The Frightening Essays

Frightening and Compelling Elements in “The Lottery” Imagine reading a short story and feeling a rush of adrenaline and anxiety flood in, compelling the reader to continue reading. This is exactly what “The Lottery” creates. “The Lottery”, a short story written by Shirley Jackson, follows a drawing (or lottery) in a small rural town. As more characters and their opinions/feelings, such as Tessie, a housewife with a sense of humor, are revealed, the true nature of the story is disclosed. Essentially

kind is considered unnatural and most animals do not perform this horrendous act. There are more differences as wild vs domesticated animals are treated differently. 3. General Zaroff is more frightening than Ivan because Zaroff is more frightening as how immoral a human can become to. Ivan is just frightening in the way Ivan looks rather than Ivan’s actions.

The Frightening Decision Everyday a parent has the choice to take care of their children or to let him/her suffer at their hands due to bad decisions and bad care taking. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the main character George faces a similar scenario where his best friend Lennie murders Curley’s wife another main character, not for the torture or fun of killing, but because the fright of what people will do or think of him for the little mistakes he makes and the problems and

Edgar Allen Poe, the author of the “The Tell-Tale Heart” and the “Black Cat”, creates a frightening mood using, narrator actions, character details, and the setting. The “Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story that is about a man that states he’s not crazy but goes to an Old man 's house every night to watch him sleep waiting for the right time to kill him. This man doesn’t give up until he gets what he wants which is the Old man to be dead which he accomplishes but gets caught, for his crazy murder.

of portraying a story, but movies aren’t always able to depict everything in the book. The movie depiction is able to elicit fear through cinematic techniques, and the novel uses fear in a different way than the movie which is more effective in frightening the reader. Haunting of Hill House is considered a cinematic classic. Using mise-en-scene the director can elicit fear. Hill House is full of statues and mirrors,

the action takes place in the Dracula’s s castle described as dark, eerie and oppressive. The people are afraid of Dracula’s cruelty and the design of the castle itself. This frightening design of the castle creates a frightening mood to the audience. Research has shown that dreary and dark setting can create a frightening factor towards the audience. Stocker illustrates in his journal that “down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels and the crack of whips….” (Stocker, 76) This is the atmosphere

Chief among the world’s frightening artworks are Gustave Dore’s 1861 Dante’s Inferno wood engraving. Dore’s depictions include over 63 scenes from Inferno, of Dante’s Divine Trilogy. A particularly frightening piece is Gluttony engraving. The engraving depicts the poet Virgil and Dante in the third layer of hell. The duo huddles together among a swarm of gluttons lying in a shallow sludge of human digestive fluid. The artist masterfully expresses various human forms of suffering through a process

Hyde as a frightening outsider? Through Mr. Hyde, Robert Stevenson explores the nature of evil. Stevenson portrays Mr. Hyde as a terrifying stranger in both the chapter two extract and the rest of the novella with his actions and appearance. Stevenson also presents Mr. Hyde as a shock to a conventional Victorian society by emphasising his wicked and Satanic attributes through the use of religious imagery. One of the most effective ways Stevenson uses to illustrate Mr Hyde as a frightening outsider

In Jonathan Edwards' fiery sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," he describes the horrible fate of those who do not open their hearts to God. He accomplishes this by employing the persuasive techniques of fear and guilt and by creating frightening imagery. By repeatedly reminding his parishioners of God's anger and their transgressions, Edwards uses fear and guilt to accomplish his goal. Edwards states that the unconverted "are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God" to

technology. Not only was this novel frightening in its time, but it will have audiences of today fearing the events that the characters go through upon encountering the supernatural creature known as Count Dracula. During its time, this novel would be considered frightening because with Western Europe being more modern,

relationship with their seemingly crazy and mysterious neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem and Scouts views on Boo Radley really change. In the beginning, they know him only by rumors and stories, then as being frightening and mysterious, and eventually by coming to realize that he is a very different person than they had figured him to be. At first, Boo Radley was viewed by Jem and Scout only by what they had heard from Rumors and Stories. One of the early stories

Do you ever remember being scared of monsters under the bed? If so, then you will relate to the young child in “A Barred Owl.” An owl hooting in the night scares a girl, but thankfully her parents are there to comfort her. In “A Barred Owl,” author Richard Wilbur uses imagery, tone, and personification to show how powerful words can subdue any emotion. Imagery plays an important role in relaying the message of the poem. The poem opens with describing the “warping night air.” While in “her darkened

Firstly Stevenson presents Mr Hyde as a Frightening outsider through the portrayal of an impulsive unevolved person. This creates a sense of a frightening outsider as Hyde’s attitude was unfit for his society. Hyde is often described through animalistic imagery to emphasise how he is unfit in the society and how unevolved he is and to create the image of a troglodyte a word by which he is described in in the Carew murder case. As the theory of evolution became popular in the Victorian times

young boys, Jim and Will, in Green Town, Illinois who encounter a mysterious and sinister carnival. Literary elements such as Jim and Will represent tones such as benevolence, with other characters and elements contributing to the book’s overall frightening tone. These tones identified in the novel can be compared to the painting Death and the Miser by Hieronymus Bosch. Death and the Miser depicts many imps and demons, which can be easily connected to the characters involved with the ominous carnival

In the book/movie Jumanji, there was some frightening events. From the game to your life you wont know if you are gonna get stuck in the game or not. Expectations could never be higher than it was in that book/movie. They both have a lot of difference one had mosquitoes and the other did not. But they also have a lot of a likes for example, they both had the lion laying on the piano. There are is a tone to this I would say frightening because they are risking their lives because they started to play

analyze Stoker’s use of them to determine what effect they might have on the impression of the character and the novel overall. It will be claimed that by keeping his title character hidden for much of the novel, Stoker’s Dracula is made much more frightening to the reader. Human beings tend to fear the unknown, and by leaving Dracula to the imagination,

Ray Bradbury is a dystopian science fiction, and also the frightening prediction of our future world. In the novel, the main character is Guy Montag who begins as a firefighter, and who starts fires rather than extinguishing them. A corrupt government and society uses its citizens to destroy the past. By burning books and promoting technology and propaganda, citizens become numb to reality around them. Bradbury puts the novel into a frightening, but a very close description setting, in order to show

nightmare focused on being eaten by the big bad wolf. Although, some fairy tales tend to be happily ever after, others tend to be frightening. I truly believe that fairy tales are horrible for children because they are frightening for children, they are not kid friendly, and questions from these kids come up when parents are not ready to answer. Fairy tales are frightening for young children. In the article “Parents Say Classic Fairy Tales Are Too Scary To Read To Kids,” an example from this text is

Tim Burton's technique “Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”(Burton) Tim Burton has directed multiple iconic movies, in his movies he uses many different cinematic techniques to establish his personal style. Two iconic films that express his eccentric style are Charlie and the Chocolate and Edward Scissorhands. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I never knew were possible. I have experienced The Lord personally, and finding my meaning in life has shifted from a focus on creation to a focus on The Creator. My faith in Christ has become my focus in life and I have trusted in Him through frightening times. My first personal experience with The Lord was during the end of my senior year in high school. I participated in organized sports