Ruskin Bond Essays

Have you ever experienced the moment when you feel you are powerless against the law of nature? For example, death is something that every living thing on the Earth will face at some point of its life and something that people can never control. The Red Pony written by John Steinbeck is a novel filled with symbolic events and lessons about nature’s indifference to man. According to Steinbeck, all nature, including human beings, is inseparably bound together. While the stories of the book are full

Rita Wong’s “offering” to Zhi Ma Wu, the Bygone Black Sludge of Nature Rita Wong’s Forage is powerful and unrelenting in its position against chemical harms on the environment, but this stance is not made obvious until after the poem “offering.” This delay is due to Wong’s first paying tribute to the death of the naturally grown, as represented by zhi ma wu, whilst the world progresses toward to the genetically modified. The title of “offering” and Wong’s heritage as a Chinese Canadian alludes to

Oscar Wilde’s Victorian melodramatic play The Importance of Being Earnest opened on February 14, 1895. Wilde used this play to criticize Victorian society through clever phrasing and satire. Throughout the play The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde displayed the themes of the nature of marriage, the constraints of morality, and the importance of not being earnest. One of the themes that Oscar Wilde includes in the play is the nature of marriage. The idea that marriage is treated as a business is

The aristocratic matriarch in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell, harshly enforces the necessity of a profitable marriage, minimizes the role of women, and forces others to adhere to tradition. Her perfect embodiment of these strict Victorian Era England standards precisely illustrates the effects of the standards of the time on her character. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, as seen in the Norton’s Anthology of English Literature, encapsulated strict,

The tiny shoes, the small clothes, and sweet little coos of joy; it’s enough to make anyone come down with baby fever. Having a child is one of the most beautiful miracles in life and one of the most primal urges. But what happens when the desire for a child goes a bit too far? From the very beginning, the governess, the narrator of The Turn of the Screw, shows a deep-seated fascination and borderline obsession for her new charges, Miles, age ten, and his sister Flora, age eight. The governess envies

Jeren Yong Mr. Todd Language and Literature, Writing to Compare Satire 10 January 2018 “The Importance of Being Earnest” VS. “Big Kiss” This play’s setting is in the Victorian society. Wilde is writing this play as a satire to emphasize the ridiculousness of the Victoria society. The author wants to say how stupid the people are; they only care about the social status of people. In fact, the people in “The Importance of Being Earnest” are not earnest at all. At the end of the play, three engagements

arch 2018 The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde’s Criticism on the Upper Class Using humor, cleverness, and style, Oscar Wilde illustrates the lives of the Victorian upper class in The Importance of Being Earnest. More specifically, the “Trivial Comedy for Serious People” reveals in a satirical manner the insignificant concerns of Great Britain’s aristocracy. In the introduction of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings, editor Richard Ellmann creates an overview of Wilde’s best known

A person cannot always be ethical in their ways and in the Importance of Being Earnest there is hardly a clear moral compass. The Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical story used to poke fun at the immoral and confusing Victorian society. Jack, a bunburist born in a handbag, falls in love with Gwendolyn who loves the name Earnest. If it’s lady Bracknel’s absurd requirements or Gwendolyn’s need for a man named Earnest, there is no limit to sociopaths in this novel. With all this in mind it seems

Satire can be described as work intended to trigger or scorn a group of people in a humorous way. For instance, “The Significance of Being Earnest,” a play by Oscar Wilde satirizes gender as well as marriage. Moreover, this play scorns conventions, values as well as the hunt for love during the Victorian period. The central characters in the comedy include Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack accepts an adjust eagle on his way to town to evade intellectual and moral upright behaviors. He is

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16 October 1847. It was adapted into a movie by Cary Fukunaga in 2011. Charlotte Bronte uses "Jane Eyre" to criticizes the class system of the Victorian Age in terms of 19th century women, the roles of womanhood, female stereotypes. Due to the fact that Jane has extremely intellectual and polite personality, she did not allow her character to change and bend the class system. Because of being orphan, she was looked down

The tiny shoes, the small clothes, and sweet little coos of joy; it’s enough to make anyone come down with baby fever. Having a child is one of the most beautiful miracles in life and one of the most primal urges. But what happens when the desire for a child goes a bit too far? From the very beginning, the governess, the narrator of The Turn of the Screw, shows a deep-seated fascination and borderline obsession for her new charges, Miles, age ten, and his sister Flora, age eight. The governess envies

The victorian individual that I researched was Oscar Wilde. He was extremely important to the Victorian Era because he challenged the standard philosophies of art and literature, moving the culture forwards while creating a lasting legacy that would affect people’s lives for many years following. Oscar Wilde is most definitely a realist. Specifically, he is an aestheticist, or in other words someone who believed that art and literature should not be dragged down by alternative meaning and lessons

The characteristics a person values often corresponds to the type of person they are. One individual may value a person’s sense of humor while another values a person’s sincerity. The values these individuals have are often influenced by the society and class around them. The way a group acts relates to the characteristics the individuals may value. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde’s characters show the superficial and corrupt nature of the upper class by placing value on a name, appearances

Introduction The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is “a trivial comedy for serious people”, a subtitle Wilde gave to the play. According to the Bundaberg Playhouse theatre, “It is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations” (2018, under “The Importance of being Earnest, Bundaberg Playhouse Theatre”). The original production occurred in 1895 and premiered in the St James Theatre in London England, it was in creative development

The Group of Seven, first known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian artists. Arthur Lismer is credited with naming the group which was founded in 1920 and lasted until 1933. The group’s purpose was to create an art style that broke European art traditions and raised awareness for the Canadian landscape. The original seven members were: They were later joined by A.J. Casson in 1926; Edwin Holgate in 1930; and LeMoine FitzGerald in 1932. When not painting on location, they all lived

Critical Analysis: The Importance of Being Earnest The actor who played Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of being Earnest did an admirable job creating an authentic personality for his character. A couple of traits Algernon possessed were arrogance and nonchalance. The actor who played Algernon exemplified arrogance through his posture and by the way he carried himself. By looking relaxed with his feet up on the coffee table, or walking with swagger during the scenes, the actor communicated

The importance of being earnest was written by Oscar Wilde and was first performed around 1895 in London ("The Importance of Being Earnest."). Since then, there have been several adaptations of this piece in the form of several movies, musicals and radio versions. The first movie premiered in 1952. Since then two more versions, premiered one in 2002 and one in 2011. Several people argue that The Importance of Being Earnest uses a lot of satire, farce and comedy. I personally think that the book

The Motif of Food Many different motifs are used in literature. In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015], 1407-1457) there are many different literary elements used including that of a motif. The motif of food is used throughout the play as a stand in for many different feeling and emotions that characters feel throughout the play. The first scene where food is

In the play “The Importance Being Earnest” Oscar Wilde wants to show that the caricature on high society. The play was in the 1800’s. A caricature is a charter or a physical fentress that exaggerates by making it bigger or smaller to make a person notice and laugh to show their weakness. Oscar Wilde makes us think if it’s really important to be earnest ? The story is about two boys that want to be named Earnest, so because of that they have a double life and they will need to handle the problems

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