In the aforementioned description, Williams had also included imagery of quaint, weathered buildings in white or grey accents. In the following bit, it can be said that Williams had hauntingly revealed a part of Blanche DuBois which the audience is to realize as they delve deeper into this production: “The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay.”
In chapter two of The Woman In Black, Susan Hill contrasts the emotions of the leading character, Arthur Kipps, with the pathetic fallacy to subvert the gothic genre. She does this by creating a sense of adventure and inquisitiveness through Arthur Kipps but describing the scenery to be dull and dreary. She portrayed the atmosphere to be flooded with thick yellow fog that “chocked and blinded, smeared and stained” the people of London. Describing the fog to have human abilities is an example of personification as it’s giving the fog, a nonhuman, the capabilities that humans have. By using the words “chocked” and “blinded”, it reflects on how vulnerable and exposed the public are due to this sinister fog.
It felt to Hester as though the red cloth emanated a “burning heat; and as if the letter were not of red cloth, but red-hot iron” (30). As beautiful and as ornately designed as the letter was, it was created as a symbol of shame to be worn by Hester and to be seen and condemned by everyone in the town. Hawthorne’s decision for the letter to be red can be seen as symbolic, as the color can represent the pain that Hester has with the situation. It can also be seen as the death of her innocence as she is judged by society. Later in the novel the color red is used to describe Pearl, called a “scarlet vision” by the narrator (101).
The character of Blanche in William’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is a complex one. She has countless unusual and intriguing traits which not only interest an readers but also influence a lot of the action of the plot, causing numerous tensions and moments of drama throughout the story. It is undeniable that Williams presents the character of Blanche in a fascinating way, especially when the reader makes their first impression of her in Scene One. Upon her entrance, Williams describes the character of Blanche as having a “delicate beauty” which “must avoid a strong light.” He also makes a very thought-provoking comparison, where “her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes… suggests a moth.” Williams is depicting her as a fragile creature, accustomed to darkness but attracted to light which may be seem as her downfall, as she may be seen to be seeking out a better life in New Orleans with Stella, but is in fact walking right into an even worse situation, of tension and heart-ache. She later backs this portrayal up by hysterically saying, “And turn that over-light off!
The lighting is often hued more than the props in the scene, with artificial blues bathing scenes in Cary’s mansion home and the clubhouse. This blue emphasises Cary’s discontent and disconnection with her society and by choosing to light a location in blue rather than simply employ blue props or clothes, Sirk demonstrates the encompassing severity of upper-class life and his own disdain for not only the materialistic aspects of this wealth but the atmosphere and attitudes as well. The costuming does on occasion follow this pattern of polarized colouring, most significantly in the opening scene where Cary is dressed in grey. The
Words such as 'secret', 'poison', and 'awful' are used in conjunction to describe Chup. The negative connotations in these words indicate that all things related to Chup are somehow insidious in nature. Therefore, by stating that Chup is a "place of shadows", 'shadows' become just as insidious as Chup. As Haroun approaches the Twilight Strip, Butt notices that Haroun was suffering from "a Heart-Shadow (121)", the symptoms of which are manifested in Haroun's thoughts: 'With our absurd armada,' he despaired, 'how can we ever succeed in that world…. The closer they came…the more formidable the prospect of the Chupwala Army became.
1. Read from p.26 “About halfway between…” to p.27 “… I first met tom’s Buchanan’s mistress” How does Fitzgerald vividly describe the scene? The scene took place in a place called “the valley of ashes”; this scene was described as a very poor area in this story. “Where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of ash-grey men”. The author specifically wrote this quote in order to emphasize the grey and dullness of the place with a little bit of exaggeration and so that the reader would have a better understanding of the place.
Question before the Procession Shirley Jackson’s use of literary techniques in The Lottery is a true work of genius. She strategically uses irony in many places such as the story’s title, the setting an even in certain character’s personality traits. Another important literary technique used by Jackson is symbolism. The black box and the story’s title seem to create a range of associations outside themselves such as the importance of questioning irrational traditions and the unexpected nature of death. With the use of these two literary techniques, (irony and Symbolism) Shirley Jackson is able to emphasize important dramatic events within the plot.
Edgar Allan Poe’s uses of terror and dark imagery have earned him a place among classic 19th century authors. The décor of his writing includes such familiar gothic set pieces as castles and mansions with human characteristics, underground passages, and characters with eclectic decorative tastes and creepy sexualities. These props are carefully placed within the context of a story in order to give Poe a strong impression of control: not only over his characters, but also over his audience by manipulating our senses and emotions, and forcing us to view things from different perspectives. He does this in several ways, using descriptive passages to introduce the mood of his unfolding drama, and a first person narrator to give his audience a sense that they are a part of the story. His method of presenting the details of a dramatic situation adds a sense of mystery that contributes to the fearful surroundings and helps build towards a climax.
This is a good example of darkness imagery because when crashing thunder, lightning and rain come to mind, they all remind you of evil and ominous things. There is also a total reversal of values shown by the use of oxymoronic language. In act 1, scene 3 Macbeth and Banquo come across the witches and when Banquo says