... as it gives a comparison between how each is affected by their social conditions. In Heartbreak House there is misogyny throughout. It seems the women are in control which adds further irony. It is important to see how women are treated in each text and to evaluate the mistreatment of women. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are brought up under the ... ! Even the hair that ensnared him false! Everything false!" (P. 110.) Women are also presented as adulterous and seducers: "Why do women always want other women's husbands?" (P. 125.) There is heavy irony throughout of men's "sl...

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... as it gives a comparison between how each is affected by their social conditions. In Heartbreak House there is misogyny throughout. It seems the women are in control which adds further irony. It is important to see how women are treated in each text and to evaluate the mistreatment of women. Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith are brought up under the ... ! Even the hair that ensnared him false! Everything false!" (P. 110.) Women are also presented as adulterous and seducers: "Why do women always want other women's husbands?" (P. 125.) There is heavy irony throughout of men's "sl...

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... wars. The author gets the point across but using a certain tone that makes you feel the desperation they have. He uses irony and symbolism throughout the whole book. (pg 271-291) The final chapters of the book are full of irony because the soldiers are on their final stand and are about to fall. Themes are what make a book, and in this ... ...

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... of water symbolizing the people giving Jesus a drink while he was on the cross. When Catherine dies, Henry is forced to face death. It said her body was like a statue. IRONY In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Harry is the type of man that believes he can handle anything that he doesn't have to worry about those so-called "minor- things in ... he was aware of the fact that his wife was sick. He went to phone her and was then notified by the doctor that she died of pneumonia unexpectedly. The irony of "The Old Man and the Sea- is that Santiago worked so hard to keep the marlin and all he retur...

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... the working class "scum" at the bottom who comprised the majority of society. The play is set in an imaginary town called Brumley, somewhere in the north of England. Dramatic irony is involved in the early stages of the play. It is used on two occasions, one consecutively following the other. Birling states "Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two ... the story was set just two years before the First World War, the audience would have known this, as the play was first performed in 1946. Another example of dramatic irony in the opening scene is when Birling is expressing his though...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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... is the aforementioned Callan, a patient of Dr. Yealland, who as already mentioned does not believe in shell shock. For me one of the main scenes with a huge moving sense of irony is where Yealland is performing his mutism treatment on Callan. Callan's existence is a miracle, yet Yealland is not content with this, he wants tofix? him like a robot and send him ... back to what Owen describes vividly in his poemMental Cases? aswading sloughs of flesh? and to thebatter of guns and flying muscles?. The irony in this scene is that Callan's mutism is his subconscious protest against all the wr...

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... fading from those who died that day, slowly like the funeral march but ironic as most of the men who died on the battle fields never had a funeral. There is irony in 'Dulce' also - the whole poem is ironic. Owen is saying it is not sweet or fitting to die in battle, to be flung in a wagon with your eyes 'writhing ... ' in your face. Owen uses the idea of irony in war in both of these poems as he saw misery, destruction, and pain and wanted people to be more aware of the cruelty of war and hopefully to stop ... ...

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... hand of the Germans. Horne does an extraordinary job of pulling the reader into the idea of the Maginot Line and in the end leaves you shaking your head. The irony is all to present, the line was a great way of preventing a German invasion yes, but at the same time it was barrier for the French who could have made significance ... collapse of the Belgian's, the breaking of the line, the evacuation of Dunkerque and the last effort by the French to organize a final stand. What is very evident is the irony that existed in the French surrender. The French were forced to surrender in the ver...

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... pathos. The "ghastly suit of grey" straight away emphasises his depression and his sorry state. Owen amplifies the image by using alliteration. Owen uses irony in the fourth line "saddening like a hymn" - A hymn is a song of praise, the irony is that there is nothing cheerful about his situation. It is also a simile, which creates even more sadness. The young boy sits in ... ...

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... that this tragedy is commonplace and death has become just another part of life for the men, compounding the horror that is their day to day lives. Finally, the bitter irony of the poem is revealed in the last lines as Owen attacks those who would argue that death in war is glorious. "My friend, you would not tell with ... ...

