Black pride

The two excerpts from “The Fault In Our Stars” by John Green, and “ The Love Song” by J. Alfred Prufrock, The speaker in the poem intricately explains Augustus’s and Hazel's view about life. The meaning of life is a question asked by many and answered by few, scholars go there whole lives searching for the question of life, and they come back with various answers. Life cannot be summed up into one sentence or answered by one man, because not everyone wants the same out of life. The question…

Knowledge and pride are both tools of the young and the developed. However, one may mature by exchanging their vanity for wisdom. Elizabeth Bennet is a character who prides herself on her discernment of character. This ability gives her arrogance that often leads to strong prejudices against individuals, such as Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham. In Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, Elizabeth’s revelation from her skewed judgment reveals that maturity occurs when self-awareness illuminates one’s…

As You Like It is the work of world-renowned playwright William Shakespeare. Although he had no university education, he went on to become a successful writer who created more than 40 impressive plays and 150 beautiful sonnets. However, there are academics who maintain that Shakespeare never actually wrote any of his plays but simply lent his name to be used as a pen name for more educated, more knowledgeable writers. The true authorship of Shakespeare’s works is not the only controversial…

Okay first of all, shout out to Collin and Sterling who absolutely killed the parts of Petruchio and Lucentio. Okay, but honestly this play was… wow. So, the play started off great, it was funny, all saw all my friends was super proud of them. Off the back i thought i was going to hate Bianca because she seemed too nice and pretty and perfect, but she turned out to be pretty cool. Also, i assumed i was going to hate Petruchio because Collin told me so ain class but i thought he was a good guy-…

An Hour of Freedom Throughout “The Story of an Hour” there is a clear negative cognizance of Mrs. Mallard and her latent animosity towards concepts such as marriage and parenthood. Since people do not usually assess a situation from all angles they are oblivious to the complexities of a problem. Resulting in a stubborn belief of perceived reality and sense of truth. However, the townspeople in the story are subject to believing, from their limited perspectives, what they witness are absolute…

Renaissance Persona My individuals name is Giovanna Cellini who is 15 years old, of Florence, Italy. She is eldest child of out of three and the only daughter to Giulio and Lucia Cellini. They are a middle-class family because of Giulio’s success as a banker, a business inherited from his father. She is arranged to marry 32-year-old Duke Filippo Sforza of Milan. My name is Giovanna Cellini I am 15 years old and the eldest of three children. I have two brothers, Cosimo and Giorgio. Tomorrow I…

Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest explore the archetypal values of aristocracy, including marriage, women and identity. Austen and Wilde converge in presenting opinions on marriage through humour and contrasting characters. Wilde explores the role of women through reversal and dialogue, while Austen explores the same idea with irony and symbolism. The incorporation of irony and anagnorisis allow both authors to criticise the role of…

Jane Austen, most known for her novel Pride and Prejudice, is regarded in today’s literature as a classic novelist. She is famous for her heroine focused plots and themes that reflected the social struggles that she faced while she was alive. Born on the 16th day of December in 1775, Jane Austen was the 7th child of 8. She grew up in Hampshire along with her 6 brothers and older sister. Her father, George Austen, was a reverend for their town church. Jane and her sister, Cassandra, received a…

Elizabeth shows her independence by openly speaking her mind and freely criticizing Darcy. Mr. Darcy tells her that he has noticed that she takes a liking to stating ideas that might not be hers. laughing at this, Elizabeth replies by saying to Fitzwilliam, “…and give me leave to say, very impolitic too-for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear” (Austen 31). Elizabeth starts to openly criticize Darcy in front of his cousin, justifying…

different from the twenty-first century. Pride and Prejudice is a book written by Jane Austen that is set in the early 19th century. One of the main themes of this book is wealth and social class differences that has a huge impact on all of the problems that occurred during the book. In the book, there were many scenes where the rich or high class people turn their nose up at lower class people just because they had more money. To answer the question, “Is Pride and Prejudice still relevant in…