The play Midsummer’s Night Dream is no exception. There are several secretive characters that change mortals’ fates. The 3 main characters that symbolizes godly beings that change the mortal’s fate: Titania the Queen of the fairies, Oberon the King of the fairies, and mischievous Puck. Shakespeare enjoys using characters that are supernatural, for example in Macbeth, he chose the 3 witches to act our as ‘fate’ while in Midsummer’s Night Dream, there are the fairies. They are both imaginary figures which might be the reason why they are given the power to modify human’s fate and lifestyle.
He presents himself with only limited information about his motivations, and his ambition to finish off his master piece and careful manipulation of Fortunato indicates the care with which he has planned his execution. However, we again have a classic case of Poe's unreliable narrator, whose guilt and occasional irrationality prevents him from presenting himself truthfully to the reader. However, we can see that Montresor shows a particularly black sense of humor, with which he amuses both himself and the horrified reader as he leads Fortunato into his trap. He informs the audience of his intentions before he begins the story of his encounter with Fortunato, and Poe employs both verbal and dramatic irony to convey the darkness of the story. A very good example of black humor can be found at the very beginning of the story itself: Montresor’s had "vowed revenge" against Fortunato, but he decided to mask his real feelings by outwardly appearing friendly towards him.
Inside, Ebenezer Scrooge is sitting with his clouded thoughts in his misty mind…. The fog came pouing in at every chink and keyhole…the fog and darkness thicken so that people ran about with their flaring links…(Dickens) After his journey, Scrooge is feeling fresh and rejuvenated. Inside, his mind can finally think clearly, and outside, the sky is clear and perfectly cloudless. Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist; clear bright, jovial, stirring sunlight; heavenly sky; sweet fresh air; merry bells.
“The Things They Carried” is a text that focuses on writing as a form of coping with trauma and discusses how exaggeration is sometimes needed in a story to convey the message that the story-teller is trying to get at. An example of this is when the author talks about how for Rat Kiley “facts were formed by sensation” (89). Kiley is described as telling his stories as though they are intended to be tragedies, even the funny parts. This is because there is an underlying sadness to every war story, even though humor can be found in them. Part of this may be attributed to the ‘education’ each soldier received when they first went off to the war.
The description of this London fog is an allusion to Charles Dickens, “A Christmas carol”, a particularly famous ghost story, and also other Victorian novels. Hill is deliberately trying to evoke the feeling of a Victorian ghost story. The fog is unnerving, sinister and malevolent, it makes the familiar things become disturbing and puts the reader in an unfamiliar world. In this chapter Susan Hill uses techniques of foreshadowing in her description of the fog as the sea frets that appear at Eel Marsh House whenever Arthur hears the phantom cries of the 'shabby pony and trap' and passengers screaming and drowning in the marshes. The word 'shabby' is used because the pony has been used for this particular job a lot.
Both of the lines emphasize repayment, as the deeds of the wicked should receive punishment that is justly deserved. The psalmist appears to wish that punishment from the Lord should be justified based on actions. Verse five shows the characteristics of synthetic parallelism. Each of the first three lines give reason that formulates the conclusion announced in the fourth being that God will punish them accordingly. The psalmist was reassuring himself that their failure was eminent since they oversee the work of the
The well-known play ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B. Priestly is said to be a progression from ignorance to knowledge. This progression from ignorance to knowledge is not only for the characters, but for the audience as well. The Inspector brings about this knowledge by tactfully making the characters confess to the sins of their past. The characters begin being ignorant and soon learn that they should be more socially responsible and have more consideration for other people. The audience are encouraged to think deeper about the story and work out what lies beyond the plot.
For the overall story, this hints to all the readers that, even after being proven wrong, Victor will continue his bias. His lack in thought process is the original cause of his own pain and suffering. Before the completion of the creature, what is seen to be the evil, which is his stubbornness, in Victor causes not only causes pain
Poe uses a grand choice of diction throughout the entire story, but there are some main points that need to be observed with a closer perspective to perhaps reveal and understand a deeper meaning. In the very first paragraph Poe used diction to show why Montresor hungers revenge so deeply. “The Thousand injuries of Fortunato I had Bourne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (Poe, 1). In other words, Montresor had been physically harmed by Fortunato and has tolerated it as best as he could many times, but when Fortunato used an offensive expression towards him he sought to get revenge. Later on in the
The second witch is attended by a toad, also associated with witchcraft. The witches speak in riddles “When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won. “The rhyme in which they speak in gives a sense of incantation. Their chant is calling upon evil to reverse the concepts of good and bad. The witches thunder and lightning, the reference to the “hurlyburly”, the calling out to Graymalkin and Paddock, create a sinister atmosphere.