The short story “the Golden Thomas Vargas”, magical realism is evident in the union opposites of gambling. In the modern era gambling is notorious for cheating, lying, and stealing, however in Agua Santa gambling is sacred to the people. When his wife and Concha Diaz force Vargas out of his house, he takes on the life of gambling. When Vargas begins to gamble the narrator explains the audience that the townspeople “could tolerate a man who mistreats his family, a man who was lazy and a troublemaker, we never paid that money he borrowed, the gambling debts were sacred”(73). Magical realism can be seen in two instances here.
Journal #1 While reading “The Joy of Nelly Deane” by Willa Cather. Nelly is describe as the prettiest girl in town of Riverbend and she was the happiest. Nelly seems to be free spirited and three of the women in this story was hoping she would go to their church and not the Methodist church. Everyone seem to like Nelly. Nelly and her friends are in a play called “Queen Ester” they have long practices took them three months to make it right.
Gambling was just a way to visualise how many in 1830’s America viewed the rapidly changing
In Edith Wharton’s most remarkable novel, Ethan Frome, the main character, Ethan Frome, is in love with a prohibited woman… his wife's cousin. His wife, Zeena, is a sick woman who has a villainous essence to her and an irrevocable hold on Ethan. Mattie Silver is Zeena’s cousin and the woman Ethan is infatuated with. Through Ethan’s eyes, Mattie is described as youthful, attractive, and graceful basically everything Zeena isn’t.
These two stories fear in very different ways, so it is fitting that they also use different methods to question morality. “Young Goodman Brown” conclusion, of the story, begins when he finds himself alone in the forest. As if he has just awakened from a dream what he experienced in the forest whether they were dreams or reality changes his life. He is now suspicious of everyone, just as the Puritans of real-life salem were when they participated in a witch hunt that was the result of the execution. And in “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson conclusion, is the use of symbolism, “the lottery” is evident, the Shirley Jackson indirectly implicates the truth of “the lottery” through names, objects, and setting.
The House of Mirth, written in 1905 is an exemplary novel narrated through the eyes of an upper class woman. Through
A child’s view on adult games, a fragile house of cards, and the. All of these are the main focuses of the prose piece ‘Emma’ by Carolyn Coal. Themes of infidelity, death, and the innocence of childhood are brought out in the perspective of Dory, Emma’s eight year old daughter. Strategy comes in to play as the author frequently uses cards as symbolism in the form of games and the relationships between characters can be represented as a house of cards. The house of cards crumble and the small joker fall in ‘Emma’.
One night after a party, the mansion reveals a feeling of emptiness, a stark contrast to the chaotic, energetic mood of the parties. “A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch” (Fitzgerald, 55). Just as the mansion feels empty despite being full of lavish decoration and copious servants, the people of the upper class feel empty even though their lives are filled with material wealth and many acquaintances. The mansion symbolizes the theme of the chronic, emotional emptiness of the upper class. The rich exhibit no depth in any of the relationships they make.
Forms of punishments within the United States’ system of criminal justice can range from a simple warning all the way up to the death penalty, depending on the nature and type of crime committed. The goal of punishment in the criminal justice system is deterrence and crime prevention, however when the punishment offers no major impact on crime, is extremely costly, exhibits racial bias, and has taken the life of innocent people, (socially and physically) the death penalty is not only viewed as punishment, but as revenge and as murder. Taking a look at the death penalty from a lawyer point of view we have Michael A. Mello, author of Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment. He tells his story of being a professional lawyer, who “worked within the legal system to prevent the state from executing some of its citizens.”
This location shows how the aspiration has been perverted into something terribly dark and sinister. This is the desire of wealth at any price and also the ideal that cash will cause you to happy. “This is a depression of ashes- a fantastic farm wherever ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke…” (Pg. 26). this quote shows the results of the fashionable materialistic society of new york.
Irony may appear in difference ways within literature. Irony changes our expectations of what might happen. It can create the unexpected twist at the end of a story or anecdote that gets people laughing or crying. Verbal irony is intended to be a humorous type of irony. Situational irony can be either funny or tragic.
Literary Elements used in The Lottery By definition the word lottery means a process or thing whose success or outcome is measured by chance (“lottery”). To most people winning the lottery would conjure up excitement and overall good feelings. However, in the short story The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson, the lottery has a twisted and horrific meaning.
Like Watson, I am convinced that Geertz has been able to accomplish a theoretical impossibility by systematically eradication his text of indications of the reflexivity he used in his description. Watson [26] criticized Geertz who is found to contradict himself with respect to reality. For example ‘’Sometimes he does this explicitly, and contrasts it with illusion, as in the observations that "no one's status really changes" in the gambling which accompanies cockfight, and that the sensation that it does is "concocted", an "aesthetic semblance . . . which has the look of mobility without its actuality". Sometimes he invokes it implicitly, as in the taken-for granted notions of discovery and revelation’ ’
The setting in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” continues to convey the theme that women have been oppressed by society. Mabel faces oppression in the small english town where the story takes place. She explains that being a women does not matter as much when a family has money, but when they are poor she has to walk down the streets with her eyes low and avoid eye contact as she buys the cheapest item in every store (Lawrence 458). This shows that when a woman is seen as being represented by someone with power, in this case it is her father, then they are given a little respect. However, when a women is looked at just as herself and not as a rich man’s daughter she is not seen a colleague to men but as an object that is to be pitied.
Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze is about unnamed young woman who changes her identity multiple times in order to maintain a relationship with the man she loves. Her high standing social class does not allow her to freely communicate with men. This issue prompts her to disguise herself as prostitute for the chance to be with Beauplaisir. The restrictions set by society heighten her curiosity and desire for love—it becomes her biggest yearning. The extreme measures this woman takes throughout the story demonstrates how society made finding a sensual relationship extremely difficult, if not impossible, for high classed women during the eighteenth century.
