...The Masque of the Red Death By: Edgar Allan Poe A terrible disease called the Red Death has struck the country. It's incredibly fatal, horribly gruesome, and it's already killed off half the kingdom. But the ruler of these parts, Prince Prospero, doesn't seem to care about his poor, dying subjects. Instead, he decides to let the kingdom take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have one never-ending party. Wine, women, music, dancing, fools – Prospero's castle has it all. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in – the Prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out, either… About five or six months into his stay, Prospero decides to have a spectacular masquerade ball (a ball where the guests where masks and costumes). The setup is weird and wild, just like the Prince who designs it. The ball takes place in a suite of seven rooms, each one dressed up in a different color: blue, purple, green, orange, white, violet, and black. The black room, which looks like death, is awfully creepy – it's got dark black walls, blood red windows, and big black clock which chimes so eerily every hour that everybody at the party stops dancing and laughs nervously. Most of the frolicking masqueraders are too weirded out to go into the black room. Anyway, the party's in full swing and everybody's having a wild time when the clock strikes midnight. Everyone stops dancing and falls momentarily...
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...cope with the loss of his love, Lenore. While on the verge of sleep, “suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” He questions who or what could possibly be at his door at midnight, and so he goes to the window to try to fix the situation. A raven swoops in at the window, and the presence of this bird results in a smile from the narrator, “this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.” This smile is something unknown to him due to the daily torment that his soul experiences of longing to be united with Lenore, a torment so excruciating that he may have considered attempting suicide...
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...Gothic Horror Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American writers, editors, and literary critics. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. The “Black Cat” is about a crazy man who torchers his cat and ends up killing it but the cat comes back to haunt him. The “Masque of The Red death” is about a terrible disease that has struck the country but no one seems to care. He decides to let the kingdom take care of itself while he and a thousand of his favorite knights and ladies shut themselves up in a fabulous castle to have a party. After the last guest enters, no one else can get in the Prince has welded the doors shut. That means no one can get out. Anyways when the clock...
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...Festivals have become ubiquitous in Australia, with hundreds held each year. An event such as midnight mafia is representing the hard dance scene. Midnight Mafia stands as a popular overnight indoor festival that happens mid-April every year, located in Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Showground. The door opens from 9pm till 6am. Tickets have 3 releases, first, second and final release which is $5 more expensive each time. Eg. 1st release- $115 2nd Release- $125 3rd Release- $135 Midnight Mafia is created by a HSU (harder styles united) playing all hard dance music with famous international line-ups. Midnight Mafia has got a gangster and mafia theme for the event and every artist partakes a nickname as the Hitmen, The godfather, The Gambler, The...
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...Midnight in Paris is a film written and directed by Woody Allen and Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder. The film tells the story of a screenwriter named Gil who visits Paris with his wife and while roaming the streets at midnight is transported back to his “golden age” of the 1930s. Wilder’s play, on the other hand, tells the story of a small New Hampshire town, Grover’s Corners, focusing on the lives of the Webbs and Gibbses families, specifically George Gibb and Emily Webb. While there are strong differences in the experiences of the characters, the lesson learned in Midnight in Paris and Our Town is very similar. Both Midnight in Paris and Our Town utilize time and space to teach the characters the lesson. In Midnight in Paris,...
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...Edgar Allan Poe uses diction in his poem “The Raven” to create an eerie, chilling, and dark mood. To start, in the first stanza when Poe is setting the scene, he says: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” (st. 1). He uses “midnight dreary” and “weak and weary” specifically to create a dark, foreboding mood throughout the poem. The second example of Poe using diction to create a chilling mood comes after the narrator hears a knock at his door: “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor” (st. 2). Poe is using examples of death to create his dark mood here, using “bleak December” and a “ghost”, to relate to dead trees and dark skies. Next,...
