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In an excerpt of "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" Tobias Smollet portrays a complex relation between emotions and social norms. Using literary elements such as dialogue, tone, and diction to convey the uncontrolled emotions between Mr. Pickle and Godfrey Gauntlet. During this time period, emotional issues were less important and less cared for than maintaining a high reputation in society. Both Mr. Pickle and Godfrey Gauntlet convey feelings of loathing towards each other since their first encounter. They decide to handle it in a socially acceptable war, rather than expressing their feelings verbally like one would do now in days. Smollet uses dialogue to show the initial uncontrolled emotions felt by Mr. Pickle and Gauntlet. Feelings that portrayed hatred and direspect towards each other. The excerpt begins with dialogue from Gauntlet. "Mr. Pickle, you have carried on a correspondence with my sister for some time, and I should be glad to know the nature of it." With this Mr. Pickle felt disrespected and as if he was being catechize as a child. Subsequently, as …show more content…
In their verbal encounter, neither Pickle nor Gauntlet ever say anything to directly insult one another. Rather the way they handled their conversation was the result for the quarreling of swords at the end of the excerpt. Pickle's tone is by far more anger-driven than Gauntlet's, since Gauntlet's tone presents a sense of superiority over pickle, rather than pure anger towards him. In addition, the narrator's calm, indifferent tone in the second paragraph shows the social norms of the society. "A formal challenge having passed between them, they alighted at the first inn, and walked to the next field, in order to decide their quarrel by the sword." A sword fight to terminate an argument was typical for this time period which explains the lack of shockness from the
Initially, Mailer used diction through imagery and emotional words to give the reader how the situation felt to him and to describe to the reader the situation. In the passage, emotional words such as “bad maulings”, “three disgusted steps away”, and “referee’s face came a look of woe” pop up. Mailer utilizes these negative emotional words to impose a tone that is solemn towards Paret and a tone that is disdainful towards Griffith. Consequently, the reader’s mood coincides with the tone of the author. For example, the phrase “referee’s face came a look of woe” gives the reader a grievous feeling because of the word “woe”. Another instance where a reader can see this is in the phrase “three disgusted steps away”. Mailer could have just stated “three steps away”, but he wanted to enforce the negative connotation of the story and to show the reader how he had felt. Additionally, imagery is used in...
In Chapter 2 of Children’s Books in Children’s Hands: A Brief Introduction to their Literature, the authors talk about the 12 main elements of a literary work: genre, plot, setting, characterization, theme, point of view, intersexuality, tone, mood, style, voice, and the stance of the implied reader (Temple, Martinez, and Yokota 24). All of these literary elements capture the reader’s imagination and creates a successful piece of literature. However, the authors stress the importance of genre in Chapter 2, so I will briefly go over the different types of genres there are in literature and how it affects the readers greatly.
Winkle was left to gather his thoughts and rectify them on his own. Despite the fact that he had the blood of others on his hands and once enjoyed it. Winkle realized “If anything the war made him appreciate life more, helped him see what was important” (Wrinkle111).
The story by Somerville Ross, “Philippa’s Fox Hunt” was set in Ireland. A recently married couple Mr. and Mrs. Yeates were featured adapting to a new environment. The new place was characterized by new social activities that were not common in their previous residence. They had to learn new skills such as riding horses and hunting. Mr. Yeates who narrated the story described his life after marriage and how events had shaped his marriage. At the very beginning I was able to pick an element of symbolism; a newly married couple will naturally start a new life and similarly in the story the couple ventured into a new society where almost everything was new just in the same way when two people get married to each other.
Most authors, occasionally uses their characters to guide their personal views they want to emphasize to their audience. In the novel, Grendel written by John Gardner, Gardner uses Grendel as an agent to portray his perspective of the evil and corrupt world of humans and their place in the universe. Gardner not only uses Grendel as a vehicle, but also uses the Dragon as another source to express his opinions of people in the world. Gardner can be considered as an isolated human being, who is kept away from the affection of others; Grendel and Gardner can be closely related due to the fact that Gardner is embodied as Grendel in a more dimensional aspect. They both seem to contain repugnant thoughts towards the world they are “forced” to live in. The Dragon supports Gardner’s statement by going against the Shaper’s stories, by telling Grendel that life seems to possess no meaning and every story the Shaper tells is to alter the people’s attitudes. While Grendel is conversing with the Dragon, the Dragon mocks the Shaper, “[He] provides an illusion of reality- puts together all their facts with gluey whine of connectedness. [...] But he spins it all together with harp runs and hoots, and they think what they think is alive, think Heaven loves them” (Pg. 65). This proves that humans are weak-minded and are easily persuaded into faulty stories; this puts humans into a low ranking scale of morality. Through Grendel’s observation of Hrothgar’s kingdom, is also considered a source of perspective. Grendel witnesses Wealtheow being used as a balance of harmony between the two rivaling families, the Danes and the Helmings. As Grendel spies on them he thinks to himself, “But she was beautiful and she surrendered herself with the dignity of a s...
