Both Bradbury’s The Pedestrian and Eliot’s ‘The Preludes’ represent the city as a negative, alienating environment which promotes isolation and lack of connection, however, the cause of this explored differently. Bradbury attempts through The Pedestrian to position the reader to perceive the dangers of dependence and overuse of technology, whilst Eliot attributes the isolation occurring in cities to the monotony and cyclical nature of them. In both texts, the composers attempt to position the reader to realise the alienating properties of the urban environment. In stanza one, Eliot infers the fragmented and fatally detrimental aspect of urban environments, writing “Of withered leaves about your feet”. His use of ‘withered’, heavy with negative connotations, implies the harmful potential of urban environments.
Women in Black – Theme Essay How is the theme of fear and tension presented in ‘The Woman in Black’? The main theme throughout the book is the fear of mysterious ghostly intrigue which is helped by pathetic fallacy of the weather throughout the book to create the atmosphere. When Kipps, the young London solicitor first visits Eel Marsh House, the sun is bright and the “tall, gaunt house” which “gleamed steelily in the light”, stood “like some lighthouse or beacon”. However, when the “thick, damp sea-mist…enveloped” the house the “suddenness..Unnerved and disorientated” Kipps, setting the air of mystery. Arthur Kipps has been sent to Eel Marsh House to sort out Mrs. Drablow’s papers and estate after her death.
Being so alone has made him seem mean and cold hearted, but its all a mask to hide his self-pity and loneliness and Crooks starts to believe that he is a lesser human. He says to Lennie pg72 "You got no right to come in my room...You go on get outa my room. I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse and you ain't wanted in my room." He continues by saying that the whites believe he stinks and one can interpret this as a way of saying that the whites would find it a disgrace that a nigger should breathe the same bunkhouse air as them. Crooks also has a fake hope that he is protected by his “wrights” but toughs are dashed by his argument with Curlys wife.
Words like broke, dark, drooped, lolling, mildewed, evil, dank, etc indicate that the speaker is overall dissatisfied with this morbid root cellar. The root cellar itself has a negative connotation. Root cellars are seen as a place of forgetting. They are usually the lowest place of a house in which items of the past are thrown away and forgotten about. Mildew and spiders’ webs grow within, and unpleasant smells manifest themselves within root cellars.
In chapter 5 the birth of the “hideous fiend” is the sign that his life will change in a bad way. The monster’s ‘black lips and yellow skin’ ‘ugly’, so he rejects it. The weather is important as it informs us of the emotions and the mood of the characters and surroundings. Dull and dark weather reflects the dismal mood of the novel, the; ‘dreary night of November’. This is known as pathetic fallacy.
This shows that Arthur is scared and that he is desperate to get away from the house as quickly as possible due to the fact that he feels like something something is following him. Furthermore, it is clear that he expects that something bad is about to happen and therefore his tension foreshadows the appearance of the mist and the drowning of the pony and trap. Hill uses the senses to give us a sense of the fear and isolation that Arthur is experiencing. For example, in the opening line of the chapter when Arthur notices that “outside, all was quiet.” This line reminds us that Arthur is vulnerable because the land that surrounds Eel Marsh house doesn’t have any neighbors and therefore if Arthur were in danger he would not have anybody to help him. Moreover, the use of the word “Quiet” reverts his loud running over the gravel back to silence which is something that Hill uses a lot to juxtapose the too, but also to make a false sense of safety as now silence has come, danger is just around the corner.
The word "unpainted" suggests that the inhabitants of the bunkhouse are quite lazy because they can't be bothered to paint the walls. This may lead to the reader thinking that the inhabitants of the bunkhouse don't want to work and that don't want to do anything but laze around so they may dislike the inhabitants. The reader may also be eager to go to the bunkhouse and paint the walls because they don't like things to be boring and they want things to be perfect. Steinbeck presents the bunkhouse inhabitants as very unkempt and uneducated individuals. You find this out because of the dialogue between George and Candy as well as the description of the bunkhouse in the passage; "Positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.
He changes when he learns about Mrs. Dubois and her bad addiction to morphine. One can directed to believe that Jem would be more inclined to read to her to help her to stay clean. He loses his innocence when Mrs. Duboise dies and he never gets to really apologize for his actions. After this loss of innocence, he has another realization that life is unfair and it is not fun and games because of the verdict in the Tom Robinson case. He also realizes the mere fact of why Boo Radley never liked coming out the house which shows his intellectual maturity of realizing that the world is not that great.
41) Nick says when Nick is at the asylum to help Lewis direct. This is also when Nick and Lewis fight verbally. He doesn’t appreciate the meeting that the opera has for the patients, and sees both the patient’s attitudes and opera itself as “right wing crap”. Nick has a low tolerance for the quirks of the patients, and insensitive towards them, making a joke about their situation. Nick and Lucy didn’t even go to watch the play “Cosi”.
“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them…” is relatable to a theme regarding loneliness in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. The quote which was quoted by Jodie Picoult outlines a colored character named Crooks from Of Mice and Men whose loneliness has led him into a bitter but sharp personality. Crooks’ reaction to a visit from an innocent while man to his behavior ranging from effects of loneliness after a misunderstanding, shows how isolated Crooks felt and how much it had invaded his character. First of all, Crooks was a colored stable buck with a crooked spine that lived in a