...Darkness. It is where monsters hide and evil is all around. Darkness veils its lurking creatures and secrets through its absence of light. People see darkness in black cats and eclipses. Society sees black cats as evil by color and witch association. Eclipses perceived as evil for causing darkness. Elizabethans view darkness as evil, as it blocks out light and destroys hope. We see darkness used by William Shakespeare, one of the great writers of the Elizabethan Era. He uses it as a motif in his plays. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the motif of darkness represents foreshadowing of tragedy and the sinful situations faced by Romeo. A source of evil in the Elizabethan era is darkness. During this time period, there are a lot of superstitions flying around. Many of the superstitions involved items of darkness. A black cat...
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...The Duchess of Malfi Murder, betrayal , corruption are just some of the darker qualities of humans. As humans we poses both light, that represents goodness is us, and a darker almost sinister side. In the general population with a a standard set of morals and values we are able to suppress and even overcome the darkness within us. In John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi he explores and examines the darker side of human nature . In this essay the themes of captivity and entrapment will be used to try and unravel these dark aspects of human nature. Their will be looked ate the extremes of cruelty one human can inflict on another by examine the Duchess’ relationship with her brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal. Additionally Bosola also plays a vital role when looks cruelty since he is the one that does the actual deed. In addition the abuse of basic human rights, choices and freedom by looking at her living situation. Lastly the victimisation of the Duchess and the fact that her brother s are corrupt and dictate her every move will furthermore provide more insight into the objectification of the Duchess and the wickedness that does exist in humans. In the play The Duchess of Malfi dark areas of human nature are explored and examined with themes such as captivity and entrapment. The the play Webster not only looks at not only the physical caging the Duchess as to endure that her brothers exert on her but also the trapping of the soul and psyche. The Duchess seem to be like...
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...the first stanza we learn that it is a dark place with snow on the ground. The voice of the poem paints beautiful and quite sweet images of nature. There is a doe and fawns of probably the same yellowish - brown colour. The word “fallow” means “of a light yellowish-brown colour” (Thefreedictionary.com). The animals might have something in common as they are of the same colour. They seem to be invisible in the night. The wind blows stormily : “as fast as the stars are slow”. That is a paradox because the star movement is fast. In the second stanza the speaker defines the darkness which moves “stealthily” and quickly: faster “than the swiftest hound”. It “arrives” and haunts so it is something exceptionally unpleasant. The speaker personifies the darkness describing it as somebody who “arrives”. Everything is drown in the darkness. The world is unable to see the light as the lamp goes out. The darkness may symbolize any difficulties that people or the world undergo. There are situations in which human beings feel they are at their wit’s end, unable to go on. Their connection to the light...
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...When people try to find light in the dark, they often find this light with the people around us [16]. In the novel, Antoinette and Annette form this binary opposition which is bright and dark. Antoinette favours brightness over darkness while Annette distaste bright and prefers darkness. Antoinette echoed throughout the novel her preferences to brightness as of colours or lights. She mentioned that she wanted to write her name in fire red [34] which is a bright colour and this portrays her likeness to brightness. Although she’s deprived of love from her parents at an early age, she continues to hope, which a sign of light. Whereas Annette distastes brightness and desires darkness. She prefers to walk on their shaded glacis which depicts her...
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...Ansley and Mrs. Slade. “Mrs. Ansley…had reached a delicate part in her knitting. “One, two, three-slip two…” (Whaton 118). Knitting is a precious, delicate, yet tedious task; although it is very familiar to her she must still concentrate and work at it because the wrong “slip” could cause the entire work to be ruined (much like friendships). On the surface, Mrs. Ansley seems to be the weaker, meeker friend but slight clues denote that there is more to her. “Half guiltily she drew from her handsomely mounted black hand-bag a twist of crimson silk run through by two fine knitting needles” (114). Her actions are timid though symbolically she is strong. The color black is significant with death, darkness, and/or ill will. Crimson is equivalent to red which means passion, aggression, love, and/or lust. Ultimately, Mrs. Ansley’s dark, passionate, lustful insides suggest she is not as mild mannered as she is putting off. Wharton also uses the afternoon light, an archetypal symbol, as a reference to the passing of time, both literally and figuratively. The luncheon-hour was long past, and the two had their end of the vast to themselves.-“There’s that head-waiter wondering,”…”I’ll cure him of...
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...result of her father, Homer and her isolation from the community. Emily’s character and personality can be widely characterized as a result of the numerous events that took place in her life. First, we learn the Grierson’s always thought highly of their selves more than they actually were (158). We would think Emily would have lived a confident, happy life without no worries or troubles. She was lucky enough to be remitted from her taxes from Colonel Sartoris (156), thanks to her father lending money to the community (156). However, her father played a huge role in why she remained single till she was thirty years old. Her father was a “spraddled silhouette in the foreground (159)” in her life, symbolizing how her life was filled with darkness due to her father empowering over her life. After her father’s death, Emily was unable to acknowledge her fathers’ death. I believe this was a result of her dark, emotionless life from her father. Emily goes against society expectations and regulations by keeping his decaying body until she gave up and voluntarily gave him before being forced to (159). His death did not affect...
