In the play, it suggests that Puck is a mischievous fairy who has built up a reputation of scaring and playing pranks on mortals, but he also has a much kinder side. He sometimes helps people finish their work or chores and provides them with good luck as well. Puck is a well-rounded character whereas Bottom is a bit plainer. Bottom, an arrogant and ignorant worker in the play is seen more narrow-minded. He frequently makes rhetorical and grammatical mistakes in his speech and thinks highly of his skills as an actor (when rehearsing a play, he wanted to play all the main roles).
Dickens uses the tortured ghost of Marley to warn against living a selfish life. An important part of ‘A Christmas Carol’ is that it was deliberately written to be entertaining to allow his moral warning to be spread throughout society. Dickens made his novella entertaining using various techniques. The story is structured it into staves to make the narrative easier to understand which was important as many people were illiterate during Dickens’s time. Vivid descriptions are used to create mental mages based around a popular festive season.
This can be defined as a closed dénouement. French for “the untying of the knot” (Gioia and Kennedy 714), dénouement can present itself in more than one form. An open dénouement is an equivocal conclusion, leaving matters unresolved and open to reader speculation. “Godfather Death” is a short story taken from oral tradition and put into writing by the famed Grimm brothers, and clearly illustrates the type of conclusion Aristotle found to be so necessary. The plot moves along swiftly and without superfluous detail until we reach the climax, where Death acts as though he will grant his godson renewed life.
Owen uses many writing techniques to get across his message, in the most affective way. In the opening stanza, Owen uses alliteration for the first few lines "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like old hags, we cursed through sludge." This introduces you to the soldiers, as helpless, and weak, and gives the words more emphasis, making them stand out to be significant. Assonance was also used in these lines, in "cursed through sludge", which ties the words together very well, and highlights the more important ones. The short sentences used give the poem a slow pace in the first stanza, which adds to the effect.
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens A Christmas carol is a novella written by Charles Dickens during the Victorian times in London. It is said that the author throughout the “novella” shows how people can change by having the opportunity to think over their own actions. Moreover, Dickens shows that personal greed leads to loneliness, while kindness and generosity lead to personal happiness. Last but not least, the writer deals with the concepts of charity, family and money as moral messages. To start with, in the story, Ebenezer Scrooge has no feelings towards his family or acquaintances and holds a strictly professional relationship with them, creating a hostile bond between them.
Fahrenheit 451 Throughout Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, the main character, Guy Montag, conveys a sense of closed mindedness. What he is told or what he is shown is, to him, considered the right and only way. His burning of the books, his incapability to think beyond what has been taught to him. Yet, this comes to a screeching halt when he bumps into the young, seventeen year old Clarisse McClellan, a lady who is not afraid to think outside of the box and has no problem doing it. After Clarisse disappears from Montag’s life, he soon finds someone else to fill in her missing spot, Professor Faber.
Any story, in order to be a story, must have names. This bears no exception in the works of author Nathaniel Hawthorne, from longer, more elaborate stories like The Scarlett Letter, to shorter, to-the-point stories, such as “Young Goodman Brown.” Infinite titles adorn his manuscripts, and it is easy for an audience to read for the very basic meanings, the bare essentials. It is easiest for any reader to read a story in which “Bob” is simply “Bob”; however, the way that his stories should be read is for the symbolism, in every aspect. In his childhood, Nathaniel developed his dislike for his grandfather, a judge in the witch trials. He considered his grandfather a murder, and since then, Hawthorne strove to make his stories revolve around
This targets people who believe in Christmas and celebrate it. Who the animation was designed for (audience) The audience for ‘we wish you a merry Christmas’ is targeting people who celebrate
How does Dickens emphasise the contrast between Scrooge and his nephew? Scrooge and his nephew are very different from each other. According to Dickens’ Scrooge’s nephew was very cheerful, whereas Scrooge was really mean. 7. What was the difference between Scrooge’s and his nephew’s attitude to Christmas?
Grotesque Characters The novel Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson is told in a series of loosely interconnected stories that have coinciding time frames and characters. There is no observable main character, unless the town of Winesburg can be thought of as one itself. Anderson uses a variety of literary devices to connect these short stories because there is no common theme for all of them. Although the author has integrated a broad assortment of human emotions, characters and behavioral outlines found in this one specific society, I have noticed Anderson’s use of Grotesques as a literary device to further enhance the story. Anderson defines what a Grotesque is in the first story, The Book of The Grotesque.