Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

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…

What is your perception of darkness? What causes your mind to be in that state? How do you escape darkness? According to Emily Dickinson, there are two types of viewing darkness, metaphorically and physically. Physically is the state in which it is actually happening while metaphorically is the in which the mindset creates it. Therefore Dickinson explains her perspective of darkness in a metaphorical terminology and language. Dickinson expresses her thoughts and imaginations as she experiences…

One important quote from Mark Twain’s “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut” is the narrator’s conscience’s explanation of how it becomes desensitized after it has been jabbed at for too long: "[…] When people plead with you at this late day to quit [smoking], that old callous place seems to enlarge and cover me all over like a shirt of mail. It exerts a mysterious, smothering effect, and presently I, your faithful hater, your devoted Conscience, go sound asleep!"…

Essay prompt 1- One of the most influential authors of the 19th century was Nathanial Hawthorn, who displayed many things though his works. Most being prominent political, economic, and cultural issues surrounding his community, as well as the nation at that time. One of the most important themes in his most popular writings was the relationship between individualism, and responsibility to community. In both “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”, and The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne expresses his views on…

one of the most brilliant and exciting plots in a musical that I have ever seen. The story starts off when Roxie Hart who is a chorus girl performer is out performing and a man named Fred, who is a furniture salesman. Fred and Roxie stumble to Roxie house, where they later have intercourse. After they finished, Roxie kept asking Fred if he would follow up on his offer, which was that he would use a connection that he had with a club owner to get Roxie a better gig as a performer. Then Fred…