The standard view among philosophers is that an arguer’s hypocrisy(understood as failure to practice what one preaches)has no bearing on either the merits of his or her argument or the acceptability of the argument’...The standard view among philosophers is that an arguer’s hypocrisy(understood as failure to practice what one preaches)has no bearing on either the merits of his or her argument or the acceptability of the argument’s conclusion.I challenge this view.Using the case of Peter Singer,who has famously argued for a moral obligation to relieve famine,but who does not,by his own admission,live in accordance with the standard he espouses,I explain why(and how)an arguer’s hypocrisy matters.If I am correct,then the standard view of the relation between arguer and argument must be revised.展开更多
"The Great Gatsby"is a brilliant short novel written by Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,MInnesota on September24,1896. He was the only son of an upper middle class Catholic fami..."The Great Gatsby"is a brilliant short novel written by Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,MInnesota on September24,1896. He was the only son of an upper middle class Catholic family. While he was at Princeton university,the young Fitzgerald developed his talent in writing. When the First World War broke out,he enlisted in the army,and in a training camp in Alabama,he met and fell in love with Zelda sayre,the southern belle who became his wife and who was the model for most of the beautiful and gay heroines of his fiction. His life with her was a mixture of great happiness and great misery and pain. In 1925,Fitzgerald published his most famous novel "The Great Gatsby". Before long,his wife became mentally ill. Fitzgerald declined as a writer. He worked regularly as a script-writer in Hollywood from 1937 to 1939,when he succumbed to alcoholism. He died of heart attack in 1940. His wife,Zelda,was sent to a sanitarium and died in a fire started by herself in the sanitarium。展开更多
To make a speech more appealing,expressive and persuasive,speaker has to do much work on its syntax,lexis and tropes,and arrange these elements in a more stylistically appropriate way.As for Frederick Douglass's T...To make a speech more appealing,expressive and persuasive,speaker has to do much work on its syntax,lexis and tropes,and arrange these elements in a more stylistically appropriate way.As for Frederick Douglass's The Hypocrisy of American Slavery,it is syntactically,lexically,and rhetorically perfect and eloquent.This paper aims to analyze the stylistic features of this speech from the lexical,syntactic and rhetorical perspectives,so as to argue that the deliberately employed stylistic layout of this speech helps Douglass convey his ideas and messages to the audience,and furthermore,enhances the angry tone of him to make the listener understand how adverse and unequal the situation was to the African American people in the 1850's America.展开更多
Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1...Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955.With the background of southern American family,the play consists of light and shade clues:the former centers on brothers’fighting for property;the latter focuses on hero Brick’s homosexual problem.The analysis of the convert of Brick’s role and thought aims at comprehending to a deep degree how Williams,a homosexual,exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows his profound thinking of life value.展开更多
Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put f...Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.展开更多
The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and ...The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and selfishness and Hester' protection,he escaped from the punishment of the law.Because he is selfish,cowardly,hypocitical,and lonely,he has hidden his sin for seven years.And because he is kind,he finally stands up actively and takes the responsibility,which belongs to him.At that time,he dies an honest true man.Through the analysis of Dimmesdale' s characteristics,we can know his inner world,and we will be more sympathetic to him.展开更多
The Merchant of Venice （1914）, as one of the greatest works by Shakespeare, is a comedy. It addresses various themes. It is much more than a study of the struggles between Christians and Jews; it also deals with lov...The Merchant of Venice （1914）, as one of the greatest works by Shakespeare, is a comedy. It addresses various themes. It is much more than a study of the struggles between Christians and Jews; it also deals with love and self-sacrifice, hatred and revenge, and friendship and marriage. It is a victory of Christians against Jews. But, at a more profound level, the play is ultimately a tragedy which functions as a cautionary exposure on the social problems of prejudice, hypocrisy and the family relationships. The paper begins by addressing the prejudice that is a dominant theme throughout the play. It also contends that the hypocrisy is prevalent in Venetian society. Then, Shylock, as the tragic hero in the play is analyzed. The final part deals with the problem of family relationships. By exposing grave deficiencies in Venetian Society, the play obliges us to make a critical moral judgment on humanity and establish correct philosophy of life and values展开更多
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg is a classic middle-length novel written by Mark Twain. The story revolves around a sack of gold that every one of the 19 principal citizens in the"most honest and upright town&q...The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg is a classic middle-length novel written by Mark Twain. The story revolves around a sack of gold that every one of the 19 principal citizens in the"most honest and upright town"Hadleyburg desires to claim by any means, fair or foul. The vivid description reveals the bourgeois hypocrisy of the capitalist society. This article intends to study the story from the perspective of binary opposition and finds out three pairs of opposition, they are honesty vs. hypocrisy; trust vs. trap; fancy vs. fact, which makes the story more sarcastic and full of sight and wisdom.展开更多
文摘The standard view among philosophers is that an arguer’s hypocrisy(understood as failure to practice what one preaches)has no bearing on either the merits of his or her argument or the acceptability of the argument’s conclusion.I challenge this view.Using the case of Peter Singer,who has famously argued for a moral obligation to relieve famine,but who does not,by his own admission,live in accordance with the standard he espouses,I explain why(and how)an arguer’s hypocrisy matters.If I am correct,then the standard view of the relation between arguer and argument must be revised.
