This can be seen in “The Bravest – grope a little – And sometimes hit a Tree Directly in the Forehead – But as they learn to see –” This line shows that the narrator is lost in the night and doesn’t know where to go, due to the inability to see anything in the dark. Both works deal with darkness and night, but with the help of imagery the authors were able to create different scenarios for their poems. The significance of darkness and night in each poem is portrayed through the use of point of view. In Emily Dickinson’s poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” she uses a plural point of view to explain how darkness affects everyone, and show that at some point in a person’s life they will have to experience darkness. In Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night”,
Also Nowra used the physical settings as the turning points in the the play. Dark is a symbol which through the all play, in the beginning of the play，when lewis enter the theater and facing the darkness, he said" i don't know." It symbolized lewis had no confident to work with the patients. And when the theatre second time thrown into darkness, Lewis was facing it calmly, the darkness represents his journey to a point far away form the outside world, in the darkness he no longer feels no confidents. The fire is another point in the play, Doug lights two fires, the first fire brings a change of lewis, lewis told a lie to make sure the play keeps going.
The story does not tell the reader what the nameless narrator and central character of the story has done to deserve the torture that they receive. All the reader knows is that the characters in the story are surrounded by all of this chaos. The tone of the story is dark and mysterious. Edger Alan Poe is trying to set up a vague tone to the Pit and the Pendulum. For example, on page five hundred and sixty-four the tone of this part is ominous because it explains how the candles are faintly seen through the narrators eyes.
Billy was originally walking in the dark when he saw the landlady’s window ‘brilliantly illuminated by a street-lamp’. The contrast between the brightness of the window and the surrounding shows that the landlady’s home is somehow odd. Also when he writes about the dead dog Basil, juxtaposition is used to contrast between the warmth of the fire and the hard cold corpse. Juxtapositions point out the unusual things and make the readers anxious. Thirdly, rhetoric devices that Roald Dahl uses in his words contribute to create anxiety.
The public-houses were just closing, and dim men and women were clustering in broken groups round their doors. From some of the bars came the sound of a horrible laughter. In others drunkards brawled and screamed.” The unexplained supernatural is a regular theme in gothic novels and in A Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian’s bargain with the devil and the magical effect of this on his portrait is the novels most important gothic element. In the first chapter when Henry manages to convince Dorian that beauty and youth is everything and that without these two things a man is worth nothing, Dorian’s subconsciously, in the pursuit of absolution says ‘I would give my soul’ . And for the next eighteen years his wish is fulfilled, not a hint of a crease marks his face.
Darkness In the book Beautiful Darkness, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stoni say, “It’s not easy to be Light when you’ve been Dark. It’s almost too much to ask anyone.” Once a person has been exposed to darkness, it is difficult to go into the light. The darkness is compelling to people, despite the negative effects of it. For example, in The Devil in the White City and In Cold Blood, authors Erik Larson and Truman Capote demonstrate the idea that man is compelled to the darkness. In both of the books, setting and characterization is used to show the attractive nature of darkness.
To add to the mystery, when Arthur gets woke up by Spider, there is a noise which Arthur is obviously scared of and when he first wakes up he refers to the silence as ominous and dreadful. Furthermore after this event happens, the weather changes to a much “colder and damp” feeling which shows us that Hill has decided to connect weather with the goings on in the house. Once the noise has started again, Arthur refers to his job as “ghost hunting” which adds the ominous terror of what is in that room. To add to the terror as it was a moonless night, there would be very little for him to see with only his torch. Hill then revisits one of the terrors Arthur has already experienced with ‘The sound of a pony and trap’, by repeating the noise of a pony and trap, in the distance, crashing into the quicksand ahead, and as it was a moonless night, only the sound would be heard and nothing of the pong or the trap would be seen.
Tony Kushner was writing in a completely different time in America, and his character Joe deals with a crisis about his sexuality in Angels in America. Joe is seen to deal with the social stigmas and problems to do with homosexuality at the time of the play, and his interaction with other characters gives the audience insight into his struggle. Despite the differences between the two character depictions, the post-modernist theatre of Kushner has been influenced by O’Neill’s experiments with expressionist theatre. Eugene O’Neill wrote The Hairy Ape in the early 20th century, and it premiered on stage in March of 1922. The social and economic context in which O’Neill was formulating Yank as a character plays a role in his final depiction.
He is presented as being small and frail as his height barely reaches the mighty god’s shin. The league member is carrying a candle in the darkness of the corridor revealing how the league are ‘in the dark’ as such with regards to the crises in Abyssinia. The candle represents the last of the leagues hope, its attempt at guiding the word like a candle, lighting up the dark while the roman god is basking in the sunlight. This idea is furthers by the fact that the league member himself is wearing glasses, implying that the league themselves need help to see the way forward before they try to guide the others. Another point to be highlighted is that while Aries is dressed in war finery, the league member is dressed in a night gown.
In the poem “Short Time” by Jaime An Lim, the writer tells the story of a persona and a one night stand. The poem begins at night in alleys and parks—public domain—and then eventually transitioning to a much more private place, as derived from “thin walls, thinning mattresses” wherein the persona and the addressee engage in what appears to be physical, sexual activity. However, once the morning comes, despite the intimate sexual encounter that took place the previous night, the persona is left alone to bask in his/her own loneliness. In the first stanza, the persona is seen to be observing the men “hanging out at night / in all the parks and alleys of the world.” The persona is “haunted” by their “sadness” and recognizes the looks on their faces conveying “a whole vocabulary of need.” This indicates the calculative aura of these men, who “wait and meander / weighing, measuring” whether or not to satisfy their sexual needs despite the consequences. In the second stanza, the scenery abruptly changes from alleys and parks to “thin walls, thinning mattresses” suggesting that the persona and the then introduced addressee have moved to a private location, most likely a motel room.