11. In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” what feeling about the setting does Irving want to arouse?…
A comparison and Contrast of “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster”…
John Gardner delicately places humor into the incredible twisted setting. “Dragon, Dragon”. Gardner includes humor while adding modern day technology into medieval times; he also creates hilarious scenes through the characters while teaching a lesson. Last, he uses humor through the setting. In addition to this humor, there is also an important theme.…
In Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker", the author depicts the main character as a very stereotypical character with little individuality. Tom's actions are easily predicted and his eventual downfall is used to illustrate the story's moral.…
Throughout Spotty-handed villainesses, Atwood uses many language features and techniques that help her complex ideas get through to the audience. Atwood’s use of a relaxed, humorous and personal tone means she can connect more with the audience allowing her to express to them her complex ideas and values on women in literature. Colloquialisms make Atwood’s speech more accessible to the audience and the humour of hem is engaging – “flogging a few dead horses”. Although Atwood’s values can cause her to be seen as a feminist, she rejects this stereotype by using the colloquial term “sex bomb” which would usually not be used by a feminist. The use of question and answer “What is a novel?” cause the audience to think about what she is saying and also allows the reader to explain the concept. The use of a humorous metaphor and religious allusion comparing to job of a novelist to God’s creation of the world “one detail at a time” emphasises the difficulty of writing and appeals to the religious beliefs of the audience. The speech has a distinct chronological…
“Rip Van Winkle” and “The Devil and Tom Walker” are both written by Washington Irving and feature a man living with his wife. Each story depicts their wives in a similar fashion; vicious, pestering annoyances that contribute little to nothing towards the well-being of the protagonist. Irving’s general scorn towards women is manifested in a few different ways, even looking beyond their blatantly negative descriptions.…
In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” author Washington Irving emphasizes the moral consequences of indulgence in pecuniary materialism by revealing the detrimental effects of Tom Walker’s avarice.…
In Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the imagery creates a dark and disturbing mood which shows the theme of how greed will make some people do whatever it takes to get what they desire. The language or words used to describe things such as settings, a character, or an event can help create a mood to help describe the theme.…
"The spirit that I have seen may be a Devil, and the Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape [ ] as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me" (William Shakespeare). The Devil has been a theme in writings for decades; authors have played with the symbolism of the Devil in their characters to add depth to their writing. Joyce Carol Oates, an accredited short story writer, has received numerous awards for her works. Her writing style is captivating; grabbing the reader 's undying attention as they enter her world; a world including violence, rape, murder, and the good ol ' Devil in disguise. In her writing, the appearance of the Devil plays a very important role in the telling of her works.…
Have you ever seen Jay Leno or Mad TV over exaggerate or mock the society? If you're up late enough and have, then, you probably encountered the works of satire. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses a great deal of satire. The author, Mark Twain, uses satire against religion, government, and society in general. I believe that without satire in the media, there wouldn't be enough humor.…
Women have always been viewed as slightly inferior to men; they are depicted as weak and fragile creatures, only serving as a companion for man. They are manipulative and often use charm and looks as methods of persuasion. In Turn of the Screw, the governess ‘s attitude while around Miles is flirtatious and almost inappropriate; and she uses him to fill the void of the children’s beloved uncle whom she lusts for.…
The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell is about the major differences between women and men. This story was written in a time period when women were treated much differently than they are today, and the women and this story are not taken seriously. This story exposes the sexism that women dealt with then, and still to some extent deal with today. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale find incriminating evidence against Minnie, but the men never think to ask them their opinion; they are too busy looking for solid tangible, evidence. The “trifles” the women are worried about do not matter to the men. Although the women find evidence to believe Minnie is the killer, they feel somewhat responsible for abandoning her. The women and the men in this story are both somewhat sexist. The women are on Minnie’s side, and the men are on her husband John 's side. This is because of the differences in men and women.…
In Jean Rhys’ “The Day They Burned the Books,” she recounts a story of an abusive husband and a wife who just takes the punishment as if she deserves it. The wife, Mrs. Sawyer, sees it as her place to allow this to happen. This type of behavior is not very prevalent in the world today, but it still happens. It was far more common sixty years ago and before where women were expected to be at the call of their husbands and do anything to please them, as they were the bread winners and supporters of the family. As women collectively – and deservedly – demanded more, this type of behavior diminished in most parts of the world. Where this behavior once was or possibly still is a part of a different culture around the world, this is far different than anything found in the western world.…
In another metaphor about her mother, Charlotte says that she is “a white picket fence [that] stands in a field of weeds [and] is bounded on its other sides by thorny bushes and barbed wire”. In this passage, Charlotte further unveils her harsh opinion of her mother. She believes that, while she may appear to be the perfect mother and wife, she is really a bitter broad with a holier-than-thou persona.…
The women we’ve read about in both “A Jury of Her Peers,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” share two aspects. They share the bondage of male oppression, and their resilient spirits. I both stories, the characters face a struggle regarding both their household and the men within them, and must go to great lengths to overcome them. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale directly defy the men of the story, where the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” defies her husband in a fashion unimaginable.…