The Roles Of Light And Dark Imagery

Throughout My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, the change of seasons is often mentioned and represents the hardships and beauties of the world. The summer and spring are examples of the beauties in the world since the citizens are able to work due to the long days. The spring is almost as important as the summer since it is the time of year when farmers begin to farm again after the winter. But, the winter is unforgiving. During the winter all of citizens are hiding in their nice warm houses trying to avoid the harsh cold. Due to the citizens’ perseverance and hard work their town is able to thrive.

The seasons are part of the mother's life, while the father goes through life as if all were winter. The mother runs her house according to the seasons. She grows "miraculous gardens and magnificent flowers…"(132), and during berry picking season, "She would walk miles…"(132).  Growing gardens, flowers and picking berries are seasonal activities. Every flower and fruit has its cycle during the year, which alludes how the mother lived through this. The importance of the seasons as part of the mother's life is presented even in the end of the story when the narrator says that the "[mother] looks through her lonely window onto the ice of winter…"(140). Therefore, she is alone gazing out the window, waiting for her death, which is symbolized by the winter. On the other hand, for the father all the seasons are the same. All of them are winter. The narrator describes his father, "with blue eyes flossing like clearest ice

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is said to be one of the greatest children's novels of all time. The novel, due to its use of such characters as goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others is in tradition, a fairy tale. The tale centers on a small hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins. It follows the journey of a band of dwarves, a wizard named Gandalf, and their robber, Bilbo on their way to retrieving treasure that had long been taken away from them. The hobbit traveled all over Middle-Earth, beginning with Bilbo's tiny hobbit-hole in the ground, to Mirkwood forest, to finally reaching the Mountain in which the dragon Smaug lives. Tolkien uses a large amount of imagery in his writing which can been seen through settings in The Hobbit. The

The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien is said to be one of the greatest children's novels of all time. The novel, due to its use of such characters as goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others is in tradition, a fairy tale. The tale centers on a small hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins. It follows the journey of a band of dwarves, a wizard named Gandalf, and their robber, Bilbo on their way to retrieving treasure that had long been taken away from them. The hobbit traveled all over Middle-Earth, beginning with Bilbo's tiny hobbit-hole in the ground, to Mirkwood forest, to finally reaching the Mountain in which the dragon Smaug lives. Tolkien uses a large amount of imagery in his writing which can been seen through settings in The Hobbit. The

In the poem “The Guild,” Sharon Olds uses dark and light imagery to underscore the theme of alcoholism. Olds portrays a concern regarding a grandfather who passed on the legacy of alcoholism to his son. The poet reveals the darkness and the agony in the fireside scene in the beginning by using both light and dark imagery: “– my grandfather sat in the darkened room in front of the fire, the liquor like fire in his hand, his eye glittering meaninglessly in the light.” Here, the grandfather is sitting in a darkened room meaning there is no light and does not want to be alert to what is going around the room. He just wants to sit in the room alone. This dark imagery creates the barrier between the grandfather and the outside world, providing him

In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel and the poem See it through by Edgar Guest the two authors use imagery is different because Night’s imagery is dark and sad and see it through is telling you no matter what don’t give up. An example of this difference in Night “They were the first faces of hell and and death”. The gloomy vibe. An example of this in the poem see it through is”You may fail,but fail still fighting;Don’t give up what’er you do”. The imagery helps the reader understand the theme of never giving up.

by saying “only one thing to do—” but it can be seen that she is

Bram Stoker utilizes point of view, imagery, and tone to illustrate Lucy’s pre-transformative phase through a diary entry, giving further context to various symbols in Chapter 11 of Dracula.

In the book, Code Name Verity, The author, Elizabeth E. Wein, Uses Dark Imagery and intense diction to create a regretful, dark, and sad tone. The author does this throughout the book to show Maddie’s and Julie’s feelings. In the begging of Code Name Verity, Julie in captured and now she is being tortured. She asks for a bargain. If they don’t use their tactics of torture, the will write everything she knows and will not do anything stupid. The Germans accepted and now she writes.

The eternal struggle between good and evil unwavering as always. This battle has been seen throughout time and has been implemented into mass media. This revolutionary thought is used consistently. Light and dark imagery is used in stories to differentiate between good and evil. The entire premise of the story Beowulf is based upon one hero, Beowulf, attempting to eradicate evil.

Stephen King employs restricting visual imagery, destructive kinetic imagery, and aggressive auditory imagery in “The Shining” to identify how after talking to Tony, Danny loses his childlike innocence and is thrust into a world of maturity.

When Meursault is his momś room, he reacts to the light negatively, saying if the lights can be dimmed down. When told no, he begins to lose his train of thought, no longer paying attention. Whenever presented with light, he says it blinding and tries to go back to darkness. At one point, he says how the brightness makes everything seem brighter and have a sharper definition that he is usually used to. This could connect to how he lives most of his days, wandering around his apartment without a real purpose, everything faded because of this very same reason. He when presented with heat, he acknowledges its presence but does not go farther than that. For example, when he goes into the restaurant, he says that it's hot but he does not go farther

As for the LIFETIME IS A YEAR metaphor, Lakoff and Turner elucidate that this conceptual association allows the stages of the year to get mapped onto corresponding stages in the human life cycle: springtime onto youth, summer onto maturity, autumn onto old age, and winter onto death (1989, p. 18). Such a conceptualization, Lakoff and Turner add, is grounded on the common knowledge that spring is the time when plants grow and blossom and animal life emerges while winter is inherently the season in which plants go dormant and animals hibernate (p. 18). The lifetime-as-a-year metaphor is realized in such linguistic expressions as “the springtime of youth” and “the autumn of one’s

The ability to perceive lightness is a key component in completing everyday tasks. However, due to the variations in illumination and context, lightness perception theories fail to fully explain lightness perception for all situations. The anchoring theory of lightness perception (Gilchrist et al., 1999) successfully provides a theory that explains the accurate yet systematic inaccuracies of human lightness perception under vast conditions (Murray,2013). These conditions are governed by frameworks, which are groupings of surfaces that belong to each other more or less as determined by 5 factors; Depth, Orientation, Penumbrae, Junctions and Grouping (Gilchrist et al, 1999). However, as anchoring occurs independently within each framework, other theories have been founded which suggest that the human visual system uses the Gestalt laws of perceptual grouping to group regions into factions, known as frameworks, where all regions in the single framework are expected to be illuminated uniformly (Bressan, 2006).

In Yasunari Kawabata’s book the old capital, there is a profounding amount of beauty which is described. One could even argue that the story of Chieko is of secondary importance to describing the beauty of Kyoto. In every part of the book there always seems to be a reference to nature and the seasons . In most instances, nature as well as the traditional Japanese festivals in the novel often symbolize the parallel of a new modernizing japan and the old traditional Japan. However, more importantly, the seasonal imagery parallels the story of Chieko herself and the moods she is feeling. It is no coincidence that kawabata’s first chapter is called the flowers of spring while the last chapter is called winter flowers.