Jorge Luis Borges Irony

In “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Scarlet Ibis” dark symbols and tones shape the plot, which allows man’s inhumanity to man, as a theme, to be expected. Both authors use imagery to allow readers to paint a picture of each setting in their mind. Also, each author adds in many symbols to make a concrete object into an abstract idea. In “The Cask of Amontillado” written by Edgar Allan Poe and “The Scarlet Ibis” written by James Hurst symbols, imagery, and the theme of man’s inhumanity to man are used to uniquely explain each story line.

In his Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe informs us that he begins writing with “the consideration of an effect” (430). Most of Poe’s poetry and fiction exemplifies his assertion that a preconceived effect upon a reader is undoubtedly fundamental to his creative work. Poe’s tales of terror in particular epitomize the supremacy of his craft in that each component of his narrative strategy functions to achieve the final effect of generating unmitigated terror in his readers. Focusing primarily on The Fall of the House of Usher, I argue that Poe employs a preconceived narrative

James Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis”, and Edgar Allen Poe, the author of “ The Cask of Amontillado”, both display a theme of appearance versus reality.The appearance versus reality theme means that information one believes to be true may not be (at times). “The Scarlet Ibis” displays theme in relation to Doodle’s well-being while“The Cask of Amontillado” shows the lesson by how the use of verbal irony can be practiced to trick Fortunato, and how human emotions guide what Fortunato chooses to believe. Overall, “The Scarlet Ibis” and “the Cask of Amontillado” both effectively display the appearance versus reality theme in their own distinctive ways.

Throughout Poe’s stories, he shows a development of characters through his development of imagery and syntax. As the antagonists’ characters develop, they become more malicious. This development advances the story and allows it to successfully showcase Poe’s idiosyncratic writing style, a suspenseful mood. Overall, his one-of-a-kind style has inspired many authors to write similar types of sober stories and poems. His influence has made a huge impact on schools around the country. Poe’s stories are taught to students to show off his specific type of style. Poe’s use of imagery and syntax influenced the massive industry of dramatic, thrilling, and suspenseful

Dupin, the private detective in The Purloined Letter, thinks analytically and ingeniously to solve a simple case that has the other characters puzzled. Dupin is tasked with finding the Purloined Letter for Prefect G. The letter has been stolen from a young lady by Minister D from the Royal apartments with the intent of blackmail. The police have searched Minister D's residence multiple times without finding the letter. When Prefect G puts a bounty of 50,000 francs on the letter, Dupin turns over the letter and collects his money. He explains that Minister D is a smart man and hid the letter in plain sight, disguised as another letter. A seemingly simple discovery, however proven to be much more difficult. "Why, yes; and not exactly that either. The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether" (Poe 249). Poe's use of mind games in The Purloined Letter reveal how the mind is a tool meant to construe solutions to difficult problems. Hiding the letter is carefully planned out and requires a high level of competence to understand exactly where the police would not look. Likewise, it requires a high level of competence to find the letter and solve the mystery. Dupin is able to do this through mental focus and apathy, while also thinking the similarly to Minister D. Using intelligence to solve difficult tasks

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe uses many examples of imagery, such as the descriptions of the carnival, characters, the walk through the catacombs, and much more throughout the story to build suspense and intrigue for the readers and add to the mystery of Montresor’s underlining actions of the revenge and deception of the foolish Fortunado.

James Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis”  and Edgar Allen Poe, the author of “ The Cask of Amontillado” both display a theme of appearance versus reality.The appearance versus reality theme means that what something one believes to be true may not be (at times). “The Scarlet Ibis” displays theme in relation to Doodle’s well-being while“The Cask of Amontillado” shows the lesson by how the use of verbal irony can be practiced to trick Fortunato, and how human emotions guide what Fortunato chooses to believe. Overall, “The Scarlet Ibis” and “the Cask of Amontillado” both effectively display the appearance versus reality theme in their own distinctive ways.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: there can be many different perspectives seen in a poem. One individual could read a poem as depressing and another can perceive it as a new beginning. One’s views rests on individual perspectives. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is dark and controversial. In my essay I will argue that Poe was not in his right mind and he was driven mad with evidence throughout his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

In his collection of short stories, Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges uses dreams, imagination and fantasy to establish ambiguity in his stories. With the use of juxtaposition and symbols, Borges blends a realm of dreams and imagination into the individual’s everyday worldly experiences. Through these devices, Borges commonly blurs the line between aspects of reality for his characters versus the constructs of his or her mind. By combining the real with the fictitious, Borges incorporates ambiguity into his stories and introduces his readers to new perspectives of world around them.

A virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities between two of his most well-known short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

This essay will discuss the themes in Poe’s writing that mirror his personal life and, in addition, the fear and supernatural motivators for his characters. First, I will discuss Poe’s background and explore how he became best known as a poet for his tales of mystery and macabre.

Edgar Allan Poe practices literature within use of the intrinsic qualities that possess the many definitions assigned to the word ‘literature’. Poe is an artist of words. He uses aesthetic, creative works of fiction to tell stories of drama and often horror. Poe’s’ literary genius is translated most commonly through his ingenious poetry and short stories. Consequently, it is his tendency to lace parts of his own personal life and views into his story-telling that causes critics to downplay the true art of the work by Poe. In this essay, the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” will be analysed to make the argument that Poe is a serious writer through his use of proper literary aspects.

Borges constantly writes in puzzles and mazes that the reader must traverse with only a few tools to help them on their way.In “The South,” the reader is torn between the narrator's escape or imprisonment in the sanitorium; “The Witness” provides both hope and cynicism in death; “The Library of Babel” is both infinite and finite. All of these stories contain oppositions and questions posed to the audience. Although, the reader may come to one,much like Ts’ui Pen’s “forking paths,” Borges’ stories themselves have multiple interpretations and answers (125).Borges, in his short stories, becomes the ultimate all knowing “smiling” god that creates the world in which the reader must traverse with limited knowledge to find an answer that might not even exist (Gaiman and Pratchett,

1) Oliverio Girondo’s poetry is representative of a “new style” of art encompassed in José Ortega y Gasset’s The Dehumanization of Art. Aesthetics no longer conform to the traditional classical style but instead, champions a futurist type meant to bypass the limitations of rationale in a trivial and playful nature likened to sport. Girondo clearly breaks from the platonic ideals of beauty and delves into the aesthetics of the grotesque by using antipoetic language, which sublimes the abject. This is made obvious early in Scarecrow & other anomalies as he writes that he “couldn’t care less if women have breasts like fresh magnolias or withered figs, skin smooth as a peach or rough as sand paper. […] breath of an aphrodisiac or the breath of an insecticide.”(Girondo 7). Girondo often uses ludic and vulgar language and has a clear objective of relegating humans to beasts or objects, for example, he describes “May a spider’s foot sprout from each of your pores, […] may all the inhabitants of the city mistake you for a urinal. […] May your family amuse itself deforming your bone structure, so that mirrors, looking at you, commit suicide out of sheer repugnance” (Girondo 75). Girondo’s scarecrow calligram illustrates the “new style” of art masterfully as he creates an extended metaphor to ridicule bourgeois ideals, literarily from head to toe intended to scare bourgeois aesthetics, instead of accustomed crows. Girondo ultimately describes that “a book should be put together like a

Unity of effect is the effect that the artist wants his or her audience to feel and the artist does everything in his or her creative power so the audience can respond to the mood. Therefore, to achieve the “unity of effect” in the “Cask of Amontillado”, “The Raven”, and “Annabel Lee”, Poe manipulates the element of setting to help elicit the mood in the audience. In fact, setting is a crucial element in the sub-genre of romantic literature, gothic setting helps the author control the mood the emotions of the audience.