In Poes The Fall of the House of Usher the narrator first views the house of Usher and perceives a mystery incapable of being solved Foreboding imaginings keep coming into his mind in spite of rational thinking and reasoning As he says there are things beyond our ability to rationalize He rationalizes that if he could look at things differently or in a brighter light he might be able to change it but when he looks into the lake he sees with even more fear before a mirror image of the house in a
Frankenstein written by Romantic novelist Mary Shelley takes the idea of the creative arrogance of the romantic imagination and the amorality of industrialised technology as its point of departure for fashioning a gothic world in which creation turns on creator in revenge for the indifference of its monumental egocentricity I agree with this statement to an extreme extent These ideas are explored throughout the text in the form of Frankenstein and the monster he had created and the way in which
Over the course of Frankenstein Viktor Frankenstein undergoes a drastic emotional transformation as a result of his experiments which resulted in the creation of his Creature Frankensteins trips to Montavert and his descriptions of the scene on his solitary excursions show a clear sense of an emotional before and after In his visits to Montavert before the birth of his Creature Frankenstein saw a sublime and beautiful scene However his accounts are drastically different upset guilty and disturb
Moby Dick 1 is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have knowingly encountered
Romeo and Juliet is often prompted as a romantic love story between two teenagers To what extent would it be more accurate to say that Shakespeare explores many kinds of love between people Romeo and Juliet is known as one of the greatest love stories of all time the love shared by Romeo and Juliet is not the only love explored throughout the play One kind of love becomes evident when Mercutio lays down his life in order to prevent Romeo from dying This form of bravery demonstrates the strength
La Belle Dame Sans Merci La Belle Dame Sans Merci is written in 1819 by one of the most important romantic poets John Keats He takes the title from a medieval French poem by Alain Chartier and it means The Beautiful Woman Without Pity It talks about a seductive woman who makes men fall in love with her and then leaves them This poem is written in form of a ballad which is type of narrative poetry that uses repeated words and phrases including a refrain to advance its story Keats debates the ide
How does Dickens present his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times Charles Dickens presents his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times in a very clear and deliberate way It is blatantly clear that the imagery and techniques used by Dickens conveys to the audience a very negative image of education Dickens uses techniques such as repetition exaggeration metaphor and agricultural imagery to portray his attitude towards education The main technique that D