The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold coins. The man, who used to be a heartless person, had changed in just a few nights before Christmas Eve coming. At this point, we must be thankful to three Christmas Ghosts which demonstrated Scrooge life’s faults and gave him a chance to change his bad…
Cheating, lying, and untrustworthy; all examples of an unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is defines as a narrator whose credibility has been compromised. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Strawberry Spring”, by Stephen King, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Edgar Allen Poe all have unreliable narrators. Each story has an unreliable narrator however, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a mental illness and tells many lies and thinks things that are not necessarily true. This makes her the most unreliable out of the three.…
In the novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius is not the best when it comes to understanding people. When he meets a man named Dorian, nothing changes. Dorian is amused by Ignatius ‘originality’ and humors what he says. But when Dorian insists that Ignatius is nuts, Ignatius starts to insult the gay community. But when Ignatius see’s that the Gay community in New Orleans is larger than he thought, even extending to the military, he decides to work with them.…
Entry 1: Passage: “‘Last night I thought about all the kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper.…
Mrs. Maloney got away with murder. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” a faithful housewife murders her husband in a moment of pure insanity and buries the evidence. Her appearance as an attentive devoted homemaker rules her out as a suspect in her husband’s demise. Mary Maloney is a dynamic character because of the internal changes she experiences during the story. The events in the story lead her to murder her husband and those events distort her.…
Solomon, Jeff. “Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture: At Midcentury.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 54, no. 2, 2008, pp. 129-165, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479846.…
Thunder strikes. A lonesome hearse rolls along a dirt road at dusk, Jacob Marley quietly laying inside. This is one of the many dramatic scenes describing the tale of, "A Christmas Carol," in the Patrick Stewart version. The Patrick Stewart version of the story "A Christmas Carol" was clearly the most effective out of the Muppet, the Novella, the play, and the Patrick Stewart versions because in the Patrick Stewart version, Ebenezer Scrooge, a heartless man of business who thrives of the despair of others, was more convincing than in the Muppet version, that he really disliked Christmas. The Patrick Stewart version was also more dramatic than the rest of the versions.…
Unlike the other two men, Tea Cake is cheerful, attractive and comforting. In fact she feels something for the first time that she did not feel with any other man, “Maybe this strange man was up to something! Tea Cake wasn’t strange. Seemed as if she had known him all her life” (Hurston 99). After meeting him for the first time she feels a sort of comfort as if she has always known him.…
Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, though it also encompasses Greek, Roman and pagan traditions of giving gifts and feasting around the Winter Solstice. It is a time when families and friends come together to share food and exchange gifts (web). In How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the main characters, the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge, are similar to each other in many ways such as their awful personality. The Grinch is a green hairy who is very greedy, stingy, and a little evil creature. He wants nothing to do with the Whos, hates Christmas, and wants the Who 's Christmas spirit to be gone.…
In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Verses on the Burning of our House,” the speaker discusses her attempt to reconcile the loss of her earthly possessions with religious tenets and, in doing so, highlights the struggle of Puritans to maintain the religious ideal of valuing only spiritual worth, as depicted through the concept of weaned affections. Frequently in her poem, Bradstreet emphasizes the dichotomy between her emotions as she experiences the transpiring events and what she wants to feel through her employment of various literary tools. Her personification of her heart as she depicts “to my God my heart did cry / To straighten me in my Distress / And not to leave me succourless” (Bradstreet 8-10) emphasizes the strength of the speaker’s emotional…
“ I neither expect nor solicit belief” the opening statement of an “Unreliable Narrator” a term, used to describe a narrator whose recollection of a tale is suspect – whether through willful deceit, immature naivete, or mental instability. The Unreliable Narrator forces the reader to question the validity, rather than the who, or what. In the short story “The Black Cat” the Narrator is what many would consider him a alcoholic sociopath. The Narrator exhibits personality traits such as; rage and abuse, lack of remorse, shame guilt, does not perceive that anything is wrong with them; authoritarian, secretive, paranoid, grandiose sense of self The Narrator speaks of how he is abusive to his wife on occasions, “I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife.…
Over the time she has spent in her room she starts to notice different things starting to change within the room and notices it even more at night. The narrator states, "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be"(662).…
The narrator is unreliable in an emotional way. There will be quotes and reasoning's why he's an unreliable narrator because of his emotions. The following two quotes are examples of him being an emotional narrator: "Once, in the night, my mother called me to her bed and told me that she could not endure the pain, that she wanted to die. I held her hand and begged her to be quiet. That rights I ceased to react to my mother; my feeling were frozen.…
Upon seeing A Christmas Carol on the night of Friday, November 18th, I had what I thought to be a firm understanding of the Charles Dicken’s classic. It was until the show was over that I realized my previous interpretation was completely senseless, with little to no opinion deriving beyond the script. As I dove into the performance in the Joan C, Edwards playhouse, I made personal connections that I had never made before when watching other adaptions of A Christmas Carol, in particular Scrooge (1970), my father’s favorite. Every detail of this performance aided in my overwhelming positive review, asserting this play as my favorite of all the revisions I have seen.…
In the book The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens there were multiple hidden, as well as obvious themes presented to the reader. One can have nothing and have it all or one can have it all yet have nothing was a theme Charles Dickens showcased within his book through multiple characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim. For example, on page 100-101 Bob Cratchit talks about how much he loves Tiny Tim and his positive outlook on life and on page 105 Tiny Tim says, “God bless us every one!” These quotes and pieces of evidence show us that you can have nothing and have it all. This is an example of you can have nothing yet have it all because Tiny Tim doesn’t have anything.…