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...Araby All my senses seemed to desire to veil themselves and, feeling that I was about to slip from them, I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: "O love! O love!" many times." (92) Most human beings have experienced their first love or crush in many profound ways. In James Joyce's Araby, a young preteen boy in the dreary neighborhood of Dublin in the late nineteenth century narrates his ongoing infatuation for his best friend's sister and the mystique of Araby; the exotic bazaar. With the boy's great expectations and a quest for love comes the revelation of disenchantment and a loss of innocence. The many symbols of Araby paint a rich picture of meaning. "North Richmond Street being blind", is a real street that is a dead end which symbolizes the boys hopelessness as to be going no where.(91) Being blind also foreshadows being blinded by the light. The light vs. dark symbolism is prevalent throughout the boy's quest. “The street light from the kitchen windows had filled the areas”.(91) The dark, blind street also represents as a symbol for Ireland. So here the light becomes a symbol for the country’s future. The boys neighborhood is dark and "brown" drawing attention to the plainness and dreariness of Dublin. (91)He also uses brown to describe the figure of his crush. The "bicycle pump", rusting in the backyard is the decay of Roman Catholicism.(91) The dead priest's home lingers a restraint on the boy. The priest is a symbol of Roman...
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...”Tell the Women We´re Going…..continuation.” Bill stares at the death girls. He is speechless. Jerry just walks back, towards the car. On the road Bill cannot believe what just had happened. He just sits on the seat next to the killer, with his face buried in the hands. Looks to his left, Jerry´s body is cold as ice, even though it seems like he is shaking, only the eyes of his looking out of the windscreen on the road. He is sweating like a pig, or maybe more. A word has not yet been spoken. It is getting darker outside, Jerry turns on the front light. Not to get a better look on the road, but to stop the dark surrounding him. Tries to light a cigarette, but it is impossible with the trembling of his hands. The car is parked in front of the garage. Jerry was first to enter the door, behind him came Bill, walking like he was going to faint. The kids are in bed. Carol yells at Jerry, “What has happened?…Where are you going?,” but before she gets an answer, the bathroom door slams. Now it is on Bill. “What Bill? What? What has happened?” both of the girls screams. They do not get an answer to their question. Bill still seems like collapsing every moment. Shortly after, Jerry comes out from the bathroom, but not for some talking. He walks straight threw the people sitting watching him, and is out the door. The silence is all over the room, only the sound of an old car was to hear. Left in the silence are the two women, with both of their heads filled with...
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...Dreaded Darkness “The End of the Party” by Graham Greene is a short story about fear. A young boy named Francis Morton has an extreme phobia of darkness. Although his twin brother Peter continuously tries to comfort his brother’s fear, there is little he can do. Francis reminds his mother, nanny, and peers of his terrible fear throughout the story, but they all excuse it and believe it to be silly. Tragically, undermining his terrible fear has a price. The first example of fear in the story is when Francis tries to excuse himself from the party he is supposed to attend later that afternoon. He knows that if he goes he will be forced to play hide-and-seek in the dark and he is afraid. Francis fakes an illness and although he does not have an illness, he still feels sick from fear. Greene writes, “It was true he felt ill, a sick empty sensation in his stomach and a rapidly beating heart, but he knew the cause was only fear” (183). The extent of Francis’s fear is beginning to be revealed. Both his nanny and his mother encourage him to go to the party. They do not realize the seriousness of his fear, nor do they question his resistance to his attendance at the party. His fear is beyond himself and it affects his physical being as well. Francis’s fear of the dark is not an ordinary fear, but something very serious and almost unbearable. The next example of fear in the story is when Francis is at the party and again tries to come up with excuses to leave and avoid...
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...dared people to enter its midst. These were far from a silent set of woods though. They had the smell of rotten corpses. There was always a thick fog that was visible in the forest. It felt like a monsters den, howling every night that was heard miles away. Paulina was a great person, she loved going on adventures and exploring places. She was young and was free. It was her ambition, so one day, she heard about the forest, due to her ambition she wanted to visit it. It was a cold and dark night, the frost hit her, the cold frost hitting against her with the wind. She walked through the fog towards the archway created by the trees, all that she could see was darkness. She entered... Carrying on for only about 15 minutes and then stopped. She shifted her view to her left and to the right to see if anything else apart from the darkness was visible. There was rarely any light coming from anywhere apart the gleaming moon on the puddles... But the puddles didn’t look like ordinary puddles. They gave out a dark red colour like blood. It made her insides turn, for assuming the worst. She panicked, all alone she had no one to turn to apart from herself of course. She stood out in the middle with her bright hair and skin. She slowly pulled out her flashlight from her backpack. She trembled, walking slowly through the forest. There was a thick mass of plants that was growing all over the place. Expecting to run into something, she kept her body tightly clenched. She did not know what she was...
