“The Mystery of Heroism” and “Flags of our Fathers” Compare and Contrast Essay The short story “Mystery of Heroism” by Stephen Crane and the photo “Flags of our Fathers” have many similarities and differences. The sounds, visions, and actions of war are all elements that make a terribly wonderful topic on which many novels, short stories, and poems are based. Situational Irony and the battle field show contrasts between the two works, but heroism and soldiers behavior are similar. Situational irony is when what takes place contrasts with what is expected. Irony is used by Stephen Crane to add an element of humor and surprise to a seriously written drama.
Twain makes good use of his satirical writing style in this novel, but it’s not always what it’s cracked up to be. There's just one 'humorous' episode concerning a bull that interjects during this part of the book and it seems disconcertingly false -- kind of corny and cartoonish in a not terribly clever way. Perhaps the sort of thing he could bring life to in his famous lectures with his drawl and deadpan, but I remembering thinking...'uh oh', and boy was I right. The book continues to have some marvelous episodes as Twain continues his western adventure, but they are stretched out with a prodigious quantity of flimsy material. Comic set pieces with caricature-like characters get stale before they've begun, and he spins them out as if he was being paid by the word.
In order to analyze Frankenstein, one must recall some elements of people's imaginary, as well as old scholars' concepts regarding this famous and ingenious work of Romantic literature. The background in which the author Mary Shelley was inserted to, as well as its importance in introducing readers to a certain type of moral dilemma that was dealt with by several authors of that era, aside from stamping a whole new genre in itself, which was science-fiction. This article briefly discusses the main thematic elements of the novel, inserted in a certain context, under a revenge and betrayal bias, which are ultimately the main triggers of the dramatic action. To start with, it is interesting to mention one of the richest elements of the story. The duality of Victor Frankenstein and its creation is obvious.
Disney added more of a magical feel to the story and took out of some the violence. They replaced it with a different way of showing the violence such as making the step mother mean and nasty. Revised Answer: Without past knowledge of the original telling of the Grimms collection of stories, I found it difficult to tell if there was distortion of the original stories.
John Mackey Mrs. White Honors English 10/ 4th period 4 March 2012 Ironic Downfall into the Catacombs The literary devices irony and foreshadowing are used to accent one another. Edgar Allan Poe craftily uses both of these devices in order to make his stories tricky and deceitful to the characters but obvious to the reader. As the devices intertwine they allow for stories to become more complex and meaningful. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”, Poe uses irony to foreshadow Fortunato’s downfall through the Montresor coat of arms, the origin of the characters’ names, and the use of the Free Masons. The Montresor family crest, the human foot d’or, accompanied by its motto, Nemo me impune lacesit (No one insults me with impunity),
Finn B. Jor ENGL 110 11/17/09 As Madness Progresses The two books I have chosen to analyze are The Tell-Tale Heart written by Edgar Allen Poe and The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The themes I have chosen to look further into in both books are madness and insanity. In both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Yellow Wallpaper there is a narrator who struggles with madness. I am going to start arguing about how both narrators are incredibly fixated on the details of an object, which is the old man’s eye in Poe’s story, and the yellow wallpaper in Gilman’s. Then I am going to prove how the madness in the two narrators is revealed as the story progresses, and finally I am going to show how the madness overcomes the narrators
The playful tones also cover up some phrase like in the “lap the miles” and “lick the valley up”, the verbs seems to be fresh and energetic. What I can find is quite shallow, but I think Emily Dickinson, in this poem, I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP THE MILES, use a train as the imagery for this poem, it become more like a riddle because she imagining train as an animal such as horse which it can run so fast like a train. It is hard to catch the imagery of this poem when people especially me just read I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP YHE MILES once and not reread to understand better. The more I reread this poem, the imagery of a train become more visible, I start to feel it and imagine the train climb up the mountain and run down to the peak of the mountain. The words “Complaining all the while, horrid, hooting stanza” (line 11-12) shows that the writer begin to enjoy the flow of the poem by using alliteration for “horrid” and “hooting”
Through any and every writing, an author has a point hidden within literary elements. With literary elements authors develop a style to their writing to prove the point they intended from the beginning. There are many various literary elements to make up a rhetorical situation, to develop a side of ideas, some very commonly used in especially rhetorical situations. Like allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, hypophora, and commonly simile. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau speak of and develop similar government opinions and points, through their interpretations of Civil Disobedience through literary elements; they prove similar points of civil disobedience but with their own style of writing and use of rhetorical devices.
Perhaps O’Brien sought to chronicle through fiction those whose experiences would ‘speak out and speak up’ from the battlefield. In any case, one rationally may presume that O’Brien’s works mirror the public’s distaste for the war. Following this rationale, one also may presume a substantial degree of commonality between the management of the theme of war across each preceding literary period and the Postmodern
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad provides a bridge between Victorian values and ideals of modernism. The characters face illness, violence and conspiracy and is as much about alienation, confusion, and profound doubt as it is about imperialism. Although it was one of the first literary texts to provide a critical view of European imperial activities, it was initially read by critics as anything but controversial. This novella is an exploration of hypocrisy, ambiguity, and moral confusion. It explores the idea of the choice between the lesser of two evils.