The colour yellow, which symbolises decay and disease, is used to show the woman’s state of mind, which has been corrupted by the society she is part of. Also, the gruesome imagery of burning flesh in “smell of steaks in passageways”, coupled with the pluralisation of the objects portrays this as an experience of universal suffering. Eliot also explores the disempowerment of the individual through the judgments of a modernist society. Prufrock’s rhetorical question “Do I dare?” is about the movement he desires that has been oppressed by his self-conscious. The interjection “but how his arms and legs are thin”, shows his physical vulnerability and highlights his lack of agency.
Mildew and spiders’ webs grow within, and unpleasant smells manifest themselves within root cellars. From the first glance at the title, the reader instantly gathers that the tone is one of being displeased and somber. The diction unveiled the tone, and the grave detail protruded it. The grave detail throughout the poem displays total disgust for the root cellar which distracts the reader from the hopeful ending.
Wallpaper Symbolizing Jane’s Insanity In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the wallpaper causes and symbolizes Jane’s imprisonment which eventually causes her decent into insanity. Gilman shows this through the patterns and colors in the wallpaper itself, through the woman that she believes is stuck in the wallpaper, and when then wallpaper is finally taken down. As Jane continues to study the wallpaper, the different aspects that she discovers contribute to her eventual madness. The physical appearance of the wallpaper is directly symbolic of Jane’s situation. The yellowish color is affiliated with the weakness, and the powerlessness that she is feeling.
Finally, Firth's position insociety also creates a distorted reading of the text.Anna Firth's acrid and candid tone and use of language throughout the narrative has an ampleinfluence on the readers apprehension to Brooks novel. Anna's tone and gruesome attention todetail as George Viccars lay with his head pushed to the side by a lump the size of a new bornpiglet, a great, shiny, yellow-purple knob of pulsing flesh Anna's harsh and raw language makes thereader cringe and feel sympathetic towards Viccars untimely and painful demise. Anna's descriptiveanecdotes are once again seen in her telling of Josiah Bont's excruciating death as he begged in vainfor mercy and howled like a trapped animal where the dagger cleft his skin. It may also be noted,from this quote, Brooks play on words as she describes Josiah like a trapped animal possibly inreference to his inhumane actions throughout the novel and being trapped into doing terrible thingsby the poverty the plague had caused in the village. As the protagonist of the tale Anna's tone of voice and depiction of fellow characters are forced upon the reader, for example we feel distancedtowards Josiah as Anna had never heard a word of praise from her father's lips.
In The Yellow Wallpaper, a short story by Charlotte Gilman, the symbol of the yellow wallpaper itself portrays a role into the main characters spiral into madness. To the main character, Jane, the wallpaper is at first a nuisance, then an obsession, and finally salvation. Jane becomes overwhelmed from the confided space with the wallpaper and begins to spiral into a deeper depression than what she started with and eventually loses her mind. The material of the paper itself represents Jane's everyday life, the illogical pattern that comes about in it, reflects the absence of logic in her mind and the very colour of the paper depicts the illness that yellows her sight and imprisons her within an unpredictable life, these things all playing a role in Jane's insanity. The wallpaper is at first a great annoyance to Jane as she claims that it is confusing and contradicting.
Of Mice and Men is filled with characters such as this, which are unable to find a way out of their lonely lives. The loneliness in this story builds and builds and never is allowed to escape. By never allowing its escape, Steinbeck effectively forms a solid backing for the characters and events in his novel. Lennie's loneliness chiefly stems from the fact that he is both mentally undeveloped and very big and strong. His retardation sometimes causes others at the ranch to shun him; even to the point of thinking he is "cuckoo."
Candy is lonely because of his old age although it is somewhat helped by the fact he has a dog but as we know, he is left high and dry after the residents of the bunkhouse choose to eradicate it for it was in pain and also smelling. Curleys wife throughout is negatively portrayed to the reader by the workers on the ranch and therefore is not left with anyone on her side, ultimately, making her lonely despite having a husband. The fact that Lennie is so incapable of getting along with people who he doesn’t already know well, this leaves him almost completely reliable on George in the book. Last but not least, Crooks is left without companionship on the ranch for various reasons. In the novel, the ranch is a huge symbolism of loneliness.
Homer “aimless[ly]” walks around his house and sits around doing nothing. Homer, obviously accustomed to his loneliness, is surprised when Harry Greener comes into his life and turns it upside down. Harry, the complete opposite of Homer, comes into his home and spreads his exuberate character all over the place. In doing this, Homer begins to leave his house and do more things in his life. The different styles of narration that occur within the novel may be an indication into the author’s real life
Conclusion F. Both stories is undoubtly sad G. Depict the degradation of social norms caused by poverty. This comparison and contrast of “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene and “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence will center on selected parts of stories from the opening through the conclusion. There are many differences and similarities between “The Destructors”, by Graham Greene and “The Rocking Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence. In analyzing the two stories, the following will be compared and contrasted; both authors plots, choices of characters, themes, and conclusion. Misery caused by poverty is the underlying theme of each story and somehow luck had a lot to do with their current condition.
Furthermore, Leonce “thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation” (Chopin 6). The contrast between Edna and the other women in the novel stood out in this quote because the women at the time adored their husbands and paid their utmost attention to them. As for Edna, she would have rather been sleeping and did not care much as to what Leonce had to say or to the outcome of his events at night. The tone of this quote gives off a melancholy and disappointed feeling due to Edna’s lack and interest in her husband’s stories. Chopin employs the literary techniques of diction and tone in order to allow Edna to appear different from other women during the late 1800s time