Mood Analysis in The Raven

The Raven 

          Grief, it's an emotion people go through when experiencing loss. There are 5 stages of grief. 1st stage is denial/isolation. 2nd stage is anger. 3rd is Bargaining. 4th is Depression and finally the 5th stage is acceptance. Everybody goes through these stages differently, in their own pace. But do you know anybody who goes through these stages all at once? To express the central idea of mourning over a loss, Edgar Allen Poe uses mood in one of his famous works in the poetry genre section The Raven. The Raven is a poem about the narrator struggling over the 5th stage over the loss of his beloved, Lenore. A raven appears and the narrator is convinced that the raven was sent from the underworld to taunt him, to take fancy in his misery or to deliver his soul.

          

The BlackFish Argument

Rhetoric Appeals

          To be honest, all 3 appeals helped in convincing me that SeaWorld has it's dark secrets and effect innocents in doing so. In pathos appeal, when the orca's families are just crying out to their babies from across the net, that really got to me. Knowing that the orcas could've swam away when they got their chance, they actually stayed knowing that they won't ever see the babies again. Another example of pathos is when one of the mother orca at SeaWorld is using this long distance call to her daughter who had just been taken away from her. Pathos made me feel something but Ethos and Logos Appeal really made the director's argument stronger. Ethos used actual former SeaWorld trainers and also people who were victims of orca attacks or at least people related to them. To show both sides of the situation, the director also showed somewhat SeaWorld's perspective through a current employee. What really got to me in the Logos Appeal are the current trainers at SeaWorld LYING about the orca's lifespan and dorsal fins. Just lying to the people, covering up tragedies, blaming trainers instead of the animals, actual police reports and former trainer's experience and basically just being shady, that's all reason enough for me to believe that SeaWorld isn't what we thought it would be. The author isn't only targeting SeaWorld though. He or She is against owning a wild animals because unlike domestic animals, they're really unpredictable so you never know what might happen, they belong in the wild.

Theme Analysis in The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado

           Symbolism is a art used to represent something. For an example an owl may represent wisdom. Edgar Allen Poe, the author of The Cask of Amontillado used this technique along with a twist of irony to foreshadow events. Sneaky, talented little writer R.I.P. This story is about a man named Montresor who lives by his family's motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit" which means no one attacks me with impunity. Because Montresor was insulted by another man named Fortunado, he sought out revenge and it was well planned out. In the beginning of the story, a carnival was taking place. Fortunado dressed as a jester; jesters often play the fools in stories. Whereas Montresor was dressed in all black matched with a mask and cape. The color black itself frequently represents something ominous. Throughout the story, Edgar Allen Poe left symbolism clues for us to pick up on, like when Montresor handed Fortunado a wine bottle that was sitting by a skull, or when Montresor pulled a trowel from beneath his roquelaire.