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Friday, January 7, 2011
"Big Mac" Quote Sandwich Paragraph
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Throughout The Ministers Black Veil the veil casts a dark and depressed mood on the proceedings. The veil, while only a pice of crape, has a disproportionate effect on people when Father Hooper is near. “It was tinged, rather more darkly than usual, with the gentle gloom of Mr. Hoopers temperament (Hawthorne 103).” This quote says that his sermon, although a good one, was darker and more depressing than his previous sermons. The effect of the veil starts from the very first time he appears with the veil on in public. “He has changed himself into something awful, only by covering his face (Hawthorne 100).” This quote shows the difference that a simple piece of cloth can make. Even though the speaker realizes what is happening, they are still drawn in by it. These quotes show that even if someone realizes what is happening, they still feel like the veil makes the event gloomy.
Throughout The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant demonstrates how materialism can make people unhappy in the long run. He does this through the main character, Madame Loisel who was a pretty girl, born into a family of artisans and married off to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury (Maupassant 92)." This quote says that Mme. Loisel thought that she had been unlucky in marriage and that she felt that she deserved more than she got. Not only did this become a personal matter, but she also allowed it to limit the people that she interacted with on a regular basis. "She had a rich friend, an old school friend whom she refused to visit, because she suffered so keenly when she returned home (Maupassant 93)." This quote clearly shows how materialism ruins her life. She is so caught up in the things that she and the people around her have, that she completely forgets about the human values other than money. Both of these quotes demonstrate how quickly materialism can overtake someone's life and makes them unhappy.
Throughout The Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff is motivated to hunt humans because he is bored of hunting animals and wants to hunt something that can have equal hunting abilities as he does. General Zaroff stopped hunting animals because he always killed his prey. No matter what it was. “Hunting ceased to be what you all ‘a sporting proposition.’ It became too easy. I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection” (Connell 182). General Zaroff thought that he was such a perfect hunter that it was acceptable for him to hunt whatever pleased him. “Every day I hunt, and I never grow bored now, for I have a quarry with which I can match my wits” (Connell 182). General Zaroff wanted to hunt things that were equally as smart as he is, so he found some animal that would match his wits. Unfortunately that animal was human. These quotes show that General Zaroff is a vicious man who will do anything as long as he is pleased with it.
In the beginning of The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford shares General Zaroff's opinion on hunting to an extent, but quickly becomes disgusted by the General's invention. Before Rainsford knew that General Zaroff was hunting Homo sapiens, he spoke about quarry in an offhand way. He shard exactly the same point of view about his game as Zaroff had about hunting humans. "'Don't talk rot Whitney! You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher'"(175)! At this point, Rainsford believes that hunted animals are just too dull to matter. They are not cunning enough to feel anything other than instinct. Because of this, Rainsford talks about the beasts as if they hold no other value than to be the subject of a hunt. As an accomplished hunter, he has a lot of experience in killing, but feels no remorse. "That's odd. It must have been a fairly large animal too. The hunter had his nerve with him to tackle it with a light gun" (178). The question this quote poses is whether hunting anything at all is morally agreeable; Rainsford acts as if the general is a monster, mercilessly hunting helpless sailors. And yet he does the same, simply with different species of animal. This illuminates the fact that preaching moral values is difficult when one hunts for pleasure.
In the beginning of the “The Necklace”, Mathilde longed to have all the luxurious items of the wealthy, which caused her not to be satisfied with what she had. She could not appreciate the fact that her life was much better than most people’s because she was not surrounded by fine things. Mathilde was born into a lower class family, so she had no way of being noticed by a wealthy man, even though she was very pretty. “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury” (Maupassant, 92). This shows that she only cared about the material things in life, and because she was pretty she thought she deserved better. Even though she was married to a good man and hardly ever had to work, she only cared about what she didn’t have. “She had no clothes, no jewelery, no nothing. And these were the only things she loved” (Maupassant, 93). This shows that she was very vain and didn’t care about the people in her life. Mathilde was so upset she wasn’t rich that she didn’t realize what a good life she had.
Irony is used in this story to demonstrate a new look on the popular term, “hunting for sport.” The way that Connell uses both dramatic and verbal irony has a foreshadowing effect on how Zaroff’s feels about hunting for sport, the way that humans hunt animals just because they feel like it and it is fun for them. It gives them pleasure to hunt animals because they can, and they don’t feel threatened by it because they believe that the animal’s reasoning is not as sophisticated as ours, so they are not as much of a threat. There is a very good example at the beginning of this story, where two characters, Rainsford and his hunting partner, are talking about what it would be like for a jaguar to be hunted. They wonder who cares about how the jaguar actually feels. According to them, “ ‘the world is made up of two classes – the hunters, and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters’ ” (Rainsford, 175). Rainsford says this to his partner in thinking that the both of them are very lucky that they are indeed not the ones being hunted (the huntees,) but they are the ones who hunt animals for sport. They are obviously thinking that to be a huntee would be very unfortunate. This is a very good example of verbal irony because later on, Rainsford does become the one being hunted, General Zaroff being the hunter against him. In that moment, Rainsford actually is thinking like the jaguar would, thinking about how the animal being hunted really feels when it is faced with such a threat, and how unlucky he becomes when he reaches this difficult position. However, General Zaroff seems to think differently. Later in the book he is explaining his brilliant idea of hunting humans to Rainsford, and he believes that hunting the humans gives a greater thrill. From his point of view, he has “ ‘done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation’ ” (Zaroff, 181). This is quite ironic because if you look at the difference between the two hunters points of view, neither of them seem to worry about what the huntee is feeling like, except when Rainsford really becomes the huntee. Throughout the story, Zaroff never realizes what that means to be hunted. In his opinion, creating such a new idea about hunting is a very good thing that he presumes will be beneficial to him and to other aspiring hunters as well. If he were to become the huntee as Rainsford had, his outlook may not have been so optimistic. General Zaroff never got that chance, so for him, hunting for sport still contains its resonance as a popular, true term that he uses as almost a mantra.
Throughout The Cask of Amontillado, verbal and dramatic irony were used to reflect Montresor's attitude towards his memory of Fortunado's death. Montresor spoke with cynicism when he was describing Fortunado. He often referred to him as his friend, which he was not in the least. At one point in the story, Fortunado is struck with a fit of terrible fit of coughing. Montresor describes the scene; "My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes" (Poe 171). Montresor called his enemy poor, and seemed to pity him. His pity was a form of mockery, because he knew that his severe cough was the least of Fortunado's concerns. At another moment, when the pair were walking through the vaults, Montresor describes his increasing happiness. “The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc” (Poe 171). When Fortunado first enters the story, he was detailed to be wearing a jester costume. Along with his costume Fortunado was sporting a set of bells. Montresor decided to mention this aspect of his memory, in the story. The bells signify lightheartedness and comicality, and Montresor knew that Fortunado should be anything but happy. He was being led to his death without realizing it, and Montresor saw humor in that. Mocking Fortuado was Montresor way to laugh at his enemy in the grave. With irony, Montresor expressed himself and his thoughts about Fortunado.
In A Good Man, the Grandmother thinks of a Good Man as a person with a good background who follows rules and laws, not one who is generous and compassionate. She judges by appearences constantly, as she herself admits. To the Misfit she says “I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell”( ). The Grandmother’s policy is to judge by things’ covers. She judges their ‘goodness’ by way of their appearance. As well as this, part of her criteria for what makes a someone good, is their class. For example, when she tries to convince the misfit not to kill her she says "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!”( ). This quote clearly demonstrates how the Old lady views the world: to be good is to have good blood. And to be good, one must have good blood. She associates following rules with being good, as well. When Sam says "These days you don't know who to trust," the Grandmother agrees. She and Sam discuss honesty as being a key component to being ‘good.’With this last quote, it is clear to the reader that the Grand mother has a very strong idea of what it means to be good: she doesn’t see it as acting to help others, and do good, but rather not do wrong. She attributes goodness to family and social status, and following rules.
Throughout The Ministers Black Veil, Mr. Hooper uses the black veil in order to prove a point that even the best of people have sinned at one point in their life. He makes an argument that absolutely everyone else is also wearing a black veil, and nothing can make him take it off. “No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world; even you… can never come behind it” (Hawthorne, 105). In this quote, Hawthorne is enforcing the idea that Mr. Hooper thinks that everyone else is also wearing a black veil, not just himself. Mr. Hooper soon learns that he will be lonely for the rest of his life since none of his friends or family understands what point he is trying to get across. Because of this he starts to get mad at them, “why do you tremble at me alone?” (Hawthorne, 109). By saying this he is directly getting his point across and telling the people that everyone has sinned, including him even if he never says what he did. By the end of the short story the reader still has questions that need to be answered, these are rhetorical questions they everyone can make their own hypotheses about and teach themselves life lessons. These quotes show Mr. Hooper’s frustration his friends and family, and just how much he wants them to realize that he is not crazy, he’s just trying to make a point.
