In particular the viewer’s attention is drawn to the despair resonating from certain characters. Nick and Phil are both captured in darkness, while Julia is prominently filmed under dimmed lighting. Toward the beginning of Look Both Ways the side lighting and artificial computer reflections mold Nick’s distressed facial expressions as he comes to terms with his cancer. The subdued lighting of Phil’s office is reflective of the glum atmosphere. The beams of streetlights through the windows of the same office accompany the lyrics “if I stepped into the light”, placing emphasis on his chosen isolation.
In chapter five of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is given life. The opening paragraph makes excellent use of pathetic fallacy, using the weather to set the scene. The first lines of the chapter “it was a dreary night in November” and “the rain pattered dismally against the windowpanes” make obvious use of traditional gothic horror scenery. Victor Frankenstein seems to have mixed emotions at the time of the creature’s birth. He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil.
It is also an example of symbolism as rag-dolls are life-less just as Mrs Sweeney is. In this part of the story we also get suspicious of Mr Sweeney as he would not go to the hospital when Mrs Sweeney is taken there because “he told everyone he hated hospitals”. The graveyard Scene is very tense and full of dark and scary images of death. As you read it you will be in suspense as Stanley uses clever and skilful metaphors and contrasting techniques. An example of a metaphor used is ‘a floating pool of light’.
Why Do We Crave Horror Films? We all have a dark side and demons we have to feed. People crave horror to fulfill the thrill they want when their lives are dull. On the other hand, is it because people have to escape from the bad emotions we suppress. In Stephen Kings essay “Why We Crave Horror Films” He claims we are all mentally ill. And he is correct.
What have you learnt about humanity through your comparative study of Shakespeare’s Othello and Tim Black Nelson’s ‘O’? Humanity, or the quality of being human, is examined in both Shakespeare’s Othello and Tim Blake Nelson’s film ‘O’. Through the use of dramatic and literary devices, both composers explore the universal themes of racism, jealousy, and appearance vs reality in their respective contexts. These issues challenge our universal human ideals of honesty, truth and acceptance, and are used by the composers to comment on the human condition. Through studying the texts the responder is encouraged to consider these fundamental human values in relation to themselves and their society.
Considered their masterpiece, the song Dance With The Devil is a five-minute rap that describes a young man named Billy Jacobs who spirals into a world of drugs and violence due to the world’s corruptive atmosphere. Although the song is the story about one person, the message speaks to all of humanity about the extremes that result from our inner feelings of greed and selfishness. Dance With The Devil is an accurate depiction of how devilish feeling lurk beneath all individuals and we can all relate to its message by revaluating how we respond to our greed and selfishness. Many are unfavorable towards the songs graphic story as it portrays how evil and cruel humans can be. The five-minute rap is not exactly one that can be played while eating at a restaurant or going shopping.
The hacking and slashing that the Bride doles out to her enemies functions as a cathartic experience for both her and the audience. We don't always see the villains in real life get their comeuppance, so we are able to get revenge vicariously through the characters we see on screen. The violence can also be interpreted as a form of Beatrix's empowerment, who is left vulnerable and weak after the attack on her life. The executions she gratuitously hands
Evil, as the narrator creates a plot of an ongoing battle between Gibreel, the angel of good, and Saladin, the devil of evil. Rushdie stresses this framework by giving these characters their supernatural control. Not only are these two men categorized by good and evil, but the women who have influenced their lives after the plane crash, also partake in a labelled role, in which subliminal messages are conveyed throughout the novel, insisting that the Islamic religion stigmatizes women as evil. Gibreel, the angel of good, has powerful dreams throughout the novel, which entails the topic of the ‘Satanic Verses’. These dreams began well before the plane crash and continue to haunt him.
Their sarcastic remarks to the powerless victim are evocative of the sarcasm Alex and his gang used on the victims that they beat and sometimes raped. Whilst Alex is suffering from the movie clips, Doctor Brodsky simply says ‘Excellent, excellent, excellent.’ Here, the Doctor is clearly portraying how he does not wish to show any sympathy towards helpless Alex, as he did do to his previous victims. The detail in which Alex goes into whilst in distress is extremely intense and vivid. Alex says ‘I was sweating a malenky bit with the pain in my guts and a horrible thirst and my gulliver going throb throb throb.’ For me, the repetition of the word ‘and’ explains to the reader just how many feelings of pain and discontent Alex is going through. Words such as ‘sweating’ ‘guts’ and ‘thirst’ are all words that we associate with labour and hard work and that is exactly what Alex seems to be going through.
320) This is verbal irony because it shows that whatshe is saying is basically telling the grocer what she used for the murder of her husband. The irony here is amusing, knowing the fact that killed the supposed love of her life and can so easily lie about it. So again, the verbal irony really catches the toneof the dark comedy that Dahl is trying to capture here. Both dramatic and verbal ironyrelate to each other in the sense that the audience feels the ideas of a tragedy assomething funny therefore, relating back to the overall picture of the piece of literate asa dark