The cast is comprised of only seven characters. First there is Charles and his current wife Ruth. His deceased first wife is named Elvira; the psychic who causes it all is Madame Arcati, and a sophisticated couple, the Bradman’s, who are guests at the séance. There is also Edith who serves only as a comic convenience, but is the unseen maid in the house of Charles and Ruth. The main conflict in “Blithe Spirit” is a conflict of love; the ghost of Elvira haunting the couple causes tension between them that brings up deeper problems of the couple.
1051 Words Coursework for Women in Black Explore how the writer builds suspense and tension in the novel. Support your points with close reference to the text. Sinister tale. This is the perfect description of The Woman In Black in which Susan Hill, the author, focuses on tension, isolation and atmosphere through the story of the young solicitor, Arthur Kipps, sent to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow. He goes through her papers at the Eel Marsh House, the tall, gaunt, isolated house in the middle of a marsh in which the departed old woman lived alone, this is the place where he encounters the "woman with the wasted face".
Lady Macbeth’s Suicide Note My dearest partner in heinous crime, the dark has come. Hell enshrouds me. I am like a child afraid of the dark. I must keep the candles lit at all hours. My childhood eyes see in the darkness the “painted devils.” (Act 1 Scene 2) My ears hear the “owl scream” and the “crying crickets” and the “croaking raven” (Act 2 Scene 5) - all rob my sleep.
Meanwhile, Dr. Seward must also look after a patient at an insane asylum. Things continue to go wrong, Lucy’s mother passes away, and eventually Lucy dies too. In between and during these events, author Bram Stoker skillfully utilizes the gothic elements “omens, portents, and visions”, “women in distress”, and “metonymy of gloom and horror.” One cleverly used gothic element in Dracula is “omens, portents, and visions.” For example, Jonathan mentions an old woman telling him, “It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?” (5). The old woman at the hotel desperately wanted him to postpone his journey.
In Act 2, Scene 2 line 35, Macbeth said, “Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day’s life.” There is another example of this motif. At the end of this play, Lady Macbeth described as a sleepwalker. Gentlewoman describes Lady Macbeth’s illness, in Act 5, Scene1, line
The Crucible Essay Arthur Miller’s play ‘The Crucible’ is an allegory because of the McCarthy trials in the 1950’s that relate to the witchcraft suspicions in Salem. Throughout my essay I am going to explore and analyse the moments of tension that has a big influence on the audience during the play. At the beginning of the act in the setting the writer uses the stage direction ‘...the room is empty...’ When the curtains opened and all the audience could see was an empty room on stage, it made the audience question what was going to happen. As well as the act opening with an empty solemn room, the actors did not enter the stage floor immediately. They just simply read their lines in the wings of the stage.
Ashley Hash Molly Luby ENG 113 12 July 2009 Not Your Typical Fairytale Why then did Jane Yolen yet again write another novel covering topics that dwelt with these horrible events? Yolen stated in an interview that the idea of writing _Briar Rose came to her while watching the documentary “Shoah”. The documentary described a concentration camp inside a castle called Chelmno. There was the castle, barbed wire fence, and the gassing of innocent people. To Yolen this portrayed the fairytale Sleeping _Beauty in a horrible but fascinating way.
After this meeting, the usual house seems to be a cold, impervious gloom. Room looks more like a grave, which is not reachable by any sound of a big city. Montag finally sees his wife: "hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, the reddened pouting lips, and her flesh like white bacon” and realizes, that their marriage has turned into an empty fiction. Clarisse’s absurd death aggravates the situation: he rethinks the world in which they live, learns to think, secretly taking books to the house. A new spiritual mentor appears in Guy’s life- Faber, an old-fashioned man, who completes the initiated by Clarisse and opens main character’s eyes, forcing to notice what is going on around them.
Summary The Crucible begins in the house of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose daughter, Betty, lies unconscious in bed upstairs. Prior to the opening of the play, Parris discovered Betty, his niece Abigail, and Tituba, his black slave from Barbados, dancing in the forest outside of Salem at midnight. After Parris came out of the bushes, Betty lost consciousness and has remained in a stupor ever since. The town physician, Doctor Griggs, who has not been able to determine why Betty is ill, suggests witchcraft as a possible cause. Parris, distraught and troubled because he knows that Abigail has not been entirely truthful regarding her activities in the woods, confronts Abigail.
Nothing Victor can do once he denies the creature a wife, will protect Elizabeth: ...suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream. It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired...the scream was repeated, and I rushed into the room...She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed... Frankenstein's women are presented as intelligent, but also submissive... Laying the foundation for Ellis, Mary Shelley, and countless other women, Dr. Gregory, in his widely-read A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, gave this advice to his daughters in 1774: "if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts [i.e., ability] and a cultivated understanding." In Shelley's society, women were expected to "wear their learning modestly." In this story, she presents the creature the way she saw women in her society: "oppressed and denied