Milkman asks Guitar why the peacock won't just fly away, instead of running in circles and Guitar responds talking about its tail. Guitar describes to Milkman how the tail has too much "jewelry" on it and its all for show. With the heavy amounts of jewelry and vanity, the peacock is weighed down and unable to fly. Milkman becomes very curious of this aspect and observes the peacock closely, with its pure white color and large ornate tail. Throughout Milkmans life, he seems to be very intrigued by flight.
In the picture that Musèe des Beaux Arts is about, you can see Icarus’ legs sticking out of the water and the ship sailing by paying no attention to the drowning boy. As it states in lines 15 through 20 “In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: How everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
The attitude in Atwood’s Siren Song by Margret Atwood is captured by an image of the sirens described as “picturesque and mythical.” Atwood draws her readers in by having the sirens use their sex appeal to lure in men and force them to “leap overboard in squadrons.” She then goes on and gives the readers the assumption that the sirens are bored with their beauty, and are almost sickened with the same routine and outcome. “Shall I tell you the secret, and if I do will you get me out of this bird suit?” that implies that the sirens are bored. We see that the song is “irresistible and anyone who has heard it is dead or can’t remember it.” This makes us as readers more interested. The sirens trick men with their beautiful song, and lure them into their deadly
There hear Lord Farquaad talking about the men risking their lives and lord Farquaad says ‘this is a sacrifice I am willing to make. This shows the audience that he is very powerful and very selfish as it should be the men saying that not him. The soldiers and because they are all so scared of Shrek they try and kill him. There is a low angle shot of Shrek hitting a solider over the heard with a chair; this makes Shrek seem a lot taller then the solider. A mid shot of Shrek opening the beer barrels to it slips up all of the soldiers.
In the movies portrayal of Danforth he is a blindly ignorant self righteous judge that values his reputation above human life. For example in the movie whenever Abigail wails about being attacked by a yellow bird, Danforth is flabbergasted then begins shouting at Mary with a crazed edge to his tone and posture almost like he gets off
Essentially, Marquez tries to tell the reader something, about not only our own nature, but also about the way that we react to some of life's little miracles. Irony is displayed in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" through the audience's reactions and perceptions of the Old Man who is believed by many to be an angel. When Elisenda and Pelayo, the owners of the house where the Old Man landed, notice the fascination of their neighbors at the man's wings, the decide to lock him up and exploit him, putting him on display and charging admission to see the "oddity" that crashed in their backyard. The irony lies in the fact that the man was, no matter what he is, he is treated no better than a farm animal. Angel or no, the old Man was a wounded, majestic creature who deserved the townspeople's reverence and compassion.
Humour is used very often throughout. Every near disaster that Farley has with his boat is always a comedic event, he talks of being drunk and trying to navigate into a harbour at night in a thick black fog laughing and scared out of his mind, “The Newfoundland Pilot Book informed us that the harbour was complicated, with off-lying dangers, and that it should not be entered unless one took aboard a pilot. Furthermore it should not be entered even in daylight, unless one possessed local knowledge. The book said nothing about what should not be done at night, in a black fog, by perfectly good intoxicated strangers.”(165) They nearly crash the boat several times but they always laugh it off
The Seagull 3. “[The Seagull] treats onstage the characters’ inner action and lives without typical plot progression, while keeping dramatic events offstage.” (Brand, 2009) B. Through the use of characterization, symbolism, and setting, in "The Seagull", Chekhov is able to convey the idea that mankind's greatest downfall is time, the unforgiving enemy of spirit and hope. In "The Seagull", time leads to the destruction of man due to its relentless and erosive characteristics that pervade the lives of all the characters. II.
Second, Odysseus can be completely heroic in some situations and be totally unselfish. When their ships go by the island of the Lotus Eaters, two of Odysseus’ men fall for the trick and eat lotus flowers. Odysseus saves his men even when they fought back he forced them to come back to the ship by dragging them by their collars. This was the first in the
Circe warns Odysseus of the Sirens and how their beautiful singing brings men in ships so close to the land that they crash on the rocks. They are irresistible even to those who know the fate of listening to their song, “There are bones of dead men rotting in a pile beside them and flayed skins shrivel around the spot” (Book 12, 47-49). Odysseus advices his crew to put balls of wax in their ears, and commands his men to tie him to the mast of the ship. In this case Odysseus and his crew conquer the temptress’ and do not fulfill their desires. This example contrasts most because Homer never describes the way the Sirens look, just how enchanting and sweet their song is.