...how would you like everything you wished for with out know there was a catch attached to it . for example in the store monkey's paw it shows a dark ,and evil side by showing that temptation can lead to greed and a form a kind of karma from gaining one thing important to losing something you love the next. Like in the story herbert wished for two hundred pounds ,but didn't realise he be losing something worth more than money when he gain money. They also show darkness with them explaining the way the setting is in the story and by adding sound to see or feel what the character is feeling . The monkey's paw show a sort of karma by each event showing something going wrong for each time there was a wish something unfortunate happens. like for...
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...Death should be easy and peaceful, because life is stormy and hard. I’ve never given much thought to how I would die. But dyeing for someone I love seems like a pretty good way to go. “The beauty is too weak of a word to describe how adorable you look” I penetrated her eyes with mine. “You didn’t just sweep me off my feet; you drowned me in the sea of your charm. And now I’m hopelessly in love with you.” She blushed as I sprinkled sweet words in her ears, hoping that the two legged ants wouldn’t steal her away. “Kevin” she said in a low and sweet tone, “mi truly love yuh, but Gregory won’t let us be. With yu, nuh measure of time can be long enough. But mi fear di worst. Let’s leave tung and go to anadda parish where nuh body can find us.” I knew Gregory still loved her though it’s not mutual. And I knew he was homicidal. But without a taught I looked in her dark browns eyes and said “We are leaving Wednesday”. “Yes, Wednesday” she said. Then her phone rang. It was Gregory and she decided to turn the phone off and end the interruption. By now, the sun has set and ready to leave our island. I decided to walk Verona to the playground which was close to her home. As we arrived she stopped and said “let’s just kiss and say good bye”. And that we did. As I turned and walk away, I must have looked back a thousand times until I no longer saw my heartbeat. Monday morning I woke up bright and early. I started thinking about her before I even taught about yarning. I rushed...
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... Weather and overall environment play a huge role in this somewhat staged life belonging to the White family. As soon as you commence scrutinizing the first page, without having even to deduce the sly connotations imprinted, the weather springs out in your mind to set the ideal scene: darkness, dreariness and death. From the very first to the very last, contrast is used to constantly unsettle your mind, most specifically in the turbulent weathering systems: “Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnum Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.” The striking definition and distinction betwixt both internal and external night ‘life’ is most certainly one of eeriness. The hostility of a stormy night that is almost automatically referenced to the damp and bitterness of the evening creates an apprehension of misfortune and death; the era in which the novel was written was also one of suspicion and most likely would have regarded such a night to be as arid yet ethereal as ever. One can unconsciously relate this to many a day suppressed by the dull and drizzly storm clouds gathering overhead, squandering your enthusiasm and hopes in plans for the hours ahead. The same gloom betides as you sit and read in the utmost bitterness, for the atrocious winds and hardly extravagant game of chess sums the dusk. Then, only to contrast with this, the...
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...Comparing two screen versions of King Lear - The Fool: The Fool is a character who is used by Shakespeare to point out King Lear’s follies throughout the play by using thinly veiled songs and quotes (‘Fathers that wear rags/Do make their children blind/But fathers that bear bags/Shall see their children kind’ and ‘Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise’). He disappears in Act 3, Scene 6 because his purpose has been taken away from him as Lear starts to regain his senses and learn from his mistakes. The character can be portrayed as someone who really cares for Lear like in the 1983 movie version directed by Michael Elliot - or he could be seen as a prophet (reminiscent of Tiresias in the Oedipus Rex) who only observes as Lear goes mad in the play shown in the 2008 TV movie version directed by Trevor Nunn. Critics and audience members (including myself) seem to prefer the aloof Fool because as Isaac Newatt comments, the 1983 version has a fool who is a ‘bit too pathetic’ on the IMDB website for King Lear and Mara W says that John Hunt gives a ‘fairly standard and slightly too foolish portrayal of the Fool’. However this interpretation also has its advantages as the ‘scene after they are driven out of Goneril’s house’ showed the Fool trying ‘in vain to make his beloved master laugh, and Lear’ trying ‘just as hard in return to bring himself to laugh at the jokes’ which made the scene more melancholy and tragic than it would have been with an aloof Fool. This...
