Darkness

A

100

True or false, The palace in the Red Death symbolizes inescapable death.

True, the palace shows inescapable death because the plague ends up killing Prospero even after he locks the gates to avoid it.

200

What story has the most prominent division of rich and poor?

The Great Gatsby shows this the most because of the transition of social and economic classes from East Egg to the Valley of Ashes.

300

What similarity or connection does The Tell Tale Heart have with The Yellow Wallpaper? Give specific examples.

In the two stories, both narrators become insane because of certain factors in their life. In The Tell Tale Heart, the eye of the old man drives the narrator insane, while in the other story, the wallpaper causes the narrator to go insane.

B

100

What aspect of the man who is killed in the Tell Tale Heart is the cause of his demise?

His eye. This is what drove the narrator insane, and it is why he ended up killing him.

200

What form of darkness does the veil have in The Minister’s Black Veil?

Isolation, because the veil made the reverend strange and different, and this separated him from the rest of the people in the town.

300

Name two major aspects that are present in The Birthmark that lead to the death of his wife. How is it similar to the other readings?

Greed and insanity are two aspects that lead to the death of the narrator's wife. This is similar to The Great Gatsby because everyone who lives in east and west egg are greedy, and they don't give to the working class that lives in the Valley of Ashes.

C

100

True of false, isolation leads to insanity in the yellow wallpaper.

True, the narrator immediately tells the audience that she is suffering from "nervous depression", and that her husband pays little attention to it. This leads to her visions of a woman trapped behind the wallpaper which causes her to go insane.

200

What is the similarity in terms of darkness for both Hawthorne stories? (Minister's Black Veil and The Birthmark)

Due to the fact on how certain characters were presented in the stories (the minister with the veil and the wife with the birthmark), they are not accepted for who they are.

300

Name two ways that The Birthmark and The Great Gatsby connect to each other.

Greed and Death because the narrator in The Birthmark wanted his wife to be perfect, and in Gatsby, the rich didn't give to the poor. Death is another similarity because in both stories, the major characters both die in the end.