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    deals with disguise and religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe claims to be a godly man when in reality he is a manipulative man who uses his piety as a strength to get what he wants. In this story‚ Tartuffe convinces Orgon and Madame Pernelle that he is a poor and religious man. He makes them believe he is truthful and humble by pretending to be pious. However‚ Tartuffe’s ways do not fool the rest of the family and members of the house. Moliere makes Tartuffe’s hypocrisy obvious to the audience‚ while Orgon

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    learned to accept and cope with it in ways that most teenagers do not understand. Holden and Christopher also know and understand the importance of independence‚ and have had to learn to care for themselves and make wise choices from a young age. Hypocrisy is also a common theme between both Holden and Christopher‚ and due to this they have gotten themselves into stressful situations causing them to make rash and bad decisions. Due to their pasts‚ both boys experience rebellion as an everyday event

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    “The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart‚ gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.” – David Foster Wallace. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini‚ included lessons that gave readers a glimpse of what life is like as one grows older. As we progress through the book‚ we see how the relationship between servant and masters looks like. The relationship between Baba and Ali‚ and‚ Amir and Hassan‚ really captures the essence of how hypocritical and ironic

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    Holden and Society J. D. Salinger’s notable and esteemed novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ reflects the hypercritical views of a troubled teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ towards everyone around him and society itself. This character has a distinguished vision of a world where morality‚ principles‚ intelligence‚ purity‚ and naivety should override money‚ sex‚ and power‚ but clearly in the world he inhabits these qualities have been exiled. Holder desperately clings to and regards innocence as one of the most

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    How to Live

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    1st Quarter Writing Performance Assessment: Narrative Composition DUE ON OCTOBER 21ST. BRING IT SAVED ON A FLASH DRIVE OR SAVE IT ON Google Drive. Writing a Narrative composition appeals to one of humankind’s basic instincts‚ the impulse to share stories. Sometimes the aim of the story-teller is simply to entertain‚ to provide a moment of escape from the business of the day or the horrors of the night‚ but sometimes the aim of the story-teller is to instruct‚ to help others in their understanding

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    horrible portrayal of jealousy‚ using horrid language. It is contradictory of his jealousy when he attempts to sell his wife to Volpone. WOB- she says her husbands are jealous of her and she pretends that she is jealous of them to please them. Hypocrisy Volpone- saying one thing for effect and feeling another. Corvino goes on about his honour but is then prepared to prostitute his wife for money. His underlying greed

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    "mission" in life to enlighten others into the ways of christianity. This idea is however proved corrupt with the entrance of his three daughters. They are described as "splendidly attired in velvet‚ silk and furs"‚ which brings an immense sense of hypocrisy down onto the impression the reader gets of Mr. Brocklehurst‚ and suddenly his doctrine of privation is for the first time exposed as a possible method of stealing from the school to support his seemingly luxurious lifestyle. Brocklehurst enters

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    Lie and Tartuffe Moliere

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    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 . Tartuffe and

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    Many people claim to be religious even though they constantly criticize and judge others‚ which results in hypocrisy. These hypocrites believe themselves to be good people because they have religion in their life. Religion can be misidentified as what it takes to be a good person. In Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”‚ the grandmother claims to be religious but‚ is‚ in fact‚ a hypocrite who lacks self-awareness. The grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” exemplifies what

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    religious hypocrisy” (par. 19). Later Shakelford claims that‚ “O’Connor’s primary theme‚ from her earliest to last stories‚ is hubris" (par. 14). Thus “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is a blend of the themes of religious hypocrisy and hubris. Nevertheless‚ it is the Grandmother’s self-pride or hubris that keeps her from God and understanding her faith‚ therefore resulting in religious hypocrisy. Without a proper understanding of her porous actions‚ the grandmother is oblivious to her own hypocrisy. Stephen

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