Edgar Degas

Homer’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s, poem, “Siren Song” depict the siren in different views, such as Homer’s view as being mystical creatures and Atwood’s view as remorse beings, and contrasting point of views, like Odysseus's view as a victim and the siren view as the predator. In Homer's Odyssey the siren are interpreted through Odysseus point of view. Here Odysseus tells, “When the sirens sensed at once a ship was racing past and burst into their high, thrilling song… they sent ravishing…

Imagine being hated because of your disabilities. Then when you go out into public everyone stares at it. The narrator in “The Tell Tale Heart” is sane not insane because. First, the narrator stalked the man using very good strategy. At midnight every night the narrator would go into the old man’s bedroom and shine the light directly at the “evil eye.” That is proof that the old man is completely sane. “But even yet i refrained and kept still.”(The Tell Tale Heart pg. 204) Next, the…

Love can change an individual for the better and sometimes can bring out the true nature in others. In both short stories, “Catch the Moon” by Judith Cofer and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell, love is the main objective being issued. Both of these tales take on different perspectives and settings to show young love. These stories are extremely similar and yet have different outcomes. Both stories have a high school age protagonist facing different issues and learning…

a solitary raven is considered to be a bad omen. Some people even have the belief that ravens are sometimes wise people often disguised to hide their true nature. People have several different opinions about what specifically a raven signifies. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” it is clear that the raven symbolizes emotional suffering and also conveys the definition of what reality is to this delusional man. The reason that Poe picks this peculiar bird to play as the main character in the story…

Whether it was sitting in a dark room of a friends house, or huddled around a campfire in the middle of the woods, ghost have been a popular topic for scary stories. For a kid’s imagination a ghost is a provocative and terrifying idea, which are usually accompanied by goose bumps and an eerily feeling. For Cole, a main character in M. Night Shyamalan’s movie the sixth-sense, ghost are not just an idea in his imagination, but are part of his daily reality. Cole had a very strange “secret” in…

In “The Bottle Imp” by Robert Louis Stevenson the author uses a variety of literary devices to entice the reader. Stevenson uses literary devices such as suspense, foreshadowing, flashback, and surprise ending. A notable literary device that is used is suspense. Stevenson uses suspense not only to entice the reader, but to make sure the reader is aware of what's going on while raising questions of what will happen next. To clarify, an example of suspense being used in the story is in paragraph…

aspect of home very acutely. Setting in any text, whether it be a house, a garden or a graveyard, is important to the plot of a story to further it and assist the tension. Edgar Allan Poe and Joyce Carol Oates use setting to set a manor of hostility and mystery within their texts. In the texts, The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe, and Where is Here? by Joyce Carol Oates, the use of setting furthers the plot by adding a sense of mystery, history, and loneliness. To begin, the use…

Arjun Srivatsa Chad Hayden 12 October 2015 The Scarlet Letter Essay (2015 FRQ 3) The Scarlet Letter is a novel centered on contrasts. Contrasts between outward reputation and inner guilt, puritanical law and true sin, and intentions and actions, create a dynamic of hypocrisy, a hypocrisy that infects and slowly debilitates all those involved. Specifically, acts of cruelty are used as vehicles through which Hawthorne delivers his indictment of duplicity and hypocrisy. In The Scarlet Letter…

T-rex was a massive carnivore; he was, but despite common theory was only 40 feet long and 14 feet tall (cs3). An encounter with such a colossal leviathan would scare the toughest of men into a state of fear; terrified they will plea to escape from the jaws of death (cs2). Ray Bradbury’s plot really keeps his audience guessing and thinking as to what is to come in the future. The short story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury uses figurative language, tone, and imagery to create the mood of…

an unusual way forms suspense because you wonder what is happening and you see that something bad is happening. Authors create suspense in many different ways that keeps the reader reading. An example is the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe creates suspense by explaining in the beginning about a man talking about himself about how he was not a madman and then beginning to explain a story. “I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.…