I believe the narrator has murdered the hitcher as a way to relieve his stress due to his hectic screaming lifestyle, compared to the hitcher who has a very dreamy, free and carefree life. All the hitcher carries round with his is a toothbrush; this shows how easy and carefree his life is. He possibly envied him for this and therefore felt more inclined to attack him as a result of his easy life compared to his own. In “Havisham” death is presented as not an occurrence but something that the narrator longs to be upon her fiancé who left her at the altar. Havisham is about a woman who was deeply in love with her to be husband but when he abandoned her at the altar, she never forgave him, and now she sits in her wedding dress holding a grudge against her fiancé for what he did, and how he stopped her life at that moment.
He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil. The author shows this with the quote “with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony”, again this really brings out the gothic image using pain and suffering to make sure the reader realises the full extent of the horror that Frankenstein has unleashed on the quite country around him. When the creature is finally brought to life Frankenstein’s
DEATH IN SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD AND ROMEO AND JULIET Grade Ten English May 18, 2012 Our society believes death is one of the worst prices that we can pay. We believe that suicide is the wrong way out, that murder is one of the worst crimes that criminals can commit. If we believe in the afterlife, what harm is it to die anyway? In the books Speaker For The Dead and Romeo and Juliet, the characters are put into situations where they must face death. These characters take death in the opposite manor that society speculates.
Wilfred owens most remembered poem was ‘dulce et decorum est’. The poem was set in the trenches in the First World War and it is about soldiers continually experiencing near death experiences, living in war depression whilst watching allies die and suffocate of deadly gases and excessive pain. It is also a response poem to Jessie popes poem (The Game) where he writes “if you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory.” He is implying that if she could experience the true horror of the war she would never advertise it to young children. The sentry is a person who would keep watch on the base camp it is there job to watch the enemies. In “the sentry” Wilfred Owen talks about the disgusting conditions of the trenches and the depressing weather and how the trenches would become flooded.
How does Owen portray the horrors of war in Dulce et Decorum Est? “Sweet and honourable it is, to die for one’s country” World War I was an abominable ordeal that shocked the world, caused over 16 million people to lose their lives and millions more to suffer for years. Wilfred Owen has described so horrifically the horrors of war, each one seems to grow in significance until everything blurs together into a foul and futile torment that will haunt the dreams of every man for all their lives. Throughout the poem Owen attempts to eliminate the misconception that it is “sweet and honourable... to die for one’s country”, as the title of the poem suggests, through his use of vivid imagery, descriptive language and first person narrative. In the first stanza, Owen presents the idea that the personal struggles faced every moment on the front line are extremely underestimated, immeasurably terrifying and “obscene”.
He is also referring to his poetry that it killed the cow because it was so sad. These are both an example of a hyperbole (overstatement) that is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth. All the verses in this poem have a rhythm, which is any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound. The rhythm is eight beats per line. The second verse as well as second speaker of the poem slings right back at the attack on his work by obliging that for people like him alcohol is the best medicine.
"Knock-kneed" is a condition that makes knees hit together when walking. Owen employed this in his poem to show the reader how tired the soldiers were. They could not stand up and walk straight because they had already "cursed through sludge" for many miles. He also utilized the phrase "blood shod", which is when a horseshoe gets put on too hard and the horse's hoofs start to bleed. This exhibited the physical pain that the soldiers were going through.
It’s dark, horrific, and grave. Allan Poe sets an atmosphere for a whole story just from the first lines, when he introduces the Red Death “The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal - the redness and the horror of blood” (389). The eerie mood covers every words of the story, from the luxurious masquerade ball to the death of everyone attending in that ball.
1st stanza Preludes 2nd stanza I Burial of the Dead (The Waste Land) 3rd stanza/part of Hollow Men T. S. Eliot wrote “The Waste Land” following the devastation of the First World War. Vast tacts of the once beautiful European countryside had been laid to ruin and were indeed literal waste lands. There were enormous numbers of dead and wounded. Many of those who returned were broken, mere shells of their former selves. The world was forever changed.
The unnerving double meaning of the words “hard blow” highlights the often awkward approach humans fall into when offering their condolences, reminding us how ill-equipped humans are when faced with death, especially in such tragic circumstances. In the second stanza we are presented with the ‘father crying’, the pathos of the line accentuating that the emotions that accompanies death are so powerful that we are often