VI. Symbolisms and meaning (What do you think are the symbolisms in the story and how do they affect the story?.)…
Edgar allan Poe uses the seven rooms from east to west to explain the stages of life . "That at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue....second was purple....the third was green...the fourth was orange...the fifth with white... the sixth violet...the seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black..." (448) The blue room represents the new born stage of life, purple is for your childhood, green represents growing up and gaining knwledge. These first three rooms are…
They all symbolize time moving by with nature. This is giving the readers a theme, nature always has to do with the cycle of life, so when repeated, it is as time moves on people live and die, which brings us to another possible theme of love/life/death, The phrase “with up so floating many bells down” (2, 24) is repeated twice. At first it is difficult to figure out what “bells” mean, later I figured out that they represent Anyone and Noone’s wedding and, also later their funerals. They found love and then they both died. The other people in the town went on to live their life that never goes anywhere, they do not remember Anyone or Noone, because nothing matters to them.…
Poe also uses his word choice to display how easy of a concept being loved for who you are really is. Poe states that being true to yourself is, in fact, “a simple duty.” It’s not something you have to strive extra hard for or strain yourself to do. It’s second-nature almost. He further backs up this ideology in the beginning of the poem when he uses the word “then.” He states it in a way as if to say, “This is all you have to do.” It persuades the reader to believe what he is trying to portray. Poe persuades the reader even more by using “to be” verbs such as “being” throughout his poem. This plants the idea in the reader’s mind that they can, in fact, be a person people will cherish and love without having to change themselves in the…
On a brisk January morning in 2014, a boy in the eighth grade stepped onto the campus of Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA); and little did he know it, but he was about to embark on an experience that would change his life. Walking through the cracked façade of the pea-green middle school academic building, anxiety and fear raced through his mind. Prior to his transfer to FUMA he attended Fluvanna County Public Schools, and things were going poorly. The report cards sent to his parents showcased his substandard performance. He had a poor work ethic, and worst off, he was indifferent to the whole ordeal; and so, later that year, his parents enrolled him in Fork Union Military Academy. That young boy was me, and as luck would have it, attending…
2. The narrator describes the room with the yellow wallpaper as a former nursery — that is, a room in a large house where children played, ate their meals, and may have been educated. What evidence is there that it may have a different function? How does that discrepancy help develop the character of the narrator and communicate the themes of the story?…
It is implied that these 7 rooms are symbolic representations of the 7 deadly sins of man. As the story and the party progresses the people go through all 7 different rooms. The point to be made is that no matter what room they were in, they partygoers would always leave one sin for another. This shows that no matter what they did another inescapable truth hung over the patrons heads, they as men are the embodiment of…
This is where the Black Death received its name. The nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' roses" is related to the Black Death. " Ring a-round the rosie" refers to the rosy circular rash which was one of the symptoms of the plague. The posies refer to the different herbs and flowers people used to protect themselves from the Black Death. " Ashes, ashes" would refer to the burning of the infected bodies.…
Poe’s early life was difficult, his father left shortly after he was born, and his mother died when he was just three1. Being so young without parents, Edgar Poe was adopted by the Allan family, taking their last name as his middle name. As Poe grew up he bonded with Mrs. Allan but never agreed with Mr. John Allan1. This perpetual disagreement led to money troubles for Poe when he wanted to go to college, John Allen would not lend him enough money to complete his studies at the University of Virginia.…
The use of colors could represent the stages in a person's life. The first room is blue which means faith and truth. White means the center of a person's life. Black and scarlet mean death.…
During, the medieval times, there was a destructive disease sweeping across the globe. So destructive it is believed to have taken twice as many lives as the amount of people murdered by Joseph Stalin’s regime in the Soviet Union (Benedictow). In this essay, I will explain to you “The Black Death”, the name given to the plague breakout in Europe. In order for you to understand the plague in Europe, I must first inform you on plagues, in general.…
The first recurrent image is the dark or darkness. Dark represents evil and hell. All of our fears rise in the dark. We can see that most of the mains scenes happen in a dark place or during the night. In fact, all the murders and treasons are done in darkness as if the dark could cover and hide the horrible deeds.…
5. What does the masked figure walking and its movement through the 7 rooms represent?…
Tuchman meticulously details the muck and filth [people seldom bathed] in which the diseases’ symptoms affected the body. Symptoms such as: black markings on the skin indicated internal bleeding; swellings oozing blood and pus were common among the infected ones (548). Tuchman writes “As the disease spread, other symptoms of continuous fever and spitting of blood appeared instead of swellings or buboes” (549). The plague had two forms in which it manifested. One spread by contact and the other was spread by air (549). If both forms of the plague attacked the body at once, the result was a speedy death, sometimes within hours.…
There are many symbolisms in the story. The most disgraceful symbol is the mansion itself: the fungus on it represents the sickness of the Usher family; the collapse of the house…