Analysis Of The Fly By Katherine Mansfield

Also, when Reuven saw that the spider had created a spider web, it can symbolize how Reuven was looking from the outside-in to an entire different life for Danny and how Reb Saunders had created a world of Hasidism that Danny was confined to. Moreover, Chaim Potok used the fly’s actions to convey a message about Danny. As Reuven was observing the fly he noted, “The fly’s tiny black legs flayed the air fiercely, then its wings were free again, buzzing noisily, but it’s body remained intact” (Potok 174). Danny can be seen as the fly because he was being kept from the outside world by his father, the spider, with his “web” he created in order to ensure Danny became a

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

Lord of the Flies has been considered a literary classic throughout many generations, in spite of it’s perplexing and depressing aspects. Written in 1954 with the timeframe of the next world war, a novel such as this is bound to have some out-dated concepts,language, and elements. The characters are a great example of this.

“Drip, drip, drip. That was how it started.” (190) We all meet people within our lives that, in some way, we wish we hadn’t. This is what Lucy Derby in the fictional short story “The Overhead Man”, written by Dan Greenburg, learns. Lucy had a leak in her parlor and it was constant, never-ending. She finds someone to fix her leak; Maggs and Son, whom she later figures out, is just Maggs and no son. Maggs ups the price each time that the leak reappears after he “fixes” it. At first, Lucy finds Maggs to be acceptable in helping with her roof, but things aren’t always what they seem. The author creates a creepy mood by the way he uses imagery, foreshadowing, and the figurative language.

Animal motifs add significance to the narrative when Mildred, the wife of Montag, is treated with a snakelike mechanism. Bradbury’s intent to use an animal metaphor is to enlighten the reader about how wildlife is misrepresented during the work of literature. Within the world of destruction he created, Bradbury explains the lack of construction; therefore, the natural order is distorted. Over the course of the writing, creatures portray the corrupt environment; for instance, Montag describes, “They had this machine. They had two machines, really. One of them slid into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there. It drank up the green matter that flowed to the top in a slow boil” (Bradbury 12). As Mildred lays unconscious in her bed the operator uses a snakelike pump machine to drain and replace Mildred’s blood; evidently, the symbol of animals is used to connect the meaning of altered

Conniff uses a very general idea to get his readers interested. The idea that flies are annoying is not a new one. Many people complain about the buzzing little animals and I don’t know one person who hasn’t swatted at one. Coniff mentions common places and problems with flies. He starts of the essay by saying how “A fly is standing on the rim of my beer glass as I write these words.” (Conniff, 2) I have had many a fly land of my drinks especially if sweet like lemonade or soda. It happens pretty often especially if I am outside. He also talks about how they fly on your dinner tables and picnics after coming from garbage (Conniff, 3). Flies are always hovering over the trash and then going to your food. This is why it grosses so many people out. If he would have started his article with just facts about how dirty a fly is and how much dirt they can spread he would have lost many readers who don’t want just a boring list of facts. By including things people can relate to he broadens his audience majorly. He has a

The fly could also have been used as an ironic symbol of death, decay, and human mortality. Since the fly is a creature that feeds and lays its eggs in dead flesh. Some critics think that the fly has a more sinister and dark meaning. They believe that the fly

Fly has two wings, four legs, two hundred one eyes, red eyes, and is also annoying. The antagonist of the story.

The novel “Flight” was a very interesting story about a young boy who seems to be lost in life and has an identity crisis which leads him down the wrong path and makes the poor decision to shoot up a bank. To have the boy come to the conclusion what he was doing was wrong Sherman Alexie sends him to different places and times to show teach him something more, almost like the Scrooge and the many ghosts he encounters in “A Christmas Carol”. I will discuss a few of his “flights” analyzing each flight and his journey from Zits to Michael through emotional encounters and tough lessons.