As Rainsford fights for his life in the jungle, he realizes that his actions mirror those of the animals he kills for sport. He is used to hunting animals, but when he himself is hunted, it takes every last ounce of bravery and reason he has to escape with his life. After Rainsford has spent his first sleepless night in the forest, he realizes that the General is playing with him. “It was then that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror” (Connell 188). Rainsford decides that the teasing the General is submitting him to is similar to the deadly mockery experienced by mice when hunted by cats. He decides that this sort of fatal teasing is cruel and unnecessary. Later on in the game, the General sends his hounds after Rainsford. “Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels” (Connell 190). Rainsford has presumably used dogs to hunt animals before and know he is experiencing the horror of being chased himself. Throughout his trials and tribulations in the jungle, Rainsford grows to understand the horrors of being hunted, and illustrates the moral problems hunting presents. One can assume Rainsford will be a hunter no longer.
In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses the five senses to help readers understand what is really happening or what is going to happen without directly saying so. By making observations of their surroundings or one another, Montresor and Fortunato are, in Fortunato's case without being aware, giving the readers hints about what might happen next. The narrator of this story, Montresor, is luring Fortunato into an enormous labyrinth of catacombs, and while this is not something that one normally does, Fortunato appears to have no doubts about Montresor's intentions. Montresor is talking about Fortunato when he tells the readers, "He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" (Poe 170). Montresor is telling us that Fortunato is drunk, so we can figure out that Montresor is obviously trying to take advantage of that. Before Montresor begins the final part of his plan, he must make sure that Fortunato does not become afraid of him. Montresor narrates, "It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depth of the recess. Its termination the feeble light did not enable us to see" (Poe 172). The quote shows the readers that Montresor is about to take action, because is Fortunato cannot see around him, he certainly cannot see what Montresor is about to do. With the use of the senses in his story, Poe builds up suspense and gives reasons for the readers to guess about what is taking place, or what is going to happen.
Throughout The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant demonstrates the irony in the way how materialism can bring nothing. The maincharacter Mme Loisel wanted to get into the life she coveted but in the end the necklace put her into a life of nothing. Mme Loisel suffered under her marriage because she was married to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury (Maupassant 92)." In this quote you can see how she suffered under the marriage because she thought that she deserved more delicacy and luxury than she had. But her dream always styes the same. " She imagined vast saloons hung with antique silks, exquisite pieces of furniture supporting priceless ornaments, perfumed rooms, created just for a little parties of intimate friends, men who were famous and sought after, whose homage roused every other woman's envious longings (Maupassant 92)".This quote clearly shows how she dreams of a life in luxury and richness. These both quotes shows the beginning of the wohle irony. She dreams of the life she actually doesn't have and she gets the chance to life one evening in this life but after that she looses everything.
Throughout A Good Man is Hard to Find the family is submerged in negative criticism which effects the mood of the story drastically. "Tennessee is a hillbilly dumping ground"(John Wesley). This quote shows that the children are selfish and rude during the car ride to Florida. Even though it is a learning experience. The children do not appreciate the experience because they have already seen it before. When the children say these things the grandmother tries to reach out to them by providing different games and new adventures, but the children still have closed minds. "She would stay home to be a queen for a day"(June Star). This quote was directed to the grandmother which shows the children are ungrateful and do not respect their elders. Overall these children do not understand some things may suddenly change, so do not take anything for granted, and always be grateful, because sometimes you might be rude to someone but what if a moment from now they were gone. Would you regret it?
Throughout "The Minister's Black Veil," the veil represents an evil power or something dark and sinister for the parishioners as well as Father Hooper. The parishioners feel like the black veil means that Father Hooper is crazy or in mourning. They don't view him as the person they know, but rather they cannot see past the veil covering his face. People think that it is very strange for Mr. Hooper to wear a veil over his face. One lady, upon seeing the Minister's veil during a service, said, "'How strange,' ... 'that a simple black veil, such as any woman would wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper's face!'" (Hawthorne 102). This quote shows just how strange people think the veil is, although they also see it as awful or bad in some way. Father Hooper knows why he is wearing the veil, and even to him, it represents something about himself that he finds evil or bad or doesn't like. He said, "'...I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil'" (Hawthorne 105). This shows that Father Hooper is representing something that he finds upsetting about himself with a veil. He knows that most everyone else has something about themselves that they try to hide as well. The parishioners especially, find the veil very sinister and dark, while Father Hooper wore it for just that reason, because he wants to represent that he was hiding something that he himself thought dark or somewhat sinister.
From the way Rainsford Reacts to the situation he's put in, in The Most Dangerous Game, you can tell Rainsford is very confident in his own abilities. Rainsfords strong character is a key part to the success of the short story and his stay on the island. Even when he's in an extremely bad situation Rainsford is able to keep cool headed and calm, relying on his knowledge to help him through the situation such as is shown here, "A certain cool-headedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a tight place."(Connell P.177) this quote is an excerpt from when Rainsford first falls off the yacht in the beginning of the book and is stuck in the middle of the Caribbean sea. In this quote Connell gives insight to Rainsfords thoughts of the situation, and also a little bit of background information about Rainsford, saying how "It was not the fist time he had been in a tight place." When Rainsford does or creates something on purpose he is confident in his work and trusts it to do it's job as shown in this quote. "Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark." (Connell P.187) In this quote Rainsford is proud of his work, the trail, and shows his confidence that he doesn't believe even an extremely skilled hunter would be able to follow it, and especially at night. Also this shows that Rainsford must have some skill in making false or complicating trails because of his hunting career without it he wouldn't have been able to make a trail and be as confident in it as he is with this one. Theres no doubt Rainsford has pride in his abilities and also that he knows how to keep cool ion a tough situation, both of these atributes are key to being confident in oneself.
In The Minister’s Black Veil, the veil serves many purposes. First, it is used as a specific display of the common fear of the “secret sin” and of the veil among his congregation. After donning the veil, Father Hooper is seen differently. Many ignore him and are frightened by what they see and do not see. This new out look could be interpreted as the fear of their own secret sin, or the one Father Hooper is supposedly hiding. During his morning service, the subject of the sermon is “secret sin.” As he preaches, still wearing the two-folded piece of black crape over his eyes an nose, his message starts to come across. “… As if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or though,” (101). This serves as an example that its their own secret sin that scares them, not his. The secret sin is seen as a sin even some can’t admit to themselves. The veil and subject of the message cast a dark light onto their morning service. That day at the afternoon funeral, Mr. Hooper arrived yet again sporting his mysterious veil. As he pays his respects to the corpse lying in the open casket he “bent over the coffin, to take a last farewell of his deceased parishioner. As he stooped, the veil hung straight down his forehead, so that…the dead maiden might have seen his face,” (102). And as he does this “the corpse had slightly shuddered,” (102). I would interpret this as this corpse was the only one to see his face after donning the veil. By saying she “slightly shuttered” could mean she saw something dark behind the veil, perhaps the secret sin he is hiding. This could mean it was something dark enough to make even a corpse shake. It’s possible the congregation is just afraid of both his secret and their own, or even the idea of secret sin in general. If the veil represents secret sin, then it represents death as well. This could be was caused the troubled minds of his congregation.
In the short story "the most dangerous game" Rainsford realizes how he is acting like an animal that he may have hunted before. Like in this quote when rainsford realizes that he is being toyed with "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse (Connell 188)." This quote shows how Rainsford thinks that the General is playing with him and waiting to get the right shot like you might do with an animal. Later on Rainsford finds that the General is really trying to scare him while also toying with him. "and rainsford with fear again gripping his heart heard the generals mocking laughing through the jungle (connell 189)." this is another way the author shows that rainsford realizes what an animal. Both of these quuotes show how an animal might feel when someone is hunting it. This is also how the wauthor gets in the head of an animal.
In "The Most Dangerous Game" General Zaroff acts like a very powerful and wealthy man. General Zaroff is basically showing Rainsford that he is a man and is very powerful in this quote. "If he does not wish to hunt then I turn him over to Ivan"(p.184). This quote shows that Zaroff is showing Rainsford that the wise choice is for him to play the game with him because he will be beaten by Ivan if he refuses. Rainsford then finds out that the General has trapped him there, because he notices that at night time he cannot escape his room and see's that there are dogs down in the courtyard patrolling the building. "He sought to throw open the door; it would not open.(p.185)"The hounds heard him at the window and looked up" (p.185). These quotes show how Richard Connell is trying to show that General Zaroff is trying to scare Rainsford.
In 'The Cask of Amontillado', Edgar Allan Poe uses the sight of the tomb to foreshadow the dangers that lie within. The ghastly sights that are to be found in the catacombs let the reader feel the horror, and the treachery that goes on under the main character's house. the reader feels a growing sense of fear as the two venture deeper and deeper into the systems of tunnels. "We had passed through the walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs (Poe 171)." The awful sight of bones piled high on the walls gives the reader a chill that helps to set the horrendous tone of this short story. the sign of bones has always been used to warn others of dangers. because Fortunato is so drunk, he does not recognize the warnings like the reader does. This comes together to create more suspense for the reader. As the two continue farther into the catacombs, the amount of nitre, a fungus that flourishes along stingy, damp surfaces, begins to rise. this sets off Fortunato's cough and helps the reader visualize the rancid events that happen when one enters the tunnel. "The nitre!....See, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults...Your cough (171)." Once again, Fortunato is oblivious to the warnings that even his own body is displaying. A mixture of vile moss, and bones scattered to and fro are just a few of the things that should tell a person they are entering an unhealthy area. Edgar Allen Poe uses those pictures to stimulate the feelings both of fear and regret to the reader.
