Dark Carnival

rather than ambling across serene fields and passing time with friends as most youngsters would, Jim and Will find themselves in a deadly battle between the very forces of good and evil. This duo, along with Will’s father, challenge a mysterious carnival that arrives…

the thoughts and the things said too. There are times where this is implanted in the story to make the reader feel a sense of eerie moods. When Montresor is exaggerating to Fortunato during a toast “to [his] long life” while in the streets of the carnival, that brings in a little mood of tension. Although It seems that Montresor is a…

was his first science fiction story. In 1947 Ray married the love of his life Marguerite “Maggie” McClure and Ray published his first short-story collection titled “Dark Carnival”. Ray focused on his writing career in order to pay the bills, while Maggie worked for an advertising agency. Ray had a tremendous love the circus and carnivals.…

entertainment programs. The Rede Globo also has the image rights of sports championships (national and international) and broadcast, every year, the famous Rio de Janeiro Carnival parade, which takes place in February and March and is the greatest token of the party in the country. In 1990, to publicize the broadcast of Carnival parades of the same year, the Rede Globo aired the first vignette to feature a mulatto model. The term is originated of the word mule, hybrid animal resulting from the…

are utilized in order to develop the extremely dark mood. The example of situational irony can be observed almost immediately in the story, which is Fortunato’s jester clothing that he is wearing for Carnival. “He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (1) Fortunato's light hearted attire sharply contrasts from his fate that he will soon face. This contrast makes for a deranged and dark mood, and makes the events of the story even…

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Poe takes readers on a twisted journey inside the mind of a madman. Poe is often remembered for the dark themes present in his stories which can often be attributed to his difficult life. Poe uses irony to develop his theme of a man who seeks salvation through repression. From an early age, Edgar Allan Poe experienced many hardships. By the time Poe had turned three, his father had already left the family and his mother had died of tuberculosis. After the death of…

it. Now, in the story, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, there are several different quotes proving this state of sadness. Poe comes off very strong in most of his stories and explains the mood vigorously. For example, “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens”, and, “With the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.” Poe starts to create a pattern shown by the…

Edgar Allen Poe is famous for his poems and short stories; particularly his dark, mysterious horror stories. What makes his stories so chilling, captivating, and powerful is his technique of using irony. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, various kinds of irony are on display from beginning to end in this illusive tale through the characters, Montresor and Fortunato. Poe emphasizes on three different types of irony in this story to heighten the reader’s engagement: verbal, dramatic, and situational…

Ray Bradbury is a story about two boys who live in Greentown, Illinois. The two boys, Jim and Will grow up quickly in a few days when a carnival comes to town and they must try to help the lonely people of the town who long for something. The carnival feasts upon the town's people who long for something more and turns them into freaks that become part of the carnival. Disney also turned Bradbury's book into a movie that was released in 1983 and had Bradbury help write the screenplay. Disney's…

“The Cask of Amontillado” is yet another classic grotesque short story written by Edgar Allen Poe set in an unnamed Italian city during carnival time. It depicts a story of two men, Montresor and Fortunato, which according to the narrator have already had a prior bind. It begins very slow, leaving the reader clueless to the intentions of the narrator. Then as the story draws to an end, it takes a sharp turn towards gruesome and twisted as Montresor beings to murder Fortunato. Montresor plasters…