For the author of A Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, surrounds this very mysterious character with the issue of a wallpaper that is consuming the characters life. Gilman describes the characters dementia without directness to an "insanity". Jane, the main character knows that she has a mental issue and uses this journal to describe how she slowly loses her sanity. The curtness of how she lost her way made the story a little creepier, and more mysterious. In a novel the author could describe her past life for chapters and chapters, but knowing her life for such a short period of time made the story
Gothic individuals are seen as scary for their violent choice in clothes. Janice’s dark make-up and black clothes symbolize danger. By befriending someone who exudes this darkness, Cady shows how, just like Regina, she has become dangerous herself . Through attempting to discreetly change Regina’s physical appearance, Cady’s physical appearance
“Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes” (I. V. 56). The darkness that Lady Macbeth called upon seems to be the cruelty that she needs to commit her Duncan’s death. This then lets the readers see the image of the scene about to unfold in their mind. Foreshadowing and aside are both Rhetorical devices used Macbeth but they are used in different manners. Foreshadowing plays an important role in Macbeth because most of the action of the play is hinted at before it happens.
The yellowish color is affiliated with the weakness, and the powerlessness that she is feeling. The actual pattern of the wallpaper at first symbolizes the twists and winds of society and the difficulties of fitting in and following the rules. Eventually, once Jane studies the pattern and finds the order, she believes she understands it’s meaning. As the nights go on and she continues to study the paper, she finds that the pattern is like a prison, trapping everything inside it. She reflects her feelings of imprisonment by her husband, onto how she interprets the wallpaper.
The poet has done this on purpose to set the dark mood for the rest of the poem where Medusa talks about her anger. The disturbing physical appearance of Medusa creates a sense of horror. She is said to be ‘foul mouthed’ and ‘foul tongued’, as well as ‘yellow fanged’. The repetition of ‘foul’ creates an unpleasant image of the women and the word ‘fanged’ makes her seem monstrous. Medusa is described in a very negative manner.
A. Explicate (meaning analyze and interpret) a single poem The poem: Resume by Dorothy Parker I chose the poem Resume by Dorothy Parker because her callousness and frank tone in this poem is amusing and although she is kind of making light of the subject of suicide, her use of satire is entertaining. This poem is short, concise and straight to the point. A lot of people can appreciate how she does not attempt to mince words; she says exactly what she means. She lists the ways one can commit suicide but you can tell the central theme of this piece is that suicide is simply not worth all the extra effort. One can tell she feels living is a lot easier than taking one’s life.
Merwin, Woloch’s poems arises from her own observation of the world and experience. Her works are mostly about one's innermost feeling. Feelings those are hurtful, hopeless, and overwhelming; also about the wretchedness in relationships –family, friends, and lover. She once stated in an interview that when a person is emotionally disturbed by grief, they tend to perceive words more effectively than those who are not. Therefore, the usage of short but striking words are alike an apperception for those who once were in a brittle state, making her work sensible and prominent.
The final line, which is a stanza on its own, is an exception; this underlines it and creates a sense of evil as she suggests that she wasn’t to kill him as from the Greek mythology when you look at her she will instantly turn you into stone. The first paragraph of the poem sums up the whole poem. The words ‘a suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’ show the whole process she is going through and the emotions that she is feeling. It also goes onto talk about the curse that she has. The danger shown by upsetting Medusa is emphasised by the metaphor of "bullet tears", since tears are commonly seen as weak and fragile, but bullets are shown as cold violent and deathly.
Both of these books seem to explore what is the correct place of violence and when does that go too far, however, one seems to laud violence generally and the other really looks at what happens when we overstep the boundary and the aftermath of this overstepping. When Wuthering Heights begins there is one astounding example of violence which occurs when Lockwood in his dream tries to get rid of the ghost of Catherine Linton by rubbing her wrists across a broken window until the 'blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes'. However this atrocity is committed during a dream and by an outsider so it is not typical of the violence of the novel in general due to this 'we don't take to outsiders'. As the novel progresses we enter into Nelly's narrative and realise that she is very prone to underplaying the violence which she encounters. So much so that initially many readers don't even think of Wuthering Heights as a violent book, in fact people have been surprised at this essay title because of this.
BUT can a story in which no one dies really be about death? The next theme is (freaky whisper while you say it) Fear. "The Pit and the Pendulum" is unquestionably a "scary story." It's meant to give us goose bumps, make us shiver, and generally feel like a scaredy cat. That said, even as it taps into our emotions, it forces us to wonder about why and what we fear.