In The Necklace, Maupassant shows through his character, Madame Loisel, that materialism distracts people from what is really important in life. Mme Loisel gets so caught up in trying to look rich and having expensive items that she doesn't realize how good she really has it. Her yearning for material items prevents her from appreciating what she has. "She had no clothes, no jewels, nothing. And these were the only things she loved (Maupassant 93)." This quote shows that she doesn't care about the people in her life. She doesn't realize that her husband goes out of his way for her and gives her his money so she can be happy. It also shows that she wants what she doesn't have which causes her to not be thankful about what she does have. "The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success (Maupassant 95)." This quote shows that Mme Loisel's idea of being a "success" means that she has expensive clothing and jewels on. She lacks to see that material items don't neccesarily mean that your life is successful. A sucessful life should be based on how happy and coontent a person is. Materialism distracts Mme Loisel from seeing what is really important in her life.
During The Necklace, The author Guy de Maupassant shows that material things are not the most important part of life. The Main character who is the one to demonstrate the materialism lesson is a young newly wed, who is not living her dream of living a life of luxury. "she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her" This means that she hated to be married to a normal, not wealthy, clerk. She was very embarrassed to have a husband like that. "The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind." That means that she was jealous of the life of a wealthy person. All she can think about is how lucky her neighbors are because they have money, however she does not consider love, or other forms of happiness in her judgement. I used an internet site instead of the book so i didn't have proper page numbers.
In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, Rainsford starts to become more compassionate about prey items, including himself as he is being hunted. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford is not sensitive to the plight of how a jaguar might feel when being hunted. Rainsford and a friend are on a boat and the friend expresses concern of how the jaguar might feel during a hunt. Rainsford replies "'You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels' said Rainsford" (Connell 175). This quote shows that Rainsford has no idea what it is like to be hunted and therefor is not very sympathetic towards a hunted animal. During the short story, Rainsford falls of a boat, swims to an island and thinks he is being rescued. He slowly realizes that his host is actually a crazy cossack hunter who plans to hunt him. "The cossack was the cat, he was the mouse" (Connell 188). This quote shows that Rainsford has realized that he is the prey. He is the victim of a crazy man. These quotes show the change in Rainsford and how he becomes sympathetic towards wildlife.
In ‘The Necklace’, Guy de Maupassant is showing that buy getting what you want doesn’t always help with getting what you need. Madame Loisel doesn’t notice that she already has good things in life. A good husband, a home, and money. Even though she may not be filthy rich, she sees herself as an outsider to those that are and so she ends up throwing away what she needed just to get what she wanted. “She flung herself on her friend’s breast, embraced her frenziedly, and went away with her treasure” (Maupassant 94). This is when Madame Loisel just got a necklace from her friend to wear to the ball so she would seem “richer”. All of a sudden because of one necklace, she feels more confident about herself. “Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with happiness” (Maupassant 95). Madame Loisel has just walked into the ball at this point, and now since she is “rich”, she is getting what she was looking for; popularity, looks, and confidence. While Madame Loisel is dancing away, she is not unaware of the possible consequences and the effects on her future that this necklace holds for her.
Good and evil is a very prominent theme in A Good Man Is Hard To Find. The grandmother and the misfit have a long discussion of whether he is a good man or not. When the grandmother begins to understand the situation, she begins to judge as she does earlier in the story and decides that he must be a good man. She says that he must have a good family he responds by saying “yes mam, finest people in the world.” (O’Connor, 8) After he says that she tries to preach to him that he is a good man and should pray, which he argues against. It shows that she was trying to find background about him to see what she could say to stop him because she knew what was coming. She begins to feel a connection of some sort to him and doesn’t want to be killed even though her family already has been. “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children.” (O’Connor, 11) After she says that she proceeds to try to touch his shoulder in a motherly way but it shocks him and causes him to react by shooting her. It shows that he was scared that somebody cared enough to want to be nice and gentle with him, some one of such a past. The grandmother and the misfit were both good and evil at points in the story, they both knew what was going to happen all along but each genuinely tried.
Throughout the Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff is determined to hunt something with equal skill as him and be able to reason. "It must have courage, cunning and above all, it must be able to reason." (Zaroff 182) The reasoning for this is because he grew bored of hunting animals, it was too easy for him because the animals never had a chance. "No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty." (Zandoff 182) This quote shows that Zaroff was an exeptional hunter, and needed something else to hunt. The reasoning for him to hunt humans was because animals had reached a point where they were easy prey. Both these quotes also show that Zaroff is a terrible and selfish person. He thinks about himself before his "huntees" even if they are humans. "We try to be civilized here." (Zaroff 184) This is another quote that Rainsford can not believe, it also shows how General Zaroff believes he is doing the right thing, when really he has the complete wrong idea of hunting humans.
Flannery O'Connor uses irony throughout "A Good Man is Hard to Find", particularly in relation to the grandmother. There are many instances in the story where the grandmother says or does something that seems to completely contradict what we know about her. Most of the instances show her to be blind to how she is in relation to what she thinks she is. Such as in the following situation, "Her son, Bailey, did not like to arrive at a motel with a cat" (Flannery O'Connor). From reading the story, we can see that the Grandmother is all about image and class, but bringing a cat around with her on vacation makes her seem like a slightly crazy and very lonely old lady, which I think is the opposite of the air she wants to exude. "The old lady settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves" (Flannery O'Connor). This shows that the old lady is very image obsessed, she wears white gloves such as royalty and very wealthy people might, and she tries to make herself seem of very good blood by telling stories about her suitors and their wealth and her experiences. She tries to be all about image and being a good person, but underneath she is conniving and manipulative, doing everything to serve her own personal agenda.The irony involved with the grandma is amazing, and these quotes only scratch the surface.
Throughout A Good Man is Hard to Find the author, Flannery O'Connor, uses many examples of irony. These uses of irony helped make the story entertaining but the Grandmother unlikeable. Throughout the whole story the Grandmother emphasized how it was very tough nowadays to find good man compared to when she was young. "People are certainly not like they used to be"(Grandmother). She is saying that people have changed over the years for the worse. I find this very ironic because I don't think of her as a good person. I find her as a very selfish person. " There was a secret panel in the house,' she said craftily not telling the truth" (Grandmother). In this quote she is telling a lie to persuade her family to go where she wants to go, which shows she is selfish. At the beginning of the story the Grandmother was attempting to convince the family that they should vacation in Tennessee instead of Florida. To do so she warned the family of an escaped convict, the Misfit, that is in Florida. "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it"(Grandmother). In this scene she is making excuses not to vacation in Florida. I found this quote ironic because it was her poor decision making which led them all into the Misfit after she said she would never bring her children near him. These quotes are perfect examples of the irony in this story and make the Grandmother unlikeable.
In 'The Cask of Amontillado', it is very manipulative that Montresor is plotting Furtunato's murder in the middle of a carnival. During carnivals, people have masks on and they are not easily recognized. Also, people drink a lot and become drunk. "He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much" (Poe 169). Montresor plans to do something to Furtunato while he is drunk because Montresor can lure him into traps far easier than if he wasn't drunk. "He had on a tight-fitting parti-stripped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells" (Poe 169). Montresor and Fortunato will not easily be recognized when they Montresor performs the murder, so people will not suspect Montresor for killing Fortunato. This shows how Montresor is very manipulative and plans everything out very well.
In the “Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses the themes madness, and revenge to express the character’s feelings. For example Montresor speaks of revenge and anger upon Fortunato. In the story Montresor (the narrator and the main character) tricks his friend Fortunato into killing him, by giving Fortunato advice on revenge. For instance Montresor says in the very beginning of the story “The thousand injuries of Fortunato… but when ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe 169). This quote shows that Montresor is very mad at Montresor and vowed revenge upon him. Then Montresor explains to the reader about how someone should take revenge on somebody else. So he says “A wrong is undressed when retribution takes its redresser” (Poe 169). Montresor is saying here that you should make the person you want to take revenge on to trust you, so you can trick them very easily. Both of these quotes show that Montresor is angry, and wants revenge.
Rainford's opinon changes as he has a different perception on hunting.In the begaining,Rainford was all for hunting but then by a twist of fate he became the hunted.When talking to Whitney about hunting he states that Whitney should "Be a realist The world is made up of two classes the hunter an the huntees Luckly for you an i are hunters"(connell 175).This is showing how he had no compassion or sympathy for the hunted. How he had thought that the animals he was hunted did not comprehend fear.THen later on while he was Rainsford knew the full meaning of fear"(connell 188). By stating this it tells us that he is relizing that after being put into the animals position he now understands the fear of a death looming over your head! so all of this is evidence of how at frist he was all for hunting but now he knows how it feels to be hunted.
