Diana Alsbrook Professor Smith World Literature 251 March 4‚ 2010 Grotesque Imagery to Represent Themes in Candide Various forms of imagery appear in Voltaire’s Candide. This includes the image of gardening and the multiple images found throughout the tour of El Dorado. None‚ however‚ compare to the blatant grotesque imagery shown in the novel‚ imagery that gives us a sort of comic relief in what is supposed to be violent and gory. Comedy and horror-filled instances are combined to form a
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The Power of Imagery in Night Imagery is a portrait that is painted in your mind‚ a portrait that makes you feel you are there. The Holocaust is full of disturbing and horrible images of death. Pictures of inhumanity that just make you sick looking at them. In many images you see the pale‚ unemotional faces whose lives were changed for eternity‚ and yet with these images some believe that the Holocaust did not happen. In the Holocaust there was mass genocide of over six million Jews. Also
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How Imagery and Macbeth Go Together An ability to form mental images of things or events is called Imagery. William Shakespeare used a lot of imagery in his plays to help connect his readers and audience members to the characters. In one of Shakespeare’s famous plays “The Tragedy of Macbeth”‚ Imagery involved itself in every way and played a big role; that depicted high emotions between the play and characters; Stimulating one in a visual‚ auditory and organic way. Visual Imagery is a flow
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Krapp ’s Last Tape: Imagery in Color During the 20th century‚ there was an evident disillusion and disintegration in religious views and human nature due to the horrific and appalling events and improvements in technology of this time‚ such as the Holocaust and the creation of the atom bomb. This has left people with little‚ if any‚ faith in powers above or in their own kind‚ leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is an absurd joke. From these times grew the Theater of Absurd
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T.S. Eliot’s Preludes is a poem in which he portrays the isolation of an individual from society. His imagery is clear and he uses many techniques to achieve this. The central theme of the poem is about the feeling of despair at the decline and dissolution of modern civilization. This poem was written in 1917‚ when there was a worldwide questioning of the values of modern western civilization. Due to many factors‚ especially the First World War and the economic depression‚ many artists‚ poets and
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In life‚ thoughts are not‚ by nature‚ linear. Here‚ Faulkner employs a form of imagery that represents the nearly haphazard and confusing quality of every person’s private thought processes. In this way‚ we are given a glimpse into a deeper truth – the reflections of his words on the issues he is facing. Sartoris watches his father’s
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PLEASE READ AND REWORD WHAT YOU FIND OUT OF PLACE THIS WAS WRITTEN IT A QUICK MANNER Technology is becoming increasingly popular; we are forced to confront it everyday. Ray Bradbury has noticed this trend of people becoming more and more dependent on technology; after all we use the television‚ computers‚ and even automobiles everyday. In the pedestrian Ray Bradbury has used insect images in The Pedestrian that suggests that with the increasing number of people using technology it will trap and
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There are many auditory images in this short excerpt from The Awakening‚ by Kate Chopin. The first is where the narrator is describing Edna’s feelings. This put an image of a frightened child in the readers heads. Another that is easily seen is the dog who is barking. Chopin went into detail of the type of tree the dog was tied to‚ which put an image of a dog tied to a sycamore tree in the reader’s head. The last two were “the spurs of the cavalry officer”‚ and “the hum of bees” (Chopin). As the
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Religious Imagery in "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" Authors sometimes include hidden messages in their writings. This allows the reader to conceive many different ideas about the subject‚ causing them to think deeper than just the surface meaning of the story. A prime example of this is Katherine Anne Porter ’s short story "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"‚ written in mostly first person with some third person narrative and using the stream of consciousness technique. Porter uses several
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James Joyce implemented "wasteland imagery" in the story. My understanding of the definition of "wasteland imagery" as it applies to this story is to represent an aspect of life as lacking in spiritual‚ aesthetic‚ or other humanizing qualities through use of vivid or figurative language. Throughout the story I couldn ’t help but notice finely nuanced descriptions and bits of dialogue where Joyce undercuts the celebratory nature of the evening with such imagery. Descriptions of the characters in
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