Miner refers to dentists as holy mouth men and bathrooms as shrines for odd ritual practices. His language is clearly satirical and creates the notion of the "Nacirema" as vain and self obsessed. Also, they seem to be a masochistic society built around willingly subjecting themselves to pain and torture. The “Nacirema” knowingly allow “medicine men” and “holy-mouth-men” to perform debilitating painful procedures to prevent the unavoidable decay of their mouths and bodies. Miner makes subtle comedic reference to the classic stereotype of doctors having atrocious handwriting when he writes, "write them down in an ancient and secret language."
Lord of the Flies is a terrifying novel. How far do you agree with this statement? What methods does Golding use? Lord of the Flies is considered a frightening novel, because of the message it conveys: there is darkness within all of us. Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book.
After he has dug his hole, he spits in it and attends the disgusting, broken and horrifying wreck-room. The holes play an important part in this story. The holes are building Stanley’s character and turning him into something he isn’t. The Holes aren’t just an unpleasant task Stanley is set to do in intolerable weather for no reason. It is a different scene than what Stanley is used to.
In one story you have one person who kills someone and hide their heart in the floor boards of their floor and in the other story you have someone who straighten nails that have been bent, collects bits of string, and can be consider a pack rat. They will be considered a pack rat because they don’t throw anything away, so they just try to fix it like new and reuse it. Some may think how that is crazy because he is going green. I am not sure about saving the useless stuff is really going green. And for the guy who hides a man’s heart he killed in the floor board is he that cheap and weak that he can’t go bury the body and all the parts.
At the beginning of the passage Bradbury uses personification with the ventilator grille by saying, “He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now’, this shows that Montag feels guilty about having the books hidden away behind the grill. Later on in the paragraph when Montag walks into the bedroom Bradbury uses a simile to show Montag realizing that he was not happy. Bradbury wrote, “He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over, and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.” this quote emphasizes Montag’s realization that he is unhappy. Bradbury uses many more instances of figurative language throughout Fahrenheit 451. Collett 2 Bradbury’s imagery throughout the passage in Fahrenheit 451 was used to help show how Montag was feeling throughout the passage.
His way of coping is to withdraw himself from everyone and everything and Burke personifies this; “even in the dark I could see the grime on the walls… feel it pasted and crawling on my skin.” This quote is indicative of how Tom is handling his situation by way of him locking himself in his room which he calls a ‘cave’, as he dwells in his past and present instead of moving forward. Burke exaggerates this as if it was though the grime on Tom’s wall was ‘pasted and crawling’ on his skin which allows the readers to see that Tom is trapped in his ‘cave’, and the grime is an obstacle that prevents him from leaving his room as if the grime is consuming him. Similarly, in the film “Finding Forrester”, one of the main characters, William Forrester, had had a traumatising
A warm and cozy feeling is brought upon people when thinking about a house, however, the house Kim is describing is much darker and haunting place. “They hammer/bodies into the earth/like nails,/they paint the walls/with blood.” The author’s usage of the gruesomeness of this metaphor expresses the atrocities done by the Japanese officials in order to attain control of Korea. “The house”, which was built on the death of many and painted with blood, is such brilliant sarcasm used by Suji Kwock Kim. Moving inside, Kim begins to reveal the characteristics and state of those who inhabit it. “Inside the doors/stay shut, locked/ as eyes of stone.” The image of the “the doors stay shut” and “locked as eyes of stone” tells the reader that whatever the house represents, it is restricting and confining the people in it.
He does have the good sense to clean his axe and boots, but he leaves the door open as a sign that he isn’t thinking clearly. The mistake catches up to him as lizaveta enters the room. Also we find that his illness is more psychological than physical. It is just the way his reaction to the murder is. He struggles with humiliation.
A sepulcher implies death and confinement. The phrase “Whited Sepulchre” comes from the biblical Book of Matthew, “For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”(Matthew 23:27-28). In the passage, Matthew describes “Whited Sepulchre” as something beautiful on the outside but containing horrors inside. In “Heart of Darkness”, the “Whited sepulchre” is probably Brussels where the company’s headquarters are located.
The poet, William Blake, through the poem “London” is able to express his intentions and message of the poem through the content, aim and the theme, ‘no escape’. He is able to create a dark atmosphere, due to how cynical his message was. He also uses particular words and sentences, emphasizing on the importance of diction. The diction of the poem helps to show the differences in the classes within the society and the hopelessness that has wash over the whole society. Throughout the whole poem, the readers are able to know his disapproval, dislike and displeasure over the place that he lives in, by creating a moody and sullen tone which enhances the eerily seriousness of the atmosphere.