1. Heart of Darkness
In the story "A Clean Well - Lighted Place," Hemingway uses the darkness to symbolize fear and loneliness, and the light to symbolize comfort and the company of others. For the old man, the cafe is a sanctuary, an escape from the demons of nothingness that hide in the darkness of night. This cafe provides artificial light from the shadows of the world, and protects him from the inevitable darkness. "Against the neatness, light, and order of the cafe stands the dark chaos of the night, despair, nothingness and death."... But, as Jig looks across the green valley a cloud passes overhead takin...
Line 3 announces that marriage is a "fatal knot", telling the female reader that marriage can be compared to death, for as one descends into final darkness, there is no return. In this way, the writer warns women that once a man has taken his place as husband, he will see himself as king or god, or if the wedding is death and marriage is Hell, then he may assume the role of Satan. ...
"The Story of an Hour- by Kate Chopin Commentary "The Story of an Hour- is a startling portrayal of a woman's awakening upon receiving news of her husband's death. ... Where Louise should have looked out the window and see signs of darkness or hopelessness, she ironically noticed qualities of renewal and birth. ... Looking beyond the sadness, what Louise's husband's death really meant, dawned on her. ... Millard's death affected his wife, and not on the death itself. ... This abrupt cessation of joy is the ultimate cause of her death. ...
This essay argues that Behn's juxtaposition of native qualities with values of the period constructs the gender of her characters in such a way that they function only as dark-skinned representatives of white virtue. ... Finally, Imoinda's heartrending death is enacted by her husband as part of his plan to take revenge on the white men who betrayed him. He fears that if he dies in his attempts, Imoinda would be left behind and "ravaged by every brute, exposed first to their nasty lusts, and then a shameful death " (53). ... Oddly enough, in the case of Oroonoko, Imoinda and Yarico, ...
In the dark poem "Strange Fruit," author Joy Harjo, explores the difficulties that minorities in the world. ... This is just to show the dark nature of the KKK. ... Instead, she beautifies this strange fruit making it the opposite of a fruit symbolizing death, she uses words like beautiful and sweet, making the reader feel that there is still hope left in humanity. ... This tree which ended all hope, this tree of death, hatred and violence appears. ...
Upon hearing the news of Brently's death Mrs. ... Usually when a character dies, the weather becomes dark, gloomy and foreboding. ... Brently Mallard's untimely death was Mrs. ... Mallard's death, and unwittingly her marriage as well. ... Mallard's happiness was in fact, the cause of her death. ...
But a dark cloud hangs over their marriage: Maxim's first wife, Rebecca , drowned in a cove near Manderley the previous year, and her ghost haunts the newlyweds' home. ... On the night of her death, Maxim had demanded a divorce, and she had refused, and told him that she was pregnant with Favell's child. ... The local magistrate, Colonel Julyan, investigates, and finds that on the day of her death, Rebecca went up to London to see a Doctor Baker. ... She was fiercely devoted to Rebecca, and remains devoted to her even after death. ... Baker - A London doctor who saw Rebecca the ...
Alcott "saw life whole, saw illness and death, sorrow and trouble and poverty as parts of life to be met with normality and courage- (Meigs, 351). To deal with the darker sides of life, Alcott teaches her young readers to develop the spiritual self, similar to the Transcendentalist movement, to which her father was a part of (Showalter, viii). ... Barrie also comments on the ambivalent representations of childhood in the novel, such as this passage concerning Neverland: "Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it w...
In the story Ishtar appears infront of Gilgamesh to tell him that gods were mad at him for killing Humbaba; she told him if he married her, she could make them forget about blaming him for Humbabas death. ... "When he arose, she washed his body and dressed him / And spoke of pleasures he could find with her / Instead of going on in foolishness. / But he, when he was fully awake, / Threw off the clothes she had put on / And dressed again in the dark pelts he had come so / far in. / Her presence seemed to suffocate him now." With that he asked for the way to Utnapishtim; she told him that no m...
The control the colonel has over his girls all the way up until the moment before his death. ... The damage he has brought to them shines through before his death. ... He lay[s] there, purple, a dark, angry purple in the face, and never even look at them when they [ come] in. ... "The giggle mounted, mounted; she clenched her hands; she fought it down; she frowned fiercely at the dark and said 'Remember' terribly sternly" (464). ... The father has such a terrible and strong impact on them in every way that, even after his death, they could not believe that he was never coming bac...
