magic and the world of supernatural the tell tale heart the blue bouquet literature short stories...
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Done by:Muzna AL HootiLujaina AL Gammari
Contents
The arguments1
Warm-up information2
The Tell Tale Heart3
The Blue Bouquet4
5 Exercise
1. Does magic exist?
2. Does magic and supernatural world affect on us?
3. Can we reach our aims by using paranormal activities?
Magic is the art of producing a desired effect or resultthough the use of incantation, ceremony, ritual, thecasting of spells or various other techniques thatassure human control of supernatural agencies or theforces of nature.
• It is viewed with suspicion by the wider community and is
commonly practiced in isolation an secrecy.
Traditional perspective
• View 1: magic is a result of a universal sympathy within the universe.
• View 2: it is a collaboration with spirits who cause the effect.
Modern perspective
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magic
What tale does the heart tell?
Summary of the story
The narrator is living with an old man. He claimsthat he is not crazy but acute and he has nothingbad with the old man, yet he wants to kill himbecause of his eyes. After he kills him, he cannotstop listening to the heart beats of the old man, sohe admits to the police that he killed him. All theseprove his insanity not acuteness.
Overview
Obsession story using the first person narrator
Controversy
Setting
The apparent settingThe hidden setting
Characters
The apparent charactersThe hidden meaning
What we can’t understand is that the narrator insists that he loves the old man,
has no personal animosity toward him, does not want his money, and has not been
injured by him. Instead he says he wants to !!!!eyeskill him because of his
The old man’s eyes
1. The idea of time
2. The identification of the narrator with the old man
Literary qualities
Mysterious Killing without motivationUsing the core as a clue
To understand the meaning of the eye:
title
I = eye
To defeat time ,destroy the self
By Octavio Paz
Summary of the story
An Ordinary Man went for a walk at night .
After a while, a shadow appeared behind him
A strange sound told the man that he wants his blue eyes to give them to his girlfriend
The man told the stranger , he doesn’t
own blue eyes
The stranger started checking the man’s
eyes to make sure that his eyes are blue
The stranger assured that the man’s eyes are BROWN
The Stranger disappear and the
man stood confused and frightened
The Story shows the extent of idiocy and cruelty that senseless love and passion can sometimes entail
Theme
Symbolis
m “The night was a garden of eyes” : Referring to the stars
Characte
rsThe Man and the stranger.
SettingA small Mexican village
Foreshadowi
ngThe owner says "Hmm- everything's closed. And no streetlights around here. You'd better stay put.“ foreshadows that something bad is going to happen
ByWalter de la Mare