Gunpowder Plot

Freytag’s Pyramid is a geometric shape used to visualise a typical plot structure. The left side slopping upwards depicts the introduction and rising action of the story until it reaches the peak, known as the climax, which is followed by a drop called the falling action or denouement (Brown and Yarbrough, 51). In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio, a young noblemen, falls in love with a lady named Hero and they plan to be married. However the prince Don Pedro’s brother Don John,…

For years, many TV shows have been focusing on the conflict between the hero and the villain. Moreover, people have been enjoying this plot where the hero win over the villain and save the situation. TV shows creators are becoming more creative when creating their characters, that it might require more thinking from the viewers to actually realize who is who. Homeland is a TV that is trying to tell the viewers that any terrorism act might be predicted and possibly stopped. At the beginning of…

In all stories there is a conflict. Cole Mathews faces many different conflicts throughout the story. Cole has to deal with these conflicts and only he is in control of whether or not they get resolved. Cole Matthews has had a rough and troubled childhood, with an abusive father and a mother who can’t admit that his father is bad. Because of these things Cole has found violence and crime as a way to get his anger out but this is not the right way to do so because he has gotten in a lot of…

The utilization of irony in any work of literature can elevate a seemingly simple pretense of a storyline into one with depth and profundity. In “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro, the situational irony present in both the main plot and the subplots increases the suspense that is already prevalent in the superficial aspect of the main scenario of the story. Alice Walker demonstrates the effect of irony in “Everyday Use” by evoking the internal thoughts and emotions of the mother in a…

good story in her writing Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and Everything that Rises Must Converge. All three stories incorporate unexpected conclusions and intense conflicts. She not only met the usual expectation of an interesting plot, but skyrocketed above it. Ms. O’Connor utilized shocking endings for her stories in order to end her stories with the reader craving more. For example, in Good Country People, a fat, disabled, nihilistic woman named Hulga is seduced by a bible…

similarities in stories of different genre. In this essay, I will be comparing and contrasting two short stories of different genre. Those stories are The Jewelry by Guy De Maupassant and Recitatif by Toni Morrison. I will mostly focus on the concept of plot. Guy De Maupassant wrote The Jewelry in the 1800’s. The story is about M. Lantin and how he falls in love with a woman whom he marries. Throughout the story it talks about how his wife manages his money so well since he did not make a lot…

do is simply look, ponder, and analyze. Therefore, with analyzing and recognizing the ideas presented in How to Read Literature Like A Professor, Anne Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, consists of several literary devices and factors that develop the plot of the story and the main character, Victor Frankenstein. Due to How to Read Literature…

Analysis of Shakespeare’s choice of structure in Henry V) There are many components of literature that add to its effectiveness. While one may think that literature is merely good or bad based on the plot and use of words that is not necessarily the case. Much of literature is based on the structure of the plot itself. While this can seem like a minute function of a powerful story, it actually lends itself to make the story so powerful. Without proper structure, some of the most famous stories…

The climax of the story is funny while the plot presents a joke. The plot resembles a joke in which the climax is the punchline. In the climax, each character gets a suitable punishment for what the Miller believes is his or her problem. The clear way the story's two actors intersect make the events seem funny. The author injects many humorous events into the plot and ties all of the events together at the highest point of the story. Therefore, the humor…

Bill Pronzini’s A Dip in the Poole is a simple short story that has a magnificent plot twist ending that is somewhat predictable but not inevitable, and the reader is left in shock as they discover who the protagonist is. Berton Roueché leaves the reader hanging in Phone Call, which forces them to put the pieces of the puzzle together and construct their own ending in their head of what will happen next.…