The house setting of her house fits perfectly for her characteristic, dark and cold. ... When she invites Neff to her home when her husband wasn't there, the death of the husband's last wife, and the insurance policy talk; is where my suspicion came from. ...
It began to grow dark, and suddenly realizing the situation she got up...closing windows and doors." ... It takes place during extreme conditions as well, this time with the death of the protagonist's husband. At the beginning of the story, Louise hears news of her husband's death. ... A woman was expected to be totally loyal and committed to her husband, so for a woman to be contented with her husband's death triggered fury and resentment towards Chopin's views. ... In "The Story of an Hour" she shows a woman who celebrates her husband's death. ...
Thus the real fear in the book is not darkness and vampiric nature but the loss of female innocence, a trait apparently extremely valuable and important to men. ... One must understand that before death, Lucy was already a woman of quiet sexual expression and once after death, she's finally able to channel those thoughts. ...
Obviously, they have a great respect for Miss Emily's family and felt that they should pay their respects upon her death. ... As a solution to their problem, the men finally go to her house under the cover of darkness to spread the lime. ... When, after her father's death, Emily is not seen for a while, "a few of the ladies had the temerity to call" (89). ...
He is acting as a leech, sucking away at Dimmesdale's life, trying to pry into all of his deep, dark secrets. ... They both exchange some words, but Chillingworth simply leaves Hester with the idea that this horrible thing has become their dark destiny (71). ... She lived out her punishment by wearing the scarlet letter to the very day of her death. ...
Whereas Sebastian reacts by mourning his sister's death aimlessly and woefully, saying that his "stars shine darkly." ... Olivia is in mourning for seven years over the death of her brother, and is described by Orsino as "a cloistress." ... The same melodramatic edge in language is expressed by Sebastian, who claims that his "stars shine darkly." ...
In her newfound freedom, Edna discovers at least three ways of self-expression, revealed to her through the influence of others, that lead to the revelation of her long-repressed emotions and eventually to her death. ... [and] goes tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark" (Chopin 110). ... The only way to escape in Edna's mind is through death. Gilmore acknowledges that Edna Pontellier's story "has to end in death because there is no way for the world she inhabits to accommodate the change in her. ... ...
The first woman of importance in the story is Paula Legendre, described as a dark serious beauty'. ... Paula's marriage is more important to Anson than her death. ... This is proved by his reaction to Paula's death. ... (p.207) Paula's death is not important to Anson, for it does not concern him. ...
And even if I die in the act, that death will be a glory an outrage sacred to the gods! ... She still retains her courage against Creon's death penalty and her confidence that serving the dead was more important than serving the living. ... I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.... Consequently, Lady Macbeth must disseminate her sinister, dark qualities to Macbeth. ... By rendering Creon's most powerful judgment on her-death-useless to rid her of her will and glory, Antigone has succeeded in resisting against Creon's authority. ...
She is transported back to the present and is able to forget the past: "And then opening her eyes, how fresh, like frilled linen clean from a laundry laid in wicker trays, the roses looked; and dark and prim the red carnations" (P. 16.) ... He describes "the death of her soul (P.66.) ... Holmes pushes into his home to see him, Septimus throws himself out the window to his death. Death is positive for both characters. ... Septimus has experienced death and destruction. ...
His wife, Minnie Wright, was accused of the homicide because she was the only one present at the time of his death. ... Peters seems out of touch with the darkness that lurked in the Wright household possibly because she had not separated the "law " from her own emotional side that would allow her to empathize with what Mrs. ...
Representation is a way of re-presenting certain events or stories to the audience. However real the representation seems, it can never really offer its audience a true presentation of ideas. In this way, the media uses representation to simplify a text allowing their audience to consume it in a clear and manageable way, allowing them to enjoy it more. Representation is a very important idea when looking at films that portray women in different societies, because they therefore have different ideologies to live up to. Stereotypes are also used in film; they are not real people, but widely ...
Since women's duties were mostly housework and child rearing, males became more powerful and prestigious with technology and economics, leaving women in the dark for many years. ... It can cause death, health problems, birth defects, and the loss of sexual pleasure. ...