedly less often. The first deictic term occurring the most frequently pertains to the will with its twenty three repetitions. Another is all night repeated three times. Subsequent phrases occur only twice, namely, night after night, now, and tomorrow night. The rest deictic words are repeated once, that is, then, suddenly, when, before, this year, would, still, after a time, morning, and at noon. The frequency of usage is presented in the table two below due to the better
Life changes in the instant” (Didion 3). Joan Didion was thoroughly unprepared for the sudden death of her husband. After life’s constant changes, Joan uses repetition in order to express her thinking process during this time. As she tries to
Hannah Jarvis and Bernard Nightingale: The Battle of Reason and Recklessness Two literary scholars go head to head in search of details from the Romantic era of 1809 in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. They bicker over the truth, creating a clear sense of their dislike for one another. Hannah Jarvis is thorough in her research and focused on her goals, while Bernard Nightingale is overly confident in his findings and easily distracted.
Another theme illustrated through Wilde’s use of motifs and symbols is the theme of superficiality. The theme of superficiality can be understood as a sense of the superficial view of outer beauty that is shown in the work. It relates to the concept of remaining young, which is an important factor of what is shown in the novel. This is an important part of the novel because outer beauty plays a bigger role for Dorian, than inner beauty does. In the beginning of the novel, Lord Henry and Dorian have a conversation that focuses on the topic of youth and Dorian 's outer beauty – Lord Henry mentions the fact that Dorian has a beautiful face, and later during this conversation, Lord Henry states that: “youth is the only thing worth having…”
The novel by Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale, was truly a remarkable and unbeatable story depicting two women who have taken extremely opposite stands in regards to Nazis occupation in France. Throughout the storyline, Hannah was able to weave the ink on a page into wondrous and thrilling narrations from these two sisters. Indeed, one almost feels as if they were completely submerged in the mind’s of these dynamic characters. In a way, Vianne and Isabelle can be compared to the actions of the natural elements of fire and water. One goes with the flow, not really pushing against the current; while the other blazes against everything in its path, not stopping for anything, or anyone.
In the short story “The Story of an Hour”, By Kate Choplin was about a main character named Louise Mallard, who had a tremendous change in her life. The open window and the independence Louise Mallard is experiencing is a forbidden pleasure that represents her way of new life and opportunity. The life of Louise Mallard was always been in control by his husband and she never gets any freedom until the news she receive about the death of his husband Brentley Mallard. Mrs. Mallard reaction to the death of her husband was “She wept at once,” this describe how she felt when they told her about his husband was “killed” (Para 2, Line 6), she felt as she was hopeless and not herself anymore and that she will always be the wife material of Brentley Mallard.
Rose does a fantastic job in building a bridge to create trust for his targeted readers, using many examples. The ethos that really stands out from the article is when rose states, “social media simultaneously draws us nearer and distances us” (174). This can be a tremendous problem, causing people to ignore the ones closest to them, since meeting in person would be an easier task than the ones far away. Today many people deal with this situation, whether it’s family or friends, causing them to distance from each other, even though they are significantly close. It gives a strong understanding to why Rose believes social media does give a negative impact to humans by building a wall between the ones closest to each other.
Setting In the novel The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, the cities of Carriveau and Paris are transformed from peaceful locations into bloody war zones after the Germans invaded France. Setting is used to emphasize the destructive impact the Nazis had in France during its occupation in World War II. During the middle of the Nazi’s conquest over France, it is noted that, “These days, Paris was a woman screaming. Noise, noise, noise.
The novel is constructed to even deceive the reader. The first paragraph of the first chapter begins with a description of a beautiful summer day with “delicate perfume” (Wilde 1). It is a beautiful and pleasantly smelling environment but it is also
Besides the author and the reader, there is the ‘I’ of the lyrical hero or of the fictitious storyteller and the ‘you’ or ‘thou’ of the alleged addressee of dramatic monologues, supplications and epistles. Empson said that: „The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry”(Surdulescu, Stefanescu, 30). The ambiguous intellectual attitude deconstructs both the heroic commitement to a cause in tragedy and the didactic confinement to a class in comedy; its unstable allegiance permits Keats’s exemplary poet (the „camelion poet”, more of an ideal projection than a description of Keats actual practice) to derive equal delight conceiving a lago or an Imogen. This perplexing situation is achieved through a histrionic strategy of „showing how”, rather than „telling about it” (Stefanescu, 173 ).
The irony in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” enhances the protagonist’s situation by revealing a deeper meaning. The quote, “She had loved him - sometimes. Often she did not. What did it matter!”
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The play An Ideal Husband was written by Oscar Wilde in 1895 in England’s Victorian era. This era was characterised by sexual anarchy amongst men and women where the stringent boundaries that delineated the roles of both men and women were continually being challenged by threatening figures such as the New Woman represented by Mrs Cheveley and dandies such as Lord Goring(Showalter, 3). An Ideal Husband ultimately affirms Lord Goring’s notions about the inequality of the sexes because of the evident limitations placed on the mutability of identity for female characters versus their male counterparts (Madden, 5). These limitations will be further elaborated upon in the context of the patriarchal aspects of Victorian society which contributed to the failed attempts of blackmail by Mrs Cheveley, the manner in which women are trapped by their past and their delineated role of an “angel of truth and goodness” (Powell, 89).
The consequences of the aestheticism movement and more specifically, self-indulgence, are not only prominent in the novel but also in Wilde’s own life.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, one of Oscar Wilde’s masterpieces, portrays one of the most important values and principles for him: aestheticism. As a criticism to the life lived during the Victorian era in England, Wilde exposed a world of beauty a freedom in contradiction to the lack of tolerance a limitation of that era; of course inspired due to Wilde’s personal life. All the restrictions of the Victorian England lead him to a sort of anarchism against what he found to be incoherent rules, and he expressed all this to his art. His literature is a strong, political and social criticism. He gave a different point of view to controversial topics such as life, morality, values, art, sexuality, marriage, and many others, and epigrams, for what he is very well known, where the main source to the exposure of his interpretations of this topic.
There are several interpretations of John Keats’ poem, Ode to a Nightingale. Keats begins his poem with talking about a bird that seems real, but as the poem progresses the bird turns into a symbol. Keats was envisioning how life could be much simpler and he was thinking about the different ways life is troublesome. His reality was taken over by his dream of having a life like the nightingale- worryless and free. He wishes that he could join the bird because if he could escape to the nightingale’s world, he could escape from reality and live a much more uncomplicated and worry free life.