Heart of Darkness In just the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Conrad's ability as a writer becomes abundantly clear, for the subliminal nature of his writing is constantly sustained. ... Conrad evokes images of death and decay through phrases such as "mournful gloom", nouns such as "dark", and definite nouns such as "Gravesend". ... The verb "toying" also suggests that imperialism involves playing with death, when there is no strong moral in doing so. ... This is an extremely dark thing for the pure white man to do. ... A reader finds that not only is the setting of the novel fil...

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"The Dark Snow" is a short story by Brendan DuBois and it was published in 1996. ... On the contrary we are constantly presented to his dark thoughts, and by the end he decides to act very immorally, by killing the harassers. ... The title of the story The Dark Snow is a reference to the narrator's service in Serbia where we can only assume that he might have killed someone by the line "I've always hated the snow (...) since something I did once () in Serbia"2. ... He is forced to remember it, as he sees the black snow, and for him, it symbolises death and reminds him of a ...

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He was in distress because he had stopped for a moment and gazed up into the darkness and realized that his previous feelings were wonderful but the only reality existed in his feelings. ... The atmosphere was dark, dismal and depressing. ... It was the winter season and street lamps were weak which gave additional images of darkness. These examples suggested images of decay, death and imprisonment. ... This gave images of escape and hope as well as opposing images of Dublin, darkness opposing light. ...

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"Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good." ... In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller this lens is supported in the American Dream. ... The lens, "Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good" is supported in the novel Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. ...

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Edgar Allen Poe was a writer who used a dark and negative theme in his works. ... That is the only way Montresor is able to lure Fortunato to his own death. ... Giving these hints and still being able to lure Fortunato to his death will give him pride in his work. ... Again, this shows that Montresor had wanted to let Fortunato realize how his stupidity led to his own death. ... Poe uses many dark negative themes in his work such as revenge, this short story being a perfect example of his dark works. ...

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In many of Poe's works, setting is used to paint a dark and gloomy picture in our minds. I think that this was done deliberatly by Poe so that the reader can make a connection between darkness and death. ... Although he must rely on his senses alone to feel his surroundings, he knows that somewhere in this dark, gloomy room, that death awaits him. ... Vincent Buranelli says that "Poe is able to sustain an atmosphere which is dark and dull. ... For example, In Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado, " the story opens with a first person narrator (Montresor) speaking about the planning of Fort...

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The reader learns about death the same way as the protagonist. ... In addition, the story does not end with the death of Dick Prosser. ... Most importantly the story is interpretive because the author is trying to help us understand man's darker side. ... The next example of man's darker side is the end of Dick Prosser's life. ... This is morbid but it shows man's darker side. ...

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The narrator describes the landscape of the train station that they were waiting at with influential and descriptive words to show life and death. ... Jue sees the beautiful lit up landscape of the hills and also looks down to see the brown, burnt, and dark landscape down in the valley surrounding the train station. We can perceive that the narrator was trying to display something by going into detail about the darkness of the valley and the beauty and light up in the mountains. In comparison to their decision, the sunny hills represent life or deciding to give birth to the baby, and the murky...

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The disturbing images we are presented with such as 'the grinning skeletons' which builds strong emotions in the readers as it suggests the hidden crimes that are not seen by normal citizens, it also foreshadows the death of Pinkie and Spicer in the play showing that Brighton was their destined place to die. It gives the reader an idea of a 'hopeless' town where all of the dark secrets and deaths are covered and there is no hope for Brighton to see a brighter light again for things to get better. Also the idea of 'skeletons' being 'hidden under the Aquari...

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Light is the opposite of darkness, a major theme in the story. So the light serves to protect the old man and others like him from the darkness, which could be loneliness or depression. ... These characters symbolize the realization that when alone, life can seem like a meaningless existance that will inevitably end in death. ... It is ironic that light plays such an important symbolic role in such a dark and gloomy story. The pain of lonesomeness, misery, and certain death cannot be avoided, so the best one can do is numb the thought of it all with alcohol while sitting in the relative comfor...

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Frankenstein wanders around the country, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. ... It is set in a dark and gloomy place. ... In his darkness, a plot slowly forms; a plot of illegal experimentation. ...

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Red signifying blood and danger, black signifying danger and death, and gray being the time between death and danger. ... The woods was described dark and black the author even went so far as to say "the woods gaped open like a dark opened mouth " (O'connor,542) this lets us as the readers feel a sense of something bad is going to happen in the woods. ... These symbols and indirect way of telling the story all lead up to the time of death for the family. ... Since she knew something about him and since he was on the run he could not let it get back out, and this lead to the outcome of him...

