Tartuffe is a comic play written by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin who is widely known as Moliere. The play was first performed in 1664. Due to the widespread controversy that the play elicited, it was placed on ban by factions from the religious community. In fact, the play aroused immense objection from the religious organizations of France during the seventeenth century to the extent that the then Paris Archbishop issued a threat of excommunication on any person watching, listening or buying the p...
Tartuffe is the hypocrite in the play. He pretends to be a religious zealot in order to gain acceptance by the unsuspecting characters. Despite the fact that Tartuffe is discussed by virtually all characters from the commencement of the play he only appears in Act 3. As a matter of fact, the title of the play is in his name; a clear indication that he is the bone of contention. His devastating actions impact grossly on other characters. Various characters in play discuss him differently depen...
In life, people change in many different ways by either forcing themselves to change or by experiencing events. Everybody in life changes, sometimes it takes a long time but sometimes it's an immediate reaction but eventually they will change. Often people change due to experience or force it usually to better themselves. According to psychology, change can usually be good or bad depending on how it affects the person and society around the individual. Change, to become or make oneself or one...
A similarity exists in both the author's writing which is in disagreement to the dominant culture and the 'standard' societal ideas of their time. This is shown by the two modern works which I will be analyzing; Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen which develop the conflict of gender roles in their works. Both authors use in my opinion an authentic female character(s) and that by the end despite the male domination are able to rebel against societal 'norm'...
Traditionally an exposition of a play sets the tone, mood, reveals the main characters and also the major themes persisting in the play. The playwrights' Chekhov and Ibsen follow this tradition to some extent but in their own ways create an exposition in such a way that the audience's attention is immediately grasped. The Cherry Orchard was written in the post industrialization period. It was a period where the middle class came into vogue and peasants could buy land. There was a decline in t...
Black Boy is an autobiography written by Richard Wright, an African-American who lived in the South during the Great depression. Richard is a young black man who encounters the horrors of the dominant white South and faces a crisis in his life in which he does not connect with the world around him. Throughout the autobiography, Richard has an itching fear biting at him that propels him to overcome the boundaries set upon him and allows him to find his own identity. The fear that Richard faces...
Do you know Jackie Chan is dead? A Los Angeles hospital reported that Jackie Chan had died of a heart attack on 3/29/2011. Fans swarmed Facebook after confirmation of his passing came through a source close to Chan. It shows that people believe information from the media, whether true or not, and are unable to distinguish which is correct. This relatively minor news story reflects how media can inaccurately depict reality even over long period of time and with whole segments of the population...
F.Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" documents the life of Dexter Green, "a young man from a modest background who strives to be a part of the exclusive world inhabitated by the women he loves" (Perkins 1). The work regards a period in Dexter Greens life, from the age of fourteen to thirty two. Fitzgerald divides the story into six episodes through those eighteen years, and each episode relates to Dexter's relationship to Judy Jones. Judy's love is what Dexter yearns for; she pushes him to hi...
Postmodernism began shortly after the end of World War II during a time of complete anarchy, with the senses of fragmentation and disillusion still present from the Modernism era. One key difference between Postmodernism and Modernism is, whereas the Modernist were attempting to correct anarchy, the Postmodernist were simply celebrating it. Postmodernism viewed the world in a chaotic matter, with eclectic writing styles reflecting this such as pastiche, parody, antihero, antinovel, magic real...
During the time period of Ambrose Bierce, much change was going on in the world. The country was divided. Slavery was the issue and it was causing major upheaval in the United States. There was serious political turmoil surrounding slavery, and it resulted in states seceding from the Union. The American Civil War was then fought, and thousands of people were killed or injured. After the war, the nation was trying to rebuild what was lost. Many people had lost so much in the war, such as loved...