Chillingworth is a doctor but who is he helping? In the novel, The Scarlett Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the vengeful Chillingworth skillfully and quietly tortures Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne for their passionate affair. Just as the book states “The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficient plain path before it. It was not indeed precisely that which he had laid out for himself to tread.” If this is so, how and why does he end up inflicting the psychological trauma that he does? It appears that Hawthorne infers Chillingworth initially had another plan, a plan that would not ruin Arthur Dimmesdale’s life.
But in this story the bad guy is the one you pity and want to help out at the end. The story makes you believe that Tub would be the one everyone pity and he was in the beginning, but when he defended himself and shot Kenny it was definitely not like any normal fiction story. 6. What other elements of the story suggest that this is a serious, literary work rather than merely an entertaining yarn about three hapless hunters? One key element that suggest that “Hunters in the show” is a more serious literary work is the plot twist in the end.
When one first reads “The Tell-Tale Heart” they are inclined to feel that it his id not his ego controlling him, but when you look closer more evidence seems to point to the fact the his ego is more in control. This not to say that his id and superego do not play apart in his action, for clearly they do, but the id and the superego only play a small part in the narrator’s thoughts. From the beginning of the story it clear that the narrator’s ego is in control. The last few sentences in the first paragraph clearly show this “The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
In chapter five of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature is given life. The opening paragraph makes excellent use of pathetic fallacy, using the weather to set the scene. The first lines of the chapter “it was a dreary night in November” and “the rain pattered dismally against the windowpanes” make obvious use of traditional gothic horror scenery. Victor Frankenstein seems to have mixed emotions at the time of the creature’s birth. He is nervous yet scared and disgusted at the out come of his long toil.
Ingram depicts this caressing with the hands to only be part of Biddlebaums effort to ‘carry a dream into the young minds.’(Anderson 3) Leaving the boys to respond and also dream, but rather dreams that are inappropriate. This reality in the story of this boy not only having half-witted dreams of “unspeakable things” in his bed at night, then going forward spreading the rumor the next morning about something that didn’t
The wallpaper shows the characteristics of the environment of hell (hot, sticky, nasty feeling). It is until he meets Charlie (who I feel that is Barton's imagination of what the "common man" looks like but cannot go into depth and find any inspiration) who is always sweaty, drinking, giving somewhat bad advice and swears constantly (almost like Satan, so the bible says). It feels like the scene after Barton and Audrey have sex wasn't exactly Audrey really dying. I got the idea that Barton was still dreaming. Because Barton was so angry that Audrey wrote most of Mayhew's latest work, Barton dreamt that Audrey died.
Analyse how the theme of madness is implied and portrayed in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, focusing on one section of the story. Passage focus for analysis - ‘Upon my entrance, Usher arose…’ to ‘periods of his most intense excitement’, including other parts of the text. Madness is a clear theme throughout The Fall of the House of Usher, and could even be argued to be the main point of the story, as the narrator himself eventually falls victim to the insanity that consumes the household. In this extract, the focus is upon the character of Roderick Usher, his mental decline and the physical consequences. The narrator describes him as ‘lying at full length’ on a sofa, which gives the reader the image of a weak, diseased man, but Poe creates antithesis to this portrayal with the suggestion of his ‘vivacious warmth’.
“Orientation” meets the criteria for Goldwag’s rule of postmodern fiction story telling due to the way the character contradicts himself within the same sentence, “ This is your phone. Never answer your phone” (484). It is also expressed through the random series of events that appear to lack a plot. However, this is what Orozco is aiming for. He is comparing the real world to the style of his writing, which at first seems messy and insignificant but comes together at the end and
The beginning of the story highlights Paul’s uniqueness when the author gives the reader a very precise description about him précising on his eyes being, “remarkable for a certain hysterical brilliancy, and he continually used them in a conscious, theatrical sort of way...but there was a glassy glitter about them which that drug does not produce”(Pg . 1). The glitter in the young boy’s eyes shows that he is different than the usual teenage boy, that he has something in his eyes that others do not, and this is the dream of wanting to do something with his life. The author uses symbolism to portray his personality; his attitude is “symbolized by his shrug and his flippantly red carnation flower”, whereas the flowers mirror what he would want to be, living in color, happiness and luxury (Pg.1). However the conformity of a middle-class teenager is not to dream about living in luxury of some sort, it is to play soccer, and do homework like the stereotypes.
The Narrative Technique of Poe’s Horror Stories The stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) and “The Black cat” (1843) were both written by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. In both stories the narrator, who also is the protagonist, looks back on his/her deed. A first person narrator is often said to be an unreliable narrator, since we only hear how this person experiences the story and therefore we don’t know if it’s true or not. This is also the case with Edgar Allan Poe’s stories. Both narrators seem to be mentally unstable e.g.