amount of imagery in his writing which can been seen through settings in The Hobbit. The imagery is usually either dark or light‚ depending on Bilbo’s mood and contrast of his surroundings. J.R.R Tolkien uses dark and light imagery in The Hobbit to effectively set an eerie and mysterious mood and to foreshadow events such as Bilbo’s journey in Mirkwood and his adventure in the Mountain. To understand Tolkien’s use of imagery‚ one must understand imagery as a concept. "Imagery refers to
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Violence and Blood Throughout acts two and three‚ imagery is used to depict scenes of horror‚ violence and bloodshed. This vivid imagery and allows Shakespeare to covey incredibly powerful messages about characters. Imagery of blood‚ violence and horror is used throughout acts two and three in order to create certain atmospheres and feelings as well as powerfully convey and reveal hidden messages about characters. In the Play‚ Shakespeare uses imagery to display Macbeths feeling of guilt and possible
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In Hamlet‚ imagery of disease‚ poison and decay‚ are used by William Shakespeare for many purposes. Marcellus’ line in Act I illustrates the use of this imagery very well‚ "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Corruption is rampant‚ like a contagious disease infecting the court. The atmosphere of disease serves to heighten the audience’s disgust for the events that are taking place in the play. Secondly‚ disease leads to death‚ so the diseased society of Denmark is doomed. Because of this
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The Power of Imagery in Night Imagery is a portrait that is painted in your mind‚ a portrait that makes you feel you are there. The Holocaust is full of disturbing and horrible images of death. Pictures of inhumanity that just make you sick looking at them. In many images you see the pale‚ unemotional faces whose lives were changed for eternity‚ and yet with these images some believe that the Holocaust did not happen. In the Holocaust there was mass genocide of over six million Jews. Also
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PLEASE READ AND REWORD WHAT YOU FIND OUT OF PLACE THIS WAS WRITTEN IT A QUICK MANNER Technology is becoming increasingly popular; we are forced to confront it everyday. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend of people becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all we use the television‚ computers‚ and even automobiles everyday. In the pedestrian Ray Bradbury has used insect images in The Pedestrian that suggests that with the increasing number of people using technology it will trap and
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There are many auditory images in this short excerpt from The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin. The first is where the narrator is describing Edna’s feelings. This put an image of a frightened child in the readers heads. Another that is easily seen is the dog who is barking. Chopin went into detail of the type of tree the dog was tied to‚ which put an image of a dog tied to a sycamore tree in the reader’s head. The last two were “the spurs of the cavalry officer”‚ and “the hum of bees” (Chopin). As the
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Krapp ’s Last Tape: Imagery in Color During the 20th century‚ there was an evident disillusion and disintegration in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and improvements in technology of this time‚ such as the Holocaust and the creation of the atom bomb. This has left people with little‚ if any‚ faith in powers above or in their own kind‚ leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is an absurd joke. From these times grew the Theater of Absurd
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T.S. Eliot’s Preludes is a poem in which he portrays the isolation of an individual from society. His imagery is clear and he uses many techniques to achieve this. The central theme of the poem is about the feeling of despair at the decline and dissolution of modern civilization. This poem was written in 1917‚ when there was a worldwide questioning of the values of modern western civilization. Due to many factors‚ especially the First World War and the economic depression‚ many artists‚ poets and
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A question that I came across on the first chapter of The Stranger‚ by Albert Camus was What is the significance of Meursault’s mother funeral being religious‚ even though she never truly cared about religion? I specifically remember Meursault mentioning that the guy at the funeral home had a religious funeral setup‚ however‚ his mother never truly cared about religion. Did the funeral home decide the arrangements of the funeral or was it discussed by other people? If Meursault didn’t think a religious
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AP English 3 11 September 2013 Rhetorical Analysis: Imagery In the sermon‚ “Sinners In The Hands of An Angry God‚” Jonathan Edwards utilizes imagery as one of the rhetorical devices in order to scare his audience back to the pious ways of the first generation Puritans. Edwards’ vivid descriptions of hell and eternal torment are examples of the emotional appeal pathos. He uses figurative language including metaphors‚ similes‚ and personification to illustrate this unfortunate scenario in the
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