Book Report: Hidden Agenda: How The Duke Of Windsor Betrayed The Allies In the Biography “Hidden Agenda: How The Duke Of Windsor Betrayed The Allies” by Martin Allen, many different aspects of the Duke Of Windsor’s life, and the treachery he commits during his time in power through manipulation of his political status. The author’s purpose in writing this novel is to show the corruption of the Nazi Party, and that of the English upper Parliament. While showing so, many topics come up, one example is how the Nazi Regime had their eyes set on making an idyllic system of manufacturing, even making great working conditions for their workers by having pools and break rooms at the factories far before practices like this had occurred in the U.S.
“With my feet still bound, I lunge for him, just as flame bursts from the barrel.” In the book, Liars Inc. by Paula Stokes, the main character, Max Cantrell, begins a company called Liars, Inc. with his best friend, Preston, and his girlfriend, Parvati. One event leads to another, and Preston goes missing. Max has to figure out what happened to Preston without getting in trouble with the police. Max lied to the police about Preston’s location, he lied about dating Parvati, and Preston lied about who he was his whole life.
A duty is a responsibility in which a person must follow, but when the order given goes against a person’s beliefs, conflict is inevitable. In Kate Grenville’s historical novel ‘The Lieutenant’ the protagonist, Daniel Rooke is entangled between his obligation to the British Empire and his own beliefs. During his time with the marines, Rooke quickly found out that the Military services demanded complete loyalty and obedience. This loyalty is tested when Rooke is caught between the conflict between his people and the aboriginals. However it is only through bonding with the Lieutenant Gardiner and the Cadigal people that, Rooke is able to see that fulfilling one’s personal beliefs is more important than those that are imposed by others.
In The Way We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson telling such little white lies is done in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt. Though it could also be argued the person themselves have alternative motives, such as not wanting to be seen as a bad friend or person. While these actions are more or less admirable, it is still nevertheless lying. While Donald Trump's motive for using artifice, is simple, he wants the population to like him and believe he is a good president. His motive are more narcissistic than most, wanting only to be liked, makes him a manipulative liar.
But why does one feel the need to lie? One engages in lying to benefit themselves or another. Lying is used to protect oneself as well as others. Danforth, demanding an answer, yells, ‘“Is your husband a lecher!”
Lies are mentioned for bountiful reasons; lies can be invaluable to others or used for a greedy, egoistical reason. No matter the motive, lies are frequently told everyday. Even in the concentration camps of World War II, there were no exceptions. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel is caught naturally lying to mislead his relative, Stein even though Wiesel has a chance to tell the truth, he decides against it. Even though he lied, I believe that Wiesel's lie was morally right.
They lie all the time purely for their own gain. For example, they lie to some local girls who are in line for a big inheritance simply so that they can steal the money. The king tells the girls that he and the duke are their long lost uncles. “The king he spread his arms, and Mary Jane she jumped for them, and the hare-lip jumped for the duke, and there they had it! Everybody most, leastways women, cried for joy to see them meet again at last and have such good times” (313).
Analyzing a Dunce In the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, author John Kennedy Toole wonderfully depicts New Orleans in the early 1960s and protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly’s comical adventures throughout the city. When his mother (who he still lives with at the age of 30) crashes her car, he now finds that he must get a job to pay off the expenses. Ignatius has two main traits that truly define him: he is incredibly lazy and tremendously selfish. Ignatius J. Reilly is an appallingly lazy human being. He is mortified when his mother informs him that he must get a job.
Generally speaking, for two brothers who are both writers for that matter, seems amazingly uncompetitive. By the same token, reading The Duke of Deception and This Boy’s Life is fascinating. What makes it so fascinating are the differences between the two childhoods, and seeing how they both connect to one another even though Geoffrey, and Jack were 3,000 miles apart. For example, Geoffrey nearly repeated Duke’s checkered high school career, which in a way was expect since he lived with his father.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is about the corruption, lying, strict actions of the Salem witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Miller was inspired to write this play to relate to the era of McCarthyism during the 1950’s that he and American citizens were experiencing. In the 1950’s Joseph McCarthy starting accusing public figures of being guilty of treason by supporting the communist party (of Russia). But McCarthy had no physical proof or evidence that suggested his wild accusations. The accusations caused havoc in America, hundreds imprisoned, and thousands to lose their job.
In “The Iron King”,by Julie Kagawa, Meghan Chase has a great weakness that causes her to give up important things to save the people she loves and cares about. Meghan goes to Nevernever to find her kidnapped brother Ethan, who was taken by the Iron king. Through this process Meghan meets many new creatures and unfortunately she has to bargain with them in order to find Ethan. Her best friend Puck, from a Midsummer’s Nights Dream, helps her through the faery land but soon finds his arch enemy Ash. Ash is the Winter prince of the Unseelie Court.
Deception comes in many forms and can be seen in all kind of ways but mainly when someone purposely causes someone to believe something that isn 't true to gain a personal advantage. Many authors use this tactic in their plays books and other literary work like in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the author uses the technique of deception to mislead Claudius, Gertrude, himself, Ophelia and his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spare their feelings and to carry out a crime. Hamlet uses deception throughout the novel, but one way is to distract everyone from his true intention which is to gather information against Claudius to prove he killed his father. Shakespeare contributes all this back into his work by making each character in the play enact on some form of deceit to uncover the obscure truth.
Stephanie Ericsson begins her explorative essay, “The Ways We Lie,” with a personal anecdote of all the lies she fabricated in one day. She told her bank that a deposit was in the mail when it was not, told a client that the traffic had been bad when she was late for other reasons, told her partner that her day was fine when it was really exhausting, and told her friend she was too busy for lunch when she just was not hungry, all in the course of a day. She shifts from talking about herself to talking about everyone, claiming that all people lie, exaggerate, minimize, keep secrets, and tell other lies. But, like herself, most still consider themselves honest people. She describes a week in which she tried to never tell a lie; it was debilitating, she claims.
Equivocators in English Class One theme throughout almost all of the books that we have read is lying and not telling the whole truth. Characters like this in the books we have read are called equivocators. They are lying, two faced people. Naturally, because it is in so many of our books, I will be deciphering it in one book from Poe, HOB, and Macbeth. An Equivocator is someone who lies or does not tell the whole truth.
If a lie is not believed or believable, it has lost its value. A lie has a perpetrator and a victim and without these characteristics, it’d fail. Lying is also an attempt to bridge a gap that connects our fantasies and reality (Meyer, 2011). When thinking about Schemas, lying has to be the most universally common model. The characteristics of a lie
