- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Vance proposes in this passage that the fabrications his fellow hillbillies perpetuate are the result of a “cognitive dissonance.” This dissonance is created by the fact that their values—values that spring forth from the hillbilly identity, which prizes hard work and loyalty and honor—don’t seem to be compatible with the contemporary world. For the majority of this paragraph, Vance takes a critical stance, lightly scolding his community members for using Obama or the Chinese as scapegoats to avoid admitting their own faults and culpability. But in the last sentence, he appears to back off, admitting that there is indeed a…