Antithesis

For Willy, his adventurer / explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but the character of Ben is fantastical and the achievements of Dave are idealised and exaggerated. Using these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the very notion of the dream. He questions the values upon which American society is based and the way in which these contribute to the destruction of a man such as…

The freedom of slaves King’s speech has been known as a masterpiece of rhetoric. One rhetorical device that King used is repetition. There are many examples that show repetition but the most common example in the speech is “I have a dream” that shows different aspects of King’s vision of rhetorical harmony. As learnt in class, Kairos shows opportunity, time and place. The speech was so powerful because of its kairos. In one of the sections, King repeated the phrase “one hundred years later”…

How did we come to such divisiveness that, most of Americans are picking sides between two different politically extreme groups? Why did the Battle for Berkley and Kekistan exist? The main reason for the political insanity started with two internet boards. Now, there are other ways to frame the causes of today’s political turmoil. However, this tale is an online messaging board called 4chan and the antithesis of 4chan called Tumblr. We will delve into the magical world called the Internet to…

One of the greatest weapons a President has in their inaugural address is their use of antithesis. Trump is no exception. He explains when discussing the government “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs.” His antithesis specifically criticizes the previous government. Trump acknowledges the fortitude of the government by using the metonymy of “establishment” since it…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel that was written as a call to action to its readers against slavery in the United States. Through many characters, mainly Tom, Stowe illustrates the heart-breaking realities of slavery to her readers. One instrumental way that Stowe did this was through the rhetorical device of antithesis. Two characters who embody Stowe’s use of antithesis are Tom Loker and Mr. Haley. Haley is described as a “short, thickset man” (3) and Loker as having a…

Confliction through Antithesis “Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are "luxury reflexes" without apparent utility. This much they have in common; in every other respect they are direct opposites.” (Arthur Koestler). Arthur Koestler analyzes how opposite emotions and antithesis are a never ending cycle, and they are connected, even when they seem totally different. An…

Romanticism: The Hegelian Antithesis to the Enlightenment Jared Cartier Carson High School B6 AP Literature September 19 2017 Mr Macy Cartier 1 The Romantic era was a time when people focused on their own self improvement of art and literature and receded the the era of Enlightenment which was focused on philosophical thinking of human nature. Both era’s were times when many great works of literature and art were produced. However the Romantic…

Intro: Greatness is a trait that one achieves through honesty and self-fulfillment. Illustrious people are usually those who leave a legacy in a positive way, allowing individuals to obtain morals from those great people’s lives. In this way, the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a contradictory title for the novel because the character being described as great, Jay Gatsby, does not satisfy the requirements to be judged as a great man. Fitzgerald ironically creates a character that…

The music in the film plays a vital role in allowing the audience to understand the intentions and inner conflicts of the characters. In doing so, the film music can allow the mental illness that a character is experiencing to come to life on the screen, and allow the audience to relate to that character’s emotional state. Additionally, there are instances where the film music tries to do the opposite and play off of another character, and against the protagonist’s inner thought and feelings,…

In the poem “Annabel Lee”, Edgar Allen Poe utilizes romantic elements, repetition and antithesis to express the themes of love that survives mortality and malicious envy that all develop from the narrator’s infatuation with his childhood love, Annabel Lee. This romance grew from a pure, innocent love into a deeply rooted infatuation as the narrator romanticized the notion of Annabel Lee. The origin of the poems stems from the relationship between childhood sweethearts. As the narrator was a…