Antithesis

A comparative study of Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s, Letters to Alice on first reading Jane Austen, argues the values of social restrictions to dictate notions of success. The reading of Pride and Prejudice presents confusing perspectives on social restrictions and success in love, mannerisms and marriage. It is only upon reading Letters to Alice, an epistolary series does Weldon explicitly and implicitly comment on Jane Austen’s context, utilising her own context to allow…

Martin Luther King Jr. uses many rhetorical devices in his works. In his I Have a Dream Speech and his Letter from Birmingham Jail uses rhetorical devices such as repetition, antithesis and rhetorical questions. King uses these to persuade his listeners and readers into granting civil rights to Blacks. In his I Have a Dream speech he is talking to people that have been discriminated against and in his Letter From Birmingham Jail he is addressing white moderates. One rhetorical device Martin…

Writer Roderick Nash argues that wilderness is the antithesis to the human paradise in satisfying our interests (Nash, xii). Henry David Thoreau advocates that “in wilderness is the preservation of the world” (Cronon, 471). Environmental activist Gary Snyder believes wilderness to be “a person with a clear heart and open mind can experience the wilderness anywhere on earth. It’s a quality of one’s own consciousness” (Cronon, 495). Author Bill McKibben believes there is no wilderness and “we must…

sexes, / one each” (18-20), and is “doing her wild multiplying” (20-21). The girl’s perception and intellect gives her leverage over the boys she’s among. The idea that a girl is equal, even superior, in skill and agency to her male peers is the antithesis to misogynistic ideology, namely women being inherently inferior and subservient to men, which has persisted in society. By existing as a woman with power over men, flipping the typical balance of power, she is challenging social norms,…

assume those who work to enhance women’s status lack authentic faith.” To be a feminist was often conflated for being nihilistic, or devoid of religious, moral, and ethical principles. There was a particular way in which feminism was viewed as the antithesis of organized religion, namely Catholicism, because of its socially concentrated agenda, and commitment to disrupt hetero-patriarchy. This vantage point often bifurcated and relegated one’s identity to an antagonist of patriarchal mores and…

mouth of some animals to prevent them from biting is also called a muzzle. By juxtaposing a word so often associated with violence with the word ‘stippled’ – a more ‘poetic’ word describing fine detail – I find that Clarke creates an odd sort of antithesis. The poet could be alluding to the fact that the bull isn’t entirely savage. Almost immediately after this, Clarke writes of the ‘slow/ Rolling mass’ of the bull’s skull. The long ‘o’ sound in the words ‘slow’ and ‘rolling’ could allude to the…

who were “poor” wanted better wages and hours. This inequality resulted in the individuals of the lower class to want change because they become unhappy with their social state. Those of power become the “Thesis” and those without power become “antithesis”, the desire of change will conclude in the powerless rebelling and the powerful needing to compromise resulting in…

The argument for separate but equal precludes the notion that, separate but equal is not inherently connected to the American system of racially-based slavery. However, I find this claim to contradict and violate the very nature of the Thirteenth Amendment. In segregating the two races of the nation, we draw on the previous caste of bondage. We inherit the distinctions and prejudices of this previous system in our attempts to regulate race relations, to segregate the lives of Whites from those…

universe. It is the view that humans define their own meaning in life, despite existing in an irrational plane. Stoppard's work turns Rosencrantz and Guildenstern into helpless creatures, while the world around them carries on. They represent the antithesis of existentialism because they are unable to make any significant choices ("Rosencrantz…

dusk. Dawn is the first appearance of daylight in the morning, the night turns to day. Dusk is the state or period of partial darkness between day and night, the dark part of twilight. I disagree with Chief Seattle’s words because everything has an antithesis, the survival of the fittest survival and cowardice. Like sitting in a house, I am in the dark corner, I can not see anything. If I sit next to the window, I will see the infinite beautiful scenery. So that if people have been sitting in…