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- 1781: The Night Journey In Heart Of
- ... are knitting, is black; a colour often prescribed as something sinister, dark and evil. It is often thought that evil deeds are committed during night; darkness. To enhance the notion of darkness, Marlow associates the house (where he encounters the knitters) with darkness he remarks, 'the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead' (pg 37). The knitters 'guarding the door of darkness' are often seen as the Fates in Greek mythology, the goddesses who spin threads of men's lives and ...
- 1782: Merchant Of Venice
- ... wonder about how fair Shylock is, when Launcelot is deciding whether or not to leave him. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, Jessica. He mistreats her by keeping her as a captive in her own house, not letting her out, and not letting her hear the Christian music around her. He orders her to: "Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum... ..But stop my house's ears-I mean casements. Let not the sound of shallow fopp'ry enter My sober house." Jessica considers her home to be hell, and she calls Launcelot, a "merry little devil". She even states that her father is Satan. Shylock also mistreats his own daughter, by not loving her enough, ...
- 1783: Outline On Edgar Allen Poe
- ... reflects death. a. The Ebony clock is in the last room draped in black velvet. b. The black room symbolizes death; it is also the last room in the palace. III. “The Fall of the House of Usher” A. “The Fall of the House of Usher” uses death as a major concept. 1. All of the Ushers have died and there are only two remaining in the family. 2. Madeline dies during the story. B. The house reflects death in many ways. a. The grounds show no signs of life. b. The inside is also very deserted and reflects the Gothicism of the home.
- 1784: Stephen King
- ... and his wife lived in when they were first married. The town inspired him to write his smash novel "Pet Sematary." There was a road, called Route 15, that runs straight past King’s old house. Every day there was a different household animal lying dead on the road. King one day noticed a dead tabby cat dead next to the local Hartford Cemetary. He made the connection between the two ... The town is fictitious but based on Bangor. The most famous of the "Derry" books is "IT." One of the main places in "IT" is the Derry Public Library. This place serves as a safe house for the characters in the book. This is significant because King said that he chose the library because he always felt safe and sound in his public library when he was young. George Denbrough is ... is ordinary and good. As soon as Mr. Leland Gaunt comes to town all hell breaks loose. The small ordinary town turns chaotic. A dog gets skinned and hung in the doorway of the owners’ house. The kids are throwing fecal matter on virtually everything in sight. The Baptists are in constant fights with the Catholics. The Priest slashes the tires of the Reverend’s tires and the Reverend defaces ...
- 1785: Beowulf 5
- ... France, but Catherine wanted their child born in England, so he was. She was a determined and frightening woman it was in her genes (www.byronjournal). Jack stayed in France, living in his sister's house, and died in 1791, possibly by suicide. Jack (George's father), or "Mad Jack," died at age 36. Catherine took her son to Scotland, where they soon realized he had a lame his foot. She ... wreck. The Wicked Lord (George's grandfather) hated his sons, so he set about ruining Newstead so his sons would have no proper estate. He used to let swarms of crickets run rampant through the house (www.byronjournal). Because of this Byron's mother moved them nearby to Nottingham. They were very poor. The Byron estate was mostly tied up in lawsuits, but Mrs. Byron finally got her son a decent ... it longer. Lord B.'s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it. . . . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective . . . . ...
- 1786: The Demise Of Lady Macbeth, In
- ... doctor look on curiously as she desperately tries to wash the blood off of her hands. Lady Macbeth is breaking under the strain of guilt and the tangled web of lies. She wanders aroung the house, replaying the actions of the night of Duncan's murder, intermingled with this she speaks of the other murders that led from the first. "The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now ... on the stilts that support a beachouse. The stilits may appear strong, and may continue to appear so as they are being eaten. Then one day, there will no longer be enough support and the house will fall. Unless, some sees the problem and faces it, the house will contiune to get weaker and weaker. Lady Macbeth couldn't do it, and she took the coward's way, right to the end.
- 1787: Invisible Man By Ralph Ellison
- ... group striving for the betterment of the Black race, an ideal he reveres. Upon arrival in the Brotherhood, he meets Brother Tarp and Brother Tod Clifton who give him a chain link and a paper doll, respectively. I choose to write about these items because they are symbolic of his struggle in his community fighting for the black people and of his struggle within himself searching for identity. The narrator works ... During the riot, the narrator gets trapped in a hole where he decides to stay in isolation and search for his own identity. The other symbol that is relevant to the narrator is a paper doll given to him by Brother Clifton. Brother Clifton, another member of the Brotherhood, is a dashing young Black man who is sympathetic to the narrator's ideas. Brother Clifton was an individual who seemed to ... is similar to that of Brother Clifton. He comes to be convinced that he has been used by people all his life and that this has stripped him of his identity. As Clifton assumes the doll's identity, the narrator assumes many other people's identities trying to discover who he is. The best example of this is when he takes the identity of an individual named Rinehart's. It ...
- 1788: Response to William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
- ... immediate family. Instead, they were all there for their own reasons. “The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house”(26). As the story unfolds, the reader learns of all of Miss Emily’s hard times. These hard times include losing a father who was the only man who ever really loved her and falling ... story. Mrs. Emily started out wealthy. Once her father died and left her no money, the townspeople were put to ease about her. The narrator says, “ When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone and a pauper, she had become humanized”(29). The townspeople feel ... trials and tribulations, because to them it made her more human like. Before her father died, no one called her, but once he died, the narrator said, “All the ladies prepared to call at the house to offer condolence and aid”(29). The same is with Homer Barron. Once the townspeople thought that he had left her, they began to feel sorry for her. Miss Emily was humanized from someone ...
- 1789: East Of Eden
- ... lived, Cathy had a scent of sweetness, but that is just what Cathy wanted the town to see and think when Cathy planned her kill. On page 114-115, "The fire broke out... the Ames house went up like a rocket... Enough remained of Mr. and Mrs. Ames to make sure there were two bodies." Cathy had set the house on fire and broke into the safe to steal the family's money. As the investigators scoped the place, they noticed that the bolts stuck out and there were no keys left in the locks ... is reassuring the reader that Cathy is a monster and with the evidence before and after this statement. For example, Cathy later changes her name to Kate and runs a whorehouse. While she runs the house, she takes pictures of all the important male individuals in the town to later send to their spouses and families. Cathy plans to send the pictures whether they caused trouble or not. As Cathy' ...
- 1790: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... were not bad enough being ridiculed by children her own age, adults also had to mock her. Geraldine, a colored woman, who refused to tolerate "niggers", happened to walk in while Pecola was in her house. "`Get out,' she said her voice quiet. `You nasty little black bitch. Get out of my house'" (Morrison 92). By having an adult point out to her that she really was a "nasty" little girl, it seems all the more true. Pecola was never able to get away from this kind of ... of his eventual downfall was the way the community perceived him. They treated him disrespectfully, talked about him behind his back, and made a mockery of his name. After Cholly attempts to burn his own house down, he earns a reputation as being a scoundrel. Who, "having put his family outdoors, had catapulted himself beyond the reaches of human consideration. He had joined the animals; was indeed, an old dog, ...
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