Wilmer Ortiz Ortiz 1 John Benvenuto English 102 March 8, 2013 The Unseen Line Between Life and Death Throughout history we have seen evidence of man’s obsession with mortality. In an effort to understand the unknown, writers create stories through literature that give readers an explanation they can grasp. This writing about our impermanence shows just how insecure and un-accepting we can be of this unavoidable fate. Literature often has the ability to show just how vulnerable humans can be, and yet somehow manage to find elegant, beautiful and dignified ways to show. Three
With his use of diction, Hawthorne firmly establishes the tone of sadness in the novel. He chooses to use words such as darkening close, crime, gloomy, darker aspect, unsightly, frailty, and sorrow, which helps accomplish the dreariness in the tone. Even with the title of the first chapter being “The Prison Door”, Hawthorne immediately indicates punishment as a result of strict conformity. His diction has emphasis on darkness, which is a result of the rigidity of puritan society. The darkness, in turn, causes sadness among the people of the society, which Hawthorne indicates in his diction.
21) Pathetic fallacy helps to set the mood of evil and give the scene a more intense feeling for the audience. Lady Macbeth realizes that something bad has happened and the pathetic fallacy sets an evil mood because there is so much evil that even nature reacted. While a storm is raging, Ross and an old man talk about how things have been weird lately. The weather helps set a mysterious mood to this discussion, with the use of thunder and lightning. “Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb.”(Shakespeare, 2.4.
Gothic literature is designed to terrify and horrify people in a pleasurable way. The plots are meant to border the lines of reality. Gothic literature also has settings filled with dark and twisted structures. 4. What are at least two common mental disorders one might find in Gothic stories?
Darkness In the book Beautiful Darkness, authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stoni say, “It’s not easy to be Light when you’ve been Dark. It’s almost too much to ask anyone.” Once a person has been exposed to darkness, it is difficult to go into the light. The darkness is compelling to people, despite the negative effects of it. For example, in The Devil in the White City and In Cold Blood, authors Erik Larson and Truman Capote demonstrate the idea that man is compelled to the darkness. In both of the books, setting and characterization is used to show the attractive nature of darkness.
The Dark Knight and Heart of Darkness both portray different and similar concepts of light and dark. These concepts show things such as selfish desires, chaos and anarchy, as well as hope in some cases. Darkness is portrayed differently throughout both the film and the novel. Both the novel and the film show that light and dark conflict against each other. In both texts, there are contradictions in the light, which shows the true darkness.
Doubt in something leads you to question everything. Disbelief in religion, in your family, in happiness, in love but most importantly, in yourself and in the value or point of human life all together. When these things happen it can cause an individual to feel as if they have no sense of belonging, which often causes us to find other methods of fulfillment. Alienation is not that odd or uncommon if you really analyze it, it’s more of an evil necessity in order for an individual to find what truth is for themselves. I believe that majority of the modernist writers were struggling to find their own identity and in order to do this some took an extreme route.
Inside a killer's mind “You can’t use logic on human behavior.” (Jeff Lindsay, Darkly dreaming Dexter). The short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of disturbing events, foul play, and revenge. What's so disturbing is the lengths Montressor goes to gain his 'revenge'. How we get such insight is through the wonderful written first person view of Poe. Point of view can be so crucial to a story.
Traveling Through the Dark By: William Stafford "Traveling through the Dark" by: William Stafford is the most popular and frequently anthologized single poem he has written. It presents readers with an uncomfortable and rather depressing instance of the intersection of the natural world and that of man. In its broadest outline it reiterates the theme of confrontation between technology and wilderness, one which leads to danger in the end. Technology, in this case cars and the man-made road, are seen as something invasive and harmful in this poem. The poem is a narrative description of the poet's halt along a road at night leading to his discovery of a doe, victim of an earlier collision with another automobile.
Volcanoes (all of them, and some new ones!) will pour out huge lava flows, along with poisonous gases and choking ash. Climates will change instantly, and the geography of the globe will be radically altered. If the pole shift is less than a full 180 degrees, the polar icecaps will melt rapidly, raising sea levels, while new icecaps will begin to build. A large numbers of organisms, including much of the human race, will be decimated or even become extinct, with signs of their existence hidden under thick layers of sediment and debris, or at the bottom of newly established seas.