It’s as though he is questioning what he sees because he is unsure whether it is factual or a ‘trick of his mind’. This forms the idea that he’s going to see these people who have had their life drained out of them. The House of Usher is considered a character itself and it is suggested that the narrator is unable to leave the house, until the destruction, due to a mysterious ‘lure of Roderick’s attention’. Although, the characters are able to move around the house freely because of its structure, so it assumes a monstrous character of its own. Poe adds to this idea by presenting the house with life-like attributes through the use of personification.
The irony of the story was carried out when Lieut. Cross destroyed the pictures of Martha. Fear is a strong emotion that is constantly haunting the minds of Alpha Company. When fear is present, power can aid in easing the anxiety by giving the person an emotional lift. Thus, Norman carried a thumb of a boy that had been killed.
Shakespeare used the knowledge of the public’s fear and interest in the supernatural to his advantage with casting the 3 witches in the play. This drew the Elizabethan audience in. There foul and evilness added mystery and curiosity to the play for the audience as most of what they were seeing on stage was believed to be real..The fear created by the 3 witches engaged the audience and questioned the thoughts on what is real and what is supernatural. Also King James 1st was interested in demonology and Shakespeare could have made the witches to please the king. The king would also have liked the play as it was showing treachery towards the king will end in death one way or another.
Montresor is a dangerous and evil person in The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. In this short story, Montresor is sensitive, trickey, and evil. Montresor is sensitive because he is going to kill Fortunato because he insulted him. In the story, Poe also shows us through the indirect characterization methods of Montresor’s own actions, words, and looks. When Montresor is ready to go to the catacomb with Fortunato, he puts “on a mask of black silk” and wraps himself up in “a roquelaire.” He wears the mask and the roquelaire because it hides his identity.
4. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,The sheriff and Atticus give an explanation for the terrible attack.I think that Atticus’s explanation was more likely to be true because in the movie he looked like he knew what he was saying.
The horror genre defies boundaries, invading on what people think are taboo themes. The taboos could be about death, sex, violence, or crime, carrying fourth the current audience of teenagers and adults. As the audience empathizes with the traumatized victims, they feel the fear, and endure experiences unavailable outside the cinema. The central code and convention of the horror genre, the isolation location, in which the victim finds help out of reach, rubs against on the audiences phobic 'pressure point.' According to horror novelist, Stephen King, phobic Pressure points are the fears the audiences share of keynote things, like the dark, spiders, and isolation.
This helps to convey the horror of what Medea has done because her plan was evil enough, but when she gets her young naive children to unknowingly kill two people, it just makes what Medea has done even more unthinkable. Euripides goes on to convey the horror of what Medea has done in the messengers speech by how he describes how people ‘felt sorry’ for the way she was treated. When the boys arrived, the messenger was ‘so pleased’ and so followed them up to the princess’ room. This conveys horror, because people who care about the princess, clearly has respect for Medea, and they believed she was being sincere. The ways she tricks innocent, well intentioned people into helping her with her murderous plot just increases the horror of the messenger’s speech.
Moore uses words like hawk, “wisdom”, unsuspecting, gleefully. Hawk makes a negative annotation of a ruthless swindler who preys on unsuspecting victims, while; using unsuspecting turns citizens into victims of a crime. He uses quotations to imply a sarcastic tone to the word wisdom implying its not real wisdom. The word gleefully makes Fred look like he enjoys preying on unsuspecting citizens. Moore ends his statement “Grow up, get some books, and go to your room.” His word choice implies that Barnes has not grown up and Moore is grounding him for doing something bad as if Barnes is still a kid.
One of the more important symbols is that of Arnold Friend. He is often thought to represent the devil; a temptation for Connie that she slowly comes to realize is very evil. Arnold Friend is a symbol of temptation that Connie will have to face while trying to find independence and also herself. Connie seems comfortable with Arnold at first but she soon starts to see through his disguise and see’s him for the evil man that he really is. This story also shows the use of foreshadowing, when Connie is off trying to be independent and grown up.
Unit 4: The 'Less Dead' and Glorification of Serial Killers - Written Assignment There are numerous questions associated with serial murder investigation that bring about criticism, public and media pressure. I am going to start with the media. The media over glorifies everything on TV or in the news paper. I think that the media could start high panic in the community that could be harmful to others and hinder the investigation. Sometimes there are sick people out there that would do what is called a copy cat murder.