Did you ever read stories full of suspense, ghosts, and mysteries? The story The Hitchhiker (by Lucille Fletcher) and In The Fog (by Milton Geiger) are both suspenseful stories with mysterious, ghost characters. The author shapes the props and sound effects, characters, settings and even the little actions so that the story is suspenseful. I am going to compare and contrast the two plays. First I am going to compare and contrast the two plays.
“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving is a perfect example of gothic literature because it has all of the characteristic features of it. The first and probably most important part of a piece of gothic literature is the existence of some kind of supernatural being or event. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” that supernatural being happens to be the Devil. The Devil is even the character who influences the entire story and ultimately the outcome of the story. “Tom lost his patience and his piety-‘The devil take me,’ said he, ‘if I have made a farthing!’ Just then there were three loud knocks at the street door.
How does Shakespeare present Iago as the devil in Act 2 scene 3 of Othello? There are numerous vast and complex characters that Shakespeare creates in the play Othello; however one of the most complex is the character of Iago. Shakespeare here has created a real villain, who twists and turns his way into manipulating, poisoning and corrupting others around him. Iago has no thought for those who get in his way and is hell-bent on achieving his goal at any price. His very existence is for the destruction of the truly innocent.
How do you respond to the idea that the most terrifying aspect of the mariner’s experience is the game of dice played by Death and Life in Death? There is no doubt that the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is in parts a horrifying tale riddled with elements of the supernatural, Gothic themes and terror. However out of all the gothic and terrifying experiences that the Mariner takes us, as a reader, through in his tale it can be argued that many of them are the most terrifying and abject in the whole of the Rime. During their journey, the ship encounters the supernatural and the unnatural. Particularly in part two, the water becomes like “Witch’s oil” the reference to witchcraft could have been seen as predominantly terrifying at the time as the fashion of “Witch hunts” was still rife in the era of publishing; particularly in Eastern Europe and North America, and would have been a practice still in the memory of previous generations.
It shows that both stories handle the subject of growing madness, however, in Poe’s story, the madness surrounds all characters, whereas in Gilman’s story the narrator is the one who is the victim of the madness. In addition, Poe’s story is utterly a fantastical story and does not improve the inner state of the characters as Gilman does, yet Gilman’s story includes the elements of realism and madness. Main Idea 1: In Poe’s story, the environment affects the sensibilities of the narrator and leads him to go mad. The mysterious appearance of the house and the darkness and gloom of autumn affect the narrator and make him uneasy about the house. -“During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher’’ (Poe 88).
The Crucible and Dante's Seven Deadly Sins In the play The Crucible hundreds of people were falsely accused of witchcraft without any proof, this time period is known as the Salem Witch Trials.. Arthur Miller wrote this play to show how horrific and unfair the Salem Witch Trials were. In this play sins are broken rapidly.. Some of these sins are pride, wrath, lust, envy, sloth and gluttony. Pride is to be very positive about what you have done. Lust is to have a sexual desire or determination toward someone or something.
This gives Victor inspiration to create something with supernatural abilities. The morbid aspect also comes from Frankenstein because he created on a dark, rainy, dreary night of November. The grotesque elements include the idea of breathing life into a dead body. The creatures yellow skin barely covered his muscles and arteries underneath. He represents the most grotesque and supernatural character in the
The Crucible Essay Question 7 Discuss the importance of the themes order and disorder, guilt and innocence, and good and evil. Set in Salem in North America, in 1962 Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a chilling play that draws parallels to the historical witch-hunts of 1962. Inspired by the McCarthy era Miller is deeply reflective in his ideas about good and evil, and the hysteria that one individual causes in a town that is gripped by superstition, paranoia and malice. The Crucible is a thought provoking omnipresent modern literary masterpiece that raises many imperative issues regarding the role of the individual in society. Miller has portrayed the community of Salem as a town tainted by enigmatic irony as a result of the role reversal of good and evil, due to greed and autocratic power, aggravated by sexual repression, themes that are still prevalent in society today.
Campbell in the novel was a playwright, so he was used to manipulating whatever he needed in order to achieve a more suitable end, as a writer manipulates his story for a better end. The irony of the situation was that Campbell himself is manipulated throughout the book just like the characters in his stories are; first by the Nazi, then the Americans, and then again by the Russians. As in most of Vonnegut’s works, a common idea that can be found is the concept of free will (or the absence of it). Some of the major characters in Vonnegut’s stories struggle with their own choices and the dilemma of accepting fate,
In Arthur Miller’s most well known play, the Crucible, Miller relates the tragic hysteria of the 17th Century Salem Witch Trials to the hype of communism in the 1950’s. Miller demonstrates that when authorities become corrupted by fear of suspicion and fear of mistrust, members of society purge their emotions on others and use them as scapegoats. As the play progresses Miller illustrates that there is something to be gained from standing up for one’s beliefs, no matter what the costs may be. To ‘stand up’ is defined as one or more people siding with and defending a point of view or belief. This is shown through the fates of the falsely accused John Proctor, Giles Corey and Rebecca Nurse.