It plays a huge part in "The importance of Being Ernest" Now, you can plainly see that Lady Bracknell is asking him to do something that is literally impossible. ... Quite the simple idea, but the logic is anything but correct, it is severely inverted, and plays a huge role in creating the comedy in "The Importance of Being Ernest". ... The Importance of Being Earnest has many major characters. ... One major theme in The Importance of Being Earnest is the use of satire. ... The Importance of Being Earnest is still fun to read though and I believe people will enjoy it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Importance of Being Earnest, like so many of his works, focused on the elite, and while making fun of their absurdities and excesses, it also reveled in their witty banter and rambunctious lives. ... In claiming to be Ernest, both Algernon and Jack had, unbeknownst to themselves, been earnest. ... In the figure of Lady Bracknell in particular, The Importance of Being Earnest lightly shows the limitations and unhappiness produced by such a way of life. ... Also fundamental to Wilde's wit is his use of epigrams--short, witty sayings--to shed light on a given situation. ... Overall, The ...

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In The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde uses irony, puns, and humor to show the readers of the follies and social incapability of the acceptance of others different from themselves. ... I believe Wilde like to touch upon the topic of being someone else. ... With this, The Importance of Being Earnest makes a wavering claim stating that maybe just maybe Jack, Gwendolyn, Algernon, and Cecily have been the earnest ones all along. ... Wilde uses his wit by using short, witty sayings to enlighten the situation. ... Overall, The Importance of Being Earnest has many goals. ...

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A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway The short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place- by Ernest Hemingway focuses on the existential crisis, the search for meaning that faces human beings. ... In addition Hemingway shows in the title "A Clean Well Lighted Place- the importance of setting. It is of utmost importance making sure the Café should be clean and neat, symbolizing a sense of order. ... The fundamental role displaying despair is being portrayed by the behavior of the deaf man and the conduct of the older waiter. ... Hemingway's` style is very shor...

• Word Count: 1553
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• Grade Level: High School

The short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," written by Ernest Hemingway, is about two waiters in a Spanish café who are discussing their last customer of the night, an elderly and lonely drunk man. ... The older waiter seems to understand the importance of the café, especially for lonely people with empty lives like the old man and himself. ... The old man has reached a stage in life where he just wants to die and being drunk in the café is the best place to ride out the storm. ...

• Word Count: 549
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• Grade Level: High School

Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. ... For nearly a century, critics and readers alike have praised Ernest Hemingway for his powerful and sparse prose. ... Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. ... The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories In Our Time explores ideas about love, passion, and relationships. ... Hemingway's use of gender archetypes in the collection is a critical social commentary on society's decided importance of gender roles. In his short stories "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife"" and "Indian Camp,"" Ernest Hemingway uses conventional gender archetypes with some unconventional features to challenge and expose flaws in traditional societal gender roles. ... The wife is determined to be unworthy of being answered, unworthy of an opinion, and unwo...

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Born on July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway grasped his love of literature from his mother's influence of music composition and his father's teachings of outdoor life and survival (Hemingway-DLB 130-31). ... Ernest Hemingway's stories of man's conflicts against other men, nature, animals, and himself greatly appealed to his audiences due to his ability to portray a common man's soul through narration. ... In the short story: "Big Two-Hearted River" Hemingway creates internal conflict in the main character's situations in order to show the aspects of the struggle for s...

• Word Count: 871
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scott Fitzgerald being extremely successful. ... Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. ... He befriends Nick once he finds out that Nick is related to Daisy; Daisy being the love of Gatsby's life. ... Money is an object of little importance. ... They have short hairstyles, bad habits like drinking and smoking, and dress provocatively....

• Word Count: 1759
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Unspoken Words Ernest Hemingway is an incredible writer for his ability to write a story using symbols. ... The technique is used to emphasize the importance of ideas by leaving out important details of the story and replacing them with symbols. ... Ernest Hemingway will always be known for what he leaves out of stories and not for what he tells. ... This symbolizes the importance of the girl's decision to have the abortion. ... The story isn't easy to understand because it is told in such a short period of time. ...

• Word Count: 1147
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," by Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate futility of life is expressed through the use of characterization, symbolism and dictation. ... In the short story, both the deaf man and the older waiter favor being at the cafe. ... He is rude and insulting to the deaf man because he does not understand the importance of the cafe, nor the real purpose the men have for wanting to stay there. ... The old deaf man, on the other hand, leaves the cafe with no opposition; he is beyond the point of being bothered by something so insignificant. ... Ernest Hemingway has a very unique ...

• Word Count: 976
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• Grade Level: High School

"Hills Like White Elephants," by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about an American man and a girl named Jig who are confronted with a difficult issue of whether or not terminate a pregnancy. ... It shows that being pregnant is no small thing. ... Being pregnant ties a mother down, making her less mobile and more stationary, just like the hills. The element of the railroad station is symbolic of being at the crossroads of life during a time of crisis. ... Hemingway's writing symbols gives hidden meanings that are significant and of great importance to this story....

• Word Count: 1455
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His statement about the importance of money simply contradicts most of the good things we think about him as a character. ... This different style is just another example of Ernest Hemingway being creative. ... Thus lies the importance of the clean and well-lighted place. ... That being said, this is what he wanted us to know. ... We are all different and Ernest Hemingway knew this, whole-heartedly. ...

