‘Why is Sixty Lights worthy of critical study and inclusion on the HSC Prescriptions List for module B- Critical Study of Text?’ The novel Sixty Lights has been included on the HSC Prescriptions List for Module B because it is worthy for critical study as it is a diverse piece of literature covering significant topics that have been ignored in the modern world. We enter the lyrical and image-laden world of Sixty Lights. It’s a tale, resplendent in colour and imagery, set across two worlds - the constrained and stilted world of Victorian England, and the chaotic danger and abandon of India. Gail Jones creates literature, like Shakespeare, but in this particular piece explores the significance behind photographs and what they represent.
The next thing that qualifies this book as a classic is the fact that it uses effective, unique style appropriate to the purpose and content. In this book author Tim O’Brien use a style unique to this novel. His tone is appropriate for storytelling which is the main thing happening in this book. There is also different point of views from which the stories are told. Though O’Brien is the narrator his stories come from the views and experiences of others.
In two of Hawthorne's pieces of literature, "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Birthmark," there are many similarities and differences in the way they are written and the messages they convey to the reader. A major theme found in both "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Birthmark" is the conflict between good and evil. This theme is found in "Young Goodman Brown" in a rather direct way. Goodman Brown is attracted by the devil, and he tries to battle it by clinging on to the only hope he has, faith. This is an obvious conflict between good and evil, as a man has to make his decision regarding which way to follow, and both paths have elements which attract the person to following them.
In “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, warn their readers that evil uses deception to bring harm to the innocent. To convey this theme, Hawthorne and Poe use similar characters and tropology. Both authors use similar characters to make a vivid distinction between the innocent and the evil. They also use symbolism to portray that evil uses beguilement to bring harm to the good. In both short stories, the clear distinction between the good and the evil is portrayed through the use of similar characters.
Conclusion After reading a couple of stories, it is not uncommon to want to compare the two with each other. The themes of both “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are complete and total opposites, but they share the idea of Biblical concepts. The characters also help to express this idea. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown”, there is a theme of good versus evil. This is seen through the roles that the characters play and how they treat and talk to each other.
“The Awakening” By Kate Chopin Kate Chopin uses many different situations and different settings in the novel “The Awakening” to get her points and aspects of the story across to the readers. Throughout the story Chopin also uses many different literary techniques and situations to explain the characters and their place within the story. Chopin seems to be very specific at points, but also very vague when brining new characters into the story and the meaning behind such characters. From the many different aspects of the story the significance of the ending of the novel seems to be the most important and most interesting within the works writing. Chopin seems to use many different themes and symbols throughout the story to portray Edna’s character and way of life that causes the many problems and difficulties for her.
ALLUSIONS IN FAHRENHEIT 451 Literary allusions often are used to relate a novel to various other pieces of literary work. Ray Bradbury used a multitude of literary allusions to enrich the plotline of Fahrenheit 451. These references provided subtle hints of depth in the novel to the reader. Some allusions helped the novel by adding to the plot, providing a relatable experience to the reader, referencing familiar stories and fables, and giving characters and settings that special something called an “it factor” that the reader could find special. Some allusions, however, were harmful to the plot or to the reader, most often by confusing the reader if they did not know the context of the original quotation.
Roger Tschida 9-12-2012 Professor Honey Response Paper #1 Literature is greatly varied in style, taste, and purpose, but a major component of the detail and often the symbolism in any story is the choice of colors for the characters and scenery. While the other four authors use some color for simple descriptions and detail, Bierce and Gilman each take a single color and focus on it to symbolize their view of the topic about which they wrote. Bierce chooses the color gray to signify the cross between fantasy and reality, and Gliman uses yellow to dig into the mind and investigate the psychological trauma she endured earlier in life. Of all the authors read so far, Willa Cather has by far written the most boring, over-detailed stories.
In works ranging from fiction to nonfiction, plays to novels, and even pastoral to poetic, different literary techniques are implemented in different types of literature for the enrichment of each particular work. Of the numerous forms and styles utilized, a necessary style to any piece of literature is narration. Contingent on the particular form of the work, narration can either detract from or add to the overall piece. As we examine Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki, the novel’s use of first-person narrative will reveal the advantages and disadvantages that give the novel its distinct depth and form – the advantages being the understanding of, empathy towards, and relation to the character and the disadvantages being subjectivity and possible distortion of truth. We’ll also see that the primary narrator, the student, shapes the overall plot by emphasizing individualization.
THE USE OF IRONY IN ACHEBE’S “GIRLS AT WAR” The literary element, irony is mostly used by authors to portray the modern age experience which is complex, multidimensional and contradictory. Irony comes in various forms and it connotes a sense of double meaning as well as contradiction. The rhetorical device of irony in literature is often far more effective than a direct and literal statement. The successful use of irony however depends on the audience’s role in not just counting the ironies but realizing the implications of the ironies used and its intention by the author. In Chinua Achebe’s short story “Girls At War”, he carefully exploits the central message of the story through his exquisite usage of irony.