XH ENGLISH

"Education Is Not the Filling of a Pail, But the Lighting of a Fire" -Yeats

Thursday, May 17, 2012

If you could go bunburying, where would you go?!!!  (we shared this together and there were awesome answers!)

hi...its virginia..

Epigrams defined:
a....
brief, interesting, memorable, witty, ingenious, concise, clever,
tersely expressed,
sometimes surprising, sometimes paradoxical, sometimes surprising...
statement

paradoxical=contradictory, defies logic and reason

Epigrams in Act I:
pg.16 "more than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldt read"
pg. 18 "the truth is rarely pure and never simple"
pg. 19 "it is simply washing one's clean linen in public"
pg. 20 "in married, three is company and two is none"
pg. 22 "if one plays good music people don' listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk"
pg 21 "i heard her hair has turned quite gold from grief"
pg. 26 "ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone"
pg. 28 "relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die"
pg. 29 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
pg. 30 "It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, i don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind"

TIOBE covers these topics- what exactly is Wilde satirizing regarding these topics?  Good test question, don't you think?:
CLASS
EDUCATION
MARRIAGE
MORALITY (i.e. truth)





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