Literature: The Element of Love Theme

Thesis Statement

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin , famous by his pseudonym Moliere , is regarded as one of the fathers of modern comedy . One of his finest works is the play ``Tartuffe ' also known as the hypocrite . The play is undeniably one of the most humorous classics .

Introduction

However , there is nothing funny about the message that the author wanted to convey . Moliere wanted for the audience to acknowledge what could be considered a social cancer : hypocrisy . The narrative was basically about the hypocrite Tartuffe and the gullible Orgon and his family . Tartuffe had introduced himself as a highly religious person . Orson , the main man of the household , believed that Tartuffe was the person that the hypocrite claimed to be . In the end , it would be revealed that Tartuffe 's real intentions was to kick Orson and his family out of the house . Moliere had used extreme characters to convey his main theme of hypocrisy .

WORK 01:

Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" by william shakespeare

Element Of Literature

Theme

William Shakespeare's eighteenth sonnet, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?”, is perhaps Shakespeare's most famous sonnet of his whole complete works of one hundred and fifty-four. Shakespeare's “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day” is an intriguing sonnet that, though still comparing the beloved subject of the sonnet to a “Summer's Day”, still finds its greatest virtue in the final two lines of the sonnet; the gift of immortality through Shakespeare's written word. By concluding “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day” with the fateful couplet that he so chose, it may be argued that, though, yes, Shakespeare was comparing his subject to a “Summer's Day”, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day” is a proverbial work on literary immortality.

Character And Setting

The renowned Shakespearean line, “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (1), is a line that few men in their youth have not memorized for recitation or young women can remember reading in a letter from a ardent suitor. It evokes images of 17th century lovers quoting poetry to one another in much the same way that Romeo serenaded Juliet from beneath her balcony. In many ways Shakespeare's “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” is the single line that could sum several centuries of amorist literature, and is the archetypal apex of love poetry.

Conflict

William Shakespeare's “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?” opens with a four line stanza, or quatrain, with the first two lines, “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate:” (1-2), introducing the general premise of the sonnet; that his subject is, in many ways, far better than a summer's day. Shakespeare's subject is, as he describes, “more lovely and more temperate” (2); his subject being more beautiful and significantly more balanced or emotionally stable than the harsh extremes of a temperamental English ...