The mood of the story and way it is told, through the mind on Montresor, sets an evil premise, but irony is the key focus of the story. ... Montresor has no honor to defend but he still feels justice is no being served as long as Fortunato is alive. ... The final piece of irony is that justice being served is a key point of the story but only injustices happen. ...
The crux is highlighted in the following quote: "As these thoughts, which have to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant." " Bierce's use of contrast of reality, foreshadowing, and definition of a fantastical point of view all come together in this quote with the connection to the mindset belonging to Peyton Farquhar which sufficiently serve as the crux in this Civil War tale. ... The crux serves as the breaking point within the mind of a "doomed"" man. ... The crux most clearly recognized in th...
Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice has a unique meaning that gives the final touch to the theme of the novel. The original title, First Impressions, may have seemed to be appropriate at that time, but Pride and Prejudice is much more fitting. It is a support to the theme, a foreshadow to ...
He went to school at Kentucky Military Institute and two years later served in the Union army of the Civil War. ... Ambrose Bierce is also famous for the circumstances surrounding the end of his life In 1913, after the breakup of his marriage and the death of his sons, he set out for Mexico to meet Pancho Villa and observe the Mexican Revolution at first hand and this was the end chapter of his own life because after that his fate still remains unknown. ... However, reality sets in when "a blinding white light blazes all around him . then all is darkness and silence" (200-201). ... Of those...
I think that historical novelization can be defined as an accurate fictional story on historical event(s) set in the past. ... I think that historical novelisation serves as supplement towards what you have learnt, broadening your existing knowledge on the topic by manifesting feelings, emotions and bias into the perspectives of the people to understand their actions completely. ...
Both these plays involve a shipwreck, and the storm that causes the shipwreck also served to redirect central characters into fresh lifegiving pathways, the same role the storm in Away played. ... This technique is demonstrated by Gow as his play is set in the summer of 1967/68, The Vietnam War. ...
There are many examples of this technique throughout the story, let me list a few: line 243, "the sea-weary sailors set down their shields" here the writer uses an "s" sound to alliterate the words, in another example the writer uses an "f" sound, "foe against foe I"ll fight the monster." ... Also the king and the thanes would enjoy listening to stories like this because they were very real in the sense that they served their king and fought evils to defend their kingdom, however these evils were probably in the form of rival kingdoms rather than monsters, yet the basic idea was still the same...
In reading the short and unorthodox work by Samuel Beckett, Endgame, a reader could pick up on many different themes and occurrences throughout the story. Beckett was known for his writing style which was far from conventional. His style was very simplistic and somewhat detached from the rest of the...
Lyngvo-stylistical analysis of the extract from John Steinbeck's lyrical story The Pearl- A lyrical story of John Steinbeck is called The Pearl-. The action of the story takes place in United States of America, somewhere at South, probably in California. There are no concrete geographical names...
Analysis of Shakespeare's Othello & Machiavelli's The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince serves as a guideline to attain and remain successful in power. ... Machiavelli's The Prince was seen as a set of instructions inspired by his experiences dealing with war and revolt. ... The Prince serves as the guideline and Othello serves as the exemplary to those ideas....
This novel is set on a small island, San Piedro, off the coast of Washington state in northwest America. ... Ishmael's job as a news reporter serves as a silent metaphor for righteousness through its inherent requirement of impartiality and righteousness. ... The denial of rights laid out in this novel serve as an impacting lesson in learning from our history, and preventing the reoccurrence of unfair treatment of others different from ourselves. ...
In the romantic tradition, action is always set in exotic and fantastic worlds that have magical properties and set the story apart from reality. The Princess Bride is set in a land of "giants- "beasts of all natures and descriptions- "truth- "passion- and miracles-(p.17). ... Portraying superhuman strengths and comical flaws serves to make the characters all the more loveable to the reader. ...
This is demonstrated in the novel when Christopher set's out on what is for him an epic adventure, to find his mother in London. His journey and the challenges he meets along the way serve well to show us great insight into how he handles his handicap while still managing to achieve his aspirations. ... Exceptionally exclusive facets of structure such as these certainly set the standard for an appealing and pleasing novel. ... Untypical facets such as an unconventional numbering system and use of illustrations in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime completely set i...
Dracula The story "Dracula" is fictional but there are some circumstances if some person believes in vampires or not. But this book was made out to be fictional by Francis Ford Capolla. This is the first story that I read that is very fictional as it deals with the supernatural and religion....
The Bloomsbury group has been described as "a set of Bohemian thinkers and doers who revolted against the manners and morals of Victorian England". ... He delivered the Clark lectures at Cambridge in 1927 and served as a broadcaster for the BBC. ...
It serves as an excellent example of the deterioration of social unity because one of its main topics of controversy is the class struggle between the rich and the poor. ... They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... "The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that wh! ...
For example, the majority of the book is set on islands much like the setting in both Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. ... Aside from Gulliver's home in England, the majority of the novel is set on islands he expedites to outside of England, the three main ones Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. ... When Gulliver first arrives on Brobdingnag he travels to higher ground and explains the impressive height of the vegetation, "I fell into a high road, for so I took it to be, although it served to the inhabitants ...
The first parable, Feathers from a Thousand Li Away, sets up how, ironically, the link that they all share, also divides them. ... And because it is Jing-mei's mother who dies, the use of her as a paradigm for the rest of the group is set up rather nicely (47). ... When we arrive at the resolution, Jing-mei once again serves as the representative of the group. ...
This lady, filled with "missionary purpose that came upon her like the flu" took in young Aboriginal girls and "aimed to make ladies of them so they could set an example for the rest of their sorry race". ... Finally, the aboriginal man serves as a final reminder to why family is important. ... At the start, they are presented as "Godfearing people you could see it in the way they set up a light in the darkness". ...
Fogg and Passepartout set off to Bombay, India. ... He took the woman and set off like if he was alive again. ... Jean Passepartout had always served different masters, but never liked each one of them because of their sense of adventure. ...
Authors don't come up with unique and elaborate plot lines without any form of inspiration. Often times this inspiration comes from real life experiences and troubles. This couldn't be more true with Ha Jin, author of The Bridegroom and many other novels. The Bridegroom spans three short stories all...
Therefore, a reader's first expectations are rather inexpressible because one is put a half-state, where the clear literal meaning of "heart" is set against the ambiguity of the "darkness". ... This quotation serves as a perfect metaphor in demonstrating that there is no real incentive one can acquire from exploration because as the noun "bone" symbolizes, it only ends up in aggregated murder on a mass scale. ...
The English novel which was destined to live, in fact out live all other forms of literature, whether poetry or drama, and shine even today on the horizon of English literature as a bright star, actually rose and greatly developed in the 18th century. The novel despite the presence of great poetical...
Jig's remark at the beginning of the story that the surrounding hills look like white elephants comes across as a normal yet random observation but serves as a "foot in the door" gesture to get engage in conversation about the couple's unexpected pregnancy. ... The railway station divides sets of parallel tracks, and the Ebro River in the backdrop splits the sterile from the fertile land. ...
