Horacio Quiroga Essays

  • Essay On Horacio Quiroga Work

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    Death in Horacio Quiroga work. “No escribas bajo el imperio de la emoción. Déjala morir y evócala luego. Si eres capaz entonces de revivirla tal cual fue, has llegado en arte a la mitad del camino” Horacio Quiroga According to the book Latin American Short Story by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria states that Horacio Quiroga had a very difficult life, his life revolved on death. Quirogas father was killed in a hunting accident and his stepfather committed suicide and if that wasn’t enough his wife

  • Rosemary Jackson's Definition of the Fantastic

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    Throughout Rosemary Jackson's work three significant points could me made about her definition of the fantastic. Jackson writes about the fantastic as a genre or mode, how it should be interpreted by the reader, and more specifically, what it embodies. According to Jackson, because the fantastic is not a literary category it can not be defined as a genre and should therefore be referred to as a mode placed between the marvelous and the uncanny. Referring to the fantastic as a "mode" helps and leans

  • Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano

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    Earth and in the short novella Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, both Bolano and Moya demonstrate implausible situations, horror, and violence throughout their stories. In Last Evenings on Earth, Bolano divides his stories into those that are recollections of a writer’s days or the accounts of a writer named ‘B’. These short stories explore the question of what it means to be an individual devoting one’s life to artistic expression. In Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness, he writes about

  • What Is The Mood Of The Feather Pillow

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    gloomy mood, and recurring symbolism. A great example of Gothic Literature is the poem “The Feather Pillow” written by Horacio Quirgoa. ‘’The Feather Pillow” can be defined as Gothic Literature because it contains a gloomy mood, a Gothic Villain, and recurring symbolism. The “The Feather pillow” by Horacio Quirgoa contains a gloomy mood. Throughout the entirety of the poem Quiroga uses adjectives and diction that contain a pessimistic connotation in order to set forth a gloomy mood. For example, after

  • Gothic Elements Research Paper

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    gothic elements. These elements can be found in the works of countless authors writing such as Horacio Quiroga, Edgar Allen Poe and more recently, Ransom Riggs. Therefore, the works of these authors contain gothic elements that can be related to one another. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs shares similar gothic elements with Edgar Allen Poe’s works The Black Cat, The Raven, and Horacio Quiroga’s work The Feather Pillow. The first work that shares a common gothic element with

  • Theme Of Entrapment

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    themes of violence and entrapment in their works in order to provide an understanding how the characters react and what they are feeling. Novels such as “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Prey” by Richard Matheson, “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner incorporate a message of violence and entrapment. Overall, the authors imply these particular themes in order to bestow a sense of the characters emotions and allow the readers to sympathize for the

  • Entrapment In The Black Cat

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    Many authors use Gothic literature in their common works like “The Black Cat,” written by Edgar Allen Poe, “Prey,” by Richard Matheson, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving, “The Feather Pillow,” by Horacio Quiroga, and “A Rose For Emily,” by William Faulkner. In effort to create a sense of mystery, suspense, and superstition, these authors use these Gothic Elements: Entrapment and Violence. By using these elements, authors illustrate their belief that one should express themselves through

  • House Taken Over By Ishmael Reed, And The Feather Pillow

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    know how to react, worried, stunned, frightened, shocked, I believed I had lost him. Transformation plays a role in the stories, “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar, “Beware: do not read this poem” by Ishmael Reed, and “The Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, because they all scare us in different ways using transformation. In

  • The Devil And Tom Walker Gothic Elements

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    In the “Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, Alicia died by strange means that no one understood. It was later discovered that Alicia was killed by a parasite living in her pillow. The parasite “night after night, ever since Alicia had taken to her bed, it had stealthily applied its mouth… to her temples, sucking gout her blood” (Quiroga 2) and slowly killing her. Within “…five days, in five nights, it had emptied Alicia” (Quiroga 2). In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

  • Gothic Elements Of Gothic Literature

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    other dark and mystical elements that make up Gothic Fiction. There are many great authors who are well known for their dark gothic style such as Edgar Poe, who has written the short story “Fall of the House of Usher” and the “Black Cat,” or Horacio Quiroga who has written “Feather Pillow” and a more recent author, Ransom Riggs who has written Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. These three author’s stories all have gothic elements, such as psychological issues, death and fear that parallel

  • Mrs Peregrines Home For Peculiar Children Literary Analysis

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    its perch on the hill with vacant hunger” (Riggs 116). In the short story, “Feather Pillow” by Horacio Quiroga, a man’s wife passes away through a mysterious death, growing weaker and weaker everyday. After her death, he picks up her pillow and finds “Among the feathers, slowly moving its hairy legs, there was a monstrous animal” which caused her death by drawing blood from her head every single day (Quiroga 2). Although the monster in the “Feather Pillow” is much smaller than the monster in the novel

