The artist of the artwork is Jeff wall. The Destroyed Room Photographed in 1978. Created by transparency in a lightbox. Currently located in the National Gallery of Canada‚ Ottawa. Subject Matter and Interpretation In The photograph known as The Destroyed Room‚ there is a mess in the photo. Without doing research easily the photo express mystery and anger. In a brief summary‚ it looks like a fight was taken place in the room. Due to lack of humans in the photo‚ its hard to pinpoint the emotion
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Wild Cards II Aces High Some see evil and some see power in something destined to destroy our world. Wild Cards II Aces High is multiple short stories written by multiple authors. It is edited by George R.R. Martin and is 498 pages. My favorite story was Half Past Dead by John J. Miller. I chose this book because I loved the prequel‚ Wild Cards‚ and I enjoy books with multiple authors. I believe that multiple authors give more interesting twists and values in a book. Setting- It’s now the
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John De Cleene English Harris Due: December 2‚ 2010 Horror and Tension Within The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe is most famous for his remarkable gothic fiction stories. In fact‚ some would almost consider him to be the father of them. One of his most recognized pieces is The Tell Tale Heart. This particular tale tells the story of a man who in the end turns out to be insane when he hears the beating of a dead man’s heart. The narrator kills an old man who did nothing wrong. The only thing
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The Pit and the Pendulum There are some stories‚ where the objects that are described or portrayed play a more important part of the story than what we believed. In The Pit and the Pendulum‚ a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe there is certain symbolism that adds meaning to the story. The narrator is telling the story from a dungeon in Toledo‚ Spain as a prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition. In the story‚ there are certain objects that have important symbolism for the drama‚ since they lead
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The Scarlet Letter Chillingworth perspective essay When Chillingworth comes to America and resides with Native Americans he has a very different outlook on life than when he sees Hester on the scaffold. Beforehand‚ he had a far more positive outlook to the future‚ due to the fact that he is unaware of his wife’s affair. Chillingworth had spent years of his life attempting to gain the love and affection of Hester‚ and planned on continuing that course once he reunited with her. Chillingworth
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LINCOLN‚IL-Edgar allen poe is still famous to this day. He is known as the american treasure; he is a guenes who draws us to his work on horror stories and poems. One reason poe is still famous today is because his writing is very creative and scary. He pulls every bad memory and turns it into a story. He pulls everyone in with the misery of his stories. Poe uses depression in his stories. One story poe wrote was “the Tell-Tale Heart.” In it he used lots of random capitalization such as‚ “Evil
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The night was pitch black. No stars to fill the sky. The only patch of light was the moon‚ but even it was shaded by the fast moving clouds. Adrenaline was rushing. Blood was pumping. Legs were moving. The quick movements were drowned out by the large amounts of traffic below. Joel loved danger. Acting as if he was invulnerable to fear. He loved it‚ because he was mainly the one causing it. Robberies‚ illegal deals‚ assassinations‚ he had done it all. It didn’t bother him. He had no reason to
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Most people seem to look at only the text when reading literature then breaking it down to the words used‚ failing to realize what has been written can be followed back to the author. The trials and tribulations authors go through in their personal life have an effect on their choice of literature writing. Front and center without reasoning‚ Edgar Allan Poe was drawn to gothic fiction without even realizing. Throughout Poe’s work‚ he was able to conquer gothicism in every way possible from his premature
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In my opinion‚ the narrator of this story is mad because madness is mental illness‚ chaotic thoughts and actions and they often find pleasure in completing these ideas even when they are morally wrong. The narrator in this story shows signs of all of these things. First of all‚ the narrator has very chaotic‚ obsessive and powerful thoughts. This is proven on page when it says‚ “It is impossible to say how the idea first entered my brain; but once conceived‚ it haunted me day and night.” This is
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How does Poe use language and character to create tension in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’? Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be a master of writing macabre stories. Poe generally writes using this theme which shows he is comfortable with writing morbid dark tales. He is able to write short stories which are full of tension – one main example being ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The genre choice being ‘short story’ automatically creates tension. Compared to a general ‘novel’ they are massively different. A short
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