Throughout the story, The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford id driven by fear for his own life, and that pushes him to become more like an animal. Throughout the whole story Connell uses similes that compare Rainsford to animals. This represents him giving into his animal instinct and such. Like when the hunt starts. When Rainsford finds out that Zarroff will be hunting him the following night, Rainsford leaves to get a head start and as he leaves he thinks “I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable” (Connell___). This quote tells you that Rainsford is slowly switching from human reasoning to Animal instinct. The Author does this very well by slipping in little metaphors and similes. Another example of when Rainsford is becoming more of an animal is at the send of the story. After jumping off a cliff to evade Zarroff, Rainsford swims over and hides in Zarroff’s bed. There he waits until Zarroff comes to sleep. Then he pops out at Zarroff. Zarroff congratulates him for winning the game, but Rainsford had other Ideas. That is when he said, “‘I am still a beast at bay’” (Connell___). This quote is there to tell you that this is your normal Rainsford. This is a wild beast that wants revenge. Connell does a very good job integrating this transformation of Rainsford. This proves that all characters use Evil and Fear in this story even if they know it or not.
I was reading an online copy, didn't have my packet. So I couldn't get page numbers.
Edgar Allan Poe uses the five senses as a tool of foreshadowing in "The Cask of Amontillado."Poe uses sensory details to explain the setting and characters and to give you clues about Montresor's intentions. As Montresor was leading Fortunato through the catacombs, the setting described by Poe created a dark and creepy mood. "We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together on the damp ground on the catacombs of the Montresors" (Poe 170). From the quote you can visualize the underground cemetery where you know revenge will be taken on Fortunato, and you can feel the eeriness as Poe describes the damp ground. After being chained to the cold granite and nitre-covered walls, Fortunato finaly begins to understand what is happening to him. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man" (Poe 173). This shows that one can tell Fortunato has realized this is not a joke solely from what one hears. These are two quotes that show how Poe has used three of the five sense to connect to the reader and help them understand what is happening and what is going to happen.
In "The Most Dangerous Game" Richard Connell puts Rainsford in the place of a hunted animal to bring the reader into the mind of the hunter's prey. Several times throughout the story, the characters question the moral dilemas of hunting. While Rainsford and Whitney are still on the yacht, Whitney and Rainsford are talking about hunting. "'Don't talk rot Whitney,' said Rainsford. 'You're a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?' 'Perhaps the jaguar does,' observed Whitney. "'Bah! They've no understanding.'(175)" This quote is the seting stone for the story. Its the first mention of hunting and shows the "common man's" view on hunting. Once Rainsford is put into the place of the prey the reader will be exposed to the other side of the dilema. After becoming the prey of Gerneral Zaroff, he becomes overwhelmed with terror watching his everymove. With every interaction his night becomes worse and he becomes overtaken by fear. "His hands were tight closed as if his nerve were somthing tongible that someone in the darkness was trying to tear from his grip." This reflects the imense mental torment that Rainsford has gone through. As would be in any animal at this point. Richard Connell takes you into the mind set of your own and completely shifts it by the end. You have a completely different view of hunting by the end.
The mortal race, according to Mr. Hooper, is trapped by a black veil and even the essence of our existence cannot escape it. Nature, with us, is shrouded in the veil’s emblematic crape, or at least fears what lies beneath. It seems that we have stained, left a mark on what was pure and dragged it down with us. Hawthorne displays this when Mr. Hooper discovers his reflection for the first time and is horrified. As he runs away from himself, the mention of Earth wearing her black veil as well lends an idea that she herself is afraid of what she has become. Are mortals the source of that fear? “For the Earth too had on her Black Veil”(Hawthorne 103). Suggestion of the importance of this is denoted in the capital ‘B’ in ‘Black’, darkness and behind the scene thoughts taking place, secrets to be uncovered. Revealing them, to the public, involved removing the veil, yet no one dared defy Mr. Hooper’s wishes to keep it on. “Even the lawless wind, it was believed, respected his dreadful secret and never blew aside the veil” (Hawthorne 107). The secret is what the world wants to know. ‘Secrets, secrets are no fun, secrets are meant to share with everyone!’ School house chants do not justify the unwanted, denied, secret sin that is always there, and never truly meant to share. Hawthorne ties the knot by expanding mortal fears about the veil to the surroundings. By adding the looming presence of wind and our own Earth into the equation, the invisible veil and secret sin is seen on a higher level, with more meaning and mystery. It also makes it known to the reader that everything is affected and not just ourselves or the people we interact with. The knowledge of this common ground between nature and man allows a sense of unity and similarity which is often times hard to recognize.
The character General Zaroff, in the short story 'The Most Dangerous Game', seems to be psychotic. When people find something that they love to do, and think that this thing is what they are meant to do, they can get obsessed. I think this was the case with General Zaroff. When his obssesion started to bore him, he went insane with an idea to fill this boredom, and now thinks that the idea is the right thing to do. Humans were not intended to hunt each other, and only someone suffering from psychosis would think that they were. General Zaroff is civil in every way besides his terrible thoughts. '... I assure you I do not do the thing you suggest. That would be barbarous. I treat these visitors with every consideration. They get plenty of food and exercise . They get into splendid physical condition. You shall see for yourself tomorrow.' (Zaroff, 184). This shows that General Zaroff sincerely believes what he is doing is the right thing to do. It shows us this because it enables us to see that he is doing this for a purpose (to fill his boredom), and not because he is murderous. He wants his prey to succeed, so that he does not become bored. Throughout the story, General Zaroffs civil qualities are not as prevalent. " The General was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." (Connell, 188). This tells us that General Zaroff is playing with his prey which is uncivil. It is like he is kicking Rainsford while he is down, and letting him know that he, Zaroff, is superior. This shows us that Zaroff is Psychotic because it lets us know that he treats his human prey differently than animals because he takes advantage of Rainsfords mind. One of the reasons that Rainsford exceeds is because he does not fall for this trick.Both of these show that General Zaroff is psychotic because he believes what he is doing is right when it is not and treating humans as prey.
Throughout The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses irony in the ways that the characters address each other. In order for Montresor to lure Fortunato into the depth of his house, Montresor has to act as if everything were normal. Before they get to Montresor’s house, when the two men first bump into each other, Montresor says “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met...” It’s ironic, because in Montresor’s mind, Fortunato is not dear at all. And Fortunato definitely not lucky they have met, because it ends with his death. Another example is when Montresor says to himself “The gait of my friend was unsteady...” it seems funny that he would call him his friend, even just in his mind, when his intent is to kill him! It seems ironic that even though Fortunato has done something horribly wrong to Montresor, Montresor still thinks of him as a friend.
Of the five senses, perhaps the most important one is sight. We really on it heavily, it allows us to understand exactly what is happening around us, and the other senses simply back that up. In The Cask of Amontillado, sight is used in exactly this way. It shows the reader exactly whats happening, and allows for the reader to create their own image of whats happening. For instance, when Montresor says "but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls" (Po 170). He is describing white gleaming cavern which houses many dark things. These types of contrasts are characteristic of this story. Another example is when Montresor (acting as the narrator at this point) says "the wine sparkled in his eyes" (Po 171), this shows that Fortunato is most probably drunk, and not able to control himself. The wine sparkling in his eyes points out that there is a spark of insanity perhaps in his eye, and it is driven by the wine he is drinking. This type of phrase allows the reader to decide what that would look like, and what the author means. Sight is an incredibly important thing in all stories. If we cannot vividly imagine a story, then what is the point of reading it? And what better way to allow the reader to vividly imagine a story then sight?
Throughout the short story, The Caske of Amontillado, the use of sight is used very often in order to show the reader exactly what it is like at the place. It is used in ways that really make you feel like you are inside of the catacombs. Some of the quotes let you know exactly how the narrator is seeing things, "The wine sparkled in his eyes" (I read the book online, do not have page number). It shows how Montresor can tell that Fortunado is drunk just by looking at his eyes. I think that things like this really make you envision things well. Another time that Po uses sight to show the reader what is like is when the narrator is describing Fortunado. He says Fortunado has on "A tight-fitting-parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical caps and bells" (Again i do not have the page numbers because I read the book online) This lets you know exactly how Fortunado looks. I think that the way Po uses the sense of sight really helps you feel like you are a part of the book. I think that it works really well because you can almost understand how the narrator feels.
In A Good Man is Hard to Find, the author O’Connor, uses the term good often throughout the story to the point of which it doesn’t have a meaning. The Grandmother calls Red Sammy “ a good man” (O’Connor) when he helps the boys. She calls Red Sammy good because he was generous to the boys he did not know. She latter calls the Misfit good, who she knew was a criminal, to try to manipulate herself out of being murdered. Red Sammy uses the term good and reminisces about when days were safe. The misfit calls the Grandmother “a good woman”(O’Connor) right after he kills her.so much throughout the story to the point at which the term has multiple meanings. What is good? The Grandmother has many opinions of what is good, and O’Connor showcases the Grandmother's many situations with the word to show that there is not a true definition of good .
Throughout The Ministers Black Veil the veil casts a dark and depressed mood on the proceedings. The veil, while only a pice of crape, has a disproportionate effect on people when Father Hooper is near. “It was tinged, rather more darkly than usual, with the gentle gloom of Mr. Hoopers temperament (Hawthorne 103).” This quote says that his sermon, although a good one, was darker and more depressing than his previous sermons. The effect of the veil starts from the very first time he appears with the veil on in public. “He has changed himself into something awful, only by covering his face (Hawthorne 100).” This quote shows the difference that a simple piece of cloth can make. Even though the speaker realizes what is happening, they are still drawn in by it. These quotes show that even if someone realizes what is happening, they still feel like the veil makes the event gloomy.
