In Elizabeth Browning’s pleading letter to Napoleon III, Elizabeth uses many rhetorical devices in order to convince the Emperor of France to pardon Hugo. She flatters His Majesty Napoleon III in an attempt to win his goodwill. Second, she uses syntax in order to create an intelligent letter. Finally, she thoroughly explains her purposes to Napoleon. Thus using flattery, syntax, and logos, Browning was able to effectively persuade Napoleon III to pardon Hugo,had of course he sent the letter.…
How their philosophies are going to affect the civil war and many other topics. The letters provide them a way to talk about their problems, and how they could be able to resolve them. I like this chapter because it talks about all the problems they had and at the end they resume their friendship, they remembered all the good experiences they had together which meant a lot to…
Parents are almost always among the most influential people in a person’s life. They often contribute the most to their children’s lives by shaping them into individuals who share beliefs and attitudes akin to their guardians. In his letter of advice written to his faraway son, Lord Chesterfield reveals his own personal values that he attempts to pass on through the use of figurative language, irony, and parallel structure. Through these means he tries to restrain his son from his son from his pursuit of pleasure in favor of the pursuit of knowledge and scholastic success. Finally, Lord Chesterfield frequently employs parallel structure in his letter to emphasize certain points he wishes his son to take away.…
As one analyzes both How to Read Literature Like a Professor and the character speech from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, a connection can be distinguished between Professor Foster’s guide in chapter 20 about seasons and the speech’s course. Throughout the speech, the seasons seem to guide our anonymous narrator -who seems to stand for Henry VIII - through a passage of time that leads him to a fall that he cannot return from- the death of his pride and reign. Throughout the speech, the seasons are able to characterize the atmosphere and tone of the time, making the speech seem more dramatic and impactful to Henry VIII’s lasting legacy. Towards the beginning of the character speech, the language Shakespeare uses guides the audience’s attention towards…
At the time Australian culture still revolved around Britain and most Australian's were either born in Britain, or had relatives residing there. Victoria was the Queen of Great Britain for such a long time period that by the time of her death no one under the age of 60 remembered another sovereign's reign. This meant that the vast majority of Australians had great sentimental attachment to Victoria, although they did not look negatively on the coming reign of Edward VII. This is supported by this quote from Encarta, "For most of her subjects, an age seemed to have come to an end, and for all the sorrowful tributes there were many people who looked forward not only to a new reign but a new future. "(1).…
Frances always began her letters to Melvin the same way - “My Darling Husband.” Melvin’s favorite salutation to Frances was, “My Beautiful Little Red Head.” Melvin was an American GI during World War II and he and his wife Frances have been apart an uncomfortably long time. She writes to him daily. Her graceful script is inviting and warm and conversational; you can picture her in housecoat and slippers, sitting at the kitchen table, as she chats on paper with her husband.…
Throughout Abigail Adams’ letter to her son, John Quincy Adams, she is sure to give him her best wishes for his journey to France. Although she is encouraging of this voyage he has gone on, she still feels the need to advise him about how this trip will affect him throughout his life. In doing this, she uses metaphors, allusions, and parallelism to construct a concerned yet encouraging letter to John. Beginning the letter, Abigail makes it known that her only intention for her son is to be safe rather than sorry.…
This assignment will be considering whether the two poets from the restoration period Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace’s poetry contribute to the sense of the ‘cavalier’ and looking closely at Corn’s assessments of both poets and their perhaps royalist connection. Looking at whether their work fit into the tradition of sex and seduction within poetry, in particular, focusing on Suckling’s Encouragement to a lover and Lovelace’s Song to Aramantha. Looking at Corn’s comments of the two writers from The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell, it is suggested that they were both indeed associated with a small group of writers and the royalist circle.…
Discusses some of the importance and titles that Eleanor did and had. Also her involvements she had towards her country along with the help that she provided while as queen. Mentioning the influences, she had while her sons were kings, as well as with her late husbands. While also describing her intelligence and her importance during that era since women didn’t have much authority or had any sort of achievements. Such as when married she helped rule France with her husband and then England she ruled as well whether it was through someone else her ideas made changes.…
Annotated Works Cited CCA Bryand, Arthur “Samuel Pepys” Encyclopædia Britannica, February 15, 2007 aaaaaawww.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys, accessed February 14, 2017 Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article about Samuel Pepys gives an account of Pepys’ life and career in detail. It describes his education at Magdalene College and then his marriage to Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel. After this, it explains his lengthy career in naval administration, where he greatly increased England’s sea power by professionalizing the navy, and doubling the amount of ships and guns England had. Finally, it talks about Pepys’ diary, in which he recorded his experiences for nine years.…
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the introductory letters Walton writes to his sister, Margaret, provide an indirect characterization of Robert Walton through a discussion of his desires and actions. While countless interpretations of the meaning of these letters exist, the letters’ primary purpose is to convey Walton’s feelings of inadequacy and isolation. Shelley includes these letters to encourage readers to challenge characters’ motivations by showing Walton disguising his ulterior motives as noble reasons. As Walton reveals the ulterior motives in the letters, Shelley encourages readers to challenge characters’ motives.…
However, her language bears traces of an internalization of the oppressive social structure and an anxiety of authorship1 that prevents her from successfully establishing herself as autonomous. In this essay, I will attempt to demonstrate how Margaret Cavendish, through her poetry and prose, endeavors to achieve self-sovereignty through singularity but fails due to fear of social alienation from not just the patriarchal hegemony but also from the women of her era that perpetuated it. In The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution, Margaret Cavendish establishes herself as not only a poet but a gifted one at that. “Reading my verses, I liked them so well/Self-love did make my judgment to rebel/…
The two poems I am going to discuss are Robert Browning‘s ‘My Last Duchess’ , and Edgar Allen Poe‘s ‘The Raven’ . I will discuss the way the forms of the poems and how their different structures, one being written in verse and the other in dramatic monologue, effect the reader’s interpretation, lead to an unreliable narrator. I will discuss the use of rhyme and rhythm, and also how the speaker’s psyche and strong emotions, like anger and jealousy in ‘My Last Duchess’ and madness in ‘The Raven’ alter the speaker’s reliability. ‘My Last Duchess’ is written in the form of a dramatic monologue, and uses iambic pentameter to mimic natural speech, as well as using rhyming couplets, which give the poem a faster pace and gives the character a stronger voice.…
Sigmund Freud, a psychologist and sociologist in the 20th century, believed that self-description is rarely a true representation of one’s self because real motives are disguised by conscious thoughts preventing honesty (McLeod). People are inclined to present themselves as more interesting, and in turn believe others are naturally just as amusing. For example, someone in possession of silk from India sounds adventurous or exotic, but the reality could be that the silk from India was actually shipped to America in a box full of packaging peanuts. Human minds naturally transfer observations into assumptions. Woolf sarcastically states in “A Room of One’s Own” that the “truth is only to be had by laying together many varieties of error” to bring…
In an early 1700’s newspaper, The Spectator, the author Joseph Addison creates a diarist of the upper class. The fabricated author shows off the lavish lifestyle of the affluent back then in an attempt to connect with the common rich citizens reading the paper. On the outside that is how it may appear, however, being a clearly satirical piece the real aim is at making fun of these people’s lifestyles and the sheer pointlessness of the lifestyles. The diarist goes through almost an entire week of his life with such precision, giving off the facade of importance when it really just goes to show the lack thereof. The author’s use of detail and repetitiveness, along with an overarching theme of satire creates a piece as a whole which has no point,…