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Saricks indicates that "The tone of thrillers is often dark, and gritty" (Saricks 5). This dark tone keeps the reader on edge and turning pages. In the novel there is a chemical leak- that literally creates a dark environment. ... A finale, repeated theme in many thriller novels, particularly Monument 14, is the constant risk of danger and death. ... Events take a dark turn when the chemical leak takes effect on a stranger; he goes insane. ...

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She states the nature is a balance of light and dark or good and evil, and most of the time this balance is maintained. However, when there is a shift, the dark side surfaces. How and why the "dark side" surfaces differs from person to person. ... It is this fear which brings out his dark side, and eventually leads to murder. ... May claims the meaning of time for the narrator is suggested by the title, for the tale that every heart tells is the tale of time, time passing, with every beat of the heart bringing one closer to death (May, Overview). ...

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This lets us know that there's something strange, dark and sinister going on and, therefore , we can predict what's going to happen later on. Also, they called the box "The black box", and the question that we should ask ourself would be "Why do they call it the black box", the black box refers to something evil, dark or even gives us the image of a coffin instead of a lottery box. ... There is many more stuff that lets us know that the lottery is purely evil, dark and brings death to a random person. I have proven that the lottery is about death by talking about the plot, for...

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That the birth of something can be followed by the death or loss of something else. ... The woods were she went with her mother in late autumn symbolized that it was about to change and the woods are mostly dark and scary. 3. ... His large white teeth represent the death of this man that his spirit has been lifted. 6. ... That she will discover the death of this man....

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We all have a darkness inside of us that is unleashed at different times in our lives. ... Finny is hanging between life and death at home, in the arms of his grief-stricken mother"..." (81). ... Gene, the main character of this novel, is the third person who liberates his inner darkness. Gene has the most darkness out of the all the characters I have discoursed about. ... Finally, at his worst, Gene unleashes his darkness causing Finny to fall from the tree. ...

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Edgar Allan Poe uses it to hint at the coming death of Fortunato. ... To make the irony be used to the best point, Poe created a dark setting in which death was involved. Many times irony was brought up about the death of the murderer from the victim. ... Since this story revolves around death, many times the irony relates to of the death of a character. ...

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The end is gruesome and initially seems shocking but in actuality the story is full of foreshadowing that hints at the inevitable death of the family. O'Connor uses dialogue, objects, and figurative language in setting and scenery to foreshadow the death of the family. ... O'Connor also uses a few objects throughout the story to foreshadow the death of the family. ... Behind the ditch they were in the woods were Veigh 3 "tall and dark and deep" (272), just the way you might describe a grave. More ominous figurative language says "behind th...

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People were obsessed with gore and death and thought that this was but a show put on and enjoyed. ... He shows the mobs that are bloodthirsty, the dark times going on. ... Darnay is saved twice from being put to death from the French who capture him and are about to put him to death. ...

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The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. ... Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. ... A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: ""Five thousand corpses?" ... The story of the sleeping beauty Briar Rose symbolizes the actual story of Gitl's near death experiences throughout World War II. ...

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Implying that she is worthless and the need for death sends a message that she has pride towards love. ... Since a man is killed in a grove in a hollow in the mountains where it is dark. By having a gloomy aura, the story is given a hint of mystery and darkness. The author, Ting Ling of A certain Night reveals gloominess and darkness also: The heavy tramp of boots and shoes in the thick snow. ...

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The short story, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is about small village that has a dark tradition. ... Little do the readers know, the lottery in the story's case, is being stoned to death. ... This happens when Tessie's family is picked for the lottery, thus the reason for saying her farewell as Tessie could be the one being stoned to death. ... This is very ironic because the story ends with a death. ... Summer about Don and Eva to lessen her chance but in the end she is the one that gets stoned to death. ...

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This horrific image is communicated to the reader by how the cruel lady made each of the "natives" take a close look at the "twisted death snarl of the poisoned girl", before evicting them. Thus there was a sort of negative karma, a spirit of death that became part of the library due to it being the site of a tragic death, as "The house was boarded up, and held its breath". ... In this case, the note of Middle C has a harsh, dissonant sound, as it is associated with death. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion...

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The conflict is resolved through the death of young Goodman Brown for his "dying hour was gloom. 5. ... The setting is mostly located in a dark, gloomy forest. Hawthorne is able to create a dark gloomy setting through little description. The encounter of Goodman Brown with the villagers and his wife is the time when the setting is greatly explained with words such as "shadow", "dark", "blazing" "candles" etc. Related to these words, the atmosphere is very gloomy and dark as well as frightening. ...

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