ReplyDeleteThroughout The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant demonstrates how materialism can make people unhappy in the long run. He does this through the main character, Madame Loisel who was a pretty girl, born into a family of artisans and married off to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury (Maupassant 92)." This quote says that Mme. Loisel thought that she had been unlucky in marriage and that she felt that she deserved more than she got. Not only did this become a personal matter, but she also allowed it to limit the people that she interacted with on a regular basis. "She had a rich friend, an old school friend whom she refused to visit, because she suffered so keenly when she returned home (Maupassant 93)." This quote clearly shows how materialism ruins her life. She is so caught up in the things that she and the people around her have, that she completely forgets about the human values other than money. Both of these quotes demonstrate how quickly materialism can overtake someone's life and makes them unhappy.
ReplyDeleteThroughout The Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff is motivated to hunt humans because he is bored of hunting animals and wants to hunt something that can have equal hunting abilities as he does. General Zaroff stopped hunting animals because he always killed his prey. No matter what it was. “Hunting ceased to be what you all ‘a sporting proposition.’ It became too easy. I always got my quarry. Always. There is no greater bore than perfection” (Connell 182). General Zaroff thought that he was such a perfect hunter that it was acceptable for him to hunt whatever pleased him. “Every day I hunt, and I never grow bored now, for I have a quarry with which I can match my wits” (Connell 182). General Zaroff wanted to hunt things that were equally as smart as he is, so he found some animal that would match his wits. Unfortunately that animal was human. These quotes show that General Zaroff is a vicious man who will do anything as long as he is pleased with it.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford shares General Zaroff's opinion on hunting to an extent, but quickly becomes disgusted by the General's invention. Before Rainsford knew that General Zaroff was hunting Homo sapiens, he spoke about quarry in an offhand way. He shard exactly the same point of view about his game as Zaroff had about hunting humans. "'Don't talk rot Whitney! You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher'"(175)! At this point, Rainsford believes that hunted animals are just too dull to matter. They are not cunning enough to feel anything other than instinct. Because of this, Rainsford talks about the beasts as if they hold no other value than to be the subject of a hunt. As an accomplished hunter, he has a lot of experience in killing, but feels no remorse. "That's odd. It must have been a fairly large animal too. The hunter had his nerve with him to tackle it with a light gun" (178). The question this quote poses is whether hunting anything at all is morally agreeable; Rainsford acts as if the general is a monster, mercilessly hunting helpless sailors. And yet he does the same, simply with different species of animal. This illuminates the fact that preaching moral values is difficult when one hunts for pleasure.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of the “The Necklace”, Mathilde longed to have all the luxurious items of the wealthy, which caused her not to be satisfied with what she had. She could not appreciate the fact that her life was much better than most people’s because she was not surrounded by fine things. Mathilde was born into a lower class family, so she had no way of being noticed by a wealthy man, even though she was very pretty. “She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury” (Maupassant, 92). This shows that she only cared about the material things in life, and because she was pretty she thought she deserved better. Even though she was married to a good man and hardly ever had to work, she only cared about what she didn’t have. “She had no clothes, no jewelery, no nothing. And these were the only things she loved” (Maupassant, 93). This shows that she was very vain and didn’t care about the people in her life. Mathilde was so upset she wasn’t rich that she didn’t realize what a good life she had.
ReplyDeleteIrony is used in this story to demonstrate a new look on the popular term, “hunting for sport.” The way that Connell uses both dramatic and verbal irony has a foreshadowing effect on how Zaroff’s feels about hunting for sport, the way that humans hunt animals just because they feel like it and it is fun for them. It gives them pleasure to hunt animals because they can, and they don’t feel threatened by it because they believe that the animal’s reasoning is not as sophisticated as ours, so they are not as much of a threat. There is a very good example at the beginning of this story, where two characters, Rainsford and his hunting partner, are talking about what it would be like for a jaguar to be hunted. They wonder who cares about how the jaguar actually feels. According to them, “ ‘the world is made up of two classes – the hunters, and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters’ ” (Rainsford, 175). Rainsford says this to his partner in thinking that the both of them are very lucky that they are indeed not the ones being hunted (the huntees,) but they are the ones who hunt animals for sport. They are obviously thinking that to be a huntee would be very unfortunate. This is a very good example of verbal irony because later on, Rainsford does become the one being hunted, General Zaroff being the hunter against him. In that moment, Rainsford actually is thinking like the jaguar would, thinking about how the animal being hunted really feels when it is faced with such a threat, and how unlucky he becomes when he reaches this difficult position. However, General Zaroff seems to think differently. Later in the book he is explaining his brilliant idea of hunting humans to Rainsford, and he believes that hunting the humans gives a greater thrill. From his point of view, he has “ ‘done a rare thing. I have invented a new sensation’ ” (Zaroff, 181). This is quite ironic because if you look at the difference between the two hunters points of view, neither of them seem to worry about what the huntee is feeling like, except when Rainsford really becomes the huntee. Throughout the story, Zaroff never realizes what that means to be hunted. In his opinion, creating such a new idea about hunting is a very good thing that he presumes will be beneficial to him and to other aspiring hunters as well. If he were to become the huntee as Rainsford had, his outlook may not have been so optimistic. General Zaroff never got that chance, so for him, hunting for sport still contains its resonance as a popular, true term that he uses as almost a mantra.
ReplyDeleteThroughout The Cask of Amontillado, verbal and dramatic irony were used to reflect Montresor's attitude towards his memory of Fortunado's death. Montresor spoke with cynicism when he was describing Fortunado. He often referred to him as his friend, which he was not in the least. At one point in the story, Fortunado is struck with a fit of terrible fit of coughing. Montresor describes the scene; "My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes" (Poe 171). Montresor called his enemy poor, and seemed to pity him. His pity was a form of mockery, because he knew that his severe cough was the least of Fortunado's concerns. At another moment, when the pair were walking through the vaults, Montresor describes his increasing happiness. “The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc” (Poe 171). When Fortunado first enters the story, he was detailed to be wearing a jester costume. Along with his costume Fortunado was sporting a set of bells. Montresor decided to mention this aspect of his memory, in the story. The bells signify lightheartedness and comicality, and Montresor knew that Fortunado should be anything but happy. He was being led to his death without realizing it, and Montresor saw humor in that. Mocking Fortuado was Montresor way to laugh at his enemy in the grave. With irony, Montresor expressed himself and his thoughts about Fortunado.
ReplyDeleteIn A Good Man, the Grandmother thinks of a Good Man as a person with a good background who follows rules and laws, not one who is generous and compassionate. She judges by appearences constantly, as she herself admits. To the Misfit she says “I know you're a good man at heart. I can just look at you and tell”( ). The Grandmother’s policy is to judge by things’ covers. She judges their ‘goodness’ by way of their appearance. As well as this, part of her criteria for what makes a someone good, is their class. For example, when she tries to convince the misfit not to kill her she says "You've got good blood! I know you wouldn't shoot a lady!”( ). This quote clearly demonstrates how the Old lady views the world: to be good is to have good blood. And to be good, one must have good blood. She associates following rules with being good, as well. When Sam says "These days you don't know who to trust," the Grandmother agrees. She and Sam discuss honesty as being a key component to being ‘good.’With this last quote, it is clear to the reader that the Grand mother has a very strong idea of what it means to be good: she doesn’t see it as acting to help others, and do good, but rather not do wrong. She attributes goodness to family and social status, and following rules.
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ReplyDeleteThroughout The Ministers Black Veil, Mr. Hooper uses the black veil in order to prove a point that even the best of people have sinned at one point in their life. He makes an argument that absolutely everyone else is also wearing a black veil, and nothing can make him take it off. “No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world; even you… can never come behind it” (Hawthorne, 105). In this quote, Hawthorne is enforcing the idea that Mr. Hooper thinks that everyone else is also wearing a black veil, not just himself. Mr. Hooper soon learns that he will be lonely for the rest of his life since none of his friends or family understands what point he is trying to get across. Because of this he starts to get mad at them, “why do you tremble at me alone?” (Hawthorne, 109). By saying this he is directly getting his point across and telling the people that everyone has sinned, including him even if he never says what he did. By the end of the short story the reader still has questions that need to be answered, these are rhetorical questions they everyone can make their own hypotheses about and teach themselves life lessons. These quotes show Mr. Hooper’s frustration his friends and family, and just how much he wants them to realize that he is not crazy, he’s just trying to make a point.
ReplyDeleteAs Rainsford fights for his life in the jungle, he realizes that his actions mirror those of the animals he kills for sport. He is used to hunting animals, but when he himself is hunted, it takes every last ounce of bravery and reason he has to escape with his life. After Rainsford has spent his first sleepless night in the forest, he realizes that the General is playing with him. “It was then that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror” (Connell 188). Rainsford decides that the teasing the General is submitting him to is similar to the deadly mockery experienced by mice when hunted by cats. He decides that this sort of fatal teasing is cruel and unnecessary. Later on in the game, the General sends his hounds after Rainsford. “Rainsford knew now how an animal at bay feels” (Connell 190). Rainsford has presumably used dogs to hunt animals before and know he is experiencing the horror of being chased himself. Throughout his trials and tribulations in the jungle, Rainsford grows to understand the horrors of being hunted, and illustrates the moral problems hunting presents. One can assume Rainsford will be a hunter no longer.
