Essays on Antithesis in Literature

In the novel The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Cecily Cardew is a subject of development through the usage of antithesis and satirical juxtaposition in mirroring of another character, Gwendolen.If Gwendolen is a product of London's excessive society, Cecily is its antithesis. She is a child of nature, as ingenuous and unspoiled as a pink rose, to which Algernon compares her in Act II. “Because you are like a pink rose, Cousin Cecily” (Act II, Page 42). However, her ingenuity is ...

Albert Camus’ first novel, The Stranger portrays events in the life of Meursault- from the loss of his mother to the moments before his execution for committing a murder- the nature of whom has been a topic of critical analysis and discussion for the critics over the years. However, this paper will attempt to address the following questions: Is Meursault an antithesis of a hero? Is he a villain? Or is he someone beyond these overtly simple categorizations of a main character in a text? These ...

Nils Christie proposes the concept of “Conflicts as Property” in his article of the same name, where he criticizes the theft of conflict from the involved parties by their professional representatives and the legal system. Christie claims that henceforth conflict becomes the property of others aside from the actual parties to the conflicts, which leads to conflict disappearing from society and thereby debilitating the development of society. Contrarily, the professionalization of litigators ...