Grendel lives in a dark and gruesome underground cave with his mother and dozens of cold, unmoving creatures. He is very curious and, in his early years, finds a way to escape this terrible place and enter the world. Every night he wanders outside his cave, exploring the land around him. One night, he gets trapped in a tree. A band of human beings led by King Hrothgar approaches and, after some hesitation, attacks Grendel. They close in for the kill, but Grendel's mother arrives just in time to save him.
The reader is put in the middle of a war of nerves and will between two men, one of which we have grown up to learn to hate. This only makes us even more emotional about the topic at hand. For a history book, it was surprisingly understandable and hard to put down. It enlightened me to the complex problems that existed in the most memorable three months this century.
During the actual act of attacking each other, this a common act during this time period. This was a way to assert dominance without letting their emotions shine. Ironically, how fast paced the fight is, Smollet uses long drawn out sentences to build up and show the extent of the fight. Then using strong and disturbing vernacular to describe the fight shows the true pent-up anger the two men had against each other. In the manner the two men fight shows the relationship between emotions and societal propriety by how their emotions are hidden away in the societal norm of
Evil. It’s a concept that has baffled philosophers, religious figures, and the common man alike for thousands of years. In this millennium, people may exemplify evil as terrorism, genocide, or, perhaps, placing an empty milk carton back in the refrigerator. However, many remain conflicted about the exact definition of evil, as the dispute over the character Grendel, from the John Gardner novel, makes evident. To conclude that Grendel is not evil, readers must first operate under the assumption that the beast is unequivocally and thoroughly evil. Having done so, readers will notice the fallacies within this thought process. By asserting that Grendel is evil, readers blatantly disregard the ambiguity with which humanity defines its actions, as
The moon has been worshipped as a female deity since the beginning of time. Not only is the moon a feminine principle, it is also a symbol of transformation due to its own monthly cycle of change. With this in mind, it is clear upon a close reading of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald that the grandmother figure is a personification of the moon, and as such is a catalyzing agent for Irene's maturation and transformation through the course of the novel. Taking this a step further, the elder Irene contains the threefold aspect of the Moon Goddess. She is Artemis, Selene, and Hecate; the crescent moon, the full moon, and the dark moon; maiden, mother, and crone (Rush, 149).
Jealousy builds up in a plot until it explodes, like a bomb, through the trouble that it induces. In The Lord of the Flies, Jack and Ralph both contend to be chief. “‘I ought to be chief,’ said Jack with a simple arrogance” (Golding 22). The speaker’s arrogance opens the door for a greater jealousy when Ralph is voted to lead. The envious emotion festers inside of the jealous chorister until it drives him mad. Jack turns savage as the plot thickens, and calls for Ralph’s blood. Jealousy turns Maxine to violence, as well. Kingston’s memoir depicts her younger self with a girl that refused to speak. “I squeezed one cheek, then the other, back and forth until the tears ran out of her eyes as if I had pulled them out” (Kingston 177). The violence narrated here is explained to be the result of Maxine’s hatred of the silent girl, but any reader can easily envision the green eyes. Jealousy is visible in the envious tone used to describe the other child’s attributes. The destructive force of Maxine’s jealousy is the source of her agenda to torture. Neither Maxine nor Jack could handle the fierce bite of jealousy, so they unleashed it on o...
A. The “Tension between Darl and Jewel”. University of North Carolina Press (1992): 49-61. The Southern Literary Journal. Web.
There is only the narrator telling the audience what happens as the duo doesn’t speak using dialogue. What does happen, however, is that Pickle claims that he’ll order his man to punish Gauntlet with a horsewhip. This, again, shows social propriety using simple diction. Smollett has pickle seem so uptight and Gauntlet so poor, that Pickle would have his man punish Godfrey instead of him doing it himself. The emotion in Godfrey at this was astonishment and anger. That was what started the actual dueling with swords.
Dickens notes that in the midst of a revolution, heavy bloodshed must be made in order to achieve the vengeance that the peasants desire. Though the peasants were originally people of good faith, they were forced by the aristocratic government to take drastic actions. Poverty, the mother of all crimes, along with the aristocrats “crushing humanity out of shape once more” gave the peasants no choice.” Dickens conveys here that because of the negligence of the government, the people were forced to sacrifice their good nature and engage in the violent acts that caused a time of great animosity and dejection. Sacrifices are often made to strengthen bonds, and no other bond in the novel is stronger than the one that Lucie Mannette shares with her father, Dr. Manette.
Religion is and always has been a sensitive topic. Some choose to acknowledge that there is a God and some choose to deny this fact to the death. For those who deny the presence of a higher being, “Life of Pi” will most likely change your thought process concerning this issue. Yann Martel’s, “Life of Pi”, is a compelling story that shows the importance of obtaining religion and faith. Piscine (Pi) Patel is both the protagonist and the narrator of Martell’s religious eye-opener who undergoes a chain effect of unbelievable catastrophes. Each of these catastrophic events leaving him religiously stronger because he knows that in order to endure what he has endured, there has got to be a God somewhere.