Analysis Of Human Interest By Carol Ann Duffy

When you are done reading a book called, “The Book Thief”, by Markus Zusak, you may experience a lot of themes that support the human condition. In these stanzas, you’ll expect to see many themes that support the passage and it has many meaning toward readers. A main character, (Liesel), feels abandoned when her mother and brother leaves her life and Max feels abandoned because he abandoned his family. This is one part of the theme in the story and all readers can observe such passage every time they read each chapter from the book. Another example, can be Hans feels guilty over Erik’s death during World War 1. Therefore, two of these main points is an alternative way of the human condition. When a person who is thoughtlessness and

In literature, themes shape and characterize an author’s writing making each work unique as different points of view are expressed within a writing’s words and sentences. This is the case, for example, of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” Both poems focus on the same theme of death, but while Poe’s poem reflects that death is an atrocious event because of the suffering and struggle that it provokes, Dickinson’s poem reflects that death is humane and that it should not be feared as it is inevitable. The two poems have both similarities and differences, and the themes and characteristics of each poem can be explained by the author’s influences and lives.

“It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder, that life might be long.” (Chopin 17). “"Poof!"… gave a revealing look at the victims of domestic abuse and how they wrestle with overcoming their fear and their doubts after suffering years of abusive treatment.” (Toomer 5) Loureen unlike Mrs. Mallard, witnesses her husband’s death first hand during a marital argument. Loureen goes through denial questioning whether her husband’s death. She is happy her husband is dead but also feels guilty, because she knows how a mourning wife should react, but the joy of his demise is greater,” I should be praying, I should be thinking of the burial, but all that keeps popping into my mind is what will I wear on television when I share my horrible and wonderful story with a studio audience…”, Loureen’s husband, Samuel, was physically abusive, as revealed by Florence, Loureen’s best friend and neighbor. “Did that mother***** hit you again?” (Nottage 1563) This abuse, physical by Samuel and mental by Brently, is what allows Loureen in the drama “Poof!” and Mrs. Mallard in the short story “The Story of an Hour” to have the shared freedom they feel in the release from their respective abusive relationships.

“A Sorrowful Woman” features a superficially simple narration style. “Now the days were too short. She was always busy,” Stylistically clipped, with a clear passive, detached, voice the narration style seems to be a banal, unimportant feature of the text. Yet the exact mendacity that prompts this description actually serves as a prerequisite to developing an understanding for the principal character’s mindset, and consequently the theme of the text. The last passage contains numerous examples of detached narration but the clearest occurs when “She was always busy. She woke with the first bird. Worked till the sun set. No time for hair brushing. Her fingers raced the hours.” The concise, third person narration in this segment allows the reader to experience the slightly off viewpoint of ‘the mother.’ Specifically, given the lack of motivation present through the text coupled with the concluding suicide it becomes evident in the text that ‘the mother’ is suffering from depression. Given the societal stigma surrounding mental illness authors generally face an uphill

The human experience is a fragile and funny thing. More generally, biological beings want and feel a need to belong. Yet, humans, as developed and advanced as they may seem, go out of their way to prevent themselves from doing just that. The short story “Apology”, by Brad Watson conveys this message through a depressing narrative. In it, is a letter, or set of letters written to his supposed ex-wife whom one can surmise has left him. This is a reaction to the main character’s drunken actions throughout their married life. In addition, Watson displays this sympathetic message through metaphorical and anecdotal means, describing the town in which he has escaped to, experiences in nature, and past memories of his wife and child. Through these heartfelt writings, one can surmise that the main character wants to explore the stubbornness of human nature through his own experiences. In doing so, using themes of self-loathing, nostalgia, alcoholism, depression and more.

This one Stanza poem allows the poem to be fast pace and unhindered with long drawn out accounts of abuse. The poem is not any less shocking however, to the contrary. The pace of this poem is fast and builds momentum as the words tumble out. The speaker recalls the terror of a child and the eventual hate and resentment of an adult “…how I am one fourth him, a brutal man with a hole for an eye and one fourth her, a woman who protected no one”(19) Here it becomes evident that the reader feels bitterness to the Grandmother also. It is not merely a hatred for men that we see but resentment towards a woman too, “and Grandma had never once taken anyone’s side against him”(19). According to Gaffery, this is a feeling that is harbored deep with Olds work (120).

Pure, unbiased, factual research is not a perfect style of analysis, nor are personal anecdotes and stories the best way to inspect a subject. It is the marriage of the two, subjective and objective, that makes autobiographical literary criticism so powerful. By using an array of individual histories, a researcher can more widely understand the breadth of a subject. In the essay, “Somebody Must Say These Things: An Essay for My Mother,” author Melody Graulich uses academic research to investigate her family’s personal history of domestic violence.

