Dark Shadows

Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson DeRoisy’s painting Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes depicts a combination of history and allegory with references to the bard’s work; romantic themes underlay a classical technique. “The painting is composed of, essentially, four groups of people: the triumphant French generals and soldiers at the right, Ossian and the warriors from Morven stoically welcoming them at the left, behind and below these, Stamo, in a paroxysm

The date was the 13th of July, her 45th birthday. It would be her last. Standing just outside her kitchen window, obscured by the dark shadows of the surrounding woods, was the man who would end her life. He watched silently, his dark eyes trained on her delicate figure, as she bustled about her kitchen. The man took a step forward, a thin branch snapped beneath the weight of his boot. He froze in his tracks, eyes wide as he waited with baited breath. To his luck, the woman hadn’t heard him. His

To begin, the two leaders have very similar characteristics, they both want to lead their civilizations in an orderly manner where all must abide by a certain guideline. According to them, it is for the good of the people but what one thinks is good isn’t always the best. In “The Lottery” Old Man Warner wasn’t discussed much but from what was said about him, one could tell he was a man with a strong belief in tradition and the lottery was very important to him as it would predict the next season

1). Wealth and Inequality in the Great Depression: How does Mr. Deeds respond to his newfound wealth? How does this 1930s comedy represent the New Deal? MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN is a classic and comic story of Longfellow Deeds, a rural fellow from Mandrake Falls, Vermont. He makes his living by writing rhymes for posting cards and enjoy playing the tuba. Longfellow Deeds inherits sum of 20 million fortune from a fabulously wealthy tycoon who turns out to be his distance uncle when a car accident

The refusal of the villagers to abandon tradition and question the lottery ritual suggests the negative consequences of blindly following tradition to receive commodities. The opportunity of abandoning even come up when Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, "that over in the north village they're talking of giving up the lottery.’”, but Old Man Warner replied saying that they should keep it. They all listen to Old Man Warner even though he wasn’t actually participating in the lottery

“The Lottery” a short story by Shirley Jackson, features a small town during the time of their lottery. The lottery is an annual event, organized by Mr. Summers. It is a highly important time, as the whole town comes to the town square on the day of the lottery. The guidelines are quite simple: everyone takes a slip of paper out of the symbolic black box, and the slip of paper with the black mark carved on it, is the “lucky winner”. But their definition of the lottery is different一usually, a

The war was raging on. People fighting, animals ripping flesh, it just was never enough. The girl that was half vampire and half wolf was the cause of it all. I didn’t know it at the time, but I would soon be the end of it all as well. When I woke up every morning I was alone. I had been like this my entire life. I ran out of the cold tree house I had built right next to the castle where I grow up. Then I started to walk around for hours until I saw someone in the busses…. It was a wolf! I had known

As once said by Gustav Mahler “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” This saying relates to “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson because it talks about tradition and the purpose of the story is blindly following tradition. There are many reasons why the purpose of the lottery is following tradition. One of them is because it has been around for a while, so people have been doing it for many years. The second reason is that people had to participate but for some it wasn’t

In the story, the library, many of the characters did not speak as much, however, their actions showed what was approaching. The villagers follow a tradition that happens every year which ends up being a tragedy. Unfortunately, each of the main characters in the story showed a representation on how they naturally behave when the lottery approaches. As long as they have been living in the village they are all accustomed to the tradition, however, they do not realize the evil they are causing towards

Almost everyone has gone to a funeral before, and they have witnessed their loved ones passing on. For example, when you go to a funeral everything is dim, bitter, and depressing. In “The Lottery” the characters have a drawing of cards on who is going to die. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson uses descriptive language to show how the characters won’t change tradition even though it is inhumane. To begin with, the villagers do not want to upset this tradition. “...but no one liked to upset even as