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Suffering can not have a set amount of time allocated to it
Suffering morphs time from having a linear progression to revolving around one point
Each day becomes like each other as sorrow engulfs individuals
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Sorrow skews the beauty of life and turns it dark
Time slows down and stops once sorrow is felt
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Wilde’s mother dies and brings sorrow to his life
His parents developed the greatness which held puts his name in high esteem
That he has ruined the family name and has made it a toy for the citizens
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His sorrow is not meant to be recorded but lived through
Wilde’s wife attempted to bring condolences for him from those who cared about him
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Wilde has spent three months in prison
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Sorrow is a sensitive topic that demolishes the sanity of its victims
It creates a wound that shall never stop bleeding but will cease to cause pain once love touches it
Central Argument The central argument of Oscar Wilde’s letter “De Profundis” is that suffering lasts aneternity and will forever torment its victims. That individuals will live in a never ending pit of sorrow in which each day that passes is a
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Vocab
Tremulous
Definition: shaking slightly especially because of nervousness, weakness, or illness
Sentence: “The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse.”
Indifferent
Definition: not interested in or concerned about something
Sentence: “My wife, always kind and gentle to me, rather than that I should hear the news from indifferent lips... a loss.”
Mire
Definition: thick and deep mud
Sentence: “...the mire and often in the mist go astray.”
Folly
Definition: the lack of good sense or judgment
Sentence: “...to fools that they might turn it into a synonym for
Folly; lack of good sense, foolishness. This feeling of foolishness is something that many witness every day and maybe even experience themselves. Whether it being a stranger acting doltish or a close friend acting without thought, this feeling is all around. When a person is acting foolish, it can reveal their true colors, being in this case, it drove the characters in Othello and The Tell-Tale Heart to commit murder. How could someone’s lack of good sense cause them to kill someone in the first place?
Oscar Wilde, an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright, believed, “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise” (Think Exist). Wilde’s quotation conveys the idea of duality residing within every situation, person, and object. Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the idea further in his classic novel The Scarlet Letter. In the novel Hawthorne demonstrates duality within the character Pearl and the forest; he suggests an optimistic perspective of the world.
>>>>>In "The Enormous Radio" and "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas," a question about suffering is raised. When
Suffering is apart of life, just like joy and love is. We can never choose how life treats us but we can always choose how we react and get back up again. Through Fever 1793 we see up close and personal how suffering can affect us, and how sometimes it can affect us in positive ways. How suffering can help turn the page to the next chapter in our lives. How suffering doesn’t always mean losing but also gaining.
Despite its prevalence, suffering is always seen an intrusion, a personal attack on its victims. However, without its presence, there would never be anyway to differentiate between happiness and sadness, nor good and evil. It is encoded into the daily lives people lead, and cannot be avoided, much like the prophecies described in Antigone. Upon finding out that he’d murdered his father and married his mother,
Everyone has a poker face. Everyone has a bunbury. Everyone keeps secrets, and everyone lies. The question is, how does one tell if another is truthful about their intentions? There are many different cases in which one will lie about who they really are, but there is no telling when it is okay and if they can be forgiven. In many different stories that were read in Late British Literature this semester, we have characters that keep secrets from friends and loved ones. The simple truth is, people’s words are often different from the truth.
During the process of growing up, we are taught to believe that life is relatively colorful and rich; however, if this view is right, how can we explain why literature illustrates the negative and painful feeling of life? Thus, sorrow is inescapable; as it increase one cannot hide it. From the moment we are born into the world, people suffer from different kinds of sorrow. Even though we believe there are so many happy things around us, these things are heartbreaking. The poems “Tips from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the sorrow about growing up, about sorrowful pretending, and even about life itself.
This poem is about abortion and the narrator used the mother’s point of view to express her feeling of how she felt after she aborted her unborn child. The mother felt terrible and remorse about what she did. In this poem I think that the Brooks might had experienced of abortion herself so she wrote this poem to let the reader know how terrible it is to have a abortion. So this will reduce to process of having a abortion.