ReplyDeleteIn The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses the five senses to help readers understand what is really happening or what is going to happen without directly saying so. By making observations of their surroundings or one another, Montresor and Fortunato are, in Fortunato's case without being aware, giving the readers hints about what might happen next. The narrator of this story, Montresor, is luring Fortunato into an enormous labyrinth of catacombs, and while this is not something that one normally does, Fortunato appears to have no doubts about Montresor's intentions. Montresor is talking about Fortunato when he tells the readers, "He turned toward me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" (Poe 170). Montresor is telling us that Fortunato is drunk, so we can figure out that Montresor is obviously trying to take advantage of that. Before Montresor begins the final part of his plan, he must make sure that Fortunato does not become afraid of him. Montresor narrates, "It was in vain that Fortunato, uplifting his dull torch, endeavored to pry into the depth of the recess. Its termination the feeble light did not enable us to see" (Poe 172). The quote shows the readers that Montresor is about to take action, because is Fortunato cannot see around him, he certainly cannot see what Montresor is about to do. With the use of the senses in his story, Poe builds up suspense and gives reasons for the readers to guess about what is taking place, or what is going to happen.
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ReplyDeleteThroughout The Necklace, Guy de Maupassant demonstrates the irony in the way how materialism can bring nothing. The maincharacter Mme Loisel wanted to get into the life she coveted but in the end the necklace put her into a life of nothing. Mme Loisel suffered under her marriage because she was married to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. "She suffered endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury (Maupassant 92)." In this quote you can see how she suffered under the marriage because she thought that she deserved more delicacy and luxury than she had. But her dream always styes the same. " She imagined vast saloons hung with antique silks, exquisite pieces of furniture supporting priceless ornaments, perfumed rooms, created just for a little parties of intimate friends, men who were famous and sought after, whose homage roused every other woman's envious longings (Maupassant 92)".This quote clearly shows how she dreams of a life in luxury and richness. These both quotes shows the beginning of the wohle irony. She dreams of the life she actually doesn't have and she gets the chance to life one evening in this life but after that she looses everything.
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ReplyDeleteThroughout A Good Man is Hard to Find the family is submerged in negative criticism which effects the mood of the story drastically. "Tennessee is a hillbilly dumping ground"(John Wesley). This quote shows that the children are selfish and rude during the car ride to Florida. Even though it is a learning experience. The children do not appreciate the experience because they have already seen it before. When the children say these things the grandmother tries to reach out to them by providing different games and new adventures, but the children still have closed minds. "She would stay home to be a queen for a day"(June Star). This quote was directed to the grandmother which shows the children are ungrateful and do not respect their elders. Overall these children do not understand some things may suddenly change, so do not take anything for granted, and always be grateful, because sometimes you might be rude to someone but what if a moment from now they were gone. Would you regret it?
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ReplyDeleteThroughout "The Minister's Black Veil," the veil represents an evil power or something dark and sinister for the parishioners as well as Father Hooper. The parishioners feel like the black veil means that Father Hooper is crazy or in mourning. They don't view him as the person they know, but rather they cannot see past the veil covering his face. People think that it is very strange for Mr. Hooper to wear a veil over his face. One lady, upon seeing the Minister's veil during a service, said, "'How strange,' ... 'that a simple black veil, such as any woman would wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper's face!'" (Hawthorne 102). This quote shows just how strange people think the veil is, although they also see it as awful or bad in some way. Father Hooper knows why he is wearing the veil, and even to him, it represents something about himself that he finds evil or bad or doesn't like. He said, "'...I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil'" (Hawthorne 105). This shows that Father Hooper is representing something that he finds upsetting about himself with a veil. He knows that most everyone else has something about themselves that they try to hide as well. The parishioners especially, find the veil very sinister and dark, while Father Hooper wore it for just that reason, because he wants to represent that he was hiding something that he himself thought dark or somewhat sinister.
ReplyDeleteFrom the way Rainsford Reacts to the situation he's put in, in The Most Dangerous Game, you can tell Rainsford is very confident in his own abilities. Rainsfords strong character is a key part to the success of the short story and his stay on the island. Even when he's in an extremely bad situation Rainsford is able to keep cool headed and calm, relying on his knowledge to help him through the situation such as is shown here, "A certain cool-headedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a tight place."(Connell P.177) this quote is an excerpt from when Rainsford first falls off the yacht in the beginning of the book and is stuck in the middle of the Caribbean sea. In this quote Connell gives insight to Rainsfords thoughts of the situation, and also a little bit of background information about Rainsford, saying how "It was not the fist time he had been in a tight place." When Rainsford does or creates something on purpose he is confident in his work and trusts it to do it's job as shown in this quote. "Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark." (Connell P.187) In this quote Rainsford is proud of his work, the trail, and shows his confidence that he doesn't believe even an extremely skilled hunter would be able to follow it, and especially at night. Also this shows that Rainsford must have some skill in making false or complicating trails because of his hunting career without it he wouldn't have been able to make a trail and be as confident in it as he is with this one. Theres no doubt Rainsford has pride in his abilities and also that he knows how to keep cool ion a tough situation, both of these atributes are key to being confident in oneself.
ReplyDeleteIn The Minister’s Black Veil, the veil serves many purposes. First, it is used as a specific display of the common fear of the “secret sin” and of the veil among his congregation. After donning the veil, Father Hooper is seen differently. Many ignore him and are frightened by what they see and do not see. This new out look could be interpreted as the fear of their own secret sin, or the one Father Hooper is supposedly hiding. During his morning service, the subject of the sermon is “secret sin.” As he preaches, still wearing the two-folded piece of black crape over his eyes an nose, his message starts to come across. “… As if the preacher had crept upon them, behind his awful veil, and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or though,” (101). This serves as an example that its their own secret sin that scares them, not his. The secret sin is seen as a sin even some can’t admit to themselves. The veil and subject of the message cast a dark light onto their morning service. That day at the afternoon funeral, Mr. Hooper arrived yet again sporting his mysterious veil. As he pays his respects to the corpse lying in the open casket he “bent over the coffin, to take a last farewell of his deceased parishioner. As he stooped, the veil hung straight down his forehead, so that…the dead maiden might have seen his face,” (102). And as he does this “the corpse had slightly shuddered,” (102). I would interpret this as this corpse was the only one to see his face after donning the veil. By saying she “slightly shuttered” could mean she saw something dark behind the veil, perhaps the secret sin he is hiding. This could mean it was something dark enough to make even a corpse shake. It’s possible the congregation is just afraid of both his secret and their own, or even the idea of secret sin in general. If the veil represents secret sin, then it represents death as well. This could be was caused the troubled minds of his congregation.
ReplyDeleteIn the short story "the most dangerous game" Rainsford realizes how he is acting like an animal that he may have hunted before. Like in this quote when rainsford realizes that he is being toyed with "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse (Connell 188)." This quote shows how Rainsford thinks that the General is playing with him and waiting to get the right shot like you might do with an animal. Later on Rainsford finds that the General is really trying to scare him while also toying with him. "and rainsford with fear again gripping his heart heard the generals mocking laughing through the jungle (connell 189)." this is another way the author shows that rainsford realizes what an animal. Both of these quuotes show how an animal might feel when someone is hunting it. This is also how the wauthor gets in the head of an animal.
ReplyDeleteIn "The Most Dangerous Game" General Zaroff acts like a very powerful and wealthy man. General Zaroff is basically showing Rainsford that he is a man and is very powerful in this quote. "If he does not wish to hunt then I turn him over to Ivan"(p.184). This quote shows that Zaroff is showing Rainsford that the wise choice is for him to play the game with him because he will be beaten by Ivan if he refuses. Rainsford then finds out that the General has trapped him there, because he notices that at night time he cannot escape his room and see's that there are dogs down in the courtyard patrolling the building. "He sought to throw open the door; it would not open.(p.185)"The hounds heard him at the window and looked up" (p.185). These quotes show how Richard Connell is trying to show that General Zaroff is trying to scare Rainsford.
ReplyDeleteIn 'The Cask of Amontillado', Edgar Allan Poe uses the sight of the tomb to foreshadow the dangers that lie within. The ghastly sights that are to be found in the catacombs let the reader feel the horror, and the treachery that goes on under the main character's house. the reader feels a growing sense of fear as the two venture deeper and deeper into the systems of tunnels. "We had passed through the walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs (Poe 171)." The awful sight of bones piled high on the walls gives the reader a chill that helps to set the horrendous tone of this short story. the sign of bones has always been used to warn others of dangers. because Fortunato is so drunk, he does not recognize the warnings like the reader does. This comes together to create more suspense for the reader. As the two continue farther into the catacombs, the amount of nitre, a fungus that flourishes along stingy, damp surfaces, begins to rise. this sets off Fortunato's cough and helps the reader visualize the rancid events that happen when one enters the tunnel. "The nitre!....See, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults...Your cough (171)." Once again, Fortunato is oblivious to the warnings that even his own body is displaying. A mixture of vile moss, and bones scattered to and fro are just a few of the things that should tell a person they are entering an unhealthy area. Edgar Allen Poe uses those pictures to stimulate the feelings both of fear and regret to the reader.
