In the duration of, “The Birthday Party”, by Katharine Brush, the narrator dictates a couple who’ celebrating the husband’s birthday. Brush uses literary devices in the short story in order to show, an open interpretation that men could be cruel people in a specific situation. Proceeding through the beginning this short, Brush uses caricature in order to show the youth of the couple. Even if, to an audience of the twenty-first century, they are young at the age of thirty and above, they are a loving couple.
This incredibly humorous idea, of the stag and hen night before the wedding, gives the audience a clear and simple over view of the lifestyles present in the 1980s, as characters throughout the play give out continuous hints regarding: sexual references, alcohol and sexism, which could have been a personal choice by Rourke to present
In her short story, “Birthday Party,” Katharine Brush illustrates how a negative person can ruin the hard work and love of another person. The narrator begins by describing the couple who sat nearby in the restaurant. The man is illustrated as someone with a “self-satisfied face,” and the woman as “fadingly pretty.” Described as “self-satisfied,” the husband is portrayed as proud, maybe even arrogant.
She uses imagery by describing them as in "...their late thirties, and they looked unmistakably married." giving us a mindset of what they can look like. She then goes into more depth by saying the man has "a round self-satisfied face, with glasses..." which gives us another idea as to how his personality maybe like, which
They have been married for centuries and spend their days picking lemons and reminiscing about their past lives. As time goes on, the two begin to gain separate ideas
Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. (Chopin III)” Chopin uses the super detailed description of Edna crying to appeal to the audience and demonstrate how Edna’s current situation is exceedingly unpleasant. In both situations the authors use pathos to appeal to the audience and show the characters in dark and unpleasant situations to display how horrendous their situations
As soon as Isabel notices her parents are attending the same show as her and her new boyfriend, she intricately details their current state and, in turn, this detail-orientation creates amusement. Isabel begins her description by comparing her mother’s outfit to a “willow tree”. De Botton uses this simile disguised as an insult to portray Isabel’s mother’s character as one of whom Isabel does not approve; it additionally implies her old age from which Isabel wishes to distance herself. Furthermore, de Botton foreshadows family crisis and turmoil in his introduction suggesting that Isabel’s mother has multiple “gentleman friends” as Isabel hopes “she didn’t come with one” of them. Not only is her mother unfaithful to her father, but, “with any luck, they’ll be too busy arguing to glance up” at Isabel and her date indicating an unhappy marriage.
In “Birthday Party,” Katharine Brush’s purpose for writing the short story was to reveal how something that is good can go so wrong. She also demonstrates how some things are not what they seem. Especially in the situation that she wrote. Her purpose from the beginning to end is demonstrated by the use of literary devices. Brush begins by describing the scenario, she states, “They sat on the banquette opposite us.”
The dialogue in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” reveals a man’s and a woman’s incongruent conflict on abortion, and the author’s fundamentally feminist position is visible in the portrayal of the woman’s independent choice of whether or not to keep the baby she is carrying. The plot is very simple in the story which is less than 1500 words long. A woman and a man spend less than an hour on a hot summers day at a Spanish train station in the valley of Ebro as they are waiting for a train heading for Madrid. Their dialogue takes up most of the space and only few major actions take place.
V For Vendetta Movie Review Genre : Action, Science fiction, thriller Released date : 17th of March, 2006 Directed by : James McTeigue Written by : Andy & Lana Wachowski Duration : 2 hours 12 minutes Based on graphic novel by Alan Moore in 1982, “V For Vendetta” tells a story about England in the future that rule by oppressive government and a man, named V, who sets out to destroy it. It’s in the year 2020, a virus run wild in the world. Most Americans are dead and Britain is rule by a fascist dictator who promise security but not freedom.
The narrator is sitting on the banquet opposite of a couple and states, “they looked unmistakably married.” The third person’s point of view conveys that they are watching the couple and the diction in unmistakably married conveys that the men and women must be apparently close or affectionate. Furthermore, it describes that their marriage was recognized, it couldn’t be mistaken for something else. In addition to the diction the narrator introduces a shift when they state, “nothing particularly noticeable, until the end of the meal.” This shift introduces the birthday surprise the wife has planned.
After Tea Cake’s death, Hurston wrote “She had come back from burying the dead.... The people all saw her because it was sundown” (Hurston 1). This quote illustrates that the brightness of change died with Tea Cake, but the memories and lessons lived on forever through each new sunrise of every forthcoming morning. Janie learned that although marriage consists of a relationship between two people, marriage must contain individuality to a particular extent. Janie finally experienced satisfaction in a marriage when Tea Cake allowed her personal freedoms and individuality through inviting her to be equal to him in such activities as playing games and hunting with guns.
When Richard’s heard the news of her husband’s death, he assumed Mrs. Mallard would be devastated. While everyone knew Mrs. Mallard was “afflicted with heart trouble” (57), him and her sister, Josephine, wanted to give her the news with “great care” (57). Josephine broke the news to Mrs. Mallard in “broken sentences”
Leguin opens up the story with the wife saying that she doesn’t understand it and that she doesn’t believe it happened and although she saw what happened she refuses to believe it. She refused to believe it even though she saw it her own eyes because he was a gentle and kind-hearted man. The facts were shown to her and there was no denying the event that occurred yet she refused to believe it because her perception of her husband wouldn 't allow her to accept it. Throughout the story, the wife describes he character of the husband and his traits.
In “Birthday Party,” Katharine Brush describes the event of a married couple celebrating the husband’s birthday in her short story. His wife plans a surprise for him, but instead he feels furious and embarrassed. Brush uses imagery and irony to emphasize certain moments of the story. First, imagery is used to depict the appearance of the married couple. “The man had a round, self-satisfied face, with glasses on it; the woman was fadingly pretty, in a big hat.”
