In the short fiction, Chopin explores her belief that marriage and freedom cannot exist together by using two powerful ironies: situational irony and dramatic irony. Kate Chopin first uses a situational irony to suggest that the women in the nineteenth century did not always feel sorrowful for their husband’s death. The situational irony happened right after Mrs. Mallard heard about the news of her husband’s death. In contrast to the grief and sorrow that Mrs. Mallard was supposed to feel, the things around her were described with a joyful mood “open window… comfortable, roomy armchair… trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life… countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves” (Chopin 1). The event is an example of a situational irony because the mood of the event was happy, which is different from what one would have expected.
One side is that her husband’s death, she supposes to be sad, however, the other side is without her husband’s control, she could start her new life. She is afraid of adopt new life without her husband. “She said it over and over under her breath: ‘Free, free, free!” she comfort and encourage herself to meet new life. In the end of the story, Chopin writes that Brently Mallard still alive and Mrs. Mallard died because of the joy. It is so ironic that Mrs. Mallard only enjoys the joyful in her life only one hour.
The Cemetery in “The Ice Palace” “The Ice Palace” is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers in the 1920s and a member of the “Lost Generation”. In the story, Sally Carrol, a southern girl who is bored with the unchanging environment, is going to marry a northern man and goes to the North. However, she feels uncomfortable and finds the North not as interesting as she thought because of the cultural and geographical difference. After the moment of her epiphany in the Ice Palace, Sally Carrol returns to the South. Fitzgerald uses many symbols to indicate the characters’ personalities in the story, among which the cemetery is a representative one.
Shakespeare masterfully weaves the themes uniquely and provides a new insight into them. This is evident in the excerpt, “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field” (4.5.29-30). In the excerpt, Lady Capulet compares Juliet’s death to a flower’s death. By doing this, Juliet maintains her beauty and grace even at the state of death. Lady Capulet indirectly describes Juliet’s death as peaceful and elegant, rather than gruesome and grotesque.
She would no longer have to live for him nor anyone else, only herself. As the day approaches night, a dear friend of her husband’s walks through the door and behind him her dead husband. She collapses right there at the bottom of the stairwell. The doctors said she had died of “heart disease-a joy that kills” (par 23). Although it may seem as the thought of her husband dying brought her joy, it was actually the desire to live for herself, which brought her
In Dickinson’s poem the first stanza compares dying to taking a carriage ride with a suitor. Death and immortality are personified. Death is a metaphor to a suitor. The speaker realizes that she is going to have to go with death and finds that immortality comes with them. The second stanza implies that death is a slow process and chooses its own pace.
The effect of the long stanzas on responders reflects the passing of time and the flooding memories. Memories triggered by the meeting a childhood friend and the realisation that the person can transcend death because of memories, love, family and friendship. Love and friendships enshrined in memory will protect the persona against time and mortality. No change has occurred in the persona’s stubborn and determined nature — “I could walk on water” to “in airy defiance of nature”. However, she now realises that “no hand will save her”, but the poem ends in peace and acceptance, as death will be followed by eternity - “waters that bear me away forever”.
The speaker plays an important role in the poem in that he/she is the one who has or is facing death. The first line “Because I could not stop for death-” is a clear indication that everything is happening to the speaker, and one can assume that the speaker is already dead. After reading the whole poem, the reader realizes that the speaker has in fact been deceased for centuries, and is merely reflecting on what happened on the day of their death. The speaker also relates the story of her death in a very casual way, conveying the message that it was a rather pleasant and normal experience. The setting of the poem is also an important factor in the poem.
I will be discussing the way Dickinson explores the theme of death and how death and its relating subjects are portrayed in a number of poems namely poem 712. In poem 712 the speaker almost seems to be describing her first date. The unusual thing is though the date is death. The speaker and death travel in a carriage with immortality as a chaperone, as was the custom of the time, to different places from a school to her grave representing her passage in life. At the end of her journey we realise she has already died and is speaking from the afterlife.
Heathcliff overcomes the need to cause grief for the third generation; as he desires to be reunited with Catherine in the grave. The death of Catherine Linton suggests a major turning point in Wuthering Heights. Catherine’s death has significant impact on Heathcliff; the idea that they were one in spirit greatly affects Heathcliff throughout the second half of the novel. When Heathcliff is mourning the death of Catherine, he says, “may she wake in torment.” Then he prays for Catherine to haunt him and never leave him alone, for “I cannot live without my soul.” This line implies that there is a mutual relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. The fact that Heathcliff feels Catherine is truly a part of his soul will make him feel incomplete for the remainder of the novel.