Essays on Humour

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Use of Black Humor and Irony in Slaughterhouse-Five  

Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five novel has an extremely dark, tragic story line. But, in Vonnegut’s melancholic autobiography, he incorporates a fair amount of irony and black humor into the novel. As a result of including black humor and irony into the story, the novel enables the reader to comprehend the terrors of war – and contributing […]

Pages: 6 Words: 1796

Famous Stories of The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

In Andrew Jackson speech on Indian Removal and Michael Rutledge “Samuel’s Memory”,diction plays a huge role on developing the tone.While Jackson use of word choices makes his address to congress sound uplifting, Rutledge use of word choices creates a tone of confusion. In Jackson address to congress on the Indian Removal, Jackson creates a tone […]

Pages: 2 Words: 740
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The Importance of Marriage in The Importance Of Being Earnest

The crux in The Importance Of Being Earnest struggles to keep up with their own writing and stories because Jack and Algernon strive to win the loving hearts of two women who, claim to only love men that were called Ernest. They both struggle and gets twisted in a tale of duplicity, impersonation and misfortune. […]

Pages: 2 Words: 649

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

In this passage from Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Two women argue with each other for who Mr. Ernest Worthing is really going to marry, as he has proposed to the both of them. However, being part of the aristocracy, both of them engage in a polite conversation filled with thinly-veiled insults. All […]

Pages: 2 Words: 489