Double entendre

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson was born on February 12th, 1963, in Columbus, Ohio. When she was about two months old, her parents separated, which caused Woodson to spend her early life in South Carolina, raised by her mother and grandmother. When she was seven years old, Jacqueline Woodson moved to Brooklyn, New York where she has resided ever since. She attended Adelphi University, where she received her BA in Literature, and has yet to drop her pen and paper. Jacqueline Woodson is an author who…

Alexandre Cabanel 's piece The Birth Of Venus,1875, is another depiction of the popular Venus figure.The depiction of Venus by Cabanel shows society’s standard of femininity and ideal beauty which is still a part of our culture and the perception of women as sexual beings. Venus is portrayed as a sexual,delicate,curvy figure who embodies sensuality and appears to be in a erotic, alluring state which entices the viewing eye, as she is the tool of seduction. The ideals of femininity for the…

When imagining the ancient city of Athens, intriguing philosophy, beautiful art, and advancement in mathematics and science may be brought to mind. However, one man, Aristophanes, seemed to be the complete opposite of the portrayed picture of the Athenian people. He was a comedian, and a very unrefined one. His vulgar, sexual, uncouth plays were extremely popular, viewed by citizens of all statuses. The Ancient Greeks, so well known for laying the intellectual foundation of the Western world,…

the poet takes a playful and sensual approach to their love. Through his Epicurean language, Shakespeare evokes the image of a woman gently swaying whilst playing a wooden instrument as the poet enjoys the music and envies the instrument.. As a double entendre, he compares her playing beautiful music on a "blessed" wooden instrument to her playing him (line 2). The diction of the sonnet is particularly licentious: "To be so tickled they would change their state" (line 9) implying the…

stuck “moving white and weed” (25) and are “trapped in the trap” (25) just to endure the life they have. They are dealing drugs such as cocaine and weed in a specific place usually called a Trap house, and the house can also be looked at as a double entendre. The Trap house is the place where the Kings are selling drugs, and it also represents how they are trapped in the ghetto. Coval then suggests that the young Mexican men grew up in the ghetto as they “made the steps a school room” (21).…

Abraham by Hrotsvitha and a Play for Representing Adam, author unknown are both similar and different to one another in a variety of ways. Adam is directly based on the Bible text, while Abraham has references to God and the Bible, but takes place in its own time and place. Each are effective of communicating the messages they intend to in their own way, in construction, in their use of Representatio, and in the use of dialogue, staging, humor, wordplay, metaphor and characterization. A special…

There are three definitions of comedy that have surrounded the material of this course thus far. The one I will be focusing on throughout the course of this paper is concerning incongruity. The disruption of what we, the audience, are used to seeing with our characters, action, and even language. Lysistrata, originally written by Greek playwright Aristophanes, and translated into English by Donald Sutherland is comedy that relies almost entirely on incongruity to ensure laughs from its audience.…

In chapter four of Paradise Lost, shame plays a major role in Satan’s characterization not only because it brings attention to his disfigured shape, but also to the readers’ pathos. That is, although shame makes Satan and the readers aware of his vileness, it also reminds them both of the alleged-mistreatment by God. For instance, in Satan’s soliloquy, he states, “but other Powers as great [as I]/ Fell not, but stand unshak’n” (Book IV, 63-4). Satan strategically compares himself to other…

In a duel of its semantic force and a stylistic vernacular of its times, the word-wright, William Shakespeare gives us a playhouse comedic tale where everyone does it all out of love. They lie, they cheat, they dominate, and they are formidably dominated. Memorable unruly characters and lasting theatrics, where the Bard releases piquant humor and mischief in The Taming of The Shrew (Shr.), c. 1593, one of his first comedies (The British Library). Aptly, the play satirizes mores of its Tudor…

“Deep, deep deep”: Mary Lavin’s “Happiness” and complicating the Ideal Ireland On St. Patrick’s Day of 1943, former Irish president Éamon de Valera gave a speech detailing the “ideal Ireland.” He pronounced that the Ireland of which “we” dreamed would be a land of “bright cosy homesteads”, with villages that “would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contest of athletic youths and the laughter of happy maidens,” and homes would be “forums for the…