Theme on Byron's "Prisoner of Chillon"

The prisoner exemplifies resourcefulness which is shown through his actions of survival. Despite his unstableness, he still manages to remain clever in such a frightening situation. Poe asserts that the prisoner is resourceful considering he uses the hem of his robe to plot out his area: “I tore a part of the hem from the robe, and placed the fragment at full length, and at right angles to the wall. In groping my way around the prison, I could not fail to encounter this rag upon completing the circuit.” (Poe 3). Being that he uses his resources to find his way around the tomb, he learns that he is among a treacherous pit which could mean death. This action alters the whole course of the story due to the possibility of the prisoner falling into the pit. The prisoner continues to show signs of resourcefulness in the toughest situations: “Observing that I remained without motion, one or two of the boldest leaped upon the frame-work and smelt at the

What I Think: After yet more humiliation and abuse from the Bird, Louie loses all but a single thought: “He cannot break me.” I think it is incredible how, after so much exhaustion and agony Louie only thinks about how he will not succumb to it all.

The bird is one example of a better life because when Andrew sees the bird stuck he says “don’t stop trying,you can get out” and the bird tried for days and when a door was open the bird flew free and that gave andrew hope that from now and later there will be some opportunity to get out of the airport and have an apartment which would probably give some joy back to his life like it was before his mom passed away and had to live in the airport.

To start off, we will start to talk about Who is the caged bird and why. I think that according to the story, “The Long Walk Home”

Pg 366 “The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come when they make their tormenters suffer. In seeking the Birds death to free him, Louie had chained himself once again, to his tyrant.”

Lastly, the speaker talks of the motive behind the caged bird’s song. When people hear birds singing in nature, or in cages, they often assume that the bird is singing a jocose tune. People typically fail to analyze the potential emotions of the bird and its feelings toward its environment. Rather than singing a tune of joy, the caged bird sings a tragic melody of sorrow, a desperate cry for freedom. When the speaker says “a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings”, he is alluding to God and Heaven, to which the bird directs his cries in the hope that they will be heard. The attitude that the speaker has towards the woeful bird is, as the title says, sympathetic. The speaker is able

The fact that is has been called a cell makes it enclosed and almost 'hellish' because one would associate a cell with a prison in which you would be locked and confined. As well as this, later on in the novel, when Victor travels with Henry Clerval back to England, the place in which they visit is described as being a: 'majestic assemblage

The analogy comparison explains his thinking of freedom; as if committing suicide is a way to escape himself, but the bird comes to save him from himself- just like when he was young, alone, and in trouble. The analogy intensifies that Perry indeed needed help to stop his grieving and gain acceptance. Perry was the opposite of happy- his emotions showing similarly; the analogy shadows that if he condoned himself by realizing that killing the family was immensely wrong but excepting himself anyways- could find him freedom of his mind and peace at last. Therefore, Perry finding acceptance to his injustice will only make him feel relief during the closing of his

This man caused Louie to drink and to smoke, he became terrified to sleep due to the pain and the way he wanted so bad to get revenge. The Bird made Louie come extremely close to ruining his marriage and gave him an unsettling mindset from the thoughts of The Bird so intensely that he was scared he would injure someone in his sleep: “Louie was straddling Cynthia's chest, his hands locked around her neck. Through her closing throat, she was screaming. Louie was strangling his pregnant wife” (373). Louie was lucky, lucky he did not kill his wife, or hurt her, or kill his baby, he was lucky to have a wife as kind as Cynthia to stay by his side and not let him go. Luck once again was rushing through Louie’s life as Cynthia could’ve ended this marriage in a heartbeat, but instead took Louie to a preacher named Billy to retrieve him help so he would understand what wrong he is doing: “Cynthia stayed in the hall, listening to the neighbor. When she returned to the apartment, she told Louie that she wanted him to take her to hear Graham speak” (378). At the sound of God, Louie started to believe, he changed once more and went back to having a strong mind. A simple promise that Louie remembered to keep him strong and to keep him fighting to stay determined: “If you will save me, I will serve you forever” (382). Louie became a better man and from that moment

Bradbury and Ursula Le Guin, demonstrate the suffering that the protagonist endures in order to

When the couple was at the bus-stop, they saw a dying bird, which symbolized their son, who was slowly dying because of his condition. The couple eventually learns that their son recently attepted to commit suicide. This symbolism was supported later in the story, as the mother shared how her son drew birds with human characteristics, as seen in the following passage: “that was when he drew wonderful birds with human hands and feet, and suffered from insomnia like a grown-up man” (Nabokov np). In fact, one of the son’s attempts in committing suicide was learning to fly, which shows how he considered himself as a bird. Due to this, the son viewed the sanitarium as his cage, so he wants to escape it.

The bird in the story represents someone who lost hope in receiving freedom. That concept is best shown in the story, “But the swallow no longer believes what people say”. The bird lost complete hope. The bird is promised that he will be taken care of, but each time he finds himself in the hand of a new owner. In each situation he begs to be freed but no one seems to understand him. The

Lord Byron’s works, such as Don Juan and other poems reflect not only the suave and charming characteristics of the Romantic Period, but they also reveal the nature of Byron’s uncommitted and scandalous life. Byron, like most Romantic era authors, was very unpredictable and opinionated in all of his writings. From the hatred of his upbringing, to the love of adventure, and also to the love of meaningless relationships with various women were majorly influenced and illustrated through all of his works and especially in “Don Juan.” Yet he still managed to infiltrate his poems with charm, romance, and heroism. Byron was a perfect fit for the Romantic Period and his poems and he was therefore known as a great contributor towards the era.

It eventually turns out that those bars of prison are the shadows of Death’s dead and dying ship, but does this not allude to the approaching change in life that the Ancient Mariner suffers? He becomes trapped in life, to wander the earth forever, spreading his story--a prison of freedom, a cell made out of eternal life. A curse disguised as the world’s greatest blessing. He goes further to describe the boat when he says the line, “Are those her ribs through which the Sun/ Did peer, as through a grate?” This is, on one level, merely continuing the same vein of interpretation as mentioned before, both veins. But on another level, it describes the weariness of the Ancient Mariner, and the old and eaten-away shape his body has taken on over the years--his ribs sharp and bony against even the baggy of rags.

In the last stanza, the caged bird’s song symbolises the emotions and cries of freedom. The combination of the two represents that there is a need for every child to reach their full potential. Something that cannot be achieved with helicopter parenting and the barriers placed upon them.