Imagery Essay

a mental picture that we associate with one of our senses. When Shakespeare refers to blood, the reader is meant to use imagery to see its redness, and feel its stickiness. The word “blood” is used again and again, more than forty times throughout the play. From beginning to end, Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, has reappearing imagery of blood. The duty and function of bloody imagery in Macbeth expresses a representation of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s conscience. The reader goes through forms of…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, describes the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight and send the offender to an insane asylum. Using imagery and symbolism, Bradbury helps the reader understand the characters of Clarisse and Mildred. When Montag first saw Clarisse he was struck by “her dress [which] was white and it whispered” (page 2). Through imagery, this allows the reader to see Clarisse as an angelic presence in an otherwise harsh and loud world. Clarisse enjoyed interacting with…

"In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood" (p. 6) Simile and Imagery In the chapter 1, Steinbeck uses simile and imagery to describe the environment that Joah’s family is living in, in which it brings a vivid image to the readers’ minds. Steinbeck compares the morning dust hung to fog to which we can see that dust is being used like struggles that people have to deal with everyday and seeing it as fog, we can see the large amount of struggles that people go…

the poem “The World is Too Much with Us”, William Wordsworth depends on his usage of imagery to display the beauty, grace, and power of nature in all of its forms. Wordsworth’s imagery personifies nature so that man is able to identify each of the elements as a character. He does so by his description of the ocean, his reflection on the wind, and his allusion to Greek gods associated with nature. The poem’s imagery begins when Wordsworth compares the ocean to a beautiful woman. When the sea…

Throughout time, people would argue that a story could be a picture into the past. During the eighteenth century, the ideas both for and against Enlightenment influence a number of writers and their stories. Displaying his use of imagery, Washington Irving, an American short story writer composes “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to convey his views and ideas regarding Puritanical life. Another profound contributor to American literature is Phillis Wheatley, an African American woman who shares her…

Malcolm's life in Harlem left instilled in him, images that will forever define him and what he stands for. To further expose the racism he experiences, Malcolm uses animal imagery to depict the whites’ brashness towards him. He recalled a white supremacist judge looking at him as if he was examining a “pink poodle” or a “pet canary” (Haley 32). Further fueling the prejudice, he referred to Malcolm as a “fine colt, or pedigreed…

Gabi Prachar displays a loving relationship between an owner and their cat. The author describes their cat doing multiple things that the author loves. "Teensy, Tiny Cat" uses imagery to exhibit the theme of loving a pet to the full extent of the heart, and caring for them deeply. The poem uses numerous amounts of imagery to create scenes that describe the loveable nature…

of Two Cities illustrating this moment in history. Considered by all literary professors as his best work, this novel exemplifies his affection for rhetorical devices. Dickens utilizes imagery and symbolism to expose the violence of a total secular revolution. In the first part of his novel, Dickens employs imagery to set up the violent environment of the French Revolution. On a street in Paris, in front of the Defarge’s wine shop, a wine cask deliverer spills a cask of red wine. The wine runs…

Color, Biblical Imagery, Physical Path, Landscape, and Animals In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned” Hemmingway and Eggers both use the symbolism of color, Biblical imagery, a physical path, landscape, and animals to enhance their respective story’s meaning. Through symbolism the reader can get a complete understanding of what each of the characters are feeling. Hemingway is famous for his stories about everyday people that his readers can…

most debilitating enemies: avarice. The combination of Macbeth’s ambition and avarice prove to be fatal as they continue to build throughout the play as he evolves into a cold-blooded killer in order to get what he desires. Shakespeare employs blood imagery to reveal how, in true Aristotelian tragic hero fashion, Macbeth plummets from honorable subject of the king to deceptive traitor, ultimately transforming into a diabolical tyrant who must be overthrown to bring about the healing of a…