A Great and Terrible Beauty

or when their family dog had to be left behind. She had plenty of opportunities to use metaphors, allusions, paradoxes, or oxymorons, but they were not used at all. Using certain literary devices and figurative language better could have turned a great book into an amazing book. In Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family by Yoshiko Uchida, many emotional and exciting events take place, and they were often so heart-wrenching on their own that literary devices or figurative…

on set. It is great that they left at least one of the settings up on display for people to go see. Many fans would love to go see it one day, but who would not? It would be great to compare our size to the Hobbits size in the movie and see how the camera angles really affected the film. Even places such as Rivendell, the place where Frodo agreed to take the ring to Mordor to have it destroyed, catches our eyes because of the natural beauty. This movie emphasises the natural beauty of…

much to try to help us see that even with all the pain and violence in the world there is still a chance for us to stop and see the world for its beauty. “I See Trees of Green, Red Roses too” is the first line of the song, which is a great opening because it lets the listener know that the song will be focusing on the good things of the world and its beauties. The line “The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night” was carefully worded. This line makes us realize that the days and nights that…

readers to a suspense as if we were in a horror movie. The narrator could close the door and go back to his book or his nap like a normal person, but he 's fixated on something else. In line 26 he states that his mind is feeling with crazy thoughts and terrible dreams. The narrator is obsessed with one idea, or, we could say with one person. Meanwhile, the narrator is puzzled as to why there wasn’t anyone standing in the door when suddenly, he hears the name of the lost woman that was mentioned…

noble and malevolent faces of God, and also how God communicates through nature. The first time Edward’s stumbled upon God’s glory through nature was accidental; he was walking and looked up at the sky and clouds, only to find within its natural beauty, a sense of God’s divinity. Of this particular experience, in his “Personal Narrative”, he says, “I seemed to see…

In the introduction to his book Museum of Words, James Heffernan discusses and contrasts a few possible definitions for ekphrastic literature. Ekphrasis is most generally thought of as “the literary representation of visual art” (1), but after considering what multiple other scholars have said about this concept and genre of literature, Heffernan proposes his own definition “simple in form but complex in its implications: ekphrasis is the verbal representation of visual representation” (3). He…

The text states, “Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off” (IV.I.94-95). This example explains the day when Juliet goes to the Friar for his wise advice and solutions to prevent her terrible situation which she has to marry Paris on upcoming Thursday, he tells his plan to Juliet that she should go home and tell his parents that she agrees to marry Paris and when she’s alone at night drink potion prepared by him which will make her fall…

written by Samuel Barber in 1936. Originally written as the second movement of Barbers String Quartet, Op. 11, Adagio for Strings has been used frequently in times of mourning. The beauty of this piece is the strong emotions that it invokes from those that hear it. Written during a time, when the world was in a terrible depression, Adagio for Strings seems to fit the mood of the era. Samuel Barber was an American composer of orchestral and piano music. At a young age, he knew he had a calling to…

Apocalypse Now is a film that reflects on the ‘curse’ of the American involvement in the Vietnam War, a civil war that occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from the mid 1950’s until the 1970’s. It is a revisionary film produced in the post-war US by American director and producer Francis Ford Coppola, which was first shown at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival where it took home the prized Palme d’Or. The story follows Captain Benjamin L. Willard, an unstable, self-destructive, alcoholic ‘assassin’…

passageways make the setting feel older and gothic. The story takes place at Manderley which is a mansion located next to the shore in the countryside of England. "I could see the sea from the terrace, and the lawns. It looked grey and uninviting, great rollers sweeping into the bay past the beacon on the headland," (Maurier, 119). The sea is uninviting because this is where Rebecca drowned less then a year before the narrator came to Manderley. Fog also plays a significant role as both a…