A Very Brief Review of Lady Windermere's Fan
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With his powerful use of humor, Oscar Wilde opens a window to the lives of people from the high society of England. The play encourages the reader, to think of the hypocrisy of the high class, especially in the Victorian Period. The changeable, inconsistent manners of the characters, show how their lives are nothing but a performance. The scene in which the characters talk about the balls and the season reflects this successfully. Through the gossip, insincere attitudes, and inconsistent behaviors of the characters Oscar Wilde shows society's hypocrisy and the double nature of the people. After Lord Augustus' words and Lord Windermere and Lady Windermere's differing opinions about Mrs. Erlynne (clever but evil and good), the two of them holding hands is a visual reference to Lady Windermere's view that the opposites in life go hand in hand. He also underlines this notion, through the impressive dialogues and his detailed characterization.
Furthermore, Wilde helps the reader to understand the gender roles and place of women in society, in the Victorian Age. He vividly depicts society's view of and expectations of women. Wilde also reflects the hierarchical structure of society with the characters from the lower classes. Overall, Oscar Wilde explores the themes of sinfulness and innocence, the evil and the good, the lie and the truth, showing how these contrary concepts go hand in hand in real-life practice.
Tragedy of Betrayal
Ian McEwan wrote 
Fındık Kabuğu and inspired by #k:1651. The plot begins with an unborn child that the author does not share the gender or name, and it progress by it's surroundings. It is basically a betrayal story. Our carrier, mom, is Trudy Cairncross, Claude as uncle and father John Cairncross. In the beginning of the it is clearly stated that mother has an affair with Claude. They are having sex and planning something. The narrator tries to estimate their plan by listening their conversation in it's mother's womb. Since, sometimes there are different factors around surroundings it is not possible. In first chapters it is clear to see that Trudy is the oppressive character over Claude and John. Just because she is still married with John, Claude does everything that Trudy wants. Also, John, who is a poet, has a emotional character. That is why, he does not want to give up on his love and tries his chance. Our narrator mentions about some of the memories of it's parents. One day John reads poem for Trudy which she hates, but John has intese feelings and every letter of the poem has a meaning for him. This indicates that John still loves his wife yet her doesn't carry the same feelings against her. She always lies to him to stay with his brother Claude. Unlike his brother Claude is someone callous. He doesn't such abilty to write poem. In a chapter John tries his chance to be forgiven by her and stay with his wife like old days but eventually he is rejected one more time. The reason is his brother, Claude, is someone manipulaitve and addicted to sex. After the last rejection everything changes, Claude and Trudy makes sneaky plan to kill John, because he tells them to find another place to live. He dedicated to move into his own house and he comes to the place with differentPostmodern
Ian McEwan wrote Fındık Kabuğu and inspired by #k:1651. The plot begins with an unborn child that the author does not share the gender or name, and it progress by it's surroundings. It is basically a betrayal story. Our carrier, mom, is Trudy Cairncross, Claude as uncle and father John Cairncross. In the beginning of the it is clearly stated that mother has an affair with Claude. They are having sex and planning something. The narrator tries to estimate their plan by listening their conversation in it's mother's womb. Since, sometimes there are different factors around surroundings it is not possible. In first chapters it is clear to see that Trudy is the oppressive character over Claude and John. Just because she is still married with John, Claude does everything that Trudy wants. Also, John, who is a poet, has a emotional character. That is why, he does not want to give up on his love and tries his chance. Our narrator mentions about some of the memories of it's parents. One day John reads poem for Trudy which she hates, but John has intese feelings and every letter of the poem has a meaning for him. This indicates that John still loves his wife yet her doesn't carry the same feelings against her. She always lies to him to stay with his brother Claude. Unlike his brother Claude is someone callous. He doesn't such abilty to write poem. In a chapter John tries his chance to be forgiven by her and stay with his wife like old days but eventually he is rejected one more time. The reason is his brother, Claude, is someone manipulaitve and addicted to sex. After the last rejection everything changes, Claude and Trudy makes sneaky plan to kill John, because he tells them to find another place to live. He dedicated to move into his own house and he comes to the place with different
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the fact that i didn't hate this makes me think. and i wrote a small essay on the queer story for personal reasons. here it is (spoilers ahead):
There's a story in here about a gay man who commits a murder with his lover and the upbringing of this entire plotline is so interesting that I will try to break it down.
Ahmet Ümit is not at all interested in describing his characters with many details. But when Başkomser Nevzat is introduced to this young man, Yusuf, he mentions his black mustache and burning hazel eyes; before describing him as "a man so beautiful that even the most innocent of women would be tempted by the sight of him."
