Imagine having all the power in the world, then realizing you took it too far and the power was torn away from you. Viva La Vida explains the power of King Louis XIV and the fall of his rule because of the unstable structure. The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventurous story of one man’s wrong imprisonment and his excessive revenge on those who wronged him.
In Viva La Vida and the Count of Monte Cristo both the author and the songwriter use diction and metaphors to convey the idea that even when you are powerful and have everything, you can feel lonely and that your power is too boundless.
The author and songwriter demonstrate the fall of power in both literary pieces by using metaphors.I used to roll the dice...fear in my enemy’s eyes” (Coldplay
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ghost of a wretched man you once buried...God placed on it the mask…” (Dumas 485).
This quote uses a metaphor to explain that The Count of Monte Cristo was the wretched man who was trapped in Chateau d’If by Villefort, and who God gave him the mask and the power to over take all those who have wronged him. Both these pieces express how the power and feeling of the to ruler, King Louis XIV and The COunt of Monte Cristo, through metaphors, to help support the power given to each ruler. By using diction the author and songwriter clarify the feeling in both rulers as their plans slowly dissolved. “It was the wicked and wild wind” (Coldplay 23).This quote uses diction to explain that when King Louis XIV ruled he would use devilish ways to bring his enemies down and people thought he was becoming too powerful.“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss” (Dumas 531).This quote uses diction to describe that the Count of Monte Cristo realized, after see what had become of his revenge, that he had felt ultimate happiness after going through the hardest times of his life and knew that Maximilien would now feel that too. He wanted to help Maximilien so even after Maximilien insisted on killing himself, The Count only put him to sleep, so that Maximilien could still be ultimately happy with Valentine. Both pieces convey the idea of power and hoe the Count finally resolve his problem of too much power but the King went on until he was hated by the
The two hour movie, partially in Spanish, is based off the autobiography of the same title written by Reinaldo Arenas with only a few notable differences. It follows the entire life of Reinaldo from his birth in Cuba to his eventual suicide in New York. Although it is difficult to understand during some scenes, the film does an exemplary job at presenting the issues of literary and homosexual oppression in Cuban through the viewpoint of Reinaldo.
In the Count of Monte Cristo and Viva la Vida, both the author and songwriter use imagery and metaphors to establish and portray the ideas that power blinds one from the reality of the world and power gives the semblance that every nuisance can be solved with it.
See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! What the Prince is saying is that, see what dreadful punishment has been laid upon your hatred. Heaven finds a reason to kill your joys with their love!" There are many forces in the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet that are keeping the two young, passionate lovers apart, all emanating from one main reason. In this essay I will discuss these as well as how love, in the end, may have been the cause that led to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their strong attraction to each other, which some call fate, determines where their forbidden love will take them.
In the first quatrain, Sir Sidney explicates a rather enraged attitude toward the concept of desire. In this quatrain, the apostrophe is the primary poetic device that’s used to convey his emotions. Sir Sidney’s attempt to vilify desire is seen when he tells desire that it is the “band of all evils.” Not only does apostrophe make desire tangible like a person, but it also makes it a demonic figure. Another poetic device Sir Sidney employed in the first
“I remained during the rest of the night…fearing each sound as if it were…the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life” (43).
Also, he is asking the greater power to direct him and to help him do what is right. Similarly, when Friar Lawrence is in the tomb of the Capulet’s with Juliet, he declares, “A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents. ”(V.iii.158). This displays how a greater power is controlled by what happens to them. The greater power is ruining their plans, and managing their lives.
...the chaos against which that pattern was conceived” (580). Here, the narrator is describing the process of discovering himself. Conceiving “a plan of living” (580) does not come independently; this plan must be patterned to succeed where a former plan had failed. In other words, the narrator must use the symbols of his old life—the contents of his briefcase—as the chaos against which a new pattern of living may be conceived. Therefore, it is only after the narrator shakes “off the old skin” (581), that he can declare that “the hibernation is over” (581). To leave the hole, to return to the world, the narrator has to learn from the objects who he is not; he had to realize “there is a death in the smell of spring” (580). To be reborn, as things do in springtime, something else must die; to emerge anew, the Invisible Man must leave behind the ashes of his former self.
Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door, the black man, and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold, which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters, the crowd or more minor characters, and what truth or punishment is being brought forth.
It is believed by many that it is human nature to deem themselves to be tantamount to God. Such is the case when one decides to take revenge against those who wrong him. Though vengeance seems like the perfect way to achieve justice, a sense of equity, in actuality it is merely an unsatisfactory hypocritical action. This is the definitive realization of the protagonist, Edmond Dantès, in Alexandre Dumas’ “The Count of Monte Cristo”. The protagonist comes to understand that after a lifetime of searching for justice, he really only yearns for justice from himself.
There is no doubt that when bad things happen to people, they want to reflect their misery on others whom they think caused it, which is exactly what happened with Edmond Dantes, a once innocent man who became consumed by hatred.
Love and Hate are powerful emotions that influence and control how we interact with people. To express this influence and control and the emotions associated with love and hate, for instance, joy, admiration, anger, despair, jealousy, and disgust, author's craft their writing with literary elements such as as structure, figurative language, imagery, diction, symbolism, and tone. Poems in which these can be seen present are “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare. Within “My Papa’s Waltz” a mighty love is seen between the father and son. To express this Roethke uses figurative language, symbolism and diction. Within “My Last Duchess” there is little love, but an ample hate towards the duchess from the Duch. To express this the
...n the families is ended by love of Romeo and Juliet signifying that love is more dominant. In Act 5 scene 3 the prince describes the misfortunes of the Montague’s and Capulet’s as “heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” The word “kill” sounds harsh here compared to the rest of the line, this makes it stand out, which has the effect of making the line seem negative; it is almost like love and hate are playing opposite roles. Although in this scene love is more important than hate because that is what ends the feuding between the Montegues and Capulets.
Ultimately`, William Shakespeare shows in many different ways throughout the play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, that love is the more powerful force than hate. The readers see how the characters continuously forgive one another, even when the conditions are tough. The friendships between specific characters display a loving bond that cannot be broken with hate. Shakespeare demonstrates that Romeo and Juliet’s love can overpower the hate of many events in the play. He shows that their love can even overpower the death of one of their own family members. Romeo and Juliet’s love brings friendship between their feuding families. This story is a true example of how love can conquer all.
Low, Anthony. "Hamlet and the Ghost of Purgatory: Intimations of Killing the Father."English Literary Renaissance 29.2 (1999): 443-67. Wiley Online Library. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.
‘...there is a motive which is more important than that of revenge, and which explicitly "blunts" the latter; the delay in revenge is unexplained on grounds of necessity or expediency; and the effect of the "madness" is not to lull but to arouse the king's suspicion.’