Allan Kardec

While Nottages play POOF! and Glaspell’s play Trifles both fall under the same section: Trials of Marriage: Plays and share the same theme of domestic violence, they differ very strongly on two points. These points being: believability,how the murder was committed and the type of abuse. In POOF! Nottage’s approach was one of fiction, having the main character Loureen turn her husband into a “huge pile of smoking ashes”(1210). Unlike Trifles we Mrs.Wright murdered her husband by suffocating him,…

In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, the raven is real, however the narrator imagines that the bird will give him a sense of hope and comfort even though he is only a bird. While grieving over the death of his love, Lenore, the narrator starts to worry about who is at his chamber door. When he discovers a Raven he begins to feel less lonely. The speaker continues to contribute to his misery by asking the Raven questions about his lost love, Lenore which makes it difficult for him to let…

Steven King Biography Steven King is arguably one of the most influential horror writers in modern pop culture. With hits like “Carrie,” “It,” and “The Shining,” King has earned his spot on the New York Times bestseller list (biography.com) and as in inspiration for readers nightmares for years. Steven King was born on September 21st in 1947 to Donald and Nellie King in Portland Maine. After his parents divorced, King and his brother David bounced between his father’s family in Indiana and his…

Mood is the atmosphere for the overall feeling of the piece of literature. Some storing are happy, sad, full of anger or excitement. Edgar Allan Poe, is known for writing stories with an eerie Moon. In his famous story " The Tell-Tale Heart, " Poe cleverly creates a mood of horror. He creates the horrific mood by the setting. The mentally deranged young man who, " every night, about midnight," (39). Another way Poe sets the mood of horror is by the characters. The main character is an insane…

A large majority of the scary “campfire” stories you would’ve read as a child, would typically start with something along the lines of, “it was a dark and stormy night”. This short combination of words sets the desired mood of the story and helps the reader get a better understanding of the scene. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby uses this strategy all throughout the novel. He not only does this to set the mood, but also to symbolize the conflicts between the characters and…

Cross Genre Analysis Writers commonly express their ideas by using a universal theme in their literary works to entertain their readers. Common or reoccurring themes can help a reader to connect to the writer’s piece for example some common themes are death, love, and disappointment. In the literary work’s, we have read there are several reoccurring themes but the one that stands out the most is death. The theme death arises in the poem “Porphyria’s lover”, the short story “The Cask of…

The noir genre was similarly reactionary as its predecessor, romanticism. At the end of the 21st century, the progress and development of the society showed its unlimited abilities and the abandonment of the religious faith. Romanticism and its “eventual child”, gothic genre, was a reaction against the rapidly materializing world and the negation of its former ideals. The beginning of the 20th century faced similar challenges and certain disappointment in the big brave world. The emerging…

The three stories that I will be contrasting are Gawain and the Green Knight, Morte D’ Arthur and How the Round Table Began. The style, plot, and characters of these three stories are vastly different. For example, Sir Gawain changes who he is as a person throughout the three stories. The style of these stories changes dramatically if you look at the difficultly of the styles. Even the plot within the stories have changed drastically. The style of writing is Middle English, simplified by mass…

Culminating Activity #1 The theme of the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake is about evil and reveals that the origin of evil can come from that of good as well. Blake is able to use diction to his advantage, as the narrator asks what made the Tyger’s heart beat. Blake wants the narrator to be unhappy with that person as he calls their hands and feet “dreadful”. The, he shifts to calling them hammers, chains, and anvils. This use of diction gives the tone a slightly darker edge to it. Blake is…

Faulkner and Hemingway were two talented and well-known authors of their time. Hemingway and Faulkner varied in their writing techniques including how they portrayed the tone of their story and how their story is told. Their distinct styles are brought together through their vivid descriptions of life that have evolved the industry of american literature. Hemingway’s choice of syntax in Farewell to Arms, influences the style and tone of the novel.“We think. We read. We are not peasants. We are…