The Devil and His Many Cloaks The devil cloaks himself in many ways and those cloaks are depicted in many stories, two of which one will discover by reading this piece. The two portrayals one will find consist of a dark being one who is described to appear as if working were fire is prevalent. However, the devil is not always depicted as a being that has personality, but rather he is depicted as a force that holds a shape, yet, is amorphous simultaneously. Self contradiction is the only way to describe what Poe portrays the “Red Death” to be. The “Red Death” has pervaded London and many have fallen prey to it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several literary elements while writing “The Scarlet Letter” to carefully craft the novel; such as biblical allusions, symbolism, and personification to portray the flaws of human nature. Biblical allusions are referred to throughout the novel to provide reader with an understanding of the nature of sin. He uses Dimmesdale as the main focus point towards this literary element during his death. Hawthorne also uses symbolism and it is present when the Black Man is mentioned, comparing human nature and the evil that can sometimes overcome it. Finally, personification helps bring out another theme, in which light and darkness show through nature in the book.
(Benedictow, 2005) The Black Death was more than a medieval explosion of horror: it kept coming back. For the next 300 years and longer, plague became a regular part of life and death in Europe. Literature as well as the Plague art as we will call it from this point on showed glimpses of morbidity and showed the fascination with the macabre. Most of the plague art was that stimulated by religious bequests and encouraged the commissioning of devotional pieces. The renaissance humanism movement brought about by a vernacular literature adopted by Giovanni Boccaccio which helped paint a picture of what life was like in Europe during the Black Death.
Finally, Prospero, together with the guests of the masquerade, dies from the disease. To begin with, the title of the story could be interpreted as Gothic. The red colour could be distinguished, because in most sources it is associated with “blood, death-throes and sublimation”[1], while Ferber in the Dictionary of Literary Symbols explains it concentrating on “the colour of devil”[2]. In this case both interpretations perfectly represent the story The Masque of the Red Death, because those elements reflect the very idea of death and the image of evil, which represent that particular masquarader named the Read Death. Throughout the story, the very idea of horror is expressed with the help of a great variety of images and details, which naturally evokes fear.
Adv. English II The Red Death How does symbolism and imagery create irony in a work of writing? Well in the story “The Mask of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, a story based on the black plague. Prince Prospero decides to have fun, but he doesn’t know what is coming, something his joy would never image. Poe uses symbolism to unfold this scary tale of terror.
Literature and Image: The Colors and Setting in The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Fall of the House of Usher is possibly the most famous tales of Edgar Allan Poe. First published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, is part of the set of tales of horror and gothic in which Poe is well known. The work possesses a set of characteristics typical of gothic literary genre: a haunted mansion, a landscape dark and a mysterious illness. These Gothic elements are easily identifiable, however, much of the work that inspires horror, lies in the color palette and the way the scene is presented to us.
English 1108 The Masque of Red Death For my literary analysis I’ve chose the story The Masque of Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe. I really like this story; I’ve read it before in my classes and researched about it. The Masque of Red Death teaches a moral, that no matter who you are, you can’t escape your fate. The Masque of Red Death is a story about this somewhat of a plague coming over Europe in the early 1700’s. The Red Death is everywhere, it’s killing people by the hundreds daily.
Allegoric Nature of "The Masque of the Red Death" An allegory is a story with two levels of meaning. A story, most of the time, will have a literal and figurative meaning. A literal part of a story is the part where something happened. The figurative meaning is the meaning in which the author is telling you by using the story and its characters. The figurative part of the story is the reason the author wrote the story.
Shelley draws from the characteristics of gothic fiction influenced by The Romantic Movement, through employing sinister connotations that forebode Victor’s downfall, “…the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out…” This portrays the reality that the value of creating life is unattainable, which is furthermore explored in Blade Runner, as Scott presents a world in which technology has eliminated the defining features of humanity. Shelley also alludes to The Promethean Myth and the symbolism of oppressing fire, “…the glimmer of the half-extinguished light…” to emphasise the danger of attaining knowledge beyond accepted boundaries. Shelley’s admonition of excessive knowledge is explored additionally within Blade Runner. Blade Runner is dominated by capitalism and social hierarchy, therefore mirroring the values of the 18th century context of Frankenstein. Scott, influenced by the gothic-novel features in Frankenstein, has employed the style of
The period in which Frankenstein was written was also a time of great change. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley questions the suppression of the working class and the creature’s hunting down of Frankenstein can be seen as representative of the rise of this working class. The gothic novel rose to popularity in the late eighteenth century, partly due to a desire to escape the reality of the terrific events of the French Revolution through literary extremes, and its many elements are reflected in the novel, Frankenstein. The gothic novel can be considered an amalgamation of elements of romance, the natural and supernatural, monstrous all set in a landscape of macabre and desolation. Although the setting of Frankenstein cannot be considered desolate and macabre the themes of the natural and supernatural are certainly prevalent.