Edgar Allen Poe’s 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” dwells on themes of true insanity and what it does to its victims. The unnamed narrator begins a fixation of an old man’s eye and decides the old man meet his demise for him to truly receive peace. There is tension between readers of “The Tell-Tale Heart” over if the illness within the narrator is mentally ill or not. Throughout the story his mental illnesses are showcased first-person, including a continuous plot of him trying to prove to himself that he is not mad, and a subconscious guilt for murdering the old man. Denial is a side effect of insanity.

Perhaps it is more difficult to withstand the doubt within oneself. Robert Drewe writes his memoir, linking the crimes of the serial killer Eric Cooke to his own story. The memories of his youth are infused with the guilt that he feels for having been instrumental in his mother’s death. Is he a murderer he asks himself, and the doctor who is far from reassuring. His failure to abide by the teachings of the Moral Agent lead to his girlfriend’s pregnancy. He describes his marriage as ‘a celebration of flagrant immorality’ from his parent’s point of view. His concept of himself having contributed to his mother’s death weighs heavily and provides him with insight into the mind of the killer Cooke. There is sympathy for a man who has lived his life as a social outcaste, who dies without his family even noting the time. It is Robert who is ‘watching the clock’. Robert prefaces the memoir with a quote from Ionesco, ‘You can only predict things after they have happened’. Looking back on his life, he now thinks he sees a boy who could have been more observant, the signs were all there. So keen was he to live his own life that he failed to really consider what the effects might be on those that he loved. Even though his mother seems to do little more than hover on the margins of the pages, we sense Drewe’s insistent remorse. As a young boy, he did not really know his parents. He is aware that his mother also had different personas, Dot and Dorothy and there is the growing realisation that Dorothy has suppressed Dot in order to be a wife and mother, according to the dictates of husband and society. His taking her so much for granted, his failure to be the son that he now feels he could have been, lead to the depiction of himself as in need of finding out who he really is. There is the feeling that he will be able to get back in touch with himself in the last line of the memoir as he sets out with the

When discussing loss knowing it comes in many forms can create an ubiquitous contemplation about the derivative of the characters loss. In many Dark Romantic and Gothic pieces loss can derive from a loved one, psychological torment, or even from an egotistical attribute. These attributes may seem customary to society, however these issues can take a great toll on a character. For example, in “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, he lost his wife to a lung disease which ultimately caused the narrator to obsess in a form of grief over Annabel Lee. Moreover, in the “Demon Lover” by Elizabeth Bowen the protagonist and the antagonist essentially are the same person. Mrs. Dover while revisiting an old house she once lived in had created an entire situation that in her mind and to the reader seem real, once the reader continues the realization that Mrs. Dover created a situation all of her own due to psychological issues. Lastly, in “The Masque of

To humans, life is beautiful, and wonderful, and yet it is also tedious, miserable, and fleeting, but there is always supposed to be love, and love is considered a feeling so essential to life that it is universally wanted and craved, but at what cost? How much harder does life become when one’s love is the cause of their suffering. Winterbourne is in love with a girl who will never love him, and Arthur Dimmesdale’s love and sin was the cause of his death. Santiago loved the giant marlin who was eaten before he could use him to stop his unluckiness. Tom Buchanan loved Daisy and he loved Myrtle and led to Myrtle’s and Gatsby’s demise. John Proctor loved Abigail, and Abigail’s continuing love for him brought upon his death and jeopardized his wife’s life. Each book demonstrates how life is agonizing and terrible for its characters all because of someone they loved.

In the essay, “Can We Love Our Battering Fathers?” Helen H. Gordon creates a sharp image of despair and pain in her family. By reflecting on her past with her family she paints a picture for the readers to imagine what she experienced. This is a reflective essay because as she chooses a Father’s Day card for her father she reflects on her past with him. The main cause of her despair is her father which is demonstrated through his attitude and treatment towards his family, especially her mother. She creates the feeling of haunting despair through the use of diction, allusions, and foreshadowing.

The reader is attracted to know why she has anger as she presents herself with a tantrum and rants that is expressed with ferocious emotion. “It was supposed to say "Great Artist" on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say "Such a good teacher/daughter/friend" instead; and what I really

She realized that human beings has hopeless spiritual aspirations. The hopelessness of disappointment is focus around: an officer, an attorney, and a poet. In both playwrights write about their lives and inner thoughts. They give us a peak on how they view the world.

The process of addressing memories of private suffering within “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is implied through contradictive perspectives. In the poem there is a shift in focus and tone during line 17. The poem addresses issues of suffering from two distinct perspectives, the first coming from a little girl and the second a grown woman. The narrative, imagery and diction are different in the two contrasting parts of the poem, and the second half carefully qualifies the first, as if to illustrate the more mature and established attitudes of the narrator in her older years – a stipulation of the easy imitation of the earlier years, when the mother’s views dominated and set the tone. Change has governed the poems structure here; differences