Rhetorical Devices In The Convergence Of The Twain By Thomas Hardy

How Thomas Hardy Presents the Tragedy of the Sinking of the Titanic in the Poem The Convergence of the Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by the name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, and served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He became nothing less than a national treasure. He captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's faults that is humorous even while it probes the roots of human behavior. One of his most famous essays (satire) that I will analyze is, “A Presidential Candidate”, which was written on June 9th, 1879, in which he evokes a sarcastic tone to mock presidential candidates by using syntax, diction, irony, and examples from his own past.

Mark Twain, in his essay¨, The lowest Animal¨,(1896), Mark Twain argues that human beings are not on the same ¨level with other animals¨.He claims that humans are the most lowest animals in the world. He announced that humans are the most idiotic creatures and that humans starts wars for no reason. Mark Twain suggest the problem for humans, that they are reveal as the lowest animal. Mark Twain explain the humans for being shelfless, cold hearted and less intellligent then the rest of the animals.To his audience Mark Twain revealed the humans problems not being reasonable with mankind. Fur the audience to know humans weakness to mankind.

In “The Convergence of the Twain,” by Thomas Hardy, the speaker opens up his attitude towards the sinking of the ship. What the title, “The Convergence of the Twain,” means is when two things come together to merge into one, in this case, the iceberg and the ship. The speaker uses multiple poetic devices to convey his opinion that the sinking of the ship was not a surprise, but rather something that nature has control over man. As tragic as it may sounds, the speaker elucidates the idea that everything has a plan, the sinking of the ship was inevitable. By depicting mankind’s pride and vanity, the speaker uses imagery, connotative diction, and metaphors to demonstrate that the sinking of the ship was not a tragedy.

The book opens with, “ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail on the horizon, never out of sight…” (1) the horizon represents the distant future and dreams that the main character, Janie has for her life, while the ship represents a man’s dream. Not only does the horizon represent the possibility of change, but it always represents hope itself. The quote also describes how some people try to achieve their dreams and others fail to do so.

Mark Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for a reason. He wanted to make a book with a serious tone that would still be entertaining. He wanted to be able to talk about serious issues, such as race relations, in a way that is enjoyable to read. He had already written about Tom Sawyer's story and now he wanted to write about Huck Finn. He wanted the audience to be entertained and socially aware at the same time.

Rhetorical devices are used in literature in order for the reader to enjoy the context more, and read deeper into the text instead of just scraping the surface. Nathaniel Hawthorne was able to use a variety of rhetorical devices to paint a picture for the readers, especially with the combination of symbolism, pathos, and diction. With these devices, he was able to add depth into his writing and manipulate the journey of the readers. His symbols mostly consisted of the letter “A” and the baby, which described Hester’s overall character.

In this quote, satire is used to show the readers the corrupted society and the messed up human nature. Twain uses Sherburn character to criticizes the town people and basically just the human nature itself. Sherburn reveals that the mob are only powerful when they are in a group, but when they are by themselves, they are only a coward and powerless individual, afraid to make a move. Twain uses this to show the readers how people only believes in what the majority of the people believes and never took their own individual thoughts into

On April 2,1912 the RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage from Belfast, Ireland to Southampton. The Titanic was 4 days into its exploration when the collision of the iceberg occurred. As the Titanic set sail on it’s maiden voyage, some interior work still needed to be completed. Some areas of the ship had no heating while the others areas where to hot. A team of about 9 harland & wolff employees, including the ship's designer, Thomas Andrews, sailed as members of a guarantee group, to make sure any problems with the ship were attended to. They as well perished in the sinking of the

Embedded in the people’s faith, was the idea that life on earth was merely a test. Many believed if they passed the assessment, then they could return to heaven and be granted eternal life. This allowed for some, such as the narrator in The Seafarer, to have the incentive to live a life emptied of material happiness, since money and large homes could not be taken to heaven anyway, and live a life of honor. The narrator in The Seafarer, for example, lives honorably through his lack of need for materials and his bravery of testing himself against the mighty wrath of the sea. He also believes that popular need for material happiness is what was going to ruin the world’s people and that people were becoming weak and dishonorable as time passed. He envisioned a time where honor was gone along with the men who possessed it and where regular things such as rulers and emperors were obsolete. The poem never comes out and says it, but it does say “the weakest survive,” alluding to people who live in fear of exile who are unable to actually live and instead hide from

The Titanic was a beautiful disaster that killed many innocent lives. It consisted of various flaws before it set sail and could have saved many lives if the flaws would have been fixed, but on its first voyage, it crashed into an iceberg. The “Unsinkable Ship” was doomed from having leaking watertight bulkheads, coal fires, and not enough lifeboats. People thought that the flaws would be insignificant compared to the vastness and beauty of the ship. They saw it as something glorious that could not be conquered because of its magnificence, but it no longer had worth once it was destroyed. Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” uses romanticized imagery and suggests that the crash happened because of fate, but

The catastrophic sinking of the Titanic, over one hundred years ago, continues to drive scientists to search for answers. Was this simply an unfortunate maritime disaster, or did human error play a role in Titanic’s demise? Bruce Ismay, president of White Star Lines, had a dream. A dream, to build a magnificent luxury liner that would transport people across the Atlantic Ocean in style. With the help of the owner, John Pierpont, and ship designer Thomas Andrew Jr., the ship of dreams was soon a reality. However, Titanic’s maiden voyage on April 10, 1912, from Southampton, England to New York, made history in an inconceivable way. Sadly, over one thousand innocent people went to a watery grave in the middle of the cold, dark, Atlantic Ocean.

Being a trickster can be done in different ways, depending what you’re doing it for. Mark Twain and High Horse both have similar and different reasons and ways of getting the job completed. Mark wanted to be better than Hicks because he was tired of watching Hicks become a hero and of people crowding around him, so one night he pretended to be gazed at the disk and when the professor picked him, his imagination took the act further than Hick’s honest act and people loved it. “At the end of my first half- hour Hicks was a thing of the past, a fallen hero, a broken idol, and I knew it and was glad and said in my heart,”Success to crime!”.” High Horse was a trickster because all he wanted was the old man’s daughter, but he couldn’t get the father’s

History can be presented in many different ways. In the two eyewitness accounts by Harry Senior and Mrs. D. H. Bishop and the article by Hanson Baldwin, they tell different stories about what happened on the Titanic. The ship was supposedly “unsinkable.” The authors’ perspectives affect the details that they include in their accounts of the sinking of the Titanic.

William Golding wrote this book to show the importance of society and the cruelty of human nature. His way of showing this deep message through his writing was excellent. His style, symbols and choice of characters relayed the ideas he mean to teach.