To be quite honest this story was quite interesting overall, when the tour guide was explaining the events and the imagery that happened throughout the cave, giving you a visual of the whole cave and mood of the play.
At the same time, the dichotomy between underground and surface can represent the subconscious emotions and drives that the characters conceal or are unaware of in their conscious life; this dichotomy can also stand for the ‘underclass’ of workers and bourgeoisie or aristocracy. Although these various and complex deployments of the tunnel trope appear and reappear throughout the novel, this essay tackles the topic in three sections, corresponding
Play Review In the dramatic play, Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Dennis Reardon, he makes the setting clear that they were visiting a cavern. In the beginning of the story you can infer, almost immediately, that the characters do not get along so easily. As the characters go deeper into the caverns the constant arguing gets worse. Once they arrived to the third floor of the cavern, the tour guide tells the two couples visiting that they were at at home now.
James Baldwin experienced two decades of successful writings in the mid-twentieth century, a time when racial tensions were high in the United States. Born in Harlem, Baldwin lived and adapted to the world of social and racial unrest; though most of us cannot understand these times, Baldwin shared through his writings the hardships many families endured. Baldwin reflects on this difficult time by writing a story titled “Sonny’s Blues”. This story is about two black brothers who are tormented with daily life and struggle to overcome the hopeless confines of the city.
In the story “Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin, one of the main characters was a drug abuser. Sonny lived a miserable and lonely life. After he got hooked on drugs, his brother, the narrator stopped associating with him. On page 175, he said that it has been over a year since he had seen Sonny. Also on page 177, the narrator said “I did not write Sonny, or send him anything for a long time.”
Slowly making their way to the couples unavoidable and unwelcoming “New Home”. The play does an outstanding job of incorporating Greek mythology. The introduction of the River Styx and the three headed Hellhound Cerberus send chills down the readers spine. The writer does an amazing job of describing the different levels as well as turning the tour guide sinister as the group gets closer to Hell.
Despite such darkness and brevity, both Creusa and Achilles are not shocked or daunted by the appearance of their loved ones, but instead comforted. In both Homer’s, Odyssey and Vergil’s, Aeneid, the presence of Creusa and Achille, create a link between the living and the dead. Despite Creusa and Achille conflicting views toward death, Odysseus and Aeneas given emotional guidance in coping with death and learning what life is like after
In the drama “Subterranean Homesick Blues again” by Dennis Reardon is about a group of people going into the caverns, but it has a deeper meaning thanks to the tour guide who isn’t your average tour guide. This tour guide gives such a different and deeper meaning in the play. It’s about life and death and you’ll see that around the end how the “tour” concludes. My initial reaction to this play was shocked on how the play went from 0-100 since you think that there just in a cavern, but then they end up in hell.
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a short story that has many significant parts to it. The narrator gives readers insight on how his relationship with his brother was like, how his brother was suffering from a heroin addiction. The narrator also gives the readers insight on his own problems. Due to Sonny’s heroin addiction, he suffered quite a lot as what was implied in the story. The narrator implies and describes so many themes in this short story.
Sonny’s Blues, written by James Baldwin, is a story about the opposite lives of a troubled inner-city black teenager who struggles with addiction and the missing relationship with his brother. In the opening paragraphs it is apparent the brothers do not have a close relationship as the narrator says “He became real to me again” (Baldwin) as if Sonny is only an imaginative or elusive figure. While Sonny has a real and apparent addiction to heroin, for which he was incarcerated our narrator also struggles with an emotional imprisonment of his own. What can break the ice between our two characters and reunite the brotherly love which was lost so long ago? Imprisonment is a common theme throughout the story and we soon realize Sonny has been arrested and will be sent to prison.
Drug addiction initializes suffering and derives some other aspects of suffering, especially in the world of youth. Sonny grew up in a family in Harlem, where he suffered drug addiction in his childhood. He attended military to escape drugs while he always dreamt to become a jazz musician. However, after the military, he returned to New York with his unchanged addiction. Due to touting and using heroin, he was arrested.
Deaths is the meaning to finally meet God. As in the story says Everyman has to take a journey to God. A man is born with different qualities one is poor the other one is rich and luxurious, and finally the middle class, even then it all adds up to good and bad, although Everyman represents all mankind, as sin represents the bad, but no matter what, all man are born sinners. In the play Everyman, the main character appears
The illusion of death has wondered and astonished many for years. This doesn 't exclude the fantastic author Shakespeare. Throughout the play, Shakespeare focuses on death and how society glorifies it. He often uses metaphor and analogy in order to make death seem more welcoming. Turmoil and confusion can internally destroy any country.
In fiction, the narrator controls how the audience connects to and perceives the various characters in a story. A good author can manipulate the narration to connect the audience to certain characters and deepen the reader’s understanding of their conflicts. In “Previous Condition” and “Sonny’s Blues,” James Baldwin illustrates themes of loneliness and isolation in the pursuit of finding a space that feels like home. Although this theme is clear in both stories, Baldwin is able to portray it very differently in each story through the relationship he allows the reader to the characters struggling with these feelings. While “Previous Condition” provides a more intimate relationship to the narrator, “Sonny’s Blues” is able to deliver an additional level of understanding by telling the story through Sonny’s brother, therefore disconnecting the reader in a way that forces him or her to share the characters’ feelings of isolation and confusion.
Through personification the speaker depicts death as a gentlemen, and not someone who brutally takes our lives quickly, but in a courteous manner. The use of symbolism to describe three locations as three stages of life. These three stages are used to show our childhood,adulthood, and us as elderly soon about to meet death, The speaker also uses imagery to show that all death is a simple cold, then we go to a resting place which is the grave, and from there on we move on toward eternity. Death is a part of life that we all need to embrace, and learn that it is not meant to be
