Secondly‚ the geography in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller‚ affected the setting and influenced things such as plot and characters‚ like Abigail. This story occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the Salem witch trials. As stated before‚ The setting in the book affected things such as the plot and characters. The Woods‚ or “Satan’s house” where the group of girls were dancing‚ contributed to the plot of the “The Crucible”. If there were no woods or dancing in the story‚ then there wouldn’t be a
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Have you ever gotten that feeling of guilt after doing something? Have you ever done something that you regret? Would you go insane from your actions? Would you be able to live on knowing what you’ve done was a terrible thing? What would you do? In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he writes about a person who gets driven into insanity due to an old man’s “vulture eye”. He starts the story with the narrator explaining how he is not mad‚ “how calmy can I tell you the whole story”(Poe
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shows the importance of guilt and how it affects the characters in negative ways as punishment for their evil deeds . Shakespeare implies that guilt is a human nature to feel remorse for what you have done and to make you pay for what you have done with your sanity. Shakespeare shows this through his main character Macbeth as he kills to gain and keep his place as king but become more and more guilty as the story progresses and more and more insane. Macbeth guilt changes him making him
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Revenge without guilt – The complete and perfect scheme. (or Heaven Bound Hamlet) In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the intensely introspective character‚ Hamlet‚ purposely uses an internal dialogue and calculatingly waits and plots to cope with the moral issues‚ draw out his enemies and manipulate the situation to exact revenge without guilt‚ all while feigning madness. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were fascinated by madness. This fascination was perhaps connected to not being able to distinguish
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and they go to different countries every night to eat people. They take them from their homes while they are sleeping and eat them. Sophie thinks these other giants need to be stopped but they are a lot bigger and meaner than the BFG. In the end she does come up with a plan to mix up a dream to tell the queen of England what is going on with these giants. Sophie and the BFG create a dream that tells the queen all about the bad giants and what they do at night and about her and the good giant. When
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to the melodramatic language‚ emotive imagery‚ and an array of language techniques‚ which were extremely common in gothic fiction‚ which was very popular during the 1880’s. This popularity could have been due to the Victorians nature of evasion‚ and how this novel allowed them to venture into the unknown. This passage vividly describes Hyde’s attack on his victim‚ witnessed and retold by a maid-servant. Firstly‚ Stevenson uses many techniques of emphasis to exaggerate upon this violent and uncanny
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of a story. Wells’s original intent for the book was to prove a dull point and put it in an interesting form‚ but it turned into something much more. I thought it was a great story packed with interesting characters and an entertaining plot Wells does a good job on clarifying the meaning of events or people just as your curiosity peaks. He really shows what is symbolic in the story by emphasizing the object or person and making the otherwise insignificant subject a meaningful part of the story which
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’The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald opens effectively and prepares the reader for the rest of the novel. Fitzgerald does this by using techniques such as symbolism and setting. The symbolism in the first few chapters of the novel is very important as it prepares the reader for the rest of the novel. A good example of this is in the first chapter when Daisy‚ Tom and Nick go into Daisy’s garden. " ’Why candles?’ objected Daisy. She snapped them out with her fingers." This is important as light
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and determination. Santiago has a lot of courage that could affect his meaning of his true existence. “If sharks come‚ God pity him and me.”(Hemingway pg. 68) When he says this‚ he is taking a risk that a shark could come and kill the fish before he does which could kill him in the process. “ Now‚ you can let the cord go‚ hand‚ and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense.”(Hemingway pg. 59) He is also taking a risk here by letting his right hand handle the huge marlin
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In a literary work‚ the setting can have major effect on character. It can also play a role as an underlying major conflict of a story. In the novel‚ "Lord of the Flies"‚ the setting‚ being a deserted island in the middle of nowhere‚ takes effect in influencing character behavior and mentality. Eventually‚ the setting sets up the environment where "survival of the fittest" becomes crucial. Through the setting‚ author William Golding portrays the characters’ transformation from good to evil‚ where
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