One of which was Polonious, who was stabbed by Hamlet during Hamlets rant to his mother. And immediately after his act of murder, he covered it up by immediately acting insane again. And the deaths of Prince Hamlet, and his mother(the queen), Claudius, and Hamlet's love, Ophelia Besides the fact that the ghost played many roles in this play, while only appearing in the play two or three times, he also set the tone for the play and created the theme of revenge. When the reader is informed
Poe uses many sound effects to show the element of melancholy in the poem, “The Raven”. It starts by with the line, “As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” This puts the reader in a sense of a little bit of paranoia asking, “Who could be knocking at night?” and “why would someone by gently tapping on this man’s door?” It sets the mood to the reader that this is not a normal instance as to why would someone late at night knock on the speakers door. This starts the unease of the reader that I believe Poe was attempting. The next use of sound effects to cause melancholy would be the lines that has the speaker trying to get whatever is knocking on his door to present itself, “And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you” –here I opened wide the door; -Darkness there, and nothing more.” This is personally my favorite line in the poem. It lets you get a since of what exactly the speaker is seeing and how fighting it would be to hear something at your door and to only open it and see nothing but darkness.
He has found Victor and has taken him to a cave where he is trying to explain to victor what his life has been like and why he killed Victors little brother William. In one particular sentence our hearts really go out to the monster this is when he says to victor “I was a poor helpless, miserable wrench; I knew, and
The Red Room and The Tell-Tale Heart are both gothic stories about men who at the beginning of story are very arrogant and sure of themselves, who find their views and their plans turned upside-down over the course of the story. In the Red Room, the main theme is that of the unknown lurking in the shadows and the things which you can and can’t see. The running theme in the Tell-Tale Heart is definitely madness. But both stories have the same themes of the supernatural, fear of the unknown and these themes are used to keep the tension and suspense running throughout the story. In these stories I think the settings are very familiar.
Alexander Lemus Professor Beck ENC 1102 November 8, 2012 Short Story Analysis The Hunter Becomes the Hunted Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” (rpt. in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2012] 67-85) may be considered as one of his most famous literary works. It portrays the fate of Rainsford, a renowned hunter, who ends up on Ship Trap Island where quickly from hunter he turns into the hunted. Rainsford chased by General Zaroff, using his experience and wits to cunningly escape from the hunter and even wounding him with traps.
The curse is told of a "hell-hound" that would kill each member of the Baskerville family line along a moor at night. Before his death, he was reported as a superstitious man, immensely frightened by the curse. Dr. Mortimer, a close friend of Sir Charles, explains to Sherlock and Watson that Sir Charles was convinced that a dreadful fate overhung his family. "The idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him, and on more than one occasion he has asked me whether I had on my medical journeys at night ever seen any strange creature or heard the baying of a hound," (22). Sir Charles assumed the curse to be supernatural, believing in
When Jack killed the pig, he cut off its head and put it on a stick, which was found by Simon. Simon was known for going unconscious for a short period of time; he was just about to go unconscious and had a vision of him talking to the head of the pig which was covered in flies. (This is how the book got its name) The pig’s head, tells Simon that the beast isn’t something they can kill; it’s the evil inside of all of them, “’Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. ‘You knew, didn’t you?
With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral, but one where the bells are shots, and the mourning choirs are the army's bugles. The drawing down of the blinds, the traditional sign to show that the family is in mourning, has been likened to the drawing of a sheet to cover the dead. Through various literary techniques, Wilfred Owen enhances the meaning of the poem.
The Handling of Grief in Hamlet An ever present feeling in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is grief. Brought about by many different character’s deaths, grief is an emotion that turns toxic to the characters who struggle with it the most in Hamlet. According to dictionary.com, grief is defined as keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. With the untimely deaths of people close to the hearts of the play’s main characters, as readers we observe how they deal with grief in their own way. The play’s main protagonist Hamlet lets his grief over his father’s murder fuel his thirst for revenge, Ophelia lets the grief over the murder of her father Polonius drive her to apparent suicide, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes is pushed to conspire with Claudius to kill Hamlet as a result of his grief.
I get the image I have seen many times in movies and such where vultures circling around and waiting for their prey to die out of dehydration. Just like that the fly knows that person is dying and it waits around for their opportunity, because flies feed off of dead flesh and they are drawn to bad odor. So it brings the question does the fly implies just death or the Satan? Maybe this person is seen Satan because him or her is not going to heaven to see the God but hell for his or her sins. In the second and third stanza Emily Dickinson describes how is the person’s eyes are drying out and struggling to breath.