Though the stories are different in name and plot, they definitely have similarities and differences, yet they portray the same theme. One of the main similarities between the two stories is the anger that both narrators possess. What is interesting about the narrators of the stories is that they seem to have lost control and do not think twice before killing. The anger inside of them seems to have slowly bubbled up until the only thing they cared about was taking out their anger on something or someone. In “The Black Cat” the narrator takes his anger out on his pets, including his favorite cat Pluto, and ultimately his wife.
In the novel We All Fall Down written by Robert Cormier, some of the characters do not accept change and hence pay a consequence, as seen by the study of these texts. The introduction of the novel uses violent images to describe the trashing of the house. The mixture of short sentences quickens the pace of the event and creates suspense, whilst long sentences describe the extent of the damage to create irony. “In forty-nine minutes, they shit on the floor and pissed on the walls and trashed their way through
At the beginning of Act 1 we are confronted with the physical conflict in the play when Abigail threatens her friends when they are crumbling and on the verge of spilling Abigail’s secret: “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” Power through violence is a main theme in this play. Whoever has power will enforce it viciously to ensure their needs are secured. For example, Tituba, Reverend Paris’ slave faces certain death by beating or confess to witchcraft. This outcome suits Paris’s needs, in order to hold responsible someone outside of his immediate family for witchcraft. Physical conflict is at the heart of the play through the witch hunt; a constant threat to all of the main characters integrity, constantly being scrutinised by a suspicious community on the road to utter destruction.
An account of a journey is not just the roads traveled, but the people met who influenced the journey man’s life. Francis Marion Tarwater encounters many different obstacles and people that affect his spiritual journey. Tarwater’s circumstances start out rough when he sets fire, a spiritual cleanser, to the shack that he and Mason Tarwater, Old Tarwater, lived in. Tarwater then “caught a ride with a salesman who was a manufacturer’s representative” (O’Connor p. 153) by the name of Meeks who takes him into an unknown town. The act of kindness offered by Meeks sets up the beginning of Tarwater’s journey, propelling him into the knowledge of city life, which burns like fire when Tarwater says, “That’s the same fire we came from!” (p. 153), when in actuality, Meeks and Tarwater are traveling into a city foreign to Tarwater.
Mattingly reinforced his metaphor by using many theater terms to describe the morning’s events: stage used to describe the scaffold, audience always used when he was referring to the crowd, and scene used for depictions. Since a show put on by a theater group is fictitious, simply actors who un-die when the curtain falls, comparing the queens’ rivalries with a theater piece diminished the severity of the events considerably. Thus highlighting how insignificant the queens’ rivalry was in comparison. The religious conflict occurred beyond just England. However, the queens’ political duel revealed many aspects of the religious feud and its influence: incredible faith of believers, willingness of martyrs, and degree of brutality towards enemies.
He writes poetry at work, spends his evenings at the theatre, and drinks whiskey to numb his mind, all attempts to escape his reality. The play shifts back and forth from past to present balancing “illusion with reality, fragility with brutality, mind with body, [and] freedom of the imagination with imprisonment of the real world” (Rusinko). Williams uses the fire escape as a representation of the connection between the world of illusion each character has created and the real external world. Rusinko comments that Tom goes out on the fire escape to smoke, stepping out of the suffocating feeling he McCall 2
• Supernatural World – the Witches and their prophecies. • The dark and stormy weather at the commencement of the play foreshadows terror. • The reign of King Duncan was prosperous with maintenance of order. Macbeth’s reign as King had turned Scotland upside down, driving it to chaos and subsequently, to war with England. • Macbeth’s insecurity drives him to see the Witches, which in turn divert his psychological state.
Yeats' interest in Eastern Philosophy influenced many of his poems. His widely anthologized poem, "Lapis Lazuli," is about finding tranquility in chaos. The speaker begins by telling us that “the hysterical women” are disgusted with artists who are always detached, because the times demand some serious action or else they will all be obliterated. Yeats wrote this poem in 1938 just as WWII was beginning in Europe. So those women are fearing they will be become victims of the airplane and Zeppelins that were used to bomb London during WWI.
Many of the exchanges between Petruchio and Katherina are rapid and vicious. Using Act 2 Scene 1 as a starting point, explore how far the structure and the delivery of comic languages can mask darker social concerns? The relationship between Petruchio and Katherina is extremely dysfunctional in Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare creates their dynamic as based around the issues of domestic and psychological abuse. Act 2 Scene 1 is used to be the point of which the issues start to become apparent, with the ensuing psychological and emotional effects on Katherina now she is being subjected to Petruchio entering her life.
Her affection for Lewis reaches a climax as she desperately searches for him in this theatre of complete darkness. This darkness also symbolically parallels he first scene from the opening of the play, where Lewis walks into the play where he metaphorically represents the outside world. The stage direction in act 1, scene 1 suggest hope for the patients by Lewis entering, ‘a chink of daylight enters’ this chink of daylight being Lewis as he represents the outside world. The darkness, even though it has caused chaos with the patients, it also may be valuable for some such as Julie and Lewis who passionately kiss in the darkness. Like who doesn’t like to kiss under the moonlight?