A Fever Dream In the short story, “Crossroads Blues,” William Gay uses a very unique opening scene to grab the reader’s attention. Gay keeps the reader on edge throughout the beginning of the story with this confusing question: Is Karas dreaming, or is this all real? “Dreaming” seems to play a vital and interesting role in this story. In Crossroads Blues, William gay seems to continually bring up “dreaming.” “In a fever dream that was almost but not quite nightmare Karas asked the Storm Princess those questions…” (148). These lines lead the reader to believe Karas is dreaming of talking to his wife that fled him, but is it reality?
This is apparent within Willy and his sons. Willy is driven to commit his greatest wrong by feelings of shame that arise out of his sense of inadequacy as a man. His adulterous affair with “The Woman” in Boston, which haunts both him and his son Biff, is a desperate attempt to confirm and maintain his self-esteem. (Fred Ribkoff 123) Willy feels guilty because he let Biff down when he got caught cheating in Boston and of course he let his wife down. Willy cheats on Linda out of loneliness and he wants to feel like an important salesman because he cannot face the fact that he’s not.
‘The Eve of St Agnes’ alludes to the legend of St Agnes’ Eve, where women saw visions of their future husband if they performed certain rituals before sleeping. The idea of rituals and visions adds an ambiguity to the tale, and the mysterious establishment of such visions generates a sense of mystic and magic. This hints at Negative Capability as this ethereal tale is incapable of being constricted by science, thereby creating a magic and wondrous atmosphere. Keats frequented in the idea of Negative Capability, and this may have prompted him to write about the mystical phenomena on St Agnes’ Eve, as he recurrently delved into the realms of idealism and fantasy. Furthermore, the notion that girls will witness their future husbands adds a romantic and passionate feeling, endorsing Keats’ adherence to romanticism instead of rationalism.
"Where is he? He is hanging here on the gallows" It’s this horrendous moment in which his perceptions of his God change, someone whom was once grater than man kind and all things was now simply no better than man for if he were he wouldn’t be allowing these terrifyingly sad things to happen. Wisell unknowingly signifies the diminishing of his faith through pipel. Pipel’s painful and slow death is much the same as his perception of God in which die with him. After this Ellie doesn’t show any gratitude or respect to his god, this is clearly evident in Yom Kippur.
Amir committed the deadly sin of being envious towards Hassan being in Amir’s life and his value towards Baba, which left him in guilt for witnessing Hassan’s struggle growing up. This all left him in unhappiness throughout his adulthood and married life as he was never able to forgive himself unless he had strived for Hassan’s forgiveness. This is what led into Sohrab’s value in Amir’s life. Therefore, throughout one’s life of sinful deeds, and wrong doings, one cannot forgive themselves unless they seek for others forgiveness and
The short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne describes a man’s religious transformation through the forest. The story is said to have been a dream rather than actual facts. The events that took place in the forest change Young Goodman Brown’s outlook on life permanently. He starts off as an average man with faith and ends up a pessimistic, untrusting old hag. Brown’s journey represents a darker and deeper insight into his soul.
The chorus of the song accurately conveys this fact, “I am in misery, there ain't no other who can comfort me. Why won't you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me .” This misery has become Ethan’s life and at least he feels, now that Mattie is basically gone, that he is alone in this world, and that he has nobody left with whom he can converse and truly connect
“Young Goodman Brown” “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne details the mysteriousness and misfortune of Goodman Brown’s numerous encounters with witchcraft and the devil. Goodman Brown comes face-to-face with a life altering experience when he meets a traveler on the road carrying a serpent staff, who leads him to a suspected witch by the name of Goody Cloyse. They resume their stroll on the road when Goodman Brown decides to take a rest on a tree stump. He ends up with the elder travelers staff, or so he thinks. It is very unclear as to whether his experience at the witch meeting was a dream, or reality.
Maybe he is even an illegitimate child of Mr. Earnshaw and Catherine’s half-brother (incestual love, Gothic novels…)? We never know, because Emily Bronte leaves this secret undisclosed. The readers are free to imagine anything they want, as well as Heathcliff himself. And who knows, maybe Nelly’s words about his origin even do have some sense? There is another mystery connected with this character.
Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors, without having done anything to deserve rejection; Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider after Mr. Earnshaw’s death and suffers cruel mistreatment by Hindley. In these formative years, he is deprived of love, sociability and education, according to Nelly, Hindley's treatment towards Heathcliff was "enough to make a fiend of a saint". He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to do farm work. Personality that Heathcliff develops in his adult life has been formed in response to the deprivation of his childhood. He is quite vengeful in nature, and he is also stubborn and steadfast he does whatever he sets his mind to.