ReplyDeleteIn The Necklace, Maupassant shows through his character, Madame Loisel, that materialism distracts people from what is really important in life. Mme Loisel gets so caught up in trying to look rich and having expensive items that she doesn't realize how good she really has it. Her yearning for material items prevents her from appreciating what she has. "She had no clothes, no jewels, nothing. And these were the only things she loved (Maupassant 93)." This quote shows that she doesn't care about the people in her life. She doesn't realize that her husband goes out of his way for her and gives her his money so she can be happy. It also shows that she wants what she doesn't have which causes her to not be thankful about what she does have. "The day of the party arrived. Madame Loisel was a success (Maupassant 95)." This quote shows that Mme Loisel's idea of being a "success" means that she has expensive clothing and jewels on. She lacks to see that material items don't neccesarily mean that your life is successful. A sucessful life should be based on how happy and coontent a person is. Materialism distracts Mme Loisel from seeing what is really important in her life.
ReplyDeleteDuring The Necklace, The author Guy de Maupassant shows that material things are not the most important part of life. The Main character who is the one to demonstrate the materialism lesson is a young newly wed, who is not living her dream of living a life of luxury. "she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her" This means that she hated to be married to a normal, not wealthy, clerk. She was very embarrassed to have a husband like that. "The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind." That means that she was jealous of the life of a wealthy person. All she can think about is how lucky her neighbors are because they have money, however she does not consider love, or other forms of happiness in her judgement.
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In the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, Rainsford starts to become more compassionate about prey items, including himself as he is being hunted. At the beginning of the story, Rainsford is not sensitive to the plight of how a jaguar might feel when being hunted. Rainsford and a friend are on a boat and the friend expresses concern of how the jaguar might feel during a hunt. Rainsford replies "'You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels' said Rainsford" (Connell 175). This quote shows that Rainsford has no idea what it is like to be hunted and therefor is not very sympathetic towards a hunted animal. During the short story, Rainsford falls of a boat, swims to an island and thinks he is being rescued. He slowly realizes that his host is actually a crazy cossack hunter who plans to hunt him. "The cossack was the cat, he was the mouse" (Connell 188). This quote shows that Rainsford has realized that he is the prey. He is the victim of a crazy man. These quotes show the change in Rainsford and how he becomes sympathetic towards wildlife.
ReplyDeleteIn ‘The Necklace’, Guy de Maupassant is showing that buy getting what you want doesn’t always help with getting what you need. Madame Loisel doesn’t notice that she already has good things in life. A good husband, a home, and money. Even though she may not be filthy rich, she sees herself as an outsider to those that are and so she ends up throwing away what she needed just to get what she wanted. “She flung herself on her friend’s breast, embraced her frenziedly, and went away with her treasure” (Maupassant 94). This is when Madame Loisel just got a necklace from her friend to wear to the ball so she would seem “richer”. All of a sudden because of one necklace, she feels more confident about herself. “Madame Loisel was a success. She was the prettiest woman present, elegant, graceful, smiling, and quite above herself with happiness” (Maupassant 95). Madame Loisel has just walked into the ball at this point, and now since she is “rich”, she is getting what she was looking for; popularity, looks, and confidence. While Madame Loisel is dancing away, she is not unaware of the possible consequences and the effects on her future that this necklace holds for her.
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ReplyDeleteGood and evil is a very prominent theme in A Good Man Is Hard To Find. The grandmother and the misfit have a long discussion of whether he is a good man or not. When the grandmother begins to understand the situation, she begins to judge as she does earlier in the story and decides that he must be a good man. She says that he must have a good family he responds by saying “yes mam, finest people in the world.” (O’Connor, 8)
ReplyDeleteAfter he says that she tries to preach to him that he is a good man and should pray, which he argues against. It shows that she was trying to find background about him to see what she could say to stop him because she knew what was coming. She begins to feel a connection of some sort to him and doesn’t want to be killed even though her family already has been. “Why you’re one of my babies. You’re one of my own children.” (O’Connor, 11) After she says that she proceeds to try to touch his shoulder in a motherly way but it shocks him and causes him to react by shooting her. It shows that he was scared that somebody cared enough to want to be nice and gentle with him, some one of such a past. The grandmother and the misfit were both good and evil at points in the story, they both knew what was going to happen all along but each genuinely tried.
Throughout the Most Dangerous Game, General Zaroff is determined to hunt something with equal skill as him and be able to reason. "It must have courage, cunning and above all, it must be able to reason." (Zaroff 182) The reasoning for this is because he grew bored of hunting animals, it was too easy for him because the animals never had a chance. "No animal had a chance with me any more. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty." (Zandoff 182) This quote shows that Zaroff was an exeptional hunter, and needed something else to hunt. The reasoning for him to hunt humans was because animals had reached a point where they were easy prey. Both these quotes also show that Zaroff is a terrible and selfish person. He thinks about himself before his "huntees" even if they are humans. "We try to be civilized here." (Zaroff 184) This is another quote that Rainsford can not believe, it also shows how General Zaroff believes he is doing the right thing, when really he has the complete wrong idea of hunting humans.
ReplyDeleteFlannery O'Connor uses irony throughout "A Good Man is Hard to Find", particularly in relation to the grandmother. There are many instances in the story where the grandmother says or does something that seems to completely contradict what we know about her. Most of the instances show her to be blind to how she is in relation to what she thinks she is. Such as in the following situation, "Her son, Bailey, did not like to arrive at a motel with a cat" (Flannery O'Connor). From reading the story, we can see that the Grandmother is all about image and class, but bringing a cat around with her on vacation makes her seem like a slightly crazy and very lonely old lady, which I think is the opposite of the air she wants to exude. "The old lady settled herself comfortably, removing her white cotton gloves" (Flannery O'Connor). This shows that the old lady is very image obsessed, she wears white gloves such as royalty and very wealthy people might, and she tries to make herself seem of very good blood by telling stories about her suitors and their wealth and her experiences. She tries to be all about image and being a good person, but underneath she is conniving and manipulative, doing everything to serve her own personal agenda.The irony involved with the grandma is amazing, and these quotes only scratch the surface.
ReplyDeleteThroughout A Good Man is Hard to Find the author, Flannery O'Connor, uses many examples of irony. These uses of irony helped make the story entertaining but the Grandmother unlikeable. Throughout the whole story the Grandmother emphasized how it was very tough nowadays to find good man compared to when she was young. "People are certainly not like they used to be"(Grandmother). She is saying that people have changed over the years for the worse. I find this very ironic because I don't think of her as a good person. I find her as a very selfish person. " There was a secret panel in the house,' she said craftily not telling the truth" (Grandmother). In this quote she is telling a lie to persuade her family to go where she wants to go, which shows she is selfish. At the beginning of the story the Grandmother was attempting to convince the family that they should vacation in Tennessee instead of Florida. To do so she warned the family of an escaped convict, the Misfit, that is in Florida. "I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that a loose in it"(Grandmother). In this scene she is making excuses not to vacation in Florida. I found this quote ironic because it was her poor decision making which led them all into the Misfit after she said she would never bring her children near him. These quotes are perfect examples of the irony in this story and make the Grandmother unlikeable.
ReplyDeleteIn 'The Cask of Amontillado', it is very manipulative that Montresor is plotting Furtunato's murder in the middle of a carnival. During carnivals, people have masks on and they are not easily recognized. Also, people drink a lot and become drunk. "He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much" (Poe 169). Montresor plans to do something to Furtunato while he is drunk because Montresor can lure him into traps far easier than if he wasn't drunk. "He had on a tight-fitting parti-stripped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells" (Poe 169). Montresor and Fortunato will not easily be recognized when they Montresor performs the murder, so people will not suspect Montresor for killing Fortunato. This shows how Montresor is very manipulative and plans everything out very well.
ReplyDeleteIn the “Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses the themes madness, and revenge to express the character’s feelings. For example Montresor speaks of revenge and anger upon Fortunato. In the story Montresor (the narrator and the main character) tricks his friend Fortunato into killing him, by giving Fortunato advice on revenge. For instance Montresor says in the very beginning of the story “The thousand injuries of Fortunato… but when ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe 169). This quote shows that Montresor is very mad at Montresor and vowed revenge upon him. Then Montresor explains to the reader about how someone should take revenge on somebody else. So he says “A wrong is undressed when retribution takes its redresser” (Poe 169). Montresor is saying here that you should make the person you want to take revenge on to trust you, so you can trick them very easily. Both of these quotes show that Montresor is angry, and wants revenge.
