The Cask of Amontillado vs. A Rose for Emily Revenge is a very intricate action. It suggests that someone has been deeply wronged. It also asks a question: What is it that drives a person to vengeance? When comparing “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, an interesting theme is shared by the two stories. Both authors use enticing writing styles and literary devices to unfold tales of premeditated murder.
To what extent do you think gothic literature is characterised by a fascination with death? Notions of 'death' manifest themselves into gothic texts in numerous ways, throught plot, setting and through both characters perceptions, and reactions to death, thus one interpretation is that gothic literature has become fascinated by death. Death, represents arguably one of the main provokers of human fear. It is the ultimate unknown and stimulates feelings of both horror and terror, the sickening apprehension at the mere thought of death and consequently the dismal realisation.Gothic texts are known for the promise of the sickly addictive combination of both horror and terror, thus it is almost inevitable then, that 'death' too has become an archetypal feature. To an increasingly large extent gothic literature is concerned with and obsession or fascination with death, however some may argue that this notion of death presents merely a sole characteristic of the gothic, and that perhaps there are alternative features that take predominance over it, such as the supernatural.
Nathanael’s literary style and theme of his stories were passionate romanticism and mainly dark romanticism. The spectacular author had many amazing works and so many popular books. One of his greatest works was The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Twice-Told Tales (1837). Edgar Allan Poe once said, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".
Magical realism made artists/authors realize just how deep into the imagination literature can be. The movement also showed how knowledge can be obtained through imagination both in young and old minds. Overall, the introduction of magical realism into the arts in the 1920s has made a huge impact on the generations of fantasy that
Charley Barker Memento Mori Art Dissertation Introduction “Be mindful of death”, “Remember that you must die”, “Remember that you are mortal”, “Remember your death”. These are all translations of the Latin phrase ‘MEMENTO MORI’. It is a genre of art that varies in form but all has one common theme – to remind people of their mortality. Memento mori originated from the Vanitas period which is an era of symbolic still life. These themes were common in medieval funeral art and were seen to be very explicit.
Death is a theme that has be revisited by many authors and poets time and again in countless ways with several interpretations. Among these are the ideas that death is the absolute conflict that results in self discovery or the natural cycle of life ("Twentieth Century Literature"). Death has been viewed as a way of explaining life itself and the concept of living to the fullest. As we explore further, one might even go so far as to say that death as a theme in literature can be viewed as a source of the creation of literature ("Twentieth Century Literature"). The constant repetition of
William Carlos Williams [17th September, 1833 – 4th March, 1963] William Carlos Williams was an American poet, born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He died at the age of 79. With being a very successful poet, Williams was also a paediatrician and a general practitioner. He belonged to the modern era of literature and his works were profoundly associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to poems, Williams wrote short stories, essays, novels, plays and also did translation.
Once more one must stress the importance of understanding that Joyce has intentionally crafted “The Dead” in order to unite Dubliners as a book, rather than simply a set of short stories. Death is thus a recurring, allegorical image incorporated throughout Dubliner’s finally undergoing its confirmation in “The Dead” To begin with, this essay will analyse Joyce’s personal portrayal of Dublin people in “The Dead” followed by how such habits (of these people) fabricated life in Dublin at the time. "One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age." This quote is arguably, and in one’s own personal opinion, one of Joyce’s most masterful sentences
Three poems which are mainly based on time but also use time to bring forth other themes are Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. In Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” there are two major themes time and death and as is the case with many other poems of the same nature, time is used to bring more emphasis to and progress the theme of death. The first stanza refers to Death as a gentleman for he “kindly stopped” for the speaker as he was to take her along her journey. This is in high contrast to a more common view of death in which it is personified as a sinister unforgiving character who is merciless and unforgiving in his task. The second stanza states “We slowly drove—He knew no haste” (line5) which points out how slowly Death’s carriage progresses while taking the speaker away as if time was of no importance.
William Wordsworth: The Affliction of Margaret About the poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is arguably the most popular and famous of all English poets. As a young man, he had quite radical ideas about political change - and he travelled to see the effects of the revolution in France - of which he wrote "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive". With his good friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he published, in 1798, a collection of poems called Lyrical Ballads (in 1800, they published a second volume). In some ways, these poems mark the beginning in England of what we now call the Romantic Movement. The Preface, written by Wordsworth, has come to be seen as one of the most important explanations of poetry in English literature.