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...to move to a mental hospital after living alone for to long. It was the only tall building in the town so they had a great view over the sea. Tonight was like every other night. They made dinner, mainly pasta, and ate it in front of the TV and sat there until they fell asleep. They did not have a lot of friends nor family. An hour after midnight, Emily woke up feeling a little sick. Emily could not fall asleep again and looked at the alarm clock. It was 8 Am but still pitch-dark outside. Maybe it was solstice? She decided not to think further about it and instead she made breakfast. While she was cooking the eggs she listened to the increasing storm outside. It had started raining a lot now. Emily did not like to be alone when it was stormy, so she woke up Lucy. They ate the breakfast while watching TV. Suddenly the lights went out and the TV went flicking in black and white. The twins stopped chewing and looked at each other with big eyes. Quickly Lucy found some candlelight and lighted them up. They took a look at the clock again. It was 9.30 Am. How could it possibly still be dark outside? Emily had always been bad handling these types of situations and she quick got into a panic. Therefore it was Lucy who had to go down to the cellar and check on the electricity. Because of the sea close to the village, the cellar was always a bit over flooded when it was storming. Emily found a flashlight and some rubber boots for Lucy. Lucy was only a few minutes older than Emily, but...
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...Loud Silence The hammer made a heavy blow to his head and with that he fell back, landing with a great thud. It was now time to go, this had already gotten complicated enough. Jonathan Davidson was a quiet high school student who spent his days with his head in books. He never truly had any one that he could call a friend, he found the other students superficial interests and personalities absolutely unbearable. To the point where he would rather never have “friends”, than conform to the distorted social structure that teenagers have a tendency to practice. Jonathan felt in a sense, he had developed a superiority complex. Though, at the same time he never really as if he was exceptional in any given topic. Jonathan’s attention once again drifted...
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...say.... Ahh!!! If only you knew about the storms underneath the calm bay You keep on stabbing me straight at heart.....a million times Sometimes by your harsh words....and sometimes its your mere silence that strikes Yet still I cant tell you about everything that goes on deep inside.... Afraid that it might break us......you'll no longer be by my side! Now that the darkness has come.....so far away...out of your sight I cry, once again......all alone at midnight!!!!! I don't know till how long I can keep my self under this burden....a mask "I don't know why I don't end it for once and for all".... I ask But i get no answers as usual.....no reassuring replies.... You are not there.....never there....to listen to all my woes and cries Its high time I realize... if I don't break out of this soon....i'll be worse than stone No emotions will be left to show.....but also no longer will be this need to moan.... Still I cant let the colors of my life.....not even the grey ones...leave me and fly but i all i can do about this.....is stand alone under the diamond studded sky in night...and cry!!!!!!! ~Now That You're Gone~ Now That You’re Gone Now that you’re gone, I realize How much you meant to me. My loss is wide as a starless night sky, And deep as a stormy sea. I miss the...
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...WORSHIP SONGS COMPILED BY TOLU OBASOOTO "Great is Thy faithfulness” "Great is Thy faithfulness," O God my Father, There is no shadow of turning with Thee; Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. "Great is Thy faithfulness!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!" Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed Thy hand hath provided— "Great is Thy faithfulness," Lord, unto me! "You Raise Me Up" When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary; When troubles come and my heart burdened be; Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me. You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains; You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas; I am strong, when I am on your shoulders; You raise me up... To more than I can be. El Shaddai El Shaddai, el shaddai El-elyon na adonia Age to age you're still the same By the power of the name El shaddai, el shaddai Erkamka na adonai I will praise and lift you high El shaddai AWESOME GOD Our God(our God) is an awesome God He reigns(He reigns) from heaven above With wisdom(with wisdom) pow'r and love our God is an awesome God And when the sky was starless in the void of the night (our God is an awesome God) He spoke into the darkness and created the light (our God is an awesome God) Judgment and wrath he poured out on Sodom Mercy and grace He gave us at the cross I hope that we have not too quickly forgotten that our God is an awesome...