ReplyDeleteRainford's opinon changes as he has a different perception on hunting.In the begaining,Rainford was all for hunting but then by a twist of fate he became the hunted.When talking to Whitney about hunting he states that Whitney should "Be a realist The world is made up of two classes the hunter an the huntees Luckly for you an i are hunters"(connell 175).This is showing how he had no compassion or sympathy for the hunted. How he had thought that the animals he was hunted did not comprehend fear.THen later on while he was Rainsford knew the full meaning of fear"(connell 188). By stating this it tells us that he is relizing that after being put into the animals position he now understands the fear of a death looming over your head! so all of this is evidence of how at frist he was all for hunting but now he knows how it feels to be hunted.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the story, The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford id driven by fear for his own life, and that pushes him to become more like an animal. Throughout the whole story Connell uses similes that compare Rainsford to animals. This represents him giving into his animal instinct and such. Like when the hunt starts. When Rainsford finds out that Zarroff will be hunting him the following night, Rainsford leaves to get a head start and as he leaves he thinks “I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable” (Connell___). This quote tells you that Rainsford is slowly switching from human reasoning to Animal instinct. The Author does this very well by slipping in little metaphors and similes. Another example of when Rainsford is becoming more of an animal is at the send of the story. After jumping off a cliff to evade Zarroff, Rainsford swims over and hides in Zarroff’s bed. There he waits until Zarroff comes to sleep. Then he pops out at Zarroff. Zarroff congratulates him for winning the game, but Rainsford had other Ideas. That is when he said, “‘I am still a beast at bay’” (Connell___). This quote is there to tell you that this is your normal Rainsford. This is a wild beast that wants revenge. Connell does a very good job integrating this transformation of Rainsford. This proves that all characters use Evil and Fear in this story even if they know it or not.
ReplyDeleteI was reading an online copy, didn't have my packet. So I couldn't get page numbers.
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ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Poe uses the five senses as a tool of foreshadowing in "The Cask of Amontillado."Poe uses sensory details to explain the setting and characters and to give you clues about Montresor's intentions. As Montresor was leading Fortunato through the catacombs, the setting described by Poe created a dark and creepy mood. "We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together on the damp ground on the catacombs of the Montresors" (Poe 170). From the quote you can visualize the underground cemetery where you know revenge will be taken on Fortunato, and you can feel the eeriness as Poe describes the damp ground. After being chained to the cold granite and nitre-covered walls, Fortunato finaly begins to understand what is happening to him. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man" (Poe 173). This shows that one can tell Fortunato has realized this is not a joke solely from what one hears. These are two quotes that show how Poe has used three of the five sense to connect to the reader and help them understand what is happening and what is going to happen.
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ReplyDeleteIn "The Most Dangerous Game" Richard Connell puts Rainsford in the place of a hunted animal to bring the reader into the mind of the hunter's prey. Several times throughout the story, the characters question the moral dilemas of hunting. While Rainsford and Whitney are still on the yacht, Whitney and Rainsford are talking about hunting. "'Don't talk rot Whitney,' said Rainsford. 'You're a big game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?' 'Perhaps the jaguar does,' observed Whitney. "'Bah! They've no understanding.'(175)" This quote is the seting stone for the story. Its the first mention of hunting and shows the "common man's" view on hunting. Once Rainsford is put into the place of the prey the reader will be exposed to the other side of the dilema. After becoming the prey of Gerneral Zaroff, he becomes overwhelmed with terror watching his everymove. With every interaction his night becomes worse and he becomes overtaken by fear. "His hands were tight closed as if his nerve were somthing tongible that someone in the darkness was trying to tear from his grip." This reflects the imense mental torment that Rainsford has gone through. As would be in any animal at this point. Richard Connell takes you into the mind set of your own and completely shifts it by the end. You have a completely different view of hunting by the end.
ReplyDeleteThe mortal race, according to Mr. Hooper, is trapped by a black veil and even the essence of our existence cannot escape it. Nature, with us, is shrouded in the veil’s emblematic crape, or at least fears what lies beneath. It seems that we have stained, left a mark on what was pure and dragged it down with us. Hawthorne displays this when Mr. Hooper discovers his reflection for the first time and is horrified. As he runs away from himself, the mention of Earth wearing her black veil as well lends an idea that she herself is afraid of what she has become. Are mortals the source of that fear? “For the Earth too had on her Black Veil”(Hawthorne 103). Suggestion of the importance of this is denoted in the capital ‘B’ in ‘Black’, darkness and behind the scene thoughts taking place, secrets to be uncovered. Revealing them, to the public, involved removing the veil, yet no one dared defy Mr. Hooper’s wishes to keep it on. “Even the lawless wind, it was believed, respected his dreadful secret and never blew aside the veil” (Hawthorne 107). The secret is what the world wants to know. ‘Secrets, secrets are no fun, secrets are meant to share with everyone!’ School house chants do not justify the unwanted, denied, secret sin that is always there, and never truly meant to share. Hawthorne ties the knot by expanding mortal fears about the veil to the surroundings. By adding the looming presence of wind and our own Earth into the equation, the invisible veil and secret sin is seen on a higher level, with more meaning and mystery. It also makes it known to the reader that everything is affected and not just ourselves or the people we interact with. The knowledge of this common ground between nature and man allows a sense of unity and similarity which is often times hard to recognize.
ReplyDeleteThe character General Zaroff, in the short story 'The Most Dangerous Game', seems to be psychotic. When people find something that they love to do, and think that this thing is what they are meant to do, they can get obsessed. I think this was the case with General Zaroff. When his obssesion started to bore him, he went insane with an idea to fill this boredom, and now thinks that the idea is the right thing to do. Humans were not intended to hunt each other, and only someone suffering from psychosis would think that they were. General Zaroff is civil in every way besides his terrible thoughts. '... I assure you I do not do the thing you suggest. That would be barbarous. I treat these visitors with every consideration. They get plenty of food and exercise . They get into splendid physical condition. You shall see for yourself tomorrow.' (Zaroff, 184). This shows that General Zaroff sincerely believes what he is doing is the right thing to do. It shows us this because it enables us to see that he is doing this for a purpose (to fill his boredom), and not because he is murderous. He wants his prey to succeed, so that he does not become bored. Throughout the story, General Zaroffs civil qualities are not as prevalent. " The General was playing with him! The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. Then it was that Rainsford knew the full meaning of terror." (Connell, 188). This tells us that General Zaroff is playing with his prey which is uncivil. It is like he is kicking Rainsford while he is down, and letting him know that he, Zaroff, is superior. This shows us that Zaroff is Psychotic because it lets us know that he treats his human prey differently than animals because he takes advantage of Rainsfords mind. One of the reasons that Rainsford exceeds is because he does not fall for this trick.Both of these show that General Zaroff is psychotic because he believes what he is doing is right when it is not and treating humans as prey.
ReplyDeleteThroughout The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses irony in the ways that the characters address each other. In order for Montresor to lure Fortunato into the depth of his house, Montresor has to act as if everything were normal. Before they get to Montresor’s house, when the two men first bump into each other, Montresor says “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met...” It’s ironic, because in Montresor’s mind, Fortunato is not dear at all. And Fortunato definitely not lucky they have met, because it ends with his death. Another example is when Montresor says to himself “The gait of my friend was unsteady...” it seems funny that he would call him his friend, even just in his mind, when his intent is to kill him! It seems ironic that even though Fortunato has done something horribly wrong to Montresor, Montresor still thinks of him as a friend.
ReplyDeleteOf the five senses, perhaps the most important one is sight. We really on it heavily, it allows us to understand exactly what is happening around us, and the other senses simply back that up. In The Cask of Amontillado, sight is used in exactly this way. It shows the reader exactly whats happening, and allows for the reader to create their own image of whats happening. For instance, when Montresor says "but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls" (Po 170). He is describing white gleaming cavern which houses many dark things. These types of contrasts are characteristic of this story. Another example is when Montresor (acting as the narrator at this point) says "the wine sparkled in his eyes" (Po 171), this shows that Fortunato is most probably drunk, and not able to control himself. The wine sparkling in his eyes points out that there is a spark of insanity perhaps in his eye, and it is driven by the wine he is drinking. This type of phrase allows the reader to decide what that would look like, and what the author means. Sight is an incredibly important thing in all stories. If we cannot vividly imagine a story, then what is the point of reading it? And what better way to allow the reader to vividly imagine a story then sight?
ReplyDeleteThroughout the short story, The Caske of Amontillado, the use of sight is used very often in order to show the reader exactly what it is like at the place. It is used in ways that really make you feel like you are inside of the catacombs. Some of the quotes let you know exactly how the narrator is seeing things, "The wine sparkled in his eyes" (I read the book online, do not have page number). It shows how Montresor can tell that Fortunado is drunk just by looking at his eyes. I think that things like this really make you envision things well. Another time that Po uses sight to show the reader what is like is when the narrator is describing Fortunado. He says Fortunado has on "A tight-fitting-parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical caps and bells" (Again i do not have the page numbers because I read the book online) This lets you know exactly how Fortunado looks. I think that the way Po uses the sense of sight really helps you feel like you are a part of the book. I think that it works really well because you can almost understand how the narrator feels.
ReplyDeleteIn A Good Man is Hard to Find, the author O’Connor, uses the term good often throughout the story to the point of which it doesn’t have a meaning. The Grandmother calls Red Sammy “ a good man” (O’Connor) when he helps the boys. She calls Red Sammy good because he was generous to the boys he did not know. She latter calls the Misfit good, who she knew was a criminal, to try to manipulate herself out of being murdered. Red Sammy uses the term good and reminisces about when days were safe. The misfit calls the Grandmother “a good woman”(O’Connor) right after he kills her.so much throughout the story to the point at which the term has multiple meanings. What is good? The Grandmother has many opinions of what is good, and O’Connor showcases the Grandmother's many situations with the word to show that there is not a true definition of good .
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