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…sorrows, but ruins our hearts’ good sense, breaking the wisest intentions of gods and mortals alike. From Chaos came Erebus, darkness, and Nyx, night, mother of Aether, radiance, and Hemera, day; these Nyx conceived by uniting with Erebus, gloomy…

…the idea of it. Another poem to look at that seems to contradict his view in Fire and Ice is his poem Dust of Snow published in 1923. The poem reads as follows: The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart…

…;gt;The Scarlet Letter has many characters, and they are all shown in either a light or dark way, which I felt was interesting. The characters all seem to change in some sort of way throughout the book. An example would be Chillingworth, Chillingworth…

…Beowulf's Dark Side In Beowulf, Beowulf, the great warrior, encounters three supernatural creatures that reveal the true dark side of human kind. Beowulf encounters these creatures with the driving force of greed and heroism. All of the monsters go…

…and supernatural characteristics in his stories, Poe’s popular “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Tell-Tale Heart” clearly reveal ways in which Poe can be described as a Gothic writer. In “The Fall of the House of Usher…

…        A recurring theme in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies , is that man savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to evil and a primitive nature. Golding believes that man has no control over his own destiny because…

…, he declares that Jim is no longer the "white speck at the heart of an immense mystery" but "of full stature, standing disregarded. . .with a stern and romantic aspect, but always mute, dark--under a cloud." Marlow's initial evaluation, that Jim stands…

…uses Satis House to effectively convey this. The house is neglected and is separated from society, 'the great front entrance had two chains across it outside- and the first thing I noticed was, that the passage were all dark... only the candle lighted us…

…. Zeena’s physical appearance matches her cold nature, for the is "tall and angular" with a "puckered throat." To Ethan, she is ugliness personified, a total contrast to the lovely Mattie. This is in total contrast to Zeena, whom he sees as darkness, thus…

…Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating " 'T is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door - Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door…