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... its starting point, becomes 'impersonalised' by the tradition in which the poet works; and third, his use of quotations from and allusions to other poets' work for reference, parody, irony, and a sense of continuing intertextual communication and community. Difficulties are created by Eliot's frequent allusions to other literatures, languages, and cultures. Many of these references are difficult to follow, require ... ...

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... honourable to die for the cause. Owen uses poetic devices such as the imagery of the soldiers face as he dies, similes that contrast the stereotypical image of a soldier and irony to directly attack the common war cries and attitudes used to recruit young men into the army during World War One and ultimately positions its reader to respond negatively to ... ...

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... war, he does not feel the need or the urgency to go back to the people and things he used love. Therefore the aspect of time has been used an irony throughout the span of this story. As mentioned previously, Krebs was at the war for two long years. These two years exposed Krebs to death, blood, war and darkness. All ... ...

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... wig from the package that Rosenthal receives freezes everyone in their tracks comically illustrated the shared deprivation of the female presence. Through these similarities, Renoir is attempting to establish the irony of war and the basic humanism that exists across all human beings, even though they come from different nations. Secondly, the issue of class distinctions is used to show the ... ...

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... the 27th. She immediately stood out from the other citizens as someone different, even threatening. When she arrived, she was joking lightly with her neighbors. Tessie shows a sufficient amount of irony in the lottery. The fact that she showed up late and that she was joking with her neighbor. When Tessie is picked, she claims how unfair it is that she ... ...

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... is why there is said to be a: "Fumbling". The term: "Ecstasy" would normally suggest a time of extreme emotion, normally joy, however in this situation it is used as a term of irony as this is a completely bewildering time for the men (another extreme emotion). Owen uses simile to explain better the situation faced by the men. Simile is often used by poets ... ...

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... in the mood of an accusation or a challenge. The final four lines are compelling. The address to the listener beginning with "My friend" seems to be spoken in a tone of irony. "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria moi." Researching the history ... ...

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... to the soldiers' physical conditions, their actions in putting the masks on tend to be much slower than before upon interacting with their mind. However, "ecstasy" depicts with a twist of irony as it is depicting a completely bewildering time for the soldiers. As readers advance further, the caesuras between lines thirteen and sixteen of the end of second stanza serves to enter ... ...

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... and another corporal, both in poorly fitting uniforms, stand with two German girls who are "not beautiful" beside a Rhine that "does not show in the picture." The picture suggests an irony: the American soldiers, once enemies, date German girls with whom they share no common language. Because the American soldiers do not have to talk, and because the German girls are ... ...

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... soldiers, as the Germans use the flares to try to locate them. The heavy rhyme between 'sludge' and 'trudge' indicates the slow laborious progress of the weary men. The bitter irony of 'blood-shod' seems to emphasise how ill-equipped the men are to the unfair reality of trench-warfare. The soldiers are so 'Drunk with fatigue' that they do not ... ...

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... his poem, metaphorically representing the copious amounts of soldiers who sacrificed themselves for their country, aren't getting proper burials, just horrendous mass burials. This type of event shows how the irony in Owen's title and the subject of the poem is giving the dead soldiers their only real burial. This highlights the huge, senseless sacrifice that the soldiers gave. The religious ... ...

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... is why there is said to be a: "Fumbling". The term: "Ecstasy" would normally suggest a time of extreme emotion, normally joy, however in this situation it is used as a term of irony as this is a completely bewildering time for the men (another extreme emotion). Owen uses simile to explain better the situation faced by the men. Simile is often used by poets ... ...

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... enemy to attack them to sweep them away with by the help of the mood they all have, the hatred against the Christians, but the author also points to the irony that the nearest ally to them are the Christian Germans. Continuously, the chapter leads us to dialogues of officials from Germany, Belgium and the author himself about the situation of ... ...

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... in the trenches, I"m sure that much worse things could have been seen. The poem says in it "it is right and fitting to die for your country but that is irony. All the images in this poem combined together show the cruel horror of trench warfare. By the end of the poem the reader would agree with Wilfred Owen that, it ... ...

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