Poe in his story‚ the cask of amontillado brilliantly uses situational and verbal irony to establish his signature disturbing mood. Irony is a contrast between an expected outcome and an actual outcome. During the first part of the story‚ Montresor the protagonist character came across Fortunato the antagonist character‚ “during the supreme madness of the carnival season”(6 Poe). This is a prime example of situational irony because at a carnival the reader is expecting the event to be full of fun
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“The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe is known for writing dark and disturbing stories. Many of his characters are murderers who are completely and utterly insane. This fact is also true in the short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. A man by the name of Montresor decides that he has had enough with another man named Fortunato so he decides to kill him in a quite gruesome way. Throughout the story Poe conveys a dark disturbing mood through the use of terrifyingly realistic dialogue and frightening
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Edward Norton once said‚ “All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible‚ so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It’s fun‚ and it’s fun because it’s hard.” In other words‚ just like people‚ character’s expressed in stories should be portrayed as inconsistent to make them be more human and realistic instead of just one-dimensional. In the play The Bacchae‚ by Euripides‚ the Dionysus is displayed as absurd in order for the audience to be provoked in a
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How does Simon Armitage’s writing make the Violence so disturbing in Gooseberry Season? “Gooseberry Season” is a poem that can be interpreted as blunt and edgeless. This impression is set by the poem’s lack of imagination and visualization. Gooseberry season entails the victim’s last few weeks as he outstays his “vacation” at the narrator’s house. The victim took the narrator’s good nature as an advantage and this led up to his death as he was drowned to his death. The narrator opens the poem with
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reads it. However‚ Walker targets African American women in today’s society in an effort to make them understand their heritage and appreciate what their mothers and grandmothers endured to preserve it. Throughout the essay‚ Walker paints many disturbing pictures to get the point across to the reader that African American women in the past were unbelievably strong individuals. They were so oppressed in life that even as artistically talented as they were‚ they were not allowed to express that talent
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Modern-day society currently owes its well-being thanks to advanced machines capable of undertaking tasks that would either be impossible for a human being to fulfil or it would take him a long time to accomplish. Machines are faster‚ more accurate‚ tireless and uncomplaining. Either if we realize it or not‚ robots play a key role in making our daily lives easier and better. From mass-production in industry‚ to cutting edge precision within the medical field‚ robots are nowadays capable of tremendously
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Sometimes‚ the void created by a lack of words leads to more discoveries than a plethora of words. The key to gaining further information from silence lies in listening to the unspoken statements versus the words actually put forth into the universe. Along these same lines‚ John Cage composed a well-known piece called 4’33”‚ which shocks many listeners due to his refrain from touching the piano in front of him. After first encountering this unique work‚ I found myself baffled and pondering the deeper
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pronounced. Factory night shifts not for women‚ Congress says TNN | 1 hr ago The Factories Amendment Bill tabled in Lok Sabha yesterday seeks to relax the earlier bar on employing women in factories for night shifts. UP cops book 9-year-old boy for ‘disturbing law and order’ Crown found off Harappan site in UP Ratan Tata has lost his mind‚ Bengal minister says Supreme Court orders status quo in Haryana gurdwaras Delhi HC decides 3-year-old murder case in 30 minutes Obama weighs air strikes or aid
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Our reality is following the same script as the book‚ a World full of extremism‚ terrorism and assassinations have become a regular expression of violent behavior. Every day important media networks review various acts of violence and it is indeed disturbing to hear about violence at home‚ in colleges‚ in politics and even
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Modernism • The period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. Experimentation and individualism became virtues‚ where in the past they were often heartily discouraged. Modernism was set in motion‚ in one sense‚ through a series of cultural shocks. The 1st of these great shocks was WWI • Preoccupation of Modernism is with the inner self and consciousness. • Modernist cares rather little for Nature‚ Being‚ or the overarching structures
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