In both of the books, setting and characterization is used to show the attractive nature of darkness. In The Devil in the White City and In Cold Blood, both of the authors use setting in order to show the compelling nature of darkness. Throughout The Devil in the White City, the great Chicago fair is mention. It is described in great detail about how it started out, its journey, and its end result. It is “…so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root” (Larson 12).
“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.
Duality in Macbeth Light and dark are often thought about as great symbols for good verses evil. In television and movies, one will often notice that when the bad guy is pursuing some sort of evil crime or succeeding in beating the good guy, the scene will be dark to add some more intensity to the plot. While on the other hand when the good guy is doing something good and winning the action scenes, light may be reflected on them. Light verse dark is also one of the oldest known dualities, dating back to the time that God created the world. The bible states “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.
Ray Bradbury and Kurt Wimmer demonstrate the overpowering themes of censorship and utopian societies gone corrupt, in a convincing manor. In the film and book, many of the characters go through the same emotional journeys due to their restrictive societies and censorship, which are the main themes. The settings in these literary works are also very similar. After thoroughly reading this novel and watching this movie, it is quite clear that utopian societies lead to destruction. Censorship often leads to rebellion, as it had in Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium.
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several literary elements while writing “The Scarlet Letter” to carefully craft the novel; such as biblical allusions, symbolism, and personification to portray the flaws of human nature. Biblical allusions are referred to throughout the novel to provide reader with an understanding of the nature of sin. He uses Dimmesdale as the main focus point towards this literary element during his death. Hawthorne also uses symbolism and it is present when the Black Man is mentioned, comparing human nature and the evil that can sometimes overcome it. Finally, personification helps bring out another theme, in which light and darkness show through nature in the book.
The Dark Knight and Heart of Darkness both portray different and similar concepts of light and dark. These concepts show things such as selfish desires, chaos and anarchy, as well as hope in some cases. Darkness is portrayed differently throughout both the film and the novel. Both the novel and the film show that light and dark conflict against each other. In both texts, there are contradictions in the light, which shows the true darkness.
The expression "learn from our mistakes" is true in this situation. Through out human life there have been many mistakes on how we should live and believe in things, those mistakes were negative things but also positive. When Thomas Edison was trying to invent the light bulb he failed over two Mit Amin hundred times but when told that he said "i didn't fail two hundred times, I found two hundred ways not to make a light bulb, I only need to find one right way." That is the same with
“Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken crime?” This quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, represents the truth upheld by a person, and how it carries with them through eternity. Hawthorne captures the truth of reality and sin in The Scarlet Letter. By using many literary devices, he reveals the truth of the Scarlet Letter and the characters in his novel. Being a novel during the romantic period, Hawthorne makes many symbolic and archetypical references to the power of nature, and the supernatural. Hawthorne uses these archetypes and symbols in addition to light motifs to demonstrate
Most of the film’s composition is so dark that you can just see the actors’ reactions. At the end of the film however, when Vassilij finds Tania, a bright light illuminates their reunion. This is evocative because, like Fly Away Peter it reinforces the concepts of hope and love in the film. Both texts use journey motifs to emphasise the nature of war, even though each text employs a different type of journey. “Fly Away Peter” has a journey of self discovery.
Therefore, the duality of shadows in the novel symbolizes the careful balance of good and evil. When the text introduces the shadows into the story, it casts shadows into a negative point of view. "But, sirs, you all know the stories about Chup!-That is a place of shadows…; of secret conspiracies and poison rings-Why should I wait near that awful camp? "[1] says Rashid. Words such as 'secret', 'poison', and 'awful' are used in conjunction to describe Chup.