the story of a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato who has insulted him. He meets Fortunato at a carnival‚ lures him into the catacombs of his home‚ and buries him alive. Edgar Allen Poe creates a dark and foreboding mood in his story "The Cask of Amontillado" through the use of vivid imagery‚ dark setting‚ and a revengeful tone. Throughout the short story‚ Poe uses powerful descriptions to show what he sees‚ hears‚ and feels throughout the dark underground catacomb
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Phantom of the Opera The music in “Phantom of the Opera” is effective in helping explain the story. It establishes the basic mood in the film. it also provides psychological insight of the characters and finally it adds intensity to the drama in the story. The music is appropriate by helping establish the mood in the story.This is shown in the very beginning when the mood of the story changes.in the story‚ the entire setting changes from a quiet auction into a bustling and busy theater.The music
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Hamlet Mood Essay Act 1 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet is an important act of the play because it sets the reader up with the mood of the play through conversations and events that happen. These moods set up are mysterious‚ mournful‚ and revengeful. With these moods set in place they will most likely determine the actions of Hamlet and other events that unfold throughout this tragedy. Right away in the first scene and a few others you can see that there is a going to be a mysterious mood with a
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The use of yeast as a food dates all the way back to the Ancient Egyptians. Note that unlike the yeast used to leaven bread‚ nutritional yeast is inactive. It has been deactivated so that it cannot be used to make bread rise or convert sugar into alcohol. It is also different from brewer’s yeast‚ though the two are strains of the same fungus. The main difference is the source. As its name suggests‚ brewer’s yeast is a product of the brewing industry; it is typically bitter because it is grown
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How does the Rachel Carson use language to convey changes and contrasts in mood and meaning in Silent Spring? The mood in the extracts from Rachel Carson ’s Silent Spring changes continually from beginning to end. The first paragraph has an almost fairy-tale feeling to it - the tone is pleasant and calm and the opening‚ "There was once a town…" is quite similar to that you ’d find in a child ’s story book. The chapter title‚ "A Fable for Tomorrow" also reinforces this story-like sentiment. This is
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Black Cat" creates the mood of terror and fear evident in the setting of a Gothic romance. The establishment of an emotional atmosphere of mystery and fear is very important in creating the mood of the Gothic romance. The somber‚ ominous setting of a Gothic romance story contributes to the formation of a mood of terror and danger by sustaining a "general air of mystery and fear" (Steeves 253). Likewise‚ "The Black Cat" contains an eerie setting that sustains an emotional mood of terror. One example
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Chapter Title Literary Element Text Evidence Analysis 1 Innocence Mood “Behind my back‚ at the world’s end‚ my pale slightly glowing fat mother sleeps on‚ old‚ sick at heart‚ in our dingy underground room. Life-bloated‚ baffled‚ long-suffering hag. Guilty‚ she imagines‚ of some unremembered‚ perhaps ancestral crime. (She must have some human in her.) Not that she thinks. Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life’s curse.” Grendel describes his cursed mother
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feet as a dramatization of the quietness of the fog. Cat feet within this poem are used as a way for the speaker to convey the idea that the fog acts as cat feet do‚ in how quiet and sneaky they are. As the poem progresses the reader experiences a mood change from being anxious and not knowing what to expect to a feeling of excitement. This excitement stems from the idea of the cat-like fog ever moving and changing over harbor cities and towns. This means that the stanzas are two separate ideas that
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The Effect of Mood on Job Performance Ming-Hui Kan Professor Stephen J. Famiglietti ESLG 0455 G05 Capstone Research Project October 28‚ 2011 Outline Thesis Statement: Mood has a strong effect on job performance. Positive mood results in higher quality of work and negative mood reduces task performance. Employers/employees should do everything they can to maintain a positive mood at the workplace. I. Introduction A. The Relations Between Mood‚ Work Attitudes and Work Performance B. The
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the film frame‚ Wong creates a feeling of uncomfortable tightness‚ inducing the feeling of claustrophobia. By doing this‚ Wong is revealing the effects of intense social pressure in conservative Asian society; social pressure to stick to yourself and your family‚ for nonrelated men and women to maintain their distance. One such example is when Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan talking to each other‚ and they are obstructed by the doorframe. In the scene‚ Mr. Chow is trying to “break” through the doorframe and
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