In The Great Gatsby, the tone of the “Valley of Ashes” scene can be best described as solemn. Fitzgerald uses imagery and symbolism in order to display the way that the Valley is full of empty hopes and dreams. Fitzgerald uses imagery to give a picture of the desolate wasteland that is the Valley of Ashes. He explains that the valley is a “fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens.” This tells us that everything in the valley is really nothing more than ashes, and it is all worthless. The people who are eternally bound to the valley are described as “moving dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.” This gives us a picture that these people, who are essentially dirt poor, move
The Textbook gives off a sense of dislike towards the Central Powers, and made them seem primitive and destructive for no reason. It portrays the Germans as animalistic and cruel. All Quiet on the Western Front is passionately against war, and slightly biased towards the Germans and the Central
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.
"The Thing That Grows in the Gasoline Tank" sends a powerful message by relating to the readers stereotypical, prejudice and racist views. Brett effectively uses literary devices to express that humans have no tolerance for other cultures. Brett's use of descriptive narration creates an uncomfortable setting for the government agent. Taking place present day, the government agent is on a reserve in the middle of nowhere. The only buildings are old and decaying.
To illustrate the characters’ immoral behavior, their actions are centered in the valley of ashes. This desolate and seedy dump is also home to the billboard for ophthalmologist T.J. Eckleburg, as well as Tom’s mistress Myrtle and her husband George Wilson. Although no direct language is used throughout the novel to indicate the importance of religious belief, Fitzgerald is able to convey how the absence of religion is what instigates the bad behavior of the rich in relation to the valley of ashes and the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg. The valley of ashes, appearing as a dump on the surface, becomes the embodiment of the corruption of the upper class during the Jazz age. This dumping ground can be considered insignificant at first, but it is a location in which two major events take place regarding the mistress of Tom Buchanan: where Tom’s affair with Myrtle is first introduced to Nick and the death of Myrtle.
On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving." Brown's use of words depict a picture of a land that destroyed. You can also imply that he is resentful towards the white hunters who caused for the land to be desolate. There appears to be no hope in the land and the words create a sense of bitterness. His forlorn diction allows the reader to envision a land that is dead and no more.
Matthew McKee Knight of Faith and Tragic Hero When we refer to these two classifications in respect to religious purposes, it’s not very difficult to understand where religious figures stand in regard to these labels. These being literary terms relating to the story of Abraham and Isaac, it would be wise to explain what each of them means for the reader’s sake. In order to understand the text of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, it’s crucial to know these key terms. Let’s begin with the definition of a Knight of Faith, (KoF). A KoF can be the good guy or the bad guy, depending on how you view religion and the story of Abraham and Isaac for this purpose.
18 March 2012 WALL-E We see from the very beginning that WALL-E (there is even a BNL LOGO on WALL-E's chest plate) has been dejected and left isolated on a repugnant planet. “WALL-E's old treads are threadbare.” “Practically falling apart.” (Stanton, A., and P. Docter. "WALL-E." Transcript p.2) His emotions showed through of being lonesome. Yet, he seemed to be contented with his state of affairs, of cleaning earth and building his masterpiece out of the rubble. As the movie opens we see the Earth covered in dust, filth, and wreckage, yet we see a 700-year-old WALL-E robot that was making something picturesque out of its obnoxiousness.
The image of ash also paints a very bleak, gray image as the colour gray is typically associated with ash, it appears to be very dark and lifeless. The ash is so abundant that the author states the the "ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys," and we can say that the ash is the most prominent thing instead of the actual houses. The valley of ashes seems to mark the separation between the older American aristocracy, which once occupied East and West Egg, and the new urban Americans. The ashen quality of the setting can also represents the moral and social decay hidden by the West and East Egg. Also, as the valley is created through industrial dumping, it suggest that the moral decay of human hearts was due to the growth of materialistic desires as a result of the high standards of living of these people, revealing the hollowness of the upper class
Ethan is influenced by his grim surroundings and becomes a bitter, melancholy man. A lot of his sad nature has to do with his surroundings, as the barren and empty characteristics of Starkfield have forced Ethan to become bitter and pitiful. At the beginning of the story the narrator clearly states Starkfield’s influence on Ethan’s appearance: “He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.” (Wharton 13) A character’s attributes depend on the location he grows up on. His face looks as gloomy as the night, cheerless and bleak.