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...The Most dangerous game When you're out in the world hunting any kind of animal is the thing. How do these animals survive? I have only seen a 8x8 elk once in my life that was a quick shot and I never got to shoot him. There is a man named Zaroff who hunts humans. Mr.Rainsford, who was a hunter to begin with gets hunted by this crazy man and he also hunts in other people. I think it is wrong to hunt man need some serious help. In the short story “The Most Dangerous game” By Richard Cannell there are three components in the story are who's the hunter, who's the hunted and do you agree or disagree with the statement “ There are the hunters and the huntees”. you Mr.Zaroff Makes it so that a boat will come towards the lads and smash...
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...moment of India’s arrival at independence” (Salman Rushdie 2006) on August 15, 1947. Salman goes on to claim that his birth was the fate of the country, signifying his urgeobligation to tell his stories before his death, which he believes is soon. In the first paragraph, Salman Rushdie starts off with stating “once upon a time”, (Salman Rushdie 2006) which is generally a fairytale line. This seems to imply that Salman is delusional, or takes a telepathic entity where he is able to speak to the other “Midnight’s Children” in order to create a story for himself. Salman believes that he and the other “Midnight Children” are the fate of the country, and that their history is directly impacted by the country, as well as the country’s history being directly impacted by them. Salman uses a wide array of rhetorical devices throughout the first few pages of “Midnight’s Children” such as metaphor, analogy, and imagery. Salman uses “Midnight’s Children”, the title of the novel, as a metaphor. He is saying that the children that were born at the time of India’s independence, are in fact claimed by midnight and the country. Another example of metaphor Salman expresses is “clock hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came” (Salman Rushdie 2006). This is a metaphor for midnight and his birth. Salman uses metaphor in “Mysteriously handcuffed to history” (Salman Rushdie 2006). This furthers the reader’s perspective on his delusion that his birth marks an importance in history. Salman’s...
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...The three poems “Cinderella” by Sylvia Palth, “Snow White” by Andrea Budy, and “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton are all infused with twisted fairy tale characters, feminist themes, dark emotions, and death. Each of these poems contains literary devices that construct and present the overall meaning and characterization of the fairy tale characters. The poems are distorted versions of the original fairytale stories in which the authors attempt to portray as dark with haunting tones of sorrow and desperation using imagery devices. In “Cinderella” by Sylvia Palth, the poem begins with a description of the setting, in which she tries to portray as a ballroom. This poem captures Cinderella and her prince dancing together at the ball. She uses the words “scarlet heels”, “green eyes”, and “silver” to give the reader a sense of a romantic atmosphere. The second stanza...
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...sort of drive towards him. She is attracted to this panther which will eventually lead to trouble. Hence, Plath uses many themes in this poem such as color and feelings and the aggressiveness of nature, which leads to the way she feels about being followed. The pursuer is double faced, as the first two lines demonstrate. “there is a panther stalks me down/ One day I’ll have my death of him.” On one side it is clear that the panther is pursuing the author, while on the other it could be the author pursuing her doom, being the panther. Fear and running are the elements that express the fact that the pursuer is the panther. Plath is being pursued as she uses words such as “I run, I rush, sacrifice, bait”. The contrast is seen when she says “the hunt is on”, they are after each other. It is a never ending cycle. Even though Plath is quickly considered the one being pursued by the panther, she can also be considered the pursuer. Plath writes “one day I’ll have my death of him” instead of something along the lines of ‘one day he will kill me’. Plath is also chasing the panther, pursuing her own death. Her death is symbolized by the panther when she states that “doom consummates that appetite”, she knows that the panther is her end, however, she still wants to chase him. She has an attraction to the panther, she feels an attraction to his mystery: “most suavely glides, those taut thighs”, she is almost lulled by him, and “his voice waylays (her), spells a trance”. She feels this attraction...
