“The Alchemist” is a novel written by Paulo Coelho in 1988. Regarded as a Coelho’s best novel, it captures the elixir of life through the view of a sanguine Spanish Shepard. Set in a forsaken church in Spain at night; the young Shepard Santiago tastes the exquisite sensation of a compelling dream. He dreams that a young lady tells him about a hidden treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. After the dream recurs more than once, Santiago decides to consult an old man and an old woman who tells him that his dream is prophetic and that he must abide by its directions.
Lastly, but possibly Poe’s most vital element to the story is his clever, subtle use of symbols. Poe uses symbolism throughout the story to reinforce key points and add a chilling, supernatural effect to the tale, such as the ebony clock in the seventh chamber of the castle, which represents death. Poe enforces the clock’s importance to the story every sixty minutes, when it clangs, reminding the conceited party guests that they grow one hour closer to their imminent demise. Poe also uses the seven chambers of the castle to symbolize life, and the dainty, oblivious way in which the revellers rush through it, only realizing where they are when they find themselves in the doorway of the final chamber. It is not hard to understand why “The Masque Of The Red Death” is Poe’s most haunting tale.
There are many different types of figurative language used in “Poison,” but the most obvious ones are similes. “The question came so sharply it was like a small explosion in my ear” (Dahl 84). This quotation is a simile comparing someone’s voice to an explosion. At this time in the story, the narrator, Timber Woods, is calling Ganderbai to take care of the krait on his roommate Harry Pope’s stomach. Ganderbai asks who had been bitten very quickly as soon as he heard
This seminar paper will compare and contrast between the fantastic worlds created in C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle: The Chronicles of Narnia, published in 1956, and Antoine Saint- Exupéry’s The Little Prince (original title: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943. The Chronicles of Narnia series is an amalgamation of dreams and fantasy of Pevensie siblings and their cousin Eustace Scrubb.
Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” Many of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems, including “The Mask of the Red Death”, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, are very similar in the way that they have no physical descriptions, dark and deep plots and themes, and they all have similar settings. In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero invites his family and friends to his castle to escape the red death. When the clock strikes midnight a ghostly figure appears.
How do authors create suspense the author Mr.Edgar Allan Poe create suspense by adding punctuation and repetition. In the ¨Tell-Tale Heart¨ book an example of punctuation is ¨opened it- oh so gently!¨. This is an example of when the narrator opened the door to the old man's room for the first time. An example of repetition is ¨I moved it slowly-very very slowly¨. In the book ¨Flowers for Algernon¨the author Mr Danial Keyes creats suspense by adding bolding all of the dates an example of thise is ¨June 22, June 23,J une 30 and July 7¨.
In Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Duality is a major theme that is showcased In the first chapter of Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities we, as readers, catch a few themes that are key that later ends up shaping the lives of the characters that we come across. A central theme Dickens uses is “duality.” Dickens sets the reader up to begin a tale of “light” and “dark" We see examples of duality between France and England in 1775. Both countries show very similar yet different situations.
Created in the midst of neoclassicism, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is an American classic, and a common tale to tell around the campfire. In a time of reconnection with the roots of Greek and Roman schools, this gothic tale was created and holds up to other more free form stories that of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. How, you may ask, is this possible? How can a time of critical thinking and harsh minds swell under the creepy campfire story that is “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. The answer can be found in similar Knickerbocker stories.
Poe’s Use of Symbolism and Allusion Edgar Allan Poe is often regarded as the “Father of Gothic Literature,” and rightfully so. He composed a myriad of works that are now viewed as staples in the world of literature. With writings such as “The Raven,” “The Bells,” “The Black Cat,” and, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” he has changed the way readers indulge themselves in literature. Within each of his works, Poe provides the reader with a glance into his personal life, whether it be his preference of day over night, or some of his deeper struggles within himself, including substance abuse and his Survivor’s guilt over the death of many people who were dear to him. This is exemplified in his works, “The Raven,” and “The Black Cat,” where he uses symbolism
John Steinbeck in his novella, Of Mice and Men, utilizes multiple writing strategies to develop his central idea. Numerous different main concepts can be taken from the novella. One that is extremely prominent is the perception of the “american dream,” working diligently to achieve one’s goals and objectives. Steinbeck reinforces this central idea by applying imagery, figurative language, strongly into the entirety of the novella, but especially applying it in the first chapter.
Vastly used in books, symbolism is no stranger in The Great Gatsby. The critically acclaimed book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about Jay Gatsby’s attempt to grasp and hold onto his American Dream. Narrated by Nick Carraway, the story tells about Jay Gatsby 's and Daisy Buchanan’s ephemeral affair. While the events occur, Nick discovers the facade that Gatsby is hiding behind. The parties, the house, the wealth are all part of the artifice Gatsby built-in order to get to Daisy.
In an attempt to comprehend the complex world of American politics, historian Arthur Schlesinger proposed the Cyclical Theory, which stated that the attitudes of the American public towards certain issues fluctuate over time in a cyclic manner. These observations are mirrored in the attitudes of the characters in Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel is the companion to the American classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Continuing the story after two young boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn discover hidden treasure in a cave, the novel starts off with Huck is adopted by Miss Watson and tries to learn to be civilized. When this does not work for him, he escapes society with a runaway slave, Jim.
In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” irony is applied throughout to help foreshadow future and give more of an insight to the readers, all while adding some humor. Irony is divided into three main types: dramatic, situational, and verbal. Poe uses dramatic irony when he has Fortunato dress as a jester, “a tight-fitting parti-striped dress and his was surmounted by the conical cap and bells” (Poe). The get-up makes Fortunato looks foolish and foreshadows his actions of following Montresor into the catacombs to taste some wine. Montresor even compliments the outfit and says “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met” (Poe), but it was not Fortunato who was in luck, but Montresor who would gain profit of their meeting.