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...his men arrive there. Setting 4: Cavern of Polyphemus, the Cyclops It is an isolated island with a cavern; where at night there are the goats and the entranceway is often blocked by a boulder until Polyphemus moves it each time. Setting 5: Island of Aeolia Aeolis is a god of winds. And so when Odysseus visits the island, the god stuffs stormy winds into a bag for him so they do not get in Odysseus’s way. (This is a failure since his men later curiously open it, letting out the winds and getting sent back to the island; then further told to leave.) Setting 7: Circe The setting is in the woods on an island, in a stone house. There are thrones and chairs in it. Setting 8: Teiresias and the Land of the Dead The dead are everywhere, and there is also a well pit. Setting 10: Sirens This is also at sea on a small area of land, when Odysseus passes by them. Setting 11: Charybdis Charybdis lives under the sea, and skulks in the sea tide. This monster also creates a whirlpool. Setting 12: Scylla Scylla’s den is between two headlands. Setting : Thrinakia This is the island where Odysseus and his men get stranded because of stormy winds. There are plenty of cows there too. Setting 11: Ogygia (Island where Calypso lives) Ogygia has a cavern as Calypso’s home, and there are plenty of flowers along with lush, green vegetation. Setting 12: Phaeacia Phaeacia is close to Ithaca, and in terms of Odysseus, the setting there would be at the banquet of it. Setting 13: Ithaca...
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...This essay intends to compare the perspectives of two romantic poets, William Wordsworth and George Gordon Byron, toward nature. In1921, David Nichol Smith commented on William Wordsworth as ‘our greatest nature poet’ and it is an opinion many would still believe in. As a poet of Nature, Wordsworth is at the highest ranking. He is a worshipper of Nature, Nature’s enthusiast or high-priest. The poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ or commonly known as ‘Daffodils’ is one of the last remaining truly well-liked poems. From it, one obtains an image of Wordsworth as someone comforted and enlivened by the flowers he finds while walking among the dales and hills. His worship of Nature was likely more genuine, and more sympathetic, than that of any other English poet. Nature comes to take up a different or independent position in his poem and is not treated in an indifferent or hasty manner as by poets before him. Wordsworth had a mature philosophy, a new and innovative perspective of Nature. Three points in his doctrine of Nature may be indicated: I. Wordsworth understood Nature as a living character. He believed that there is a holy spirit permeating all the articles of Nature. This belief in a pervasive holy spirit may be named as spiritual Pantheism and is completely indicated in Tintern Abbey and in some passages in Book II of The Prelude. II. Wordsworth believed that the system of Nature gives pleasure to the human heart and he regarded Nature as practicing a healing effect...
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...William Wordsworth is the Romantic poet most often described as a "nature" writer; what the word "nature" meant to Wordsworth is, however, a complex issue. On the one hand, Wordsworth was the quintessential poet as naturalist, always paying close attention to details of the physical environment around him (plants, animals, geography, weather). At the same time, Wordsworth was a self-consciously literary artist who described "the mind of man" as the "main haunt and region of [his] song." This tension between objective describer of the natural scene and subjective shaper of sensory experience is partly the result of Wordsworth's view of the mind as "creator and receiver both." Wordsworth consistently describes his own mind as the recipient of external sensations which are then rendered into its own mental creations. Such an alliance of the inner life with the outer world is at the heart of Wordsworth's descriptions of nature. Wordsworth's ideas about memory, the importance of childhood experiences, and the power of the mind to bestow an "auxiliar" light on the objects it beholds all depend on this ability to record experiences carefully at the moment of observation but then to shape those same experiences in the mind over time. We should also recall, however, that he made widespread use of other texts in the production of his Wordsworthian (Keats said "egotistical") sublime: drafts of poems by Coleridge, his sisterDorothy's Journals, the works of Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson...