文摘"The Great Gatsby"is a brilliant short novel written by Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,MInnesota on September24,1896. He was the only son of an upper middle class Catholic family. While he was at Princeton university,the young Fitzgerald developed his talent in writing. When the First World War broke out,he enlisted in the army,and in a training camp in Alabama,he met and fell in love with Zelda sayre,the southern belle who became his wife and who was the model for most of the beautiful and gay heroines of his fiction. His life with her was a mixture of great happiness and great misery and pain. In 1925,Fitzgerald published his most famous novel "The Great Gatsby". Before long,his wife became mentally ill. Fitzgerald declined as a writer. He worked regularly as a script-writer in Hollywood from 1937 to 1939,when he succumbed to alcoholism. He died of heart attack in 1940. His wife,Zelda,was sent to a sanitarium and died in a fire started by herself in the sanitarium。
文摘To make a speech more appealing,expressive and persuasive,speaker has to do much work on its syntax,lexis and tropes,and arrange these elements in a more stylistically appropriate way.As for Frederick Douglass's The Hypocrisy of American Slavery,it is syntactically,lexically,and rhetorically perfect and eloquent.This paper aims to analyze the stylistic features of this speech from the lexical,syntactic and rhetorical perspectives,so as to argue that the deliberately employed stylistic layout of this speech helps Douglass convey his ideas and messages to the audience,and furthermore,enhances the angry tone of him to make the listener understand how adverse and unequal the situation was to the African American people in the 1850's America.
文摘Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955.With the background of southern American family,the play consists of light and shade clues:the former centers on brothers’fighting for property;the latter focuses on hero Brick’s homosexual problem.The analysis of the convert of Brick’s role and thought aims at comprehending to a deep degree how Williams,a homosexual,exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows his profound thinking of life value.
文摘Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.
文摘The Scarlet Letter is a tragedy itself.Dimmesdale,the number one hero in the tragedy,is doomed to be a tragic character.He commits adultery with Hester,which should be punished by law.But because of his cowardice and selfishness and Hester' protection,he escaped from the punishment of the law.Because he is selfish,cowardly,hypocitical,and lonely,he has hidden his sin for seven years.And because he is kind,he finally stands up actively and takes the responsibility,which belongs to him.At that time,he dies an honest true man.Through the analysis of Dimmesdale' s characteristics,we can know his inner world,and we will be more sympathetic to him.
文摘The Merchant of Venice （1914）, as one of the greatest works by Shakespeare, is a comedy. It addresses various themes. It is much more than a study of the struggles between Christians and Jews; it also deals with love and self-sacrifice, hatred and revenge, and friendship and marriage. It is a victory of Christians against Jews. But, at a more profound level, the play is ultimately a tragedy which functions as a cautionary exposure on the social problems of prejudice, hypocrisy and the family relationships. The paper begins by addressing the prejudice that is a dominant theme throughout the play. It also contends that the hypocrisy is prevalent in Venetian society. Then, Shylock, as the tragic hero in the play is analyzed. The final part deals with the problem of family relationships. By exposing grave deficiencies in Venetian Society, the play obliges us to make a critical moral judgment on humanity and establish correct philosophy of life and values
文摘The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg is a classic middle-length novel written by Mark Twain. The story revolves around a sack of gold that every one of the 19 principal citizens in the"most honest and upright town"Hadleyburg desires to claim by any means, fair or foul. The vivid description reveals the bourgeois hypocrisy of the capitalist society. This article intends to study the story from the perspective of binary opposition and finds out three pairs of opposition, they are honesty vs. hypocrisy; trust vs. trap; fancy vs. fact, which makes the story more sarcastic and full of sight and wisdom.
