Dark energy

Comparison of “The Most Dangerous Game” and the “Young Goodman Brown” This essay will compare two short stories: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown and Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game. Works do not have similarities at the first sight. Stories are about a century apart (were published in 1835 and 1924 respectively), have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories.…

A Short Story Analysis on C.P. Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper The short story entitled, “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a gothic horror tale that was later viewed as a story utilizing symbolism to demonstrate repression and disapproval of Victorian patriarchy. This short story made her particularly important in this certain genre of story-writing (Meyering, 4). When the narrator was diagnosed with neurasthenia, which is the chronic mental and physical depression,…

The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my…

In the “Minister's Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to represent secret sin and shows the theme is death. The main character named Mr. Hooper wears a black veil In the story Hooper wears a black veil which symbolizes hiding sin. “But what if the world will not believe that it is the type of an innocent sorrow?” urged Elizabeth. “Beloved and respected as you are, there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin. For the sake of your holy office,…

During the Renaissance, many artists and scientists opposed the church. Renaissance means reformation, rebirth of culture, art and ideas which was all lost in the period of the Middle ages or the Dark ages. The Dark ages was a period of time where there was no king and no political, financial and social progress. It was a time when cannibalism, superstition, and famine became daily life. The word ‘Renaissance‘ comes from a french word meaning rebirth. Renaissance is the period between the…

In the darkest of situation people cling onto hope that there is light in the end. Our generation is so focused on the negative and the dark, sometimes we miss when something good unfolds right in front of our eyes. In Emily Bronte's’ novel, Wuthering Heights, through dark manipulative torture and seemingless heartbreak, small moments of light peak through the novel. Through Hindley’s abuse on Heathcliff, Heathcliff finds his light and happiness through his time with Catherine. The moment…

Gothic literature perpetually creates suspense and tension in the form of both tradition and contemporaneity. Both forms of gothic literature share a theme insanity that helps the writers to create suspense. In the traditional gothic literature ‘The Signalman’ written in 1866, Charles Dickens successfully builds suspense by writing in first person with numerous imagery. In addition, suspense and tension are well-developed through various techniques, such as third person point of view and…

the highway (O’Connor 407). No matter how long the family drives, Red Sammy is always there, and his restaurant is always waiting. It is also the first ‘dark’ place the family comes across since the beginning of the trip. It resembles Hell, as a “long dark room” with red and black paint (O’Connor 407). It is meant to be a place of laughter, but dark topics are spoken of and it provokes an unnerving feeling. To the reader, it has the weight of a last…

The following is an analysis of three scenes from recent films that raise philosophical questions in today’s society. These questions can be answered in numerous ways, none of which are incorrect, since everyone has a different standpoint on things. Think about the answer to these questions yourself, and how you interpret them, and how they could be interpreted differently than your answer. The first scene I am going to analyze is from the film The Revenant (2015) starring Leonardo Dicaprio.…

Nicholson’s Nihilism Partly because I’m a Batman enthusiast, I noticed, from early on in this film, that a nexus existed between Nicholson’s role as J.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and his later casting as the joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman. In this film’s early development, we learned of McMurphy’s past: five arrests for assault and his most recent arrest for statutory rape – how joker-esque! And only an upstanding joker would find a mental institution more appealing than…