The House of Mirth

1. Lily Bart’s allegiance to the superficialities to society is present only because she is trapped by the dictates of her upbringing and expectations of the times. She often feels envy or jealousy towards a simpler life. Maybe if her father was in her life or if her mother did not put so much pressure on her she would have the life she wants, like Gerty’s or Selden’s. 2. Wharton’s description of Selden means he doesn’t chase material things and does not complain about them being too expensive…

since he had committed murder twice, Bigger has created a new future for himself and he can’t turn back around to try to find the correct road that leads to knowledge because it’s too late. However, Bigger’s new identity and demeanor filled him with mirth, hope, and pride that maybe his future will turn out alright. Although this new future is more perilous than his prosaic past, since now he’s being chased by the police, Bigger finally feels like he enjoys living freely and having a purpose…

Is Hester Prynne ultimately a heroic figure? Make sure to support your argument with textual support, as well as a clear definition of what it means to be a hero. Hester Prynne ultimately becomes the symbolism of a heroic figure. A hero is “a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities” according to Merriam Webster. Hester Prynne displays brave qualities with the will to survive under the weight of the Scarlet Letter. An ancient proverb says, “the greatest pains are on the…

27 March 2015 Social Classes: Corrupt or Family Fixed “The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life” ( Edith Wharton, the House of Mirth). The author of Romeo and Juliet is of course the late and great William Shakespeare. The play Romeo and Juliet has remained extremely popular throughout the centuries, but strangely, producers in the seventeenth century found it necessary…

outlook of Theseus is interesting because, while at the beginning of Act I he was the voice of reason, and was dedicated to carrying out the law of the land, here he also has a soft spot for the ridiculous, choosing the "tedious brief" and "tragical mirth" () play because of the paradox in its…

Days pass now Macbeth is home and King Duncan is coming to There house! Lady Macbeth comes with a plan to kill Duncan and Macbeth doesn't feel like he should do it, but Lady Macbeth has the darkness in her and she will not stop until she gets what she wants! So Macbeth goes with this plan Lady Macbeth comes up with. Duncan…

think about. Her parents abandoned her, she was found on the doorstep some old abandoned building, she was thrown into the shitty low social class foster system, she ran away and lived on the streets for three years until she was kidnapped by Doll's House and raised to be Micheal's best, most expensive virgin. That's it that's her life and it's pitiful. She closes her eyes, turning to face the back of the couch and going to sleep, hoping that her life will be at least decent for the rest of…

adverbs and repetition; no character does or says anything in the book that isn’t, in some way, over or unnecessarily described and repeated. For example, Verloc is said to ‘mumble’ or speak ‘huskily’ with such frequency that it is liable to cause mirth or extreme irritation in the reader. Indeed, if you were to be brutally honest, this over-reliance on certain words, and excessive number of adverbs, is the kind of thing you would expect from the most amateur of YA authors, not one of the most…

to Venus’s temple signals the first description. Venus’s temple presents the audience with all the different circumstances of love (KnT 1932-1934). Included in these are: laments, tears, desire, pleasure, hope, desire, foolhardiness, beauty, youth, mirth, riches, falsehood and deceit, charm, force, flattery, expenditures, attentiveness, jealousy and lust (KnT 1920-1932). These are undeniably all qualities that love assumes from time to time, and it is not unreasonable to have them all…

In the way she carries herself around others to please them to the way she constantly places herself in knowingly unpleasant situations, Lily Bart is seen as a very atypical character. Lily’s lifestyle is a cycle between wealth and poverty and relationships with different men. Lily follows these cycles rejecting the numerous opportunities presented to her to escape the lifestyle of poverty that she so resents. Many of these rejections represent an unrealistic image of marriage and the…