“There’s the sulphurous pit:” Female Sexuality in King Lear King Lear takes a very negative view of feminine sexuality from the first scene. In line 15 of scene 1 when Gloucester asks Kent “Do you smell a fault?” (Shakespeare‚ 1110)‚ the editor’s notes indicate that “fault” can refer to either wrongdoing or female genitals. Indeed the speech between them is rife with misogyny. Gloucester goes on to say that there was “good sport‚” at Edmund’s conception‚ and goes on to call him a “whoreson
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Edgar Allen Poe’s short story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum” is told from a first person point of view. The narrator‚ who has been imprisoned and sentenced to death‚ remains nameless and discovers that he is being held in a small enclosed prison cell where “the blackness of darkness supervened...”. The perspective of the narrator helps to develop a sense of terror in the reader because it forces the narrator to blindly fill his confinement with his greatest fears‚ thrusting the reader into the narrator’s
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It is a well known fact that Edgar Allan Poe‘s stories are famous for producing horror or terror in his readers beyond description. However‚ it is one of this essay’s attempts to precisely describe these two characteristics present in The pit and the pendulum and The black cat. Horror may be defined as “the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen‚ heard‚ or otherwise experienced. It is the feeling one gets after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” Poe‚ uses the horror elements of isolation‚ fight or flight‚ and anxiety/distortion to add suspense to the story. In summation of the story it is set in the 1400’s in Spain and is following the pov of a man thrown into a dungeon to die. Over the whole part of the story the protagonist is faced with just being by himself also known as isolation. In the story it says all “...sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the
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Yeats and D.H. Lawrence portrays pessimism through the sexuality that stands for the blood for himself. In Freudian psychology‚ the snake symbolizes the male sexual power. However‚ in D.H. Lawrence’s poem entitled “Snake”‚ the animal stands for the innate glory of wild beings and the vulgarity as a whole and the pettiness of the human beings is narrated. Secondly the snake in the poem stands for traditional values and it also symbolizes the indecisiveness of the human beings when they are faced with
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Dreamingʼ by Liddy Walker Napanagka the relationship between the Aboriginal people and their land is evident. This is known because of the representation of certain lines and colours in the painting. The curved black lines represent the forests of snake vine trees leading to the central lake depicted in the lower half of the painting. Referring back to the Aboriginal flag the colour black represents the Aboriginal people‚ this shows that there is a bondage between the people and their land as
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American Pit Bull Terrier: American Icon or Demon Dog? Sunday McLean I-Search Essay Eileen Goldman ENC-1101 What I know Pit Bull is simply the name of a dog. As monikers go‚ it’s an ominous one. It means many things to many people with one more or less commonly understood connotation: risk. I have had my Pit Bull since he was a puppy‚ going on nine years now. Until two years ago‚ I would have strongly disputed the general consensus that these highly controversial dogs are actually dangerous
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Personal Essay|Emily Gibson It was a few days after moving to Ohio. I was going to my first day of school. I was and still am a incredibly shy person. I didn’t know anyone an no one knew me. I was scared that no one would talk to me and that I would never make any friends. My mom said to just talk and find people with the same interests as me‚ but that’s hard todo when you’re shy. The first day of school rolled around and I was so nervous. I was standing in the front office. I got assigned
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I was granted the opportunity to work with the children and teachers of Coal Pit Learning Center for community engagement week. I worked with the children throughout the week to provide relief to the exhausted teachers and be a person who can look over the children. I was gifted the opportunity to work with a variety of children of ages from 3-5. My first day was tiring‚ but full of excitement. The children were a mix of shy and excited as we walked into their classroom for the very first time. I
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The Pit and the Pendulum vs. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment: Not Quite So Different Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” is about a man that is put through torture and Hawthorne’s “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is about a doctor who gives four elderly people a taste of water from the Fountain of Youth. “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” are definitely different as far as content goes but when examined a little more closely clear similarities can be found. Subtle literary devices
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