Larson uses juxtaposition in the description to contrast the works of Burnham 's architectural buildings and the start of Holmes criminal activities. He uses “bigger, taller, and richer” to show how the city was growing in technology, and how Burnham was constantly constructing taller buildings. As Chicago grew in size, Larson explains that it also “grew dirtier, darker, and more dangerous” because of the quick expansion that had a harsh impact on the city. He uses this to show how Holmes will take advantage of this rapid growth to begin his unlawful actions. The contrast between these two men and how they’ll have an effect on Chicago shows the good and evil sides of this
Dickens uses the anaphora to emphasize the grotesque physical appearance of Tellson’s Bank. Dickens writes how small, dark, and ugly the building is in the surrounding chapter. Dickens uses words to emphasize the building such as “dark” and “ugly” and “incommodious.” The anaphora also creates a unwelcoming environment that Tellson’s Bank gives off as a result of how dark and ugly the building is. The building allows for the readers and characters to know that rather than it being an welcoming vibe.
As the spirt begins to show Ebenezer the young boy and girl, he develops an appalled look upon him. Dickens describes the two as a “yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish” looking. The Spirt explains to Scrooge that the two below his robe belong to Man. That the boy represented Ignorance and the girl Want. The Spirt begins to warn him of the boy, “…for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased…”
Similarities and Differences of The Christmas Carol: Movie and Play “God bless us, everyone.” (Dickens, 22). Charles Dickens wrote The Christmas Carol to teach us a lesson about giving and kindness that all men and women deserve no matter their financial circumstances. We learn that happiness is found even when circumstances are hard. There is many differences and similarities between the play and the movie of The Christmas Carol.
A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, surrounds the cities of Paris and London during the late 1700’s. The novel takes place during the French Revolution, a period of social and political upheaval in France and England. While peasants died in the streets from hunger, aristocrats had more money and power than they knew what to do with. A Tale of Two Cities describes, in detail, the poverty of the time period, as well as the struggle of a people able to overcome oppression. The novel is largely based off of occurrences Dickens experienced during his childhood.
In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, the author Charles Dickens uses the literary devices of symbolism and motifs to assist the reader by developing the various themes that are prevalent in the novel. Dickens clearly uses the symbols and motifs in A Tale of Two Cities to develop the themes by emphasizing them throughout the novel and by connecting them to the events that occur, as seen in using the motif of resurrection. Dickens uses a plethora of characters such as Doctor Manette, Charles Darnay, and Sydney Carton to embody the motif of resurrection by connecting to the themes in the novel, specifically how turmoil can allow people to be reincarnated as a new person. I would consider our presentation to be decent because we had many flaws and organizational issues. I believe the lesson was able to help our classmates understand the symbols and motifs in A Tale of Two Cities and how they helped them better understand the book.
In Robert Stevenson’s book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde duality is a reoccurring theme. Stevenson shows his duality through the plot, setting, and character’s dialogue throughout the novel. William Shakespeare shares the theme of duality in his play Romeo and Juliet. The duality of society and the duality of good and evil are a couple of the dualities revealed. Robert Stevenson’s
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” (1) This opening line has set a precedent for foils in literature for decades to come. The use of a foil is meant to draw attention to a character’s flaws therefore making an opposing character’s strengths more visible. This novel exemplifies foiling through characters such as Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, as well as the settings. It is for these reasons Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, as a whole, works as a foil. Sydney Carton is first introduced as an alcoholic lawyer without many morals.
In the novel, The Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, the author uses the rhetorical device that is parallelism. Parallelism is the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity. “It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us” (Dickens 1). Another example of parallelism is in the novel The Things They Carried, “To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true.
Ghosts either exist or they don’t exist. In Terry Castle’s, “Contagious Folly: ‘An Adventure’ and Its Skeptics,” we are introduced to the minds of Charlotte A. Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who are the principal and vice-principal of St. Hugh's College, Oxford. In 1901, Moberly and Jourdain decided to meet up at Versailles. They did not think much about the palace, so they decided to take a stroll through the gardens to Petit Trianon. As the two women made their way through the property, they got lost and suddenly felt overwhelmed with a feeling of weariness and oppression as they went through what they believed to be a paranormal encounter when they came across the apparitions of Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon, near Versailles.
Duality is a change of emotion within, seen through physical change, and can be many different personalities contained in one body. Duality can be found in anything, but in the case of literature and life we can see when there is a duality in someone's life it shows a positive and negative side of their personality. This is seen in my life when I’m calm and collected playing soccer versus when I’m frustrated. This is also seen in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when Dr. Jekyll is collected and friendly versus when he is Mr. Hyde and has a more evil and impulsive personality.
In life some writers try to change society. Charles Dickens the author of A Christmas Carol and George Sims “A Christmas Day in the Workhouse” helped change people’s minds through their writing. There writing helped people realize that the poor was treated cruelly and would work for long hours, and that no one rich or in the middle class would help. Charles Dickens and George Gims wanted to make a positive change in society.
“Now, what I want is results. I will teach you fully the material as results alone are wanted in life. This is the principle by which I live, and this is the principle I will instill in this class”. The scene was a plain, bare, monotonous classroom filled with rows of curved desks and pasty chalkboards. Mr. Aimes.
Internal conflicts are created and fought within our minds. Normally an individual would win the fight and move on. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens his character Miss havisham does not move on but stays within the confines of: time, Satis house, and a broken emotional state, Causing her to be forever imprisoned. Miss havisham imprisoned herself with time. for instance she stops all the clocks in the Satis House at the exact moment she was jilted on her wedding day 9;20.
Duality is an instance of opposition or contrast between two concepts or two aspects of something. The author, Charles Dickens, uses duality throughout the fictional novel, A Tale of Two Cities, to bring characters who would be thought of as polar opposites together. Dickens begins the novel by says, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"(3). The author begins the book with the quote to show the duality straight away because best and worst are opposite of eachother. Such as when the discovery of the main characters in England and France are all somehow tied together.