Overall, dwell on this process of changing throughout the poem, it can be understood that the poet is demonstrating a particular attitude towards life. Everyone declines and dies eventually, but it would be better to embrace an optimistic, opened mind than a pessimistic, giving-up attitude; face the approach of death unflinchingly, calmly.
Throughout the story, James Joyce demonstrates an unyielding motivation to illustrate the narrator’s disenchantment with most aspects of his life. As the narrator ages, he only becomes more embittered. Anguish is an emotion used to give a clear sense of the events significance. Joyce places this emotion at the end of the story with care. Joyce combines placement with strong details to describe the boy’s emotions. “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger” (Joyce, 1028). Many readers are struck with the notion that there is inadequate motivation for such intense anguish (Brugaletta 12). The ensuing quest of Joyce’s explanation that he experiences is between the young boy’s promise and his frustration. Such motivation must appear weak in contrast with the reaction they supposedly cause, the boy’s youth and romanticism notwithstanding (Brugaletta 12). The young boy has sensuously and emotion...
the poet is trying to portray the fragility of a life, as it is created with the intent to be lost (death
Most poems are about love or heartbreak, but not many are the tragedy that occurs in prison. Surely everyone who goes to jail deserves what is coming; some might even call it karma. Although, individuals do not think about how that person might have gone to jail for. The ballet depicts how Oscar Wilde and the other inmate witnessed another inmate be hanged and mocked. In section 5 of Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde uses diction, repetition and consistent rhyme to lay out the tone and mood of the poem.
A very intelligent novelist, Oscar Wilde, catches his reader’s attention in his satirical play, An Ideal Husband, through a humorous drama filled political scandal and blackmail. Wilde sucks his audience into the romantic comedy by placing the reader with the characters throughout all their battles—in which he points out their bad habits and their faults. Wilde accomplishes drawing readers in by creating the satirical message of his play through satirical elements such as exaggeration, sarcasm, and irony.
Oscar Wilde was born in October 16, 1854, in the mid era of the Victorian period—which was when Queen Victoria ruled. Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901.While she ruined Britain, the nation rise than never before, and no one thought that she was capable of doing that. “The Victorian era was both good and bad due to the rise and fall of the empires and many pointless wars were fought. During that time, culture and technology improved greatly” (Anne Shepherd, “Overview of the Victorian Era”). During this time period of English, England was facing countless major changes, in the way people lived and thought during this era. Today, Victorian society is mostly known as practicing strict religious or moral behavior, authoritarian, preoccupied with the way they look and being respectable. They were extremely harsh in discipline and order at all times. Determination became a usual Victorian quality, and was part of Victorian lifestyle such as religion, literature and human behavior. However, Victorian has its perks, for example they were biased, contradictory, pretense, they cared a lot of about what economic or social rank a person is, and people were not allowed to express their sexuality. Oscar Wilde was seen as an icon of the Victorian age. In his plays and writings, he uses wit, intelligence and humor. Because of his sexuality he suffered substantially the humiliation and embarrassment of imprisonment. He was married and had an affair with a man, which back then was an act of vulgarity and grossness. But, that was not what Oscar Wilde was only known for; he is remembered for criticizing the social life of the Victorian era, his wit and his amazing skills of writing. Oscar Wilde poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” typifies the Vi...
Folly can be defined as a foolish conduct or foolish action (Brittanica Academic, 2017). New Belgium Brewing company appeared to struggle with the decision, to use the word “folly” in its advertising campaign. NBB created the slogan “ Follow your folly… ours is beer”, to sell their high quality beer and represent their brand (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). Unfortunately, a large amount of people felt the word “ Folly”, was disrespectful towards the science and technological process involved with creating such a high quality beer (Ferrell & Hartline, 2014). The humor in the phrase, was unable to be understood.