Rhetorical Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald, in his short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, illustrates the unexplained aging process that begins the day of Benjamin’s birth. Fitzgerald’s purpose is to reveal the challenges individuals face as society tries to mold them to its own ideals. He exposes the hardships forced upon Benjamin, and adopts a sentimental tone allowing readers to relate to his writing. Fitzgerald also uses concrete language, pathos and dialogue. Fitzgerald uses concrete language in his writing to evoke an emotional response, and provide readers with a connection to his writing.
Porphyria’s Lover – Beginnings / Endings The poem opens up at night and with the first few lines sets up a sense of a cold, brooding almost wild discontent that mirrors the Lover’s mood in the beginning of the poem (weather mimics the mental state of the lover) through the use of pathetic fallacy (up to line 5) and personification (‘the sullen wind was soon awake’). Although there is a doubtable feeling of the ominous and that somehow, right from the beginning, the poem won’t have an exactly happy ending, there is an air of Melancholy and desperation about the lover (‘I listened with heart fit to break’) that seems to invite our sympathy. The whole setting is suddenly changed when Porphyria ‘glides’ in and brings in a warmth (‘made the cheerless grate blaze up’) and consequently this changes the whole mood as she ‘shuts out the storm’. The very beginning is more poetic (up to line 5) and when Porphyria walks in there is a large use of imperative verbs (e.g. ‘she shut out’, ‘she rose’).
This reveals Marlow’s individuality among others and what he is supposedly expected to do throughout the whole story. The frame narrative in "The Heart of Darkness", “sets the scene” for story by showing the reader a brief background story from an individual character to allow a much interesting and exciting story plot. In the, "The Canterbury Tales", the main narrative is portrayed when the author states, “Ready to start upon my pilgrimage To Canterbury, full of devout homage, There came at night fall to
Susan hill creates tension in many ways. Hill refers to the weather quite frequently in the novel, it is used to set the tone of the story and to provide teasing hints which build up the tension. This changes the mood of the novel at the time. At the beginning the weather is described with “We had had rain, thin, chilling rain and a mist that lay low above the house,” which implies that something should be happening soon but it doesn’t reveal the events. The weather at the start of the horror story is much worse, and it begins with an exaggerated description of the fog in London.
''Title of Things Fall Apart'' The title of Achebe's novel ''Things Fall Apart'' owes to William Butler Yeats'1921 ''visionary''poem ,''The Second Coming''.Yeats speaks of the break-down of the ''old'' order and its displacement by a ''new'' order that rouses mixed feelings of revulsion and fascination in him.So the title is a kind of tribute to Yeats' mysticism. ''Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon can not hear the falconer Things Fall Apart;the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world''. Achebe would have most carefully chosen both the epigraph and title as his novel,is too about a forcible break-up of an older and settled order.Achebe is preoccupied with things falling apart,the break-down of the ''old'' order under the relentless onslaught of the ''new'' order. The significance of a title increases when it hints at the theme of the book.The very title''Things Fall Apart'',highlights the process of disintegration of Ibo culture and society.Achebe looks back at his Ibo society specifically at the period the white man broke into it and''mere anarchy''loosed upon the world of Umuofia. The major theme of the novel is that British colonoization and the conversation to christianity of tribal people has destroyed an intricate and old pattern of life in Africa.Dealing with the theme of chaos and disruption,Achebe's selection of title is not only proper,suggestive and accurate but a true reflection and the mirror to its theme.
The setting can be impacted by many things, even something as simple as the weather. Throughout the short story “The Storm” by Kate Choplin we are shown how the setting plays such a crucial role in helping us to foreshadow the ever changing mood, and plot of the story. Throughout “The Storm” Choplin shows us how the setting contributes to the characters comfort, forces characters to act, and how it creates conflict. The setting in this story takes us play by play and allows us to get a feel for how the characters are forced into acting in different ways based on the different situations they are faced with from the storm. The setting in this story takes place at the beginning of a storm where Bibinot and his son Bibi are at the store finishing up some shopping.
That will ere the set of sun. (Act 1 Scene 1, 1-5) With the given description one is able to sense something bad will occur in the following scene, which would change the mood of the setting. Also, it is evident to see why Shakespeare describes what is happening using weather because the imagery he had chosen to represent the setting signifies intensity and tension that may rise in the play. Shakespeare uses the same concept to state other dreadful events taking place as well. This is evident to see when Sergeant explains to the people gathered at the camp of his stories: (Sergeant) As whence the sun’gins his reflection, Shippwrecking storms and direful thunders, So from what spring whence comfort seem’d to come, Discomfort swells.
Dustin F. Guastella A.P. English Mr. Conston April 03, 2009 John Barth's Experimental Postmodernism John Barth discovered that literature was repetitive that it was growing old and bland styles and genres were perpetually repeating themselves so he decided to attempt to break from this norm. With his essays on the Literature of Exhaustion, his short stories, and his novels he explores a new realm of fiction and a new aspect of humanism. His philosophies on ambiguity are the driving force throughout this new literature, which is neither absurd nor classic but a hybrid of the two. Through the bewitching stories we see that Barth is exploring an entirely new style of writing, sometimes confusing, sometimes fragmented, but always captivating.
In the story the “Thunderstorm”, Vladimir Nabokov’s complex imaginative piece, the author employs imagery and personification to take the reader into a fantastic and dreamy world. From the very beginning when Nabokov is depicting a seemingly realistic setting, he introduces personification in his narrative to set the mood of the piece. The wind, described as a “blind phantom” is later found “... waiting for me in the room; it banged the casement window and staged a prompt reflux when I shut the door behind me”. Giving human attributes to the wind turns it into an active character in the story. In addition, layering mystical qualities in the image of the wind contributes to the fantastical feel of the story.
Furthermore, the motif “Tyres” has a symbolic meaning and is personified. It is connected to the narrator’s father business and it is an excuse to be at the side of the war. “Tyres” expresses the ways in which a war story may affect personal relationships. The passage takes place near the ending. It is the turning point of the climate in the story and the highest moment of tension as there is no way back.