Nursery Atmosphere Analysis

Decent Essays
n the excerpt, I think it is developing an alarming atmosphere. It develops it by using the characters’ dialogue. For example, when george’s wife says, “i wish you’d look at the nursery,” that makes you think something is going to happen. Then when she tells george to “call a psychologist” to check the nursery, that brings more of a darker feeling. If a baby in a nursery is ok, you wouldn’t have to have someone check their brain. Furthermore, you really know for sure that the atmosphere is alarming and dark when george’s wife says “that the nursery is different than how it

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The novel, ‘The Gathering’, is a Gothic, supernatural tale in which ‘The symbols will be forged into a chain’ and ‘enable the five to to drive the darkness from the sorrowing earth.’ Isobelle Carmody explores the themes of Good and Evil throughout her novel. This impacts on the events in the novel as well as the way she writes and describes the surroundings; causing the main character, Nathaniel, to develop in character greatly. As the novel goes on, the situations, as well as the imagery, slowly grow darker. Carmody creates an intense dark setting which is eerie and strange.…

    • 550 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Everybody has hardships, whether it be physical or emotional. But everyone does not have the courage or strength to push through troubled times, and many people fall short. In the stories “Up the Slide” by Jack London and “Glow in the Dark” by Gary Paulsen, the main characters go through an ordeal, and manage to persevere. While Clay, the main character of “Up the Slide”, faces a physical hardship, the narrator of “Glow in the Dark” faces an emotional ordeal. The themes of the texts are similar in a way, but the mood of the story helps establish a clear, strong theme.…

    • 751 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a production of ''The Diviners,'' on Sunday, March the Nineteenth. The performance was put on by the Calhoun Community College theatre department. The play was staged in the black box theatre of The Alabama Center for the Arts in Decatur, Alabama. It was an impressive performance especially when considering the size and arrangement of the stage. Even with such limitations, the cast were able to turn the stage into a window into prohibition era Indiana.…

    • 542 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout the excerpt Rebecca, the narrator is recounting a dream she had about a place that is dear to her, which is called Manderley. While reading the excerpt the reader will come across a variation of moods. In the beginning one will come across a mood of mystery. Eventually, as the reader continues on throughout the passage the atmosphere starts to become nightmarish and very eerie. Subsequently, as the reader nears the end of the passage they will start to get a feeling of nostalgia created by the passage.…

    • 1327 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    With closed eyes, senses of perception, direction, vision, have been stripped away. Poe’s rhetoric remains, the sole survivor of complete sensory deprivation. With his writing techniques, a prevalent exigence is born: Poe aims to convey the effects of pessimistic reasoning on physicality. Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” portrays the ultimate desolation and revival of thought-processes, emphasizing catalysts of mood, legato, diction. Poe establishes the mood within the story’s first moments: moribund, anguished, sightless.…

    • 875 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The stories of horror told in the modern world play up an extravagance of fright - the bloodier the scarier, the more demented the more impactful. In the Victorian times, such an approach would be off the mark, and quite foolish. As the authors of that day wrote for audiences of all ages, they wrote to create chills, not convulsions. The elements of fright that laced the various stories of the time were either common tropes or the unique twist of that trope. Those features carry on in today’s readings of the same work, and, despite our modern bloodthirsty craze for terror, create the horror found in each of the feature frights.…

    • 1440 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Who Is Jack The Ripper?

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Carver can’t believe his luck when he is adopted by Mr. Hawking of the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency. With Carver under his wing, he quickly starts testing him and his detective abilities. Making him figure out how to reach the agencies secret building, which neither Carver or anybody has ever heard of. Once reaching the Pinkerton Agency he is blown away with the luxurious building filled with retro detective gadgets. Then an agent tells Carver how Mr. Hawking, “lives among the mad.”…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The scariest stories in life are set by the stage and the overall message the work is portraying. For example, if a story is set in a dark, gloomy forest the reader is most likely feeling restless and afraid, on the other hand, if the same story is set in a setting where a family is playing on a beach the reader is most likely to feel a sense of happiness and burden- free. In the story “The House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe uses the setting to help convey the suicidal thoughts of the main character. He uses phrases like the “sunless day” and “upon a few white trunks of decaying trees” to set the mood for his reader so that said person is, on some level, able to feel the same emotions as the main character. The gloomy atmosphere Poe creates…

    • 463 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Rhetorical Analysis of Truman Capote’s “Nancy’s Bedroom” In the passage, “Nancy’s Bedroom” from the novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, creates a vivid description of Nancy’s bedroom to help the reader connect with Nancy. Capote portrays a descriptive view of her bedroom to convey her personality. He uses many rhetorical strategies to create a feeling of sorrow and reveals the femininity and innocence of young Nancy Clutter.…

    • 753 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe, uses a rational first-person narrative to illustrate the strange effects the Usher estate has on the three characters. Everything about the house is dark and eerily evil. The mansion appears to create fear, which is in turn, driving the occupants insane. The narrator of the story is a mysterious and challenging character to understand.…

    • 1574 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Munchausen by proxy is a sickening form of child abuse where the caregiver, usually the mother, creates symptoms for their child in order to get attention from medical professionals. In Sickened by Julie Gregory it accounts the beginning of her life made up of hospital visits and tests. Only after leaving the care of her mother, Julie Gregory realized what had actually happened to her. She was never really sick her mother was. In this memoir Julie Gregory sets out to tell the truth of Munchhausen by proxy and how devastating it can be, after all how can you tell a mother is making up symptoms.…

    • 1018 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel 1984, George Orwell uses imagery to strengthen many aspects of the story. Three of these include setting, tone, and characterization. In fact, Orwell uses imagery so extensively in 1984 that entire pages consisted of detailed descriptions of what is being witnessed. Each new image that he introduced added more depth to every aspect of the book and painted a more vivid image in the heads of the audience. He, of course, uses other literary devices, but the imagery was by far the most pronounced.…

    • 833 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Billennium by J.G.Ballard is a story that adapts to the theme of the dystopian world. The dystopian world basically is the most miserable place the human kind could live in; they face problems like overpopulation, confinement of space, totalitarian control, chaos and the constant struggle of leading a ‘normal’ life. These elements have been used in the story to bring out the theme of the dystopian world. Ballard adopts various techniques like irony, setting, imagery and diction to bring out the dystopian world.…

    • 843 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The movie Persepolis recounts Marjane Satrapi’s life growing up during a revolution in Iran. The scene of the movie in which Marjane imagines a conversation with her grandmother after pretending to be French, is a critical moment in Marjane’s story. This critical moment is built by the filmmaker to envelop the audience into the atmosphere of the story. The filmmaker impacts the audience by creating emotion through lighting and setting. The filmmaker uses lighting in a way that builds up a woeful atmosphere.…

    • 406 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    I have been reading the book Lord The Flies, by the author named William Golding. The book was given out in 1954, which leads us into the literary period of Postmodernism. The most common trait for this period is the very increasing diversity between the different novels written. In the earlier periods, the authors wanted to be fairly grounded, concrete and structured; but now they wanted more of the abstract and unrealistic plots, and often with paradoxes of various kinds. It is also said that authors of the Postmodern period after World War II very often saw the world as troubled and fragmented, like it was on the edge of disaster.…

    • 1685 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays