They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Comparatively, she is unexpectedly thrown into the unknown when her family dies and she is left to help the community and forget about her needs. As the panic sets in when she enters the shaft, she is facing more and more doubts about her future separately. Brooks also shows the reader an insight into the world of the people living with the Plague: dark, dangerous, and seemingly hopeless. Overall, Brooks uses symbolism to show aspects of the Plague’s influence on Anna and the town in
Hester's vivid passion and beauty, her humanity, is at once her downfall and her saving grace. The ability to stand firm in the face of adversity takes a great toll, but emerging from the darkness and actively living can lead to endless possibilities. Many characters throughout the story, such as Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale experienced isolation, the consequence of sin In conclusion, the theme with the greatest magnitude of importance in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is isolation. Many characters from various parts of the story experience it. Examples like Hester’s alienation during the scaffold scene, Pearl being shunned by children, and Dimmesdale’s isolation caused by his thoughts and intentions contributed to the novel’s prestige and grandeur.
Leeza often shows good sides to her that make Reef want to be a better person. Leeza shows how she is open with her feelings witch makes Reef also do the same as appose to his regular self which consists of him living in a shell and not expressing himself. An example of Reef showing his feelings is when on page two-hundred sixty-three the author says “Reef did not look up. He did the only thing he could do. He wept.” This shows how Leeza made Reef open up his emotions during the scene at the rehabilitation center.
The motif of darkness is frequently used to demonstrate a condition of misery and downhearted: “There aren’t words to say how black and empty pain felt. It was deeper than the darkest hole.” The hyperbolic and melodramatic tone that JC Burke has used describes the emotional toll on Tom and is further shown through
His mental and intellectual health is also affected because he now has no contact with anything but the wilderness and needs to change his mindset on how to find food and how to survive. The last main health dimension is social health, which is affected greatly because he is alone and has no contact with any other humans. He does not like the way his health is deteriorating by the lack of food and exposure to the elements. He is frightened and is physically weakened. On page 6, during a dream he mentally moved away from the woods, “he started to think in terms of the city again”.
Addy was still weak from the efforts of her labour, and still sore and bleeding, but she knew she had to leave and she had to leave today" (Lansens 271). Then, when Addy loses Chick, she handles the situation in a better way: "She would not pass through the big oak doors though. Instead she climbed the fire escape stairs, stepping around Mr. Baldwin's winter wood and kindling, intent on keeping her memories at bay" (Lansens 472). Addy is able to overcome the feeling of hurt fast after the death of her second child because she already faces a similar dilemma with her first child. She leaves a whole country to conquer the feeling of loss of her first child whereas she simply decides to ignore the passage her family used to take together in her building after her second child dies.
This viewpoint is particularly effective in this chapter, as readers, we can relate to the terror and anxiety felt by Arthur. At the start of the chapter he comments on feeling ‘calm and cheerful’ however this state of contentment disappears at the chapter progresses – ‘I sat, too terrified to move’ and ‘my throat felt constricted and I began to shiver.’ In the ghost story genre this technique is effective – we can imagine ourselves in Arthur’s place – reliving his experiences. Hill uses the senses to create a sense of terror in this chapter during which the theme of childhood is developed when Kipps discovers the locked nursery. The use of the bumping sound ‘bump
Remaining silent against her heart’s desire to apologize, causes frustration and inner conflict. All this in the story “Marie” is lined with Gods messages forgiveness, quotes from the bible and a spirit of knowing you did wrong. (Holy Spirit). “Marie” in the story “lost in the city.” 86-years-old, she lives and survives in a town that is dangerous. Brave and strong, she defends herself from a street thug, and she strikes back when she is treated as a non-human by the clerks at the Social Security office.
Two special traits they exhibit are that they all love eat other and are willing to do anything for one another. What they want most is to stay alive and get through the horrible time they are experiencing. But they are willing to die for one another. The most suspenseful part of the story occurs when Miranda is walking into town all alone threw a snow blizzard just to see if she would find mail from her father but the post office was closed. As the reader thinking she was going to die by the time she got there but she even made it to city hall and they gave her a bag of food and then I thought she was going to get home and find everyone