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...My dog just stole my cookie. I made a giant sugar cookie and frosted it and turned around to get milk and I turn around and his front feet are on the counter and he’s running away with my delicious cookie (with a glut of sugar in it. I guess it was good I didn’t get to eat it?) Anyways, I’ve had a productive day. Yesterday (Saturday), after sitting on my floor using my iPod and texting, going on social media, and playing mobile-phone games all day, I realized that - even though I could succumb to sitting on my floor doing nothing (which is a lot easier than doing something way more interesting) – actually doing something productive with my life makes me feel a lot better about myself. Now I like to switch back and forth from different times as I write. Like right now I can hear people playing softball at the school, each one of them vying for their team to win. And the fact that my dog stole my cookie has left me discombobulated and not being able to focus on a single sentence, as I long for that cookie, with its not-so-subtle sugary flavor. I even put blue food coloring on the dough so I could have a blue cookie and nope my dog ate it. Thanks jasper. He steals everything though. We’ve tried everything, but he still steals. He even sole one of those metal sponges! And not only does he steal everything (and I’m not lying, he steals everything), he eats it too! HE ATE A METAL, WIRE SPONGE. HOW DID THAT FEEL GOING DOWN HIS ESOPHOGAS. I BET NOT THAT GOOD. ANYWAYS, I FORGOT...
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...Sight Beyond The Human Eye Our eyes are only the surface of our sight. If one searches deeper they have the ability to see things beyond their eyesight. It can travel into thoughts to make everything seem like it is an entirely different story. As you read the two poems constructed by Emily Dickinson you can see a hidden message within it. We grow accustomed to the dark has more meaning to it than one would see at first glimpse. Before I got my eye put out also displays a view that isn’t directly shown. We grow accustomed to the dark is a piece that describes how we tend to get used to the darkness. The message taken from this piece is that many of us struggle through tough times and we don’t like change so we are all stuck in the dark after tragedy. But many fail to see it’s a bright side which is why many fail to see the light. But once we see the light your life begins to become easier. When light is put away we grow accustomed to the dark which means once our happiness is stolen from...
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...A young boy named Francis Morton has an extreme phobia of darkness. Although his twin brother Peter continuously tries to comfort his brother’s fear, there is little he can do. Francis reminds his mother, nanny, and peers of his terrible fear throughout the story, but they all excuse it and believe it to be silly. Tragically, undermining his terrible fear has a price. The first example of fear in the story is when Francis tries to excuse himself from the party he is supposed to attend later that afternoon. He knows that if he goes he will be forced to play hide-and-seek in the dark and he is afraid. Francis fakes an illness and although he does not have an illness, he still feels sick from fear. Greene writes, “It was true he felt ill, a sick empty sensation in his stomach and a rapidly beating heart, but he knew the cause was only fear” (183). The extent of Francis’s fear is beginning to be revealed. Both his nanny and his mother encourage him to go to the party. They do not realize the seriousness of his fear, nor do they question his resistance to his attendance at the party. His fear is beyond himself and it affects his physical being as well. Francis’s fear of the dark is not an ordinary fear, but something very serious and almost unbearable. The next example of fear in the story is when Francis is at the party and again tries to come up with excuses to leave and avoid playing hide-and-seek in the dark. His attempts fail and he eventually must play the game he...
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...department had already cordoned off the area. I watched from a distance. A crowd had already gathered and we gaped with amazement at the spectacle presented by the burning shops. The fire rose to about twenty metres and it lit up the whole area even though the sky was already dark. The firemen desperately sprayed streams of water into the fire to control it. Now and then explosions can be heard as gas cylinders blew up in the intense heat. For more than an hour the fire raged. I could see anxious people trying to get near the workshops only to be held back by the police. They were obviously the shop-owners trying to save their shops. Actually they could do nothing but wait for the fire to be extinguished. Finally the blaze died down and darkness enveloped us. The workshops were totally razed. Only red-hot embers remained where they once stood. The crowd thinned and I too got onto my bicycle and cycled...
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...stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way.." "and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away." The green light marks Daisy's house, which almost represents Gatsby's dream, which is Daisy. The use of the colour green could symbolise prosperity and his thrive for money which could represent Gatsby's hope and dreams for the future to make enough money to impress Daisy in hopes he will finally get her after coming back 5 years to almost look for her again. The use of the dark atmosphere at night shows how the green light at the end of Daisy's dock may be his guiding light to his goals. Fitzgerald also uses unusual collocations to almost confuse the reader, for example, where he says "unquiet darkness". This almost suggests how there is a sort of...
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