  • Analysis Of The Night Circus, By Erin Morgenstern

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    Morgenstern, is a novel that contains several gothic elements within its chapters; these include blood, death, and entrapment. The “Masque of Red Death,” by Edgar Allen Poe, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving, and the “Feather Pillow,” by Horacio Quiroga, are more examples of stories that also include a specific unique element within each of their original lores. In fact, within Morgenstern, Poe, Irving, and Quiroga’s gothic pieces, certain gothic elements can be compared and are emphasized: Death

  • Essay On The Motorcycle Diaries

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    Jason Eugene November 15, 2016 SPN 1121 Cultural Project – The Motorcycle Diaries I would like to begin by letting you know that I knew nothing about Ernesto “Che” Guevara I only saw the cool silhouette of a guy with great hair and breaded as a pop cultural icon on t-shirt sported by the supposedly hipsters and Bob Marley lovers. I think the Motorcycle Diaries film did a wonderful job of giving insight to the character of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna in his youth, without any giving up any hint or

  • Theme Of Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado

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    Irony is the contrast of our anticipations and reality, between what is said and what is really meant, between what we expect to happen and what really does happen. In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allan Poe employs dramatic and verbal irony to develop his characters and plot. The reader is aware since the beginning that Montresor hates Fortunato and lures him into the catacombs for revenge. Fortunato’s expectations of tasting the amontillado (wine) are far from the reality of what actually

  • An Analysis Of 'Una Estacion De Amor'

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    is often familiar, basic almost, so as not to take away from the events which occur. In ‘Una Estacion de Amor’, the love between Octavio and Lidia is entirely idealised and too good to be true, pure in a way that one cannot find in the real world. Quiroga uses this immaculacy to then contrast it in the second act with the harsh reality of life which crushes the previously surface level love story which the reader was originally given. He touches frequently on the topic of drug addiction and morphine

  • How Does The Author Create Tension In The Fall Of House Of Usher

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    books that we are uncertain about and unfamiliar with will cause an atmosphere of fear because we aren’t certain how the story will unfold. Several stories show that. Those stories are Where is Here by Joyce Carol Oates, My Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga, Why Some Brains Enjoy Fear by Allegra Ringo, and In the Fall of House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. All of these stories have a few things in common, they all cause uncertainty because the readers aren’t sure about the ending of the stories. A

  • Summary: Prosa Didáctica

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    Charyna Pena Fortuna Spanish 233 Dr. Samuel moody 5 /11/2014 Análisis literarios Género literario: prosa didáctica. Este libro para mi representa mucho por varias razones me encanta la forma en que se expresa el autor y como usas varios elemento literario para de una forma u otra el lector se identifique con este fantástico libro y cual provee varios temas que nos ayudarían a reflexionar mas en nuestra vida personal. Este libro me pareció fascinante porque tuve la oportunidad de leerlo en mi otra

  • Summary: Prosa Didáctica

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    Charyna Pena Fortuna Spanish 233 Dr. Samuel moody 5 /11/2014 Análisis literarios Género literario: prosa didáctica. Este libro para mi representa mucho por varias razones me encanta la forma en que se expresa el autor y como usas varios elemento literario para de una forma u otra el lector se identifique con este fantástico libro y cual provee varios temas que nos ayudarían a reflexionar mas en nuestra vida personal. Este libro me pareció fascinante porque tuve la oportunidad de leerlo en mi otra

  • House Of Usher Change

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    It is a common belief that when a person falls off a cliff, often times they die before they even reach the ground. The driving reasoning behind this idea is the fact that humans naturally fear change. The idea is that someone who falls off a cliff becomes so scared of the changes that will happen to their body when they hit the ground, that the thought alone overloads their body and kills them. The belief may or may not be scientifically sound, however the root that it stems from is a fact that

  • Essay On Autodemolicion

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    Parte 1 1. La autora Alfonsina Storni se presenta con su feminismo indirecto en su ensayo titulado “Autodemolición;” no escribe sus opiniones directamente, los describe sarcásticos, con ironía, y lo opuesto a la realidad. Storni era muy inteligente y sabia mostrar una visión feminista. Esto se ve muchísimo en carta de Sor Juana en la “Carta a Sor Filotea.” En “Autodemolición” hay más ejemplos del uso de la ironía y del sarcasmo. Este ensayo es muy diferente de otras obras anteriores de Storni. “Autodemolición”