Language Use and Stylistic Styles in The Samaritan Act 4 Scene 1
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1. Imagery
a. Vivid Description
The scene is indicated to have happened at the Jungle Room in the Madingo Room Club. Jaden, is seated pensively, eyes peering above the rim of his eyeglasses, and hands fiddling with his pen (P.114).
Jaden is portrayed as having removed glasses and dusted them with his handkerchief (P.114).
Jaden is also said to sit down opposite Mr. Harvester. He adjusts his eyeglasses, then peers at Mr. harvester from above the rim of the glasses (P.115).
b. Symbol
Rodents and rats are the evils conducted by the Municipal (P.117).
2. Idiom
Jaden says I will get straight to the point (P.114).
Up in arms (P.118).
3. Wise saying and proverb
To err is human (P.116).
If we come together, we win together (P.118).
4. Rhetorical question
Jaden asks a number of rhetorical questions such as; Why don’t we come together and talk to one another? (P.118).
5. Satire
It is satirical that the judiciary representative Jaden wills to sacrifice justice in the interest of what he calls the greatest number of people- the Municipal leaders(P.118). He is entrusted with protection of the law, which he sacrifices for his sake.
It is satirical that Harvester whom Jaden calls a man of God is also involved in criminal activities that Mossi dictates him to conduct. He hides behind the belief that he has a Christian duty to obey his leader (P.115).
Satire is also build as Jaden says the ethos prevailing in society influence his thinking and actions. The satire too happens when he says his rulings in many ways reflect the prevailing culture in society (P.116).
6. Irony
It is ironical that Jaden who is a judge got unwittingly entangled in the safe affair for which Mayor Mossi wants to put Hon. Ramdaye and Mr. Basdeo in jail. He madea ruling that clearly betrayed his bias as an interested party and they paid him shares of a company that the Municipal intends to sue (P.116).
Jaden uses the principle of the greatest happiness for the greatest number to reunite with Mossi and everyone else in the fight to win a case, yet the greatest number are citizens whose resources should be safeguarded and not the Municipal leaders (P.118).
Harvester finds it ironical that Jaden is entangled in a scandal with Ramdaye, Ted,Seymour and Basdeo (P.116). He is a judge who should protect the public interest,yet he colludes with the politicians in criminal activities.
7. Onomatopoeia
Fiddling (P.114) .
Clasped (P.117).
8. Hyperbole
Lately I am even catching the smell of sewer rats. It is awful. It makes me want to throw up and my stomach is beginning to ache (P.117).