• Word Count: 1446
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• Grade Level: High School

On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. ... There he received a writing style sheet that instructed: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. ... During his stay in Europe through the 1920's, Ernest was influenced by eccentric writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary compression. ... Hemingway witnessed a man and a boy in a small boat being dragged by a fish that the man had hooked. ...

• Word Count: 3440
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ernest Hemingway, a fellow American author, felt that all American fiction was influenced by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and called the book the finest American novel ever written. ... Little did he know that this would be the start of a ten-year career in newspapers "that would include being a full-time apprentice, Orion's assistant editor, and a journeyman printer around the world (The Importance of Mark Twain 16). ... He is the loveliest man I ever saw, or ever hope to see, and oh so absent minded" (Clemens 84) Living a very short life, she died at the age of twenty-three....

• Word Count: 2038
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Wilde uses Mrs Erlynne to represent the women that are capable of being strong and independent. This is also shown through characters similar to Mrs Erlynne, such as Lady Bracknell from "The Importance of Being Ernest". ... He criticises artists superficiality and their reputation of being egocentric. ... Oscar Wilde criticises the Nightingale for being oblivious to human nature. ... Each one by the end of the novel, short story and play has come to the realisation that true love is greater than life. ...

• Word Count: 1603
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He talks about his beliefs as a Negro and being part of a minority group, which led to his decision to help fight in the Spanish Civil War. ... Rolfe talks about the importance of the "Salude" and what it means to the people of Spain who are caught up in warfare. ... The short, choppy sentences give the impression that the contents and opinions in the letters were not fully explained, explored or put in to context. ... Ernest Hemmingway, as U.S novelist, "served as correspondent and fund-raiser" aiding the fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. ... Hemmingway's work correspond...

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Throughout the novel, In My Father"s House by Ernest J. ... His refusal to allow Martin access to his son might not have happened a few short years ago when the entire nation felt the influence of King. ... I understood that every battle had importance for them but I also felt that they could have been more understanding and supportive of a man that had brought them so far. ... Viewing this novel as a piece of history and it's characters as being representative of people living and working in those times helped me see the last few years of the civil rights movement more clearly. ...

• Word Count: 916
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• Grade Level: High School

As the Americans were the first to define the short story as a specific literary form (1842, E.A. ... American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. ... His short story, Rip Van Winkle, is considered the first American folktale. ... It is a minor aspect in appearance, but which becomes of vital importance in a New England village: Ad...

• Word Count: 2241
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What sets humans apart from any animal, insect or being on this planet is our awareness of this inevitable end. ... As anthropologist Ernest Becker argued, we have survived in part because we can ponder the past, plan for the future and imagine and make real things that may not exist. ... The lines "I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,/And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,/And in short, I was afraid- boldly illustrate the speaker's fear of death (Eliot 3). ... Indeed, the importance of the poem seems to lie in forcing the same questions the narrator s...

• Word Count: 1596
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ernest L. ... With the drug being inspected the quality could then be controlled and there would be less worry about someone "lacing" your stuff. ... Today's politicians should consider our countries priorities and attach more importance to combating violent crime than targeting marijuana smokers. ... Many people that are against the legalization of marijuana would say how can something that produces changes in your body such as changes in your brain wave patterns, short term stress on the heart and circulatory system which could cause a heart attack, short term confusion in brain patte...

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France and Russia thought in short terms and did not participate in the rebuilding of the German economy. ... In an excerpt in 1948 British foreign minister Ernest Bevin describes the relations between a flourishing Germany and a Europe being immune against the communist thread. ... The latter was of utmost importance to Stalin. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Roland Barthes' essay, "The Death of the Author-, Barthes questions the primacy and control that the author has over the text; without placing undue importance on the author, the reader has more control and responsibility for a textual construction of meaning. ... This is echoed in the manner in which the novel is disconcerting; it's not about being scared of vampires or ghosts, but about the fear of existential dread latent in the tensions between knowing and not knowing, about 3 a.m. anxieties and about the empty spaces in our awareness and apprehension of ourselves, others, a...

• Word Count: 2312
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For Ernest Hemingway, writing was a ritual which confronted human inadequacy. ... In the presence of death, man can discover his own sense of being- (Baker 153). ... In Hemingway's short story, "The Capitol of the World-, the young waiter Paco dies in a tragic accident with a make-believe bull. ... At one time, he had been very promising, but upon being gored in the abdomen, he lost his courage in the ring. ... In the short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber-, Hemingway writes of the importance of human and animal confrontation. ...

• Word Count: 3224
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Such a dependence upon the acquisition of raw materials from a sole provider naturally raises the cost of production, whereby "many existing firms became non-viable.""14 To show how the aims to make the Palestinians dependent were strategically implemented, "over 90% of West Bank and Gaza imports come from Israel."" 15 Sara Roy claims that "the underlying motive of Israeli economic policy was political, being designed to deny economic independence to the Palestinian territories, especially the Gaza Strip, as an instrument of subjugation."" 16 However it is crucial to note that she later a...

• Word Count: 5817
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: Undergraduate