The Cask of Amontillado
The story of “The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of revenge of Montressor against Fortunato’s insult to him. The narrator Montressor starts the story by stating that he has been insulted by his acquaintance and that is Fortunato and that shall seeks revenge. he decided to use Fortunato’s fondness of wine against him. Montressor went to the place of Fortunato while that time it was a carnaval season, Fortunato wears multicolor costume and a cap with bells and Montressor approaches him.
Montressor said that he is too busy he will ask Luchesi to taste the wine if it is really amontillado. To Fortunato, Luchesi couldn’t tell amontillado from other kind of sherry. Fortunato is eager to taste the wine and to determine wether it is really amontillado or not. Then fortunate insists that they will go to montressor’s place.
Montressor already planned all, he sent his servants away. When the two men arrived in the place of montressoe , it is covered with saltpeter and because of the nitre Fortunato began to cough Montressor act as if he is concern with Fortunato and offered him to bring Fortunato back to his home but fortunate refuses instead, he insisted that the wine can cure his cough. The two still continue to explore the vault in which it s full of dead bodies of Montressor fmily. Suddenly when they reached the place where montressor will trap him he said to Fortunato that the amontillado kept there that is what Montressor’s long waiting for, he trapped Fortunato inside.
Poe became a private army and that gave him an idea to use the setting during that time. Houses has a catacombs and the members of the family buried there. That scenario inspires him to use the setting in the creation of “The Cask of Amontillado”.
Ku Turion si Kulakog
It is believed that circumcision makes a man increase his body build and reduce the tendency to acquire disease. Once a man undergo a circumcision, he began to feel that they are more confident of their personality. However, the pain and the burden they felt is obviously undeniable. Like the story of “Ku Tur5ion si Kulakog”. There was a boy named Bornuk and the story centered about circumcision. What Bornuk’s feeling is normal like evey man encountered. Despite his fear his mother succeeded in convincing Bornuk by telling him that circumcision is like a bite of an ant.
I talk to a friend and based from his experience, he too really afraid to be circumcised but when everybody starts telling him including his mother that its like a bite of an ant that made him faced the very painful circumcision. After hus circumcision he also agreed that it is really a bite of an ant but lots and lots of ant. Afterwards, he became proud of himself that he can say that he is truly a man now.
Just like what happened to Burnok despite of his anxiety an fear of circumcision he bravely faced it and became proud of himself.
Moonlight
In Guy de Maupassant's story "Moonlight", the priest Abbe Marignan's beliefs were all fxed and the story began about a priest who despised the existence of woman. In spite of having a niece, he hated women and the wya woman exist as a temptation to men. But after he saw the moonlight and also because if his love for his niece was able to change his prspective towards women.
The story came with a conflict when the sacristan's wife, Melanie told him that his niece has a lover and they meet by 10 in the evening. He stayed late and waited for the rigth ime to come to finally catch hic niece while staying he started to ask God "Why He blessed such dark? Why God done this?" Since the night is intended for sleep, for unconciousness, for repose, for oblivion, but why make it more charming than day, sweeter than dawn or evening? "
As he continued to walk around, still amazed by the view and still has the question in his mind, he suddenly saw two figures. One was taller than the other and he recognized the shorter one.And that was his niece. The taller one kiss the forehead of his niece and by that, he recieved an anwer to his questions. God made the night more enchanting and charming than the day for the lover to nurture such love ,passion and intimacy.
At the end of the story he eventually learned and feel ashamed about the wrong perspective in his mind, Abbe began to realized the true morals and the purpose of being a true servant of God. Abbe is worth to be called as" servant of God" not because of his religous views but because he was able to see life in the end.
Guy de Maupassant's work is not just a piece of art but a message of art. That when we go against love, we are going against God wanted to prevail. The author uses symbolism in other to tell the true meaning behind the story, and that is the moonlight which signifies love, that such beauty is hidden in the dark. Its like no one will evr see love when we wont look deeper in the heart.
