Sympathy for Scrooge Dickens creates very little sympathy for Scrooge during the first stave. Scrooge is seen as the pantomime villain for whom no one can feel sorry. However, during the reclamation the reader begins to feel more sympathy as Scrooge regains his ability to feel emotion. In the first Stave, all of Scrooge’s problems are self-inflicted. He is seen as a very cruel person who cannot be saved from himself.
A Rose For Emily V.s A Cask Of Amontialldo When it comes to Horror, death usually is a main theme. Many writers like to use characters that do not think normally. In "A Rose For Emily" and "A Cask Of Amontialldo" the main characters are both murderers with little or no remorse. Both share a horrific story of revenge. However, the authors use different writing styles that demonstrate the different outlook on the characters, thus creating the illusion that Poe's character in "A cask Of Amontialldo" is crazier then Faulkener's character in a "Rose For Emily."
iii 106 - 140] then meddling and subversive, as he sets spies on his own son, and finally irredeemably and ultimately fatally corrupt and subversive, as he schemes and plots around Hamlet. His death - physical corruption - is a precursor, signifying to the audience the ultimate fate of all those characters exhibiting signs of corruption. Polonius seems to be the most obviously corrupt character, but the centre of evil of the play's plot and of the kingdom is Claudius, as he kills King Hamlet. When Marcellus states, 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' [Act I, Sc.
Monsters By: Robert K. Van Fossen April 26, 2012 Van Fossen Monsters are our doubles they share the same character flaws that we, humans, have. Monsters come from our mind they are, for the larger part, just a figment of our imagination. When you think of Hollywood or movie monsters you think of large, grotesque, and suffering from some kind of mental illness. Have you ever looked at the definition of “monster”? The Oxford Dictionary of English states that “monster” is an inhumane, cruel, or wicked person; or a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large; how about to criticize or reprimand severely; or the Latin word “monstrum” meaning portent, omen, or well monster.
Poe Essay Many tragedies in Edgar Allan Poe’s life left him lovesick and depressed, and compelled him to write about tales of beauty, love, and loss. In two of his short stories, The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, Poe demonstrates his depression with murder, revenge, and madness through his writing. The theme of The Tell Tale Heart might be guilt or madness, also containing the theme of a corpse interred in a house. In The Cask of Amontillado, the narrator’s theme was about his ability to carry out a chilling plot of revenge against his offender. While the Poe stories are different in several ways, the similarities of the text are greater.
For example, the line where Lena (Mama) is looking at her plant. She says, “Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. This plant is close as I ever got to having one.” (Hansberry, 52) There is subtext within this line. The literal message of this quote is that she does not have a garden in the back of her house and she wishes that she did. All that she has is a little plant.
Although both stories show how the characters dehumanize their respective victims, each authors concept on dehumanization was found seemingly different. In “the man I killed” o brien uses imagination and fantasy to explain his guilt. Meanwhile poe uses a sense of fear to claim his own sanity in the killing of an old man. Therefore clearly showing how both short stories have different approaches on dehumanization. In Tim o’ briens “the man I killed” the authors concept on dehumanization was a sense of fantasy.as protagonist in the short story tim dehumanizes his victim by killing him with a grenade in the villages of my khe.
To begin with, the battle between the Montague’s and Capulet’s caused the death of Mercutio and Tybalt. To illustrate the point, Tybalt killed Mercutio because he was close to the Montagues, which he despised, and Mercutio had challenged him to a duel. Before Mercutio died in 3.1 he exclaimed, “A plague a both your houses!” meaning that the fight between the two families are like a plague where there’s no benefit (3.1. line 106). This implies that Mercutio felt that he was caught up between the everlasting feuds between the two families and he wanted no other innocent people to die from this conflict between the two families, therefore shouted out this fraise. In addition, in 3.1 Romeo murdered Tybalt to avenge the death of Mercutio by saying “Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” (3.1. line 129).
320) This is verbal irony because it shows that whatshe is saying is basically telling the grocer what she used for the murder of her husband. The irony here is amusing, knowing the fact that killed the supposed love of her life and can so easily lie about it. So again, the verbal irony really catches the toneof the dark comedy that Dahl is trying to capture here. Both dramatic and verbal ironyrelate to each other in the sense that the audience feels the ideas of a tragedy assomething funny therefore, relating back to the overall picture of the piece of literate asa dark
Through Hagen’s actions of sinking Kriemhild’s treasure in the Rhine River and attempting to kill the monk to void the Nixes prophecy are both examples of Hagen’s desperation after killing Siegfried. The scene where Hagen kills prince Siegfried is a very controversial one. In the end, he stabs Siegfried in his weak spot that Kriemhild unknowing marked with a cross. After Hagan committed his crime, he realized that he would be dead if Kriemhild used her monetary strength to build an army of her own to revenge her husband’s death by killing Hagen. To stop her from retaliating, he later discards her treasure in the Rhine River so it could not be used to build an army against him.