Her choice of the word hoovers instead of fly gave a the appearance of the almanac physically hoovering giving the almanac the ability to hover above the grandmother and the grandchild but also the absence of the man in the child’s drawing hovering over the grandmother leaving her in an emotional state. The child is naïve and doesn’t realize the battle the grandmother endures due to the absence of the man in the drawing so it seems that grandmother feels as though she has to stay strong for the child and that responsibility is hovering over the grandmother as

The story is being told in third person narrative so that means that the story is being seen by the perspectives of the Boss and Woodfiled, using this method readers get to learn more about the thoughts and feelings of both the Boss as well as Woodifield throughout the story. Using this method can also let the reader learn more about the terms of the story and the events through different points of view. The story is about a man going by the name Boss meeting with his old friend Woodfield, he visits him at his at an upscale office in a cold winter time after world war one. Both Woodfield and the boss talk about their son’s that have passed away during world war one. After Mr. Woodifield leaves the room, the boss sits down thinking that he might weep over the death of his son for the first time in years but instead he takes a fly out of his inkpot and slowly tortures it to death until he forgets what he was sad about.

He overwhelms his son by taking control of his future and planning out his life. The boss’s plan for his son is to take over the business which gives the son no other choices or opportunities concerning his future. “Ever since his birth, the boss has worked at building up his business for him; it had no other meaning if it was not for the boy” (Mansfield 508). It seems as though the physical action of the boss smothering the fly is associated with the sufferings that his son has experienced. Both the boss’s son and the fly go through similar yet different forms of suffering throughout their lives. Interestingly, while the fly is struggling to live, the boss utters, “Come on, Look Sharp” (Mansfield 509), just as he would say to his suffering son. Both the fly and victims of wartime fighting (his son) are innocently killed by cruel forces over which they have no control (Schoenberg).

The grand event that was expected to accompany death does not occur. The entrance of the fly with a “blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz” is all that accompanies the speaker’s death. It is not that the fly caused the speaker to miss the event of their death, there was no sight to see. The speaker believes that the fly’s brief buzzing may have caused them to

While the character was kicking the snowman furiously "again, again”. His "breath ripped out in rags". He had lost his breath because he was so passionate about his fury that he forgot about his physical ability. In this quote a metaphor is used and two short sentences are repeated. The short sentences emphasize his lack of education, showing that he cannot form complex intellectual sentences. The fact that the word is repeated twice indicates his passion for what he's doing. The metaphor is also an example of hyperbole as it over exaggerates on how exhausted he is due to his inability to control his emotions. This suggests that the persona is angry and frustrated at his life. The snowman could symbolize what he doesn't have; therefore, portraying his rage towards the snowman. The snowman could also be symbolized as himself, which shows his self-destructive behavior as he tries to punish the part of himself that he sees in the inanimate object. In the other poem, the character does something similar as he "squishes a fly against the window “using his "thumb". This shows how the persona releases all his irritation on a vulnerable creature that cannot do anything to escape from the situation. This suggests that he loves the feeling of over empowerment but it also suggests that he is a coward as he displays his rage on a susceptible and tiny creature. It also portrays how cruel and disheartened of a person he is as the fly didn't have anything to do with why he was left out and isolated all along his life. Despite of this fact, he still went forward with killing the poor fly because of his failure to control his rage. It is mentioned that he commits this purposeless murder with his "thumb". As the "thumb" is the biggest finger on our hands, it can symbolize that he is attempting to completely overwhelm the tiny little creature; this can also be seen as

Being referred to as “the boss,” rather than his birth-given name, tells a great deal about the boss. The boss in “The Fly” has a very bossy personality finding great pleasure in being in control. Readers can tell that the boss is controlling by his method of killing the fly in his office. He carefully observes the fly struggle to stand after being unstuck from the inkpot and he drowns the fly with the ink from his pen. After the boss observes the fly finish its “laborious task” of freeing itself, he refills his pen and shakes “another dark drop.” The boss then asks, “What about this time?” as he repeats his actions twice more. Even after the fly dies he commands it: “Come on… Look sharp!” This proves that the boss is empowered by displaying his dominance even over such a helpless insect. Readers also see that the boss is taking advantage of his control when he orders his secretary Macey around. He first tells him, "I'll see nobody for half an hour, Macey.