It feels already weird enough that his main character -a masculine, macho type cop guy who solves murder mysteries- describes an another man's beauty in such delicate details. Even Ali, Başkomser Nevzat's assistant who is also a macho guy that puts in extra effort to look tough (because he's young and still learning), also calls Yusuf "quite handsome" at some point.
Now you might find yourself thinking, "Hm... There might be something queer going on in here." Because that's exactly what Ahmet Ümit wants you to think. But why? Why does this supposed to make you feel like this story is about to take a fishy, not-so-straight turn?
When Ali brings up Yusuf's good-looking nature, it's for a reason. Unlike Başkomser Nevzat who had described him as a beautiful man at the beginning to state a fact; Ali isn't there to state facts, Ali is there to make a point.
As they were interrogating the town-folk, Ali asks a man if there were any women who had tried to seduce Yusuf; because Yusuf's so handsome and all that.
[Since this guy is incredibly hot, women must throw themselves at him—Ahmet Ümit's trying to say. (In these particular stories; we
3/5 Stars (%53/100)
It was okay-ish to good. I've read for one of my classes. Here's more or less what I wrote in a paper:
James Baldwin’s 1955 collection of essays Notes of a Native Son is similar to the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir in the sense that he also compares Europe and America. However, Baldwin mostly focuses on the issues of race that he observed during his stay in Paris. In “Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown”, Baldwin explains that it is more difficult for black people to become successful in Paris in the 1950s compared to the roaring 1920s. He says that only black people are able to maintain a good relationship with black artists. Because the white Americans distrust black Americans, racial differentiation becomes more prominent in Paris.
Baldwin also talks about the relationship between Africans living in Paris and African American people. He explains this conflict by saying “They face each other, the Negro and the African, over a gulf of three hundred years—an alienation too vast to be conquered in an evening’s good-will, too heavy and too double-edged ever to be trapped in speech” (Baldwin 112). Both sides need to work hard to understand each other, according to Baldwin, and because America is constantly changing, the American identity also changes. However, he believes that “What time will bring Americans is at last their own identity” (113). Even though this essay focuses on black people and their experience, it still has some similarities to the previously-mentioned texts because Baldwin also talks about Americanism and the difficulty of establishing an American identity. Also, just as Europeans, like de Beauvoir or Sartre, find Americans strange, Americans, especially black Americans like Baldwin himself, seem to find Europeans strange
I loved it. I loved everything about it. It broke my heart and made me laugh at the same time. Some days reading this book was the best part of my day. It’s a story about idiots, as the author tells us at the beginning of the story. But it’s also a story about love, grief and life. You get to know each of their own stories. These stories show us how our choices lead our paths and the way that we love people and what we do to keep them ours differ from each other. Each character has their own struggles, they’re all broken in their own ways, they try their best to make their relationships last and they try to be good people. I fell in love with every single character. I loved learning about each one of their stories, i loved the way they told it and i loved the way the characters bounded with each other. I empathized with every each one of the characters’ flaws, fears and anxieties. I know that i carry most of them as well, that’s why i’ll carry this book with me deep down in my heart. This book will be something that i won’t forget for the rest of my life. This reading experience made me feel human again, it reminded me that i’m not alone and sometimes we all struggle with the exact same things in different ways. I was fascinated by the way the characters connected in such a unique way in such a short time. I can tell that they’ll have a different kind of connection with each other for the rest of their lives. They were all so special and they all had one thing in common: they were all trying their best. I haven’t read a book that made me feel such complicated feelings in such a long time, i’m so glad i got the chance to read it. I can’t tell you how beautiful this novel is, how it will make your heart melt. It will make you feel the pain in your bones. It will make you
This is no Little Prince, that's for sure. You must kill the fox, burn the rose, murder the businessman, if any of them tries to take control over your princedom. There's no time to be nice! There's only time to seem to be nice. At the end of the day, it is better to be feared than loved, if you can't be both. Nevertheless, keep in mind chapter 23.
The Prince was written in the 16th century and a couple of its ideas are too contemporary. It is a major treatise that influenced several political leaders throughout history. Machiavelli is widely regarded as the father of modern politics by taking away any trace of theology and morality from his works. (That is something no one has ever said before.) I should have read it long ago, but everything has its time, I suppose.
So, there are a lot of concepts that should just stay in the book and a few which you may apply to everyday circumstances. It delivers what you are waiting for, if you want to know how to have and keep power to yourself, no matter the head you are crushing, and all that using a fairly straightforward language. It is a short book and easy to understand, even though the notion of achieving glory, power and survival, regardless of how immoral you have to be... it is not difficult to comprehend; that we get.
Cruelty, wickedness, immorality; all those things apparently needed to achieve greatness, all of them printed long ago in the form of a little book, just like that... From a twisted point of view, sometimes, it is almost a bit funny.
It was an excellent read.
