The Caveman’s Valentine is a psychologically charged mystery thriller that follows the main character Romulus Ledbetter, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Romulus Ledbetter once had a promising career as a concert pianist, a position at The Julliard School of Music, as well as a loving wife and children. After his life is devastated by paranoid schizophrenia, Romulus is left homeless wondering the streets of New York City living inside a cave in Innman Park. As he aimlessly lives out his days, Romulus is in constant conflict with one of his delusions of Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant who he believes is always watching him and controls all the evil in the world from the top of the Sears Tower.
When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail. “ The magicians trick juxtaposes with Tom’s inability to escape from his family. Juxtaposition is used here to show the freedom of the magician and Tom feeling trapped. The coffin represents Tom’s life to which he is confined and the nails symbolize the emotional constraints and an obligation Tom has towards his crippled sister Laura. Laura herself “lives in a world of her own—a world of—little glass ornaments” and the breaking of the animals by Tom foreshadows his abandonment of fraternal duties towards her.
Ngan Tran Mrs. Palmer World Literature 30 September 2013 Short Story: The Masque of the Red Death “The Masque of the Red Death” is a fictional and scary story written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American author, in 1842. The story takes place in a kingdom in Europe, maybe Italy, long time ago. The Prince Prospero and his friends were having a masked ball in seven magnificent rooms after five or six months hiding in a luxurious castle waiting for the Red Death, a dangerous pestilence that killed many people in his country, to be gone. At midnight, there was a strange guest dress spectrally. When the Prince pursued him to the corner of the seventh room, he died because of the Red Death, and so did other people.
Dreamcatcher Long time ago, in a native American village, the old and young people living there earned their own living and were regarded by other people as the ancestors of culture and life in America today. At night, when the storm bursted with a tremendous peal of thunder and a rush of rain, the strange and frightening dreams sneaked into the windows and stayed by the pillows on the children’s bed. Then children started having bad dreams every night. In the morning, people talked about the awful dreams which spreaded everywhere around the town in a short time like a plague. In the evening,with candlelight everywhere, a spiritual spider in the corner of the room heard the parents’ concerns.
The response from Rochester is out of the ordinary - he seems only to find her ‘singular’ and does not reprimand her for speaking impolitely. The general lexis used to first describe Rochester – words such as ‘heavy’ and ‘stern’ - rejects the conventional image of a Romantic hero, thus we are encouraged to read on and learn more about him. Rochester is mysterious, and throughout the
The term’s meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre or illogical.” Pg 182 What that basically means it that it describes a nightmarish situation which most people could relate to but very surreal there also seems to be an evil component that is like a shadow out of the corner of your eye. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa who goes to sleep in his room in his parent’s apartment and wakes up in the morning as a bug. Kafka referred to this being as Ungeziefer, which was very hard to translate into English. Translators have often wanted to claim the word Ungeziefer as insect but that isn’t really a proper translation. Kafka had no intention of making Gregor a specific bug, so the translation that is used in a monstrous insect.
Goodman Brown, coming from a family of piety and purity, believes that he and his fellow Puritan followers are incapable of great sin, and that none shall fall into wickedness or darkness. However, in human nature, it is inevitable that perceived acts of depravity are to be avoided, and with a self-supposed outlook on the environment this element of human nature does not come into perspective. When Goodman Brown witnesses the townspeople at the wretched ceremony, he declares each of them contemptible with his words, “But irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of
Lord William Hastings A lord who maintains his integrity, remaining loyal to the family of King Edward IV. Hastings winds up dead for making the mistake of trusting Richard. The chamberlain to Edward IV and loyal adherent of the Yorkist cause is also among those deluded by Richard. Because he was a victim of the machinations of the Woodvilles, he understandably first sided with Gloucester, whose protestations of innocence he accepted readily. Hastings long remains supremely confident, blithely ignoring portents of catastrophe.
They write that Macbeth emerges as a man who is “completely confident in his grab for power.” Lady Macbeth, the one who told Macbeth to simply wash the blood off of his hands, ends up roaming around in her sleep through “the castle corridors at night bemoaning her unclean hands following the murder of Duncan and his guards.” At first, Macbeth was a kind man, but he became “completely remorseless in his bid for the crown.” And Lady Macbeth was fixed upon power and prayed that spirits would help her by getting rid of her feminine aspects. At the end of the tragedy, she became “a guilt-ridden somnambulist.” The authors believe the source of their “role reversal revolves around the question of gender.” Lady Macbeth is the antecedent of her own role reversal. It is “her own desire for some sort of power and the attempted overthrow or altering of the patriarchal order of her society.” that orders a yielding role. Lady Macbeth was entirely inapt for this role. The only character to recognize that Macbeth has a feminine side is Macduff.
Touchstone is a character who has an individual opinion on the idea of love. His idea is unromantic, but practical. This can be seen in the following quote, “ by how much defence is better than no skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to want.” In this quote, touchstone implies that it is better to be cheated on rather than to have no woman at all and go on unsatisfied. This shows his practicality and also shows how he is quite selfish when it comes to love. “ he is not like to marry me well and, not being well married it will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife” , this quote illustrates his unromantic portrayal of love, as he is willing to go through great measures to avoid being tied down to one woman.