... the last, the mood of desolation and impending doom never leaves. Poe used the principal of analogy very effectively in House of Usher. Finding an identical pattern in each the house and the family, he makes the events in the book being read correspond to those going on in the house. The entire opening scene is steeped in blackness and melancholy.(Neilson, 197, Buranelli, 62) Another of Poe's writing techniques is anima. Anima is giving a character qualities of having an animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe's use of symbolism in his gothic stories is a guiding thread to his l ...

... new monarch. He desires to be more wealthy and respected by the nobility as well as by the common people. Becoming king represents the highest rang in the political pyramid. The act of murdering is the only way to make his dreams come true because Duncan’s fair and prosperous rule over Scotland experience the support of the whole population. As Malcom and Donalbain fly to England, he automatically takes possession of the throne. Macbeth displays political ambition first of all because of his wife. After she reads her husband’s letter about his meeting with the witches, she suggests for Macbeth to kill Du ...

... of the morally compromising nature of the work of which she seems totally ignorant. When Marlow expresses doubts about the nature of the work, she replies, 3You forget, dear Charlie, that the labourer is worthy of his hireý (12). It is clear that Marlow has mixed feelings about the whole idea. At one point, trying to justify his actions to himself, he says, 3You understand it was a continental concern, that Trading Society; but I have a lot of relations on the living continent, because it1s cheap and not so nasty as it looks they sayý (12). Marlow finally takes the job, however, and tells himself that the pain a ...

... and not scared; the complete opposite of the Chief. This courage eventually passed on to the Chief. At a meeting, when McMurphy was holding a vote to prove that the patients wanted to see the World Series, the Chief voted for it. At first he said that McMurphy controlled his hand. Later on he admitted that it was he who raised it. He even talked to McMurphy one night, and began laughing at the situation at hand. One day when McMurphy and the Chief tried to help another patient who was being taken advantage of by orderlies, they were caught and sentenced to electro-shock therapy (EST). The Chi usually blacke ...

... work. Sex is a primary source of happiness. The brave new world basically teaches everyone to be promiscuous. You are allowed to have sex with any partner you want, who wants you, and sooner or later every partner will want you. Children are taught through hypnosis that "everyone belongs to everyone else." In this Utopia, what we think of as true love for one person would lead to a passion for that person and the establishment of family life, both of which would interfere with the community and its stability. Nobody is allowed to become pregnant because nobody is born, everyone is a "test-tube" baby. Many f ...

... When More is being pressured into signing the oath by Norfolk in the name of fellowship, he replies by saying, " And when we stand before God, and you are sent to Paradise for doing according to your conscience, and I am damned for not doing according to mine, will you come with me for fellowship?"(77). He adheres to his philosophy and conscience, knowing that he will inevitably be executed. One who is reading this may reply by thinking More's decision was asinine. The reader may believe that life is the greatest value to man, and to place anything above it would be asinine. More's behavior was bizarre even ...

... dream. He is a husband, a father, a salesman, and a man desperate to find meaning in his life and pride in himself before it’s too late. He has worked for the same company for his entire career, dreaming of being "well-liked" and being ‘someone." For Willy, being well-liked equates with success. "Be popular and you will not want" is his interpretation of the American dream. The hero in "Fences," a "flawed giant" is a garbageman of fifty-six named Troy Maxson. Once a professional baseball player, he was unable to play in the major leagues because of his African-American roots. There is no aspect of his life in ...

... and Frankenstein had similar choices to Adam and Eve. Prometheus was a semi-god and his job or task was to create man. After creating the man, Prometheus felt it his job to protect his creation. In doing so, he gave fire to man that he had stolen from Zeus. From Prometheus's actions he suffered for the rest of eternity. When Victor Frankenstein made his being, he made a choice to "animate lifeless clay and body-parts", to become a being. The choice he made would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Zeus finds out that Prometheus has stolen his fire, he took Prometheus to a top of a mountain a ...

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... his own life. After being examined by a doctor who measures his skull and cautions him to remain “calm� in the jungle, Marlow takes a French steamer to the mouth of the Congo River. The steamer moves very slowly, making many stops along its way, and Marlow marvels at the vastness and mystery of the jungle. They pass a French gunboat firing shells into the dense, black depths of the jungle. Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the “darkness� and its invisible forces. Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the Congo and Marlow dis ...