Figurative Language In The Hobbit

This shows where evil doesn’t just happen. It was the influence that diverted Theoden’s path. Gandalf describes Saruman countless times with having a claw like hand. He also compares Saruman’s heart to a creature called a Huorn. These are dark trees that stand in the deepest of forests.

Once my eyes fall shut, the fall season begins. It is the perfect camping weather. There are strangely large pine trees all around us. This image reminds me of the forest that you see on the nature channel with suspicion creatures roaming around. Even though these creatures are usually just men in costumes, I think they are creepy creatures that could really be in our backyard.

Gothic Literature is a genre that was popular between 18th to 19th centuries in North Germany. It is always being associated with Dark Romanticism which the emphasize was more on nature, terror and death, horror and many more. It involves dark and gloomy setting and also unexplainable things that are beyond human senses and reason such as ghosts and monsters. The main characters, on the other hand, are always ineffectual which they do not give much effect on the story plot. This can be seen through Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which can be considered as American gothic work in terms of its description of setting, the involvement of supernatural element in the story and also the characteristics of the main character.

The metaphor that is in the Weigl’s poem, “We stared through the black screen/ our vision altered by the distance” (Weigl). In this line Weigl describes black screen as a door, the door is like the people ignore the vision as they view a scene beyond their ability. The black screen also describes as the Weigl’s strongest memory of the Vietnam War. He uses personification in the poem to describe humans. One of the personifications in the Weigl’s poem, “Trees scraped their voices into the wind” (Weigl).

This film features massive thorns, tangled tree roots, landscapes of trees and waterfalls, and the mystical creatures that inhabit the land. Foster states that “...landscape and architecture and weather … merged as neatly with mood and tone to set a story in motion” (Foster 166). In the movie, the thorns and tangled roots immediately set a foreboding and gloomy tone. Foster mentions that geography not only includes physical surroundings, but also the people that live there. The creatures living in Maleficent’s kingdom resembled her imagination.

The forest symbolizes darkness because the townspeople see the forest as a dark place where the devil dances and where the witches go. Townspeople also believe that no civilized Christian would ever go into the forest. There were many symbols throughout this novel and only a few were covered. Throughout the course of this novel we learned the symbolic value of Pearl's name, the letter A, light, darkness, weeds, and roses. Things aren't always as they seem, we can always go much

The narrator felt a “sense of insufferable gloom” when he took a first glimpse at the house. He described it as, “dull, dark”. The setting added to the theme of this story, and it also made the story adhere to the concept of Gothic literature. In contrast, in “Where is here?”, Oates uses what seems to

In Wuthering Heights, the house is haunted by its residents but tis residents are also haunted by the house and if it were not for the struggle of those within the house, the story would not have occurred. Finally in Dracula, the castle is as much of an oppressive and astounding force as it owner, it was like a labyrinth to be understood much like the Count and his various secrets. Thus, the setting in these stories is tied to its characters and the story’s development. They serve the function of showing the development of the story and its characters as well as being symbols of the Gothic in these gothic

The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress and stifle me” H.P. Lovecraft, a gothic literature writer, addresses the fear of the unknown as, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”, Put a child in a dark room, and they may express concern, due to the fact, that something may be lurking in the shadows; Now give that same child a light so as to be able to observe the surrounding area, they will sleep soundly. We fear what we cannot understand, just as children fear the dark, Poe has his character thrown into a situation of deep confusion and heavy darkness, where he even doubts his own sentience. Poe uses the fear of the unknown to evoke horror and the feeling of suspense to “The Pit and the Pendulum” efficiently and effectively by targeting the root of fear itself; the unknown. “Then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought – a condition which lasted long.

His surroundings are conducive to the situation he finds himself in. The word "chamber" itself implies a cold, rigid feel, like the narrator has shut himself away from everything in order to be alone to brood and torture himself. The words "ghost" and "dying ember" give the reader a feeling of discomfort, like something is not quite right with the situation. The narrator opens the chamber door into darkness, deep darkness, and silence. He stands there, fearing what is before him, "dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" (732).