In Gwendolyn Brooks’ novel, “Maud Martha,” the titular character uses colour to explore her world and experiences. Maud Martha exists in a world of metaphor, since metaphor is when something represents something it is truly not. She is told that her skin colour means something that is not true, that she is somehow less than people whose skin colour represents higher value. This seems to be why Maud Martha uses colour as a metaphor in her thought processes to create meaning in life. This is supported by bell hooks’ review of the film “Blue” by Derek Jarman.
Let's say last night you dreamed you were in a fairytale. How would you describe it? Were there magical fairies, castles, golden objects, or talking animals? Did you slay a dragon, find true love, or save a princess? Common details that recur within a genre such as these are labeled genre Conventions, which can be used to enhance a text’s appeal or advance a moral.
Cinderella Ate My Daughter follows the life of Peggy Orenstein, a journalist as she takes on the impossible task of raising a child. As one source puts it, “Orenstein spends the 256 pages of Cinderella Ate My Daughter asking paradoxical questions and playing devil’s advocate. Despite the many questions and few answers, one thing remains clear: consumer culture has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, beginning at birth. Nearly every stage of life has been externally defined, marketed, and consequently, commoditized” (ACSD). After Orenstein explains how through marketing and media, girlhood is conceptualized, she describes the internal implications that defining girlhood can have on girls.
Rhetorical Analysis In the following, I will be giving a rhetorical analysis of the short story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood. In this short story, Margaret uses a variety of scenarios all to explain her one central theme. She uses very few literary devices to convey her very simple message. This short story is generally straight to the point and you don’t have to be a genius to figure it out.
Like the Disney version, the cruel stepmother and wicked stepsisters put Ella and Edna through the same burdens. But Cinderella’s gloomy attitude, tendency to mope and her dependency on others are the reasons for her unhappiness. In contrast to Cinderella who is as fragile
What makes a exuberant story? A few people would say that a solid theme or plot makes a story. Others would say that, if the writer was truly passionate about the story, where the reader could instantly feel that passion. Well all this is true but, it’s missing one key thing to literacy. Figurative language.
In William Cullen Bryant’s, “The Snow-Shower,” and Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book,” both portray extended metaphor, a crucial and potent literary device enhancing the readers understanding of each of their respectable poems. Both Bryant and Bradstreet demonstrate the use of extended metaphor extremely well, bringing in other literary techniques such as alliteration and meter to bring out their metaphors’ meaning. Each poem brings out a deeper insight to life and do enjoy it. Anne Bradstreet uses the metaphor of motherhood, describing the book as her child. Like a protective mother, she writes that the book was “ill-formed” and snatched away from her before it was ready to go public.
The Law of Repetition also created my Olrik shows many similarities throughout the comparison of these two works. With the original story showing to follow the rule of three when using repetition to build suspense, this can be shown through many examples, one being the repetition of Cinderella’s experiences for each of the three balls. Another example of this can be shown through the three trials that the prince took to find which of the sisters was his princess as he took both step sisters half way to the castle with the bloody shoe and then returned to the castle on his third attempt with the real Cinderella ( Appelbaum 87-89). With both these examples in the original telling of Cinderella using similar word phrasing when describing these events, it shows how the written piece was depended on the use of repetition in order to build tension and suspense within the story.
Comparing the children with excited wild animals shows that similes can further have a positive effect on the mood of the story. To conclude, using similes, comparing one thing with another using like or as, Bradbury and Poe improve the mood in their short stories. Second, Bradbury and Poe use irony, a situation in which one can receive the unexpected, to show how characterization crafts quality short stories. After the speaker had cut up the old man he "smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done. the heartbeat on with a muffled
Although there are many examples of figurative language in the poem, "Words" by Anne Sexton, one contrastingly stands out. Beginning in line twenty-four and continuing to the end of the poem, the narrator creates a direct metaphorical comparison of words and eggs. " Words and eggs must be handled with care / Once broken they are impossible / things to repair" (24-26). Through this metaphor, Sexton is able to express the depth, yet fragility of words; the comparison demonstrates the treasures words can hold when taken care of. However, just like eggs, words can also leave one person feeling broken and empty.
These concepts are depicted within the classic Disney princess film Cinderella directed by Clyde Geronimi. This film has ‘taught’ and/or shown little girls to stop everything they are currently doing and to become dependent on a man to save the day. Cinderella can be seen as the ultimate example of a “damsel-in-distress” because she gets saved from being “abused, humiliated and a servant in her own house to her stepmother and stepsisters” (Cinderella). However, the film does not fail to mention how despite this Cinderella still remains “gentle” and “kind.” The usage of ‘gentle’ and ‘kind’ rather than ‘understanding’ pinpoints the societal gender norms in action— according to these, a woman should be compliant and quiet.
A Cinderella Story The Cinderella story is a popular archetype that has been present in almost every culture, representing a girl's dream of achieving a happy and wealthy marriage. However, a careful reading of some "Cinderella" folk tales reveals instances of abuse and even incest. In the past, for many girls, the only relief available from abusive households was to marry well. In modern times, some authors present the Cinderella myth in a positive light, while others offer a more feminist interpretation.
Chinese Cinderella is a modern take on the classic Cinderella fairytale, written by Adeline Yen Mah, who writes about her story growing up about her neglectful family similar to the classic fairytale. From the beginning of the story we get a sense of the tone of the story, despair. We start of with a hyperbolic feeling of leaving school, “relentlessly” and “end of school forever”. This shows how Yen Mah 's dreads the thought and possibility of going back to her family.
In this short poem the author takes a familiar fairytale and quickly turns it on its head and show the reader the fallacy of the modern fairy tale. With strong language and a pauses chosen at what seems ill advised time, it deliver a powerful message. That makes the reader take a pause and reimage how they look at classic fairytales. The author draws form one fairytale but with universal topics you can easily translate those to other stories and many young women want to live a fairytale life.
The authors want their audiences to use these tales and examples as life lessons and hope for them to utilize these sources in their future lives. These two ideas are presented through the use of figurative language, mainly metaphors. In addition, the similar tone of these pieces allows the author to connect more deeply with the readers. Toni Morrison’s Nobel lecture, folktales, and several poems illustrate how metaphors and tone are used to describe experience and caution the readers.
