For a piece that can be read in one short sitting, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ evokes an impressive level of fear. To bring about such strong emotion in so little space, Gilman simultaneously makes use of several plot devices woven carefully into the short story. One such element is dramatic irony, which occurs when the full significance of characters’ thoughts or actions is understood by the audience but not the characters themselves. Dramatic irony is almost omnipresent the genre of horror due to its power to add suspense and a sense of dread to a plot, but Gilman cleverly uses it to serve other purposes as well. The dramatic irony in ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’ not only adds to the story’s horror, it also creates the illusion that readers have power over the plot and that ideas presented in the story come from the themselves rather than from the author.
Ray Bradbury and Kurt Wimmer demonstrate the overpowering themes of censorship and utopian societies gone corrupt, in a convincing manor. In the film and book, many of the characters go through the same emotional journeys due to their restrictive societies and censorship, which are the main themes. The settings in these literary works are also very similar. After thoroughly reading this novel and watching this movie, it is quite clear that utopian societies lead to destruction. Censorship often leads to rebellion, as it had in Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium.
Not only does it point out the natural inclination of people to feel pain as a ripple effect rather than all at once, it foreshadows the suffering that Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale will undergo throughout the course of the novel. It also explains how Hester is able to handle such terrible things as public shaming without crumbling into herself. His use of words such as torture, rankles and extremity increase the sense of drama in this passage. Chapter 4 “The Interview” Page 30 “We have wronged each other,” answered he. “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.
“Gothic literature is concerned with the breaking of social and moral codes” – to what extent do you agree with this criticism of gothic writing? Gothic literature often encompasses a large amount of taboos and transgressions that continue to populate the genre today, in which the breaking of social and moral codes is still a popular element that is continually explored. However, critiques often focus upon the driving force behind this exploration within the genre and its effectiveness where moral and social codes remain largely culturally relative and the line between normal and abnormal is unclear. This ambiguity continues to puzzle both readers and critics alike in a fashion that only breeds curiosity and fascination within society of what social and moral codes are available to be broken, particularly within literature. In many ways, the character of Heathcliff within Wuthering Heights may be seen as a complete antithesis to the conventions of society; the name “Heathcliff” acts as both his Christian name and surname in contrast to the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights with many names shared across the generations.
Literary Text in The Most Dangerous Games By: Melvin Paige The literary texts that stood out to me were suspense, foreshadowing, and irony. Bullying in Jabari’s presentation had a big connection to the story. This is mainly because of how the story ends. This told me that bullying does not always go as planned. At Least in this situation it didn’t.
11/13/11 Analysis In Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, his use of diction creates a mood full of tension, conflict and turmoil. The trailer that was created also shares this feeling, with the use of multiple tense scenes adapted from the novel. More specifically in the beginning, Bradbury creates this mood by showing Montag’s conflict with himself and also after, with society, and during the climax where Montag is in conflict with Beatty. From the very beginning of the novel, Bradbury creates a mood of tension, turmoil and conflict when Montag questions the society he has followed until now. This change was stimulated by discussion with Montag’s new neighbor Clarisse.
Ian McEwan claimed that he wrote the opening chapter of the novel in a similar way that a ‘highly addictive drug’ would work. The first 5 paragraphs are overflowing with different techniques that are used to create tension, so that there is an air of anxiety in the reader’s thoughts causing them to question the further plot of the novel. The story starts with the short sentence ‘The beginning is simple to mark’, which makes us question, the beginning of what exactly? This sentence is used to draw the reader in leaving you wanting to know more, we realise that if the beginning is so simple, something more complex is to come in the novel. Moreover curiosity is encouraged in the reader and through McEwan’s deliberate withholding of vital information, we can comprehend that the storyline is going to become an entangled ‘labyrinth’ that will become hard to ingest.
He is not just one character among several, it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters making him unreliable. Often, readers of this novel confuse Nick's stance towards those characters and the world he describes with those of F. Scott Fitzgerald's because the fictional
Reading novels and full length plays is like looking into the lives of other people, particularly their actions, or conditions under which they live. Sometimes what we see pleases us, at other times saddens or repels us. In the heart jerking, full length play, The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, the author brought to light a dramatic character whose lifestyle, attitude, and whole self repel the reader. In the play, The Crucible, there are many outlandish happenings. Most of which include one character who was found to be exceedingly self centered.
Laurel Woerheide Mr. Barnhardt Fundamentals of Writing 5/8/12 The desire to be accepted can overpower one's moral beliefs such as deciphering the difference between right and wrong decisions. The desire to be accepted by others can often overpower and negatively influence one's moral beliefs such as doing the right or wrong thing in one's eyes. This theme is developed throughout the short stories Shooting an Elephant, A&P, and The Fall of the House of Usher, as we see the main characters involved in a scene in which they may not normally belong in, and end up reacting differently to things that are new to them, in order to receive positive attention. When put into new situations, it is human instinct to want to fit in and to become accepted by those who already belong. In order to accomplish these goals, it may be necessary to go outside of one's comfort zone and go against one's beliefs and morals.