With the use of these two literary techniques, (irony and Symbolism) Shirley Jackson is able to emphasize important dramatic events within the plot. The term Irony can be defined as “A deliberate contrast between two levels of meaning.”
Imagery in Fiction Writing Authors often use imagery as a powerful tool for describing and delivering their main point in fiction writing. Imagery can hint at an underlying meaning, let the reader know character traits, describe the setting, and has a host of other uses. As such it is one of the most important literary devices. Two excellent examples of how to use imagery properly are Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”. In both of these stories the authors use imagery to help drive home their main points, although in a somewhat different manner.
After meeting Zeena Ethan Frome is caught between 2 woman, one that can provide him with love and compassion, and his wife, who he relies on for economic support. In the book, the woman are the ones to make the decisions, and men were usually portrayed as weak. Edith Wharton’s exposure to knowledge about the cruel social status of individuals due to the war during the 1900, and her view of gender roles in society influenced her novella of Ethan Frome and forced it into a naturalistic perspective. The poor economic status of the characters in the novel, and the weak figure of Ethan Frome, leads to the cruel ending of the novel, encouraging the idea that our destiny can not be changes, and that outside forces control our outcome. Edith Wharton included the harsh economic status of Americans during the 1900, by basing her novel on the war.
Ryan Gatts Rolland-Mills ENGL 123 10/26/2008 Use of Color in Blacksad The great advantage that graphic novels have in comparison to text-only novels is the art. The drawings in a graphic novel tell almost all of the action and establish characters and setting. The graphic novel Blacksad: Arctic Nation, written by Juan Canales and illustrated by Juanjo Guarnido, relies heavily on color to communicate complicated situations to the reader easily. Color is relied on to emphasize scene changes, point out key details in the story, and establish a mood. Guarnido makes changes of scene more obvious to the reader by changing color schemes between the different locations.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
How does Steinbeck encourage us to sympathise with and condemn Curley’s Wife? Curley’s Wife is a character who is used by Steinbeck to achieve three main aims in his novel ‘Of Mice and Men’. Firstly, she is a character used simply to advance the plot of the novel. Secondly, her short life story tells us about the reality of dreams that can never be fulfilled and reflects the harsh end to George and Lennie’s own dream. Finally, her marriage to Curley provides the reader with an insight into the place of women in 1920s American society and their growing struggle to reconcile the American Dream of equality with the patriarchal values of the American Household.
Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, the protagonist is a female, which is was highly unusual in those days. Of course this protagonist is Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife.
The knight’s tale, an alliterative romance and one of the better-known Arthurian stories, and the wife’s tale, the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, give insight into the specific roles of women in the late Middle Ages. The two tales want the reader to determine and recognize that the women are mostly portrayed as manipulative seductresses. Many times a woman is blamed for a man’s fall from goodness to evil. Other times, the plots include women who meet the expectations of what some during the times believed women should be—more reflective to the bible, loyal to their husbands, pure, sweet, and helpless. In the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Lady Bertilak, the main female character and the most important characters in this medieval poem, is prompted by her husband to discover if Sir Gawain is pure or not.
Does love have a barrier? These questions arise personally after reading the novel ‘The Awakening’. To quote E. Jones, “Moral attitude towards others is substituted for an attitude of love”(5). The quote describes more of Edna who is a mother and a wife to one of the wealthiest Creole men in New Orleans, and during her time period having a family is part of societal expectations. Edna’s character abandons her role as a mother and wife; she breaks moral values and standards because of the intimate love affair she shares with Robert, therefore leading to the struggles she faces in the novel where she failed.
Roger Tschida 9-12-2012 Professor Honey Response Paper #1 Literature is greatly varied in style, taste, and purpose, but a major component of the detail and often the symbolism in any story is the choice of colors for the characters and scenery. While the other four authors use some color for simple descriptions and detail, Bierce and Gilman each take a single color and focus on it to symbolize their view of the topic about which they wrote. Bierce chooses the color gray to signify the cross between fantasy and reality, and Gliman uses yellow to dig into the mind and investigate the psychological trauma she endured earlier in life. Of all the authors read so far, Willa Cather has by far written the most boring, over-detailed stories.