Another thing that is quite clever is the way language is used for effect in Item 1. The feeling of guilt spreads throughout the text and is used by the reader as we can associate completely with the writer and his attitude to the poverty of the people living there. In comparison to St Lucia, Fethiye market portrays a place I would not want to visit as I would not want to feel guilty on holiday. St Lucia seems to have everything ‘the wild west…the even wilder east’, ‘romantic hideaway hotels and the swish tourist resort of Rodney Bay’. Fethiye market has no more than ‘seven pitiful apricots’.
What good is social class and status? Truthfulness is measured within. Pride in one's status is like poison - holding it in your hand and eating it, you shall die.” These words come from the Adi Granth, the religious text of Sikhism, but they show perfectly the failing of society Dickens laments on in Great Expectations. Class is an arbitrary division, based not on the character of an individual, but rather their possessions and wealth. Dickens castigates this class system through the foils of Estella and Biddy, Magwitch’s generosity, and Jaggers’ coolly indifferent ethics.
However, as the essay gradually progresses the reader discovers how atrocious Antigua is. The schools are unrecognizable: “You pass a building in a sea of dust and you think it's some latrines for people just passing by, but when you look again you see the building has written on it PIGLOTT'S SCHOOL” (Kincaid 114). This is just one amongst many examples Kincaid uses to descriptively show how poor of a place Antigua is. The most important purpose this essay provides is to change the tourist's treatment and view of the locals. In order to get this message across, Kincaid creates a feeling of compassion for the natives and embeds a feeling of guilt in the tourists.
This sense of abandonment carries on into lines 6-7 ‘In my notebook I had jotted down instructions on how to get there.’ this evokes pathos through the demonstration of how forgotten these people are, and also how isolated they are. In lines 7’Take the Badale Road for a few kilometres till the end of the tarmac, turn right on to a dirt track, stay on it for about forty-five mintutes-Gufgaduud.’The use of long sentences, consisting of lists, further emphasizes the isolation of these people, leading to pathos. In addition, it is as if the news crew have a morbid hunger to find these people to find the worst images, they are not being treated as humans but more of a story, to shock the people sitting back home, which the
“How does Steinbeck suggest that the relationship between George and Lennie is a unique one?” Steinbeck illustrates George’s and Lennie’s relationship as a very ‘unique’ one due to the fact that during the 1930’s migrant workers had a very solitary existence. The relationship between George and Lennie is effectively portrayed by Steinbeck as unique by exemplifying George’s protective instincts over Lennie and his vulnerability. “Hide in the bush till I come” The commanding verb ‘hide’ demonstrates the quiet, solitary existence of a migrant worker in 1930’s America. Also the noun ‘bush’ illustrates America as a ‘Dust bowl’ with hardly any civilisation and a land full of plants in the hostile environment during the time that the novel was set, foreshadowing the sense of machoism. However, Lennie and George travel together already demonstrating the distinctive relationship between the pair.
It seems that none empathize for his emotional state when in line two Avison says his “weeping is for the dust of elm-flowers”. He is left behind, uncared for, and specific diction is used to accentuate this idea. The “dust”, “rotting grape”, and “potato peel” emphasize how the July man is left aside much like these objects. The gloominess of the man’s situation is thus encompassed by the first eight lines. The next four lines further describe the man’s setting, but now with more neutral terms.
According the first two paragraphs of the essay, Orwell expresses how bitterly he hates imperialism and feels guilty since he can “see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters” such as the evil oppression against natives, and he is “all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors”. However, due to his identity as a worker for the British, he gets not recognition but endless insult from the natives who makes his job unfavorable even though he stands up for them. As a result, Orwell sinks into an excruciating dilemma where he belongs to neither of the groups, failing to be loyalty for his job or to obtain the trust from local people, which is very upsetting for him. Apart from the contradictory political stand, Orwell has been a directed puppet by the natives. The incident of shooting an elephant precipitates Orwell to insight further into the nature of imperialism, realizing how hollow and affected the declining British Raj is.
The chimney sweep, Gamfield, may be looked upon in this light. He contributes nothing to the development of the plot but stands forth as a significant embodiment of unprovoked cruelty. Ordinarily, symbolic statement gives expression to an abstraction, something less obvious and, perhaps, even hidden. In spite of his conspicuous role in the plot, Brownlow exemplifies at all times the virtue of benevolence. The novel is shot through with another symbol, obesity, which calls attention to hunger and the poverty that produces it by calling attention to their absence.
In Section 1, Eliot immediately points out the sense of stasis the hollow men feel by calling them the “Stuffed men”. This immediately implies they cannot move and gives us connotations of scarecrows, which are stuck in one spot. Other language he uses in the first section to describe the stasis is “paralysed force, gesture without motion”, and “lost, violent souls”. This again shows the stasis the hollow men feel and “lost, violent souls” gives us connotations of purgatory. The structure Eliot uses in this first section has no obvious rhyme scheme and seems very irregular, which shows us that the hollow men are lost, and cannot escape, yet again showing stasis and the oddness of the “purgatory” they are in.
The line exemplifies Eliot's own thoughts of society, which he believed was disintegrating, as the man's lack of sanity is a reflection of the world's own descent into chaos. In Rhapsody, Eliot writes “Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left/ Hard and curled and ready to snap” using imagery to build a tense atmosphere. Consequently, he is able to further his idea of a decaying society; the language used and the meter also build tension and also convey a sense of the rapidly disintegrating society. This belief that society is decaying is still present today, events like the Arab Spring are an example of this societal disintegration and continually evoke an emotional response from society as a whole. Susbsequently poems like Rhapsody remain relevant.