The other Two
Psychoanalytic feminism is another approcah wherein it focuse on the analysis of psycological aspect that relates to women's psychology and lead mean to believe that they are masculine and women are feminine. However, in the story of Edith Warthon ,The other two shows the stereotype of men and women. IN her story its evidently seen that women are stronger and powerful compared to men when it comes to dominating the life of men.
Like in the case of Alice Waythorn, She married three different men wherein our generation today belives that once a woman get married to different men she will be considered as a dirty woman and a decent time had elapsed. However, Mr. Waythorn accepted Alice and can afford to smile at thta situation. In contrast to some other women who get married once, they will not think to marry other men and they would rather choose to be alone while men are free to look for his wife and marry again. But alice is not like other women. She prefered to marry again and again despite of the fact that peolpe amd the society will call her as sex parasite. In fact, she was "as easy as an old shoe. A shoe that too many feet had worn". And her character became the result of tension in to many diffrent directions. She became Alice Haskett, Alice Varick and Alice Waythorn.
Another stereotyping in the story is that "if it were not better to own a third of a wife who knew how to make a man happy that a whole one who had lacked the opportunity to acquire the art". To Mr. Waythorn, it is not anymore a big deal whether he is not the first husband of ALice. In fact for him If you are a third husband then surely the woman knew how to make a man happy. Mr. Waythorn is not like most men and he wished to be the first husband and the first person to share the enjoyment and pleasure together with his wife.
This story is an example to show that women are more dominant compare to men and shows tha women has the capability to change her man once thier marriage failed.
Daffodils
"Daffodils" by William Worthsworth is a poem that collects human emotions inspired by nature that sometimes we neglected because of our busy schedules. Worthsworth uses literary devices in his poem such as personification and similie. in his first line "i wondered lonely as a cloud" he assumes himself to be like a cloud floating in the sky. while in the second line of the poem he says "when all at once i saw a cloud" the cloud possess a characteristics of human being that can look down over the valeys and mountains that can appreciate the beauty of the daffodil.
On the other hand, the second stanza of the poem says "ten thousand saw lat a glance" the author exaggerates that along the margn of the bay theres a ten thousand dafodils. the author also makes use of descriptive images of the lakes, fields, and trees seems like those imgaes will continously praise that beauty of the dafodils and willingly participate the dancing of the flower.
When it comes to the rhyme scheme of the poem its also continues, symbolizing the continuous flow of expression without a pause. the poem "dafodils" remind us about tyhe arrival of the spring season with its color and amazing shape. the dafodils represent joy and happiness of life.
A Poison Tree
The poem entitled " A Poison Tree" by William Blake tackles about a hidden anger that can poison our lives especially if we lack self control. the title of the poem shows contradiction "Poison" means something dangerous and harmful that can cause death while trees symbolizes life because it produces oxygen that brings life to human.
in thefirst stanza the line "i was angry with my friend i told my wrath, my wrath did end" the persona is angry with his friend and once he told all the things why he became angry then everything then everything will be okay. they will find a solution to their problem. he also says "i was angry with my foe, i told it not my wrath did grows" the statement is contradict in we that he mentions in the first and second line. he doesnt tell what bothered him and he just let his wrath grows because he think that if he told it he may react badly. the stanza shows the contradiction between the personas action and his feeling.
in the second stanza of the poem, the persona supply what the tree needs, he take care of the tree, he watered, and sunned it. he let the tree gow and grow until it bear fruits "and it grew both day and night until it bore an apple bright" he tell the process of maintaining by giving water and sun supplies until the tree is growing and bearing a very tempted fruit and how the foe tempted to taste the poisonous fruit. and as expected the foe steal the poisonous fruit from his friend and tasted and died psychologically.
this what happened in the bible when Adam and Eve are tempted to eat the fruit from the tree. it happened because they both dont hve self control from themselves. it also happens to people who suffered the wrath. those are the people who dont have the control to manage their emotions toward people.
