Double entendre

Geffrey Chaucer was an iconoclast of his era. During his epoch the church was the government and the class system could not be cheated. Men had the rule of thumb, there are even instances of men getting punished for not keeping their women in check. “which has the effect of stressing the importance of masculine relations), and pushing feminine experience and values to the margins.” ("Explanation of: 'The Wife of Bath ' by Geoffrey Chaucer.")Chaucer had a few bones to pick with some ideas that…

The Truth of Lying “Are you calling me a liar?” “Well I ain’t calling you a truther!” Drake and Josh display a perfect example of a double entendre; a phrase with two meanings, and in this scenario Drake explains that he is not telling the truth and alludes to the fact that there is several forms of lying.This is further explained in Stephanie Ericsson’s article The Way We Lie when she explains, “There must be some merit to lying.” In our society today, it seems that everything we run into is a…

other forms of media are able to use various comedic elements in order to make their production funny, and typically entertaining, to the audience. These elements include using the unexpected or the familiar, playing with delivery and timing, double entendre, flawed plan and many others. Monty Python and the Holy Grail effectively utilizes several components of comedy to poke fun at the history and culture of the time at which the stories take place. The film looks at several stories that build…

using the world of the gothic literature to bring out terror and external worlds to the psychological environment. He can create a world in the mind of the reader using gothic tradition. This world conveys the terror needed using irony, puns, double entendre and foreshadowing among other features of literature. He also utilizes the gothic traditions, obsessions, premature burials and temperance movements to share his thoughts with the reader (Richards 2). These different elements work together…

the B-sides—Prince still had leftover outtakes that made their way into the hands of other artists. One such beneficiary was Sheena Easton. Using the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind, Prince provided the British singer with a confection of sexual double-entendre – a track called “Sugar Walls.” The song made the Top 10 on both the Pop and Black charts and secured Sheena’s popular success in the…

You make them ask for it.” Risa’s response “I give it to them. All they got to do is ask” again depicts the assertion of dominance she is able to effortlessly have with men. Whether intentional or not the requests for “sugar” can be read as a double entendre. Risa is asserting that “sugar” must be asked for, not expected and then wasted—as she comments that West does in never using the sugar he takes. Risa only provides something without being asked at that instance and to Hambone who can’t…

Considering three separate elements this essay analyses a passage at the beginning of Scene III Act III in which the four main characters are present. Firstly examining why this section is important to the play as a whole this essay will then consider the pivotal role this passage plays in moving the drama along. Next this essay will explore the way in which Shakespeare uses distinctive features of language. Looking at how word choice and dramatic irony are used to convey particular meanings…

What is humor? Humor can be someone or something that is funny. What is funny can depend on someone’s sense of humor. Humor can be offensive at times by hurting one’s religion, race, sex, and other things to laugh at the expense of others. Despite that there are many television programs and cartoons that make funs of people being in a certain kind of group. Has society fallen so low that we like to hurt each other’s feelings? Bottom line is there are many different types of humor like flavors of…

Throughout Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, the reader is given much insight into Jacobs’ personal thoughts and feelings on matters such as slavery, sin, education, and importantly, religion. Jacobs’s understanding of God and religion goes through an evolution shaped by her own encounters and circumstances as well as of those she held dear. In many instances, Harriet was heavily influenced by her grandmother, a caretaker to the girl for the better part of her young life. Though she learned from…

After all the inadvertent gayness, cases of mistaken identity, and awkward sexual tension present in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, our protagonist, Viola, finds herself preparing for the marriage festivities at the end the final act. Heteronormativity has been reinstated with the correcting of the vaguely gendered parings: Viola finally gets to be with her darling Duke Orsino, and Olivia seems pleased with her replacement Cesario, Sebastian. A deeper analysis of the play, however, proposes that…