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...As of April 1, 1994, all new drivers applying for their first car or motorcycle licence enter Ontario's Graduated Licensing System (GLS). Graduated licensing lets new drivers get driving experience and skills gradually. The two-step licensing process takes at least 20 months to complete. To apply for a licence, you must be at least 16 years old and pass a vision test and a test of your knowledge of the rules of the road and traffic signs. After you pass these tests, you will get a Class G1 or M1 licence and a driver information package for new drivers. You must pass two road tests to become fully licensed. New drivers earn full driving privileges in two stages and have five years to complete the program (Classes G1, G2, M2 or M2 with condition "L") and graduate to a full licence (Classes G, M or M with condition L). Graduated Licensing for Automobile Drivers Class G1 New drivers of passenger vehicles learn to drive with six important conditions with a G1 licence. A new driver must hold a G1 licence for a minimum of 12 months before attempting the G1 road test. This time can be reduced to eight months if you successfully complete a Ministry-approved Beginner Driver Education Course . Drivers earn more privileges after passing their G1 road test. As a G1 driver, you are required to: * maintain a zero blood alcohol level while driving; * be accompanied by a fully licensed driver, who has at least four years driving experience, and a blood alcohol level of less...
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...himself to it is very important that the answers to the questions are already known. This way of interpreting signs that don’t bear a real meaning is “one of the most profound impulses of human nature.” Another obvious symbol is that the raven sat on the bust of the Pallas. Why, of all things, did the raven choose to perch on the symbol of the goddess of wisdom? One reason could be that it leads the narrator to believe that the raven spoke from wisdom an that it wasn’t repeating the only words it knew. A less obvious reasoning of using “Pallas” in the poem was, according to Poe himself, was because of the “sonorousness of the word Pallas, itself.” An even less obvious symbol would be the use of the word “Midnight” in the first verse, and December in the second verse. Both Midnight and December mean the end of something. December might as well be New Years Eve, which we associate with change or the start of something new. This also seems to might very well be Victor Rydberg believes when...
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...Elie and his father and other fellow prisoners leave Buna and arrive in Birkenau at midnight after a long travel by foot. “It must have been around Midnight. We have arrived in Birkenau.” (28) Elie who had a sore foot, and the group were forced to walk forty two miles through the snowy night to Gleiwitz. “It snowed on and on.” (84) “A snowy wind was blowing violently.” (85) Those prisoners that were weak and couldn’t make the travel ended up being shot to death. Elie was worried for his father and summonsed God for strength to keep his father alive during this long journey to Buchenwald. Because there was no food the group of prisoners would eat snow to try and stay alive during their voyage in the open cattle cars. There were only a few survivors left including Elie and his father but their love for each other kept them...
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...Chapter I The Problem A. INTRODUCTION Having a term paper as a requirement for the graduating students is important. It may be difficult for the students since it is their first time to make this requirement but it is fun to do this, since this is one of knowing the author and the same time develop the researcher’s skill in analyzing and interpreting ideas. In the writing this term paper the researchers gain information and get familiar to the works and life story of the two authors. This term paper focuses the comparative study of William Blake and Walt Whitman. The researchers gather information through research and analyze the data to answer the question stated in the problem. B. BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BLAKE¹ William Blake was an English poet, engraver, and a painter. A boldly imaginative rebel in both his through and art, he combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life. YOUTH William Blake was born in London, England, on November 28, 1757, the second son of a men’s clothing merchant. From his earliest year he saw vision. He would see trees full of angels on similar sights, if this were not true mystical visions; they were the results of the artistic intense spiritual understanding of the world. From his early teens Blake wrote poems, often setting them to melodies of his own composition. At the age of ten, Blake started at the well-known Park’s DrawingSchool, at age of fourteen; he began a seven year apprenticeship to an engraver. It was as an engraver...
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...English 175-‐02: Introduction to Literary Genres Instructor: Aaron Schab aschab@uidaho.edu 209 Brink Hall Department of English University of Idaho Course Meets: Life Sciences South 163 Monday/Wednesday/Friday 9:30 am – 10:20 am January 9, 2013 – May 10, 2013 Course Description In this class, we will learn about the basic conventions and terms used to understand and discuss the three major genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama. This class will help you understand the sometimes baffling world of literature, and is intended to provide the general student with basic experience in literary analysis. Additionally, I hope this class will lead you to a lifelong appreciation for (and engagement with) reading literature. Although this class features extensive reading and writing, it is not necessary for you to be a bookworm or a writing superstar to succeed in this class – if you ...
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