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...Nature`s Philosophy in Blake`s Songs of Seasons Blake was considerably older than the other tradition"Romantics":13 years older than Wordsworth, 15 years older than Coleridge. He was born in London in 1757and died in 1827. Nature is greatly a very problematic concept that disrupt the calmness of people a long time ago. It is around us and we are part of it . Thus this leads human being to question its changes and phenomena. They worship it out of fears and sometimes out of admiration and wonder. This term actually is juxtaposed with ideas about culture which in a sense is what Romanticism is all about. Some critics believe that William Blake is not a romantic, however, there are many poems show that he is a romantic poet. David Stevens said in Romanticism "William Blake provides a convenient and illuminating touches in this context, if only because his views were so definite and vehemently expressed"49. Blake`s songs of seasons : "To Spring", "To Summer", "To Autumn", "To Winter" are taken from his book Poetical Sketches . These poems reveal Blake`s attitude toward nature. David Steven said in his book Romanticism "Blake Himself hardly ever copied nature in his art and neither did he seek to evoke natural surroundings in his poetry. Yet he was a keen observer at the world around him ,using aspects of nature as a kind of symbolic language to signify human and spiritual values"55. Blake deals in those poems with one the elements in nature which is its changes. Nature, for Blake...
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...Omens, portents, visions. A character may have a disturbing dream vision, or some phenomenon may be seen as a potent of coming events. Ex: “I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy – dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester,” (373) This dream happened when she was just beginning to teach the children in the village that Mr. Rivers employed her. She is dreaming of Mr. Rochester, which can only mean that she is having second thoughts on her decision to leave Thornfield hall. She must be missing him and the adventure and mystery of living there with him, the love of her life. Mr. Rochester has been unparalleled in her eye and mind. Mr. Rivers is the only man who has come close to capturing her heart the way Mr. Rochester did. By saying ‘full of the ideal’ I think she means that the love that he bestowed her was quintessential...
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...Many people have been treating the bail hearing of Oscar Pistorius as if it were a trial, jumping to conclusions about whether he will be found guilty of murder based on the (often untested) allegations made by both sides at this hearing. But those who think they know what the outcome of this trial will be, are probably still going to change their minds several times before the trial is over. The only thing we can be relatively certain of is that specific legal principles will play a decisive role in this trial. It might be helpful to familiarise yourself with these principles before pontificating on the outcome of the trial. Based on the version of events provided by Pistorius and his lawyers at the bail hearing, the disputed element of the crime will be fault. You can only be found guilty of murder if you unlawfully and intentionally killed another person. You can be found guilty of culpable homicide if you unlawfully and negligently killed another person. There is no dispute that the killing of Reeva Steenkamp was unlawful as it would be impossible to argue that Pistorius acted in self-defence (or private defence, as it is known in law). You can only rely on self-defence to exclude unlawfulness if an attack on your life (or the life of another), on your property or other similar interest has commenced or is imminent. This is an objective test, so where no attack actually occurred, one cannot rely on self-defence to justify the killing of another person, which you thought...
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...different emotions, for example horror stories and thrillers leave the reader excited and eager for more, while romance makes them wish for the little things they do not have. While searching for the underlying intent, it is inevitable to come across many acts of representation, including the oblivious ones. At the end of a novel the reader gains knowledge and understanding of the author’s implications. As the story opens, the scene inside Laburnam Villa is contrasted with the scene outside. Outside, it's a typical dark and stormy night. Inside things are warm and cheery, with chess, knitting, and a roaring fire. People can always have a cheerful day no matter what the weather is like outside. As the story progresses, the house becomes progressively darker and spookier – complete with creaking stairs, strange shadows from candles and things that go bump in the night. After Herbert dies, the reader is told that the house becomes, "steeped in shadow and silence" (3.3). Mr. and Mrs. White also undergo an upsetting change, transforming from a happy couple into parents racked by grief. It is common for happy couples to have their off days, not everyone can be happy all the time. During the sergeant-major’s visit, Mrs. White is as eager as Herbert and Mr. White are to hear the tales of his exploits abroad. Everybody likes to hear stories from their friend’s travels, people have a natural curiosity. She is more willing to consider the truth of the monkey-paw story than Herbert is, but...
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