in Flower). Through the writings of Poe it can be seen that the author is truly self-absorbed in his woes and troubles. He is also sensitive to the darker side of the world around him. There are obvious parallels that can be noted in the book and film career of Hitchcock and the writings of Poe, which includes vivid emotions that are displayed throughout both author’s works that range from fear to shear madness. Even though both of the authors are notorious for their “horror” style of writing that emphasizes death, their expressions of guilt, murder and life in general these emotions are portrayed very differently within their works.
Many people were taken in by this nineteenth-century writer’s harsh outlook on life in his work. One is capable of only imagining the things that Edgar Allan Poe has, throughout his deeply saddening and depressing time here on earth, brought to life in his writing by simply printing in words different sections and scenarios of his ambiguous life. Edgar A. Poe lived a very somber orphan life which later became the foundation to the origin of his gothic nature and writing. Poe is recognized as a genius who reinvented the gothic tale of mystery and horror for his time (Introduction 1). Poe placed the reader inside the tortured minds and lives of people confronting the supernatural.
In the Mind of the Wicked In what ways are the themes in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle similar to those in Slaughterhouse-Five? How are the two books different? In both Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut seems intent on has using his writing as a tool to convey penetrating messages and ominous warnings about our society. Throughout the books, Vonnegut combines vivid imagery with a distinctly satirical and anecdotal style to explore complex issues such as religion and war. On the surface, Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five are dramatically different novels, each with its own characters, symbols, and plot.
Comparison and Contrast of Two Dark Romanticists Although Contemporary American poetry is nowadays respected for having accumulated an archive of transcendental poems written by internationally acclaimed authors, it wasn't until the appearance of poets such as Poe and Melville, that the western world halted in their mockery of infant America's writing. Both Poe and Melville were Romanticists who incorporate many dark elements into their works and had thus come to be known as Dark Romanticists. Although the two authors share many common themes and elements that constitute Dark Romanticism such as death and irony, their rhetorical styles differ greatly in mood, diction, and setting. First of all, the underlying elements shown throughout both Poe's The Raven and Melville's Shiloh: A Requiem are undoubtedly death and irony. For instance, “Is there – is there balm in Gilead?
“Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken crime?” This quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, represents the truth upheld by a person, and how it carries with them through eternity. Hawthorne captures the truth of reality and sin in The Scarlet Letter. By using many literary devices, he reveals the truth of the Scarlet Letter and the characters in his novel. Being a novel during the romantic period, Hawthorne makes many symbolic and archetypical references to the power of nature, and the supernatural. Hawthorne uses these archetypes and symbols in addition to light motifs to demonstrate
With an abundance of asides, which the whole passage is, and bits of detail that create and amazingly complex set of ideas, Hawthorne manages to successfully conjure his image of Puritan society and how they treat Hester. Without using such circuitous grammar and syntax, Hawthorne might have failed to recreate the formal, deeply psychological Puritan society and ways that the novel attempts. The tones that Hawthorne uses in the paragraph are more so detached, moralizing, impassioned, formal, and skeptical, and he makes it very obvious that he does not care for the Puritan society (The Scarlet Letter - Linguistic
In the end of the novel, Hester and Pearl are both seen in the light. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to show the corruptness of Puritan punishments, and the goodness that can come from them. The symbols he chose had to do with Hester’s sin and the good things that come from it. The scarlet letter was his main usage of symbolism, which symbolized Hester’s sin. Hawthorne also used the scaffold, as well as lightness and darkness as symbols in the novel.
About anyone within the world of literature could connect The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Masque of the Red Death together with their unnerving connotations. Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe refined bloodcurdling stories for that time and both helped in setting the bar for horror. Two themes found in Poe and Irving’s work include Ignorance and Imagination vs. Reality. Edgar Allan Poe’s work portrayed much spook.
The use of events within ‘Romulus, my Father’ also allow us to view Romulus himself as a sort of tragic hero, since his fatal flaw is being too trusting of people’s karacter. The novel depicts Romulus as a unique character, who has a deep sense of integrity, yet this integrity ironically destroys his soul. He is wise, yet in a sense illogical since much of his judgement takes place on an irrational basis. The novel not only uses the idea of a romantic tragedy, but also takes other forms such as eulogy, bildungs roman and biography. This use of shifting language modes represents Raimond himself changing, both in pace of the story and his opinion regarding his father.
The Hold Guilt is one of the most powerful emotions within a man’s consciousness, it can change the course of a man’s outlook and behaviour for life. In the two following short stories we the cause and effects of guilt.“The Black Cat” and “The Tell Tale Heart” are two short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Although they are two separate stories, they share a likeness between the theme and plot. The shared theme in both stories is: Guilt will always make itself evident in time. In both stories, the two narrator experience guilt for their previous actions.