Red death

Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis”, uses death and birds as symbols to show how Doodle is fragile and could die at any moment. Red is a color that is often associated with evil and other times it represents love. Birds also represent death and fragility, but they also mean freedom and change. This shows how Doodle’s and Brother’s paradoxical relationship changes from Brother being evil and selfish, to him being an extremely helpful and caring brother. Red or any color with a reddish tint, is considered

these descriptions have in common includes that all represent the temptation and passion that Mattie represents for Ethan. Mattie description includes having “flushed red” (Wharton 45), embarrassment may be the first assumption because woman of Wharton’s era were often presented as being demure, however, I find that when Mattie flushes red, a juxtaposition is created between her and Ethan’s wife, Zeena, who is often presented as having a sallow pallor and having now life to her whatsoever. Mattie symbolizes

with the death of his loved one's, alcoholism, and the afterlife. The death of Poe’s loved ones affected him greatly, and this is shown in many of his poems/stories. In his short story, The Masque of the Red Death, he states, “And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall… And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable

The harsh irony of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death” shows running from your fears instead of confronting them only encourages it to find one even faster. The old man in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” for instance, isolates himself in his room because of his fear of death. The narrator explains, “So you see he would be a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.”(75). This quote suggests that the old man knows that

according to his mother etc… The stories, which Bessie is telling the young children, create a superstition in Jane and this is shown in the red-room when she thinks she sees the spirit of the late Mr Reed. The stories that are being told are set in dark, gothic places, described in words such as "shadowy", "ghastly", "death-white", "haunted", "churchyard", Jane also mentions the words "phantoms", "terror" the effects of these words are to make the description more interesting

present Zeena’s cousin, Mattie, as a young a beautiful lady. There are several motifs such as, illness and disability and also the snow and cold weather that goes along with how Ethan’s decisions throughout the novel. The symbols such as, Mattie’s red scarf and red ribbon and also the final sled run help readers to understand what will happen throughout the story. There is also a lot of irony in this novel that will help readers to better understand how and why things are taking place. The motifs in this

     Red is a very intense color in the book. It represents death, blood, and evil. When Paul D. arrives at 124 he walked “.... straight into a pool of red and undulating light that locked him where he stood” (8).  He immediately asked Sethe what kind of evil is in the house.  That was the first sign of warning Paul D. receives from the house of 124. Paul D. did not understand the warning at first. Morrison described it as, “as he stepped through the red light he knew that

Paragraph: Singer Taylor Swift once said, “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration”. Red is an amazing color because there are so many different feelings attached to it. In times of the French Revolution the color red symbolized blood, danger and fear among the

d’Urbervilles uses different forms of symbolism throughout the novel. A prominent symbol through the novel, red is used quite often. Hardy uses it to foreshadow, warn, and hint at future events that are important to the theme and in the progression of the novel. Other symbolic devices are used, but the color red’s myriad of meanings has proven it to be the best way to trace Tess's journey. The symbolism color red is first introduced in the description of the girls whom ar attending the May Day Dance. The girls

process of growing up due to the death of of little brother lingering in his mind. He tends to project his emotions onto the nearest person, place, or even objects. Although the connections Holden has with certain places or people is evident, like Ernie’s bar or his little sister Phoebe, Salinger utilizes Holden’s sentiment and unspoken grief by developing certain objects as symbols and giving them an emotional attachment to Holden. One object, in particular, is Holden’s red hunting hat. Although it is