What Are The Literary Elements Used In The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

In the short story “The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury tells a story of Mr. Leonard Mead who is alone and isolated in newly innovated world of A.D. 2053. In this futuristic society Mr. Mead is no longer needed as a writer, so he then walks over uneven sidewalks for ten years capturing vivid images of the society he currently lives in which is strongly impacted by technology. Throughout the text, Ray Bradbury uses literary devices such as imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to reveal how societies may be strongly influenced by the new advances of technology.

I’m Ray Bradbury’s excerpt Dandelions Wine, he uses a variety of rhetorical devices to express Douglas’s excitement for the returning of a “magical summer.” Bradbury begins this excerpt with personification that describes the town’s atmosphere at the beginning of the day. In line 2, he starts off by saying, ”the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed.” He uses this rhetorical device to give the readers a feeling of how Douglas views his neighborhood that morning. He then continues with metaphors to further describe that morning.

Bradbury’s use of situational irony helps forge his overall message by making his readers think of how things are compared to how they appear in the novel. He uses simple irony to make the reader think deeper into his meanings. Fireman do not put out fires they start them” (Bradbury). This evidence suggests Montag’s society is completely different than what is normal to us. Next the use of irony can prove how far this dystopian society has gone.

If a government takeover is at hand, what measures would you take to ensure your accustom ways of living are not being imposed by unruly technological means? Is survival possible without conforming to the infringed upon rights of demanding government laws? In the short stories” The Pedestrian¨ by Ray Bradbury and ¨Harrison Bergeron¨ by Kurt Vonnegut, both have effective ideas, but in reality, ¨Harrison Bergeron¨ shows a more proactive approach against conformity.

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe is an eerie short story about the “Red Death”, Poe’s twist on the Black Plague. This plague swept across an unknown kingdom killing many people as it went. There were sharp pain, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. Poe had two main themes for readers to think about. These themes were proven through five main symbols: The ebony clock in the black room, Prince Prospero in the abbey with his friends, the colors of the seven rooms in the abbey, the format of the hallway and rooms and, Prince Prospero running after death through all the rooms.

Bradbury does this in a passage where he writes, ‘He came to a cloverleaf intersection which stood silent where two main highways crossed the town. During the day it was a thunderous surge of cars, the gas stations open, a great great insect rustling and a ceaseless jockeying for position as the scarab-beetles, a faint incense puttering from their exhausts, skimmed homeward to the far directions. But now these highways, too, were like streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance.’ In this passage, Bradbury shows us that during the day, things were really hectic. You can imagine a busy day in the sunlight, with people everywhere. There was ‘a thunderous surge of cars’, businesses open, people out and about getting their tasks done. But at night, it is silent, dark and empty. This was shown when Ray had us imagine the highways as ‘streams in a dry season, all stone and bed and moon radiance.’ Imagery is a really good way for readers to understand the setting because it shows the reader in great detail what the situation looks like. It shows us the details instead of telling us what is

In the short story, “Usher II,” the author, Ray Bradbury, uses allusion to help the reader visualize the setting of the story. The story, Usher II, is about a man, named Stendahl, who had built a mansion filled with parts of Poe’s stories, and a group of people known as the Moral Climates was going to destroy the house because it was filled with imagination. Since they were going to destroy his house, Stendahl had invited everyone who was a part of the Moral Climates to a party and killed every single one of them. The allusions show how the story can be dark and spooky. At first, Bradbury alludes to Poe. In the story, Stendahl says “ Wouldn’t Mr. Poe be delighted,” (Bradbury 1). This set the tone and mood of the story because Poe had written

Ray Bradbury: a poet, essayist, playwright, and short story writer. He has conducted many stories that include themes relating to society and the future of society as he believes it to be. "Marionettes, Inc." and "The Pedestrian" are similar regarding the point of view of both texts. "Marionettes, Inc." is about Braling, a man who aspires to travel and follow his dreams but is restricted because of the chains his wife has linked him to. Braling believes that he has found the solution to this issue by purchasing a marionette to take the place of Braling. As a result, Braling 2, the marionette, has a mind of his own and stands up to Braling 1in a threatening way. The short story, "The Pedestrian" consists of a man, Leonard Mead who enjoys nightly walks by himself. A police officer meets with Mr. Mead and commands Mead to get into the car. Reluctantly, Mead agrees but with no knowledge of where the officer plans to take him. "Marionettes, Inc." and "The Pedestrian" are illustrated in the way that the point of view, the conflict, and the plot structure of the story are similar and are easily comparable.

The name Edgar Allen Poe causes images of murders and sick women who return from the dead to come to mind. Since 1827 his works have been printed and purchased including literary classics such as “The Raven,” “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.” A common theme in almost all of Poe's works is the fear of what they don’t know. In “Masque of the Red Death” he shows the ignorance in people's fear of something as inevitable as death by using symbolism and imagery.

Where there is fright and fear, there is confusion and consequences. In The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, a pestilence, Red Death, is roaming free. Prince Prospero and the other nobles decided to block out the disease by staying in the prince’s palace and have a masquerade ball. No one is allowed in or out, but everyone is struck with terror knowing that death is coming sometime. The short story was crafted with care, so the literary elements contribute to the picture created at the end. Irony and symbolism leave the largest footprint on Poe’s literature, especially The Masque of the Red Death. When the components of symbolism and irony bond together, fiction becomes reality by conveying the message that the amount of money and protection are false impressions when

Irony is another literary element that illustrates Poe’s macabre writing style. One example of ironic foreshadowing is present when Montresor, the narrator of “Cask of Amontillado”, states his family motto,“Nobody attacks me without punishment” (237). The reader learns that he feels another character, Fortunato, has immensely insulted him. While the men were on their way down to the cellar Fortunato is coughing and declares his cough would not kill him. Montresor replies “True - True” as if he knows what would kill Fortunato. These particular lines outline that Montresor may be doing something suspicious if he is leading Fortunato far away from everyone down to where no one would find them. And in the end, Fortunato died out of his greed to taste the Amontillado, as Montresor has planned. Another example of irony is present when Poe writes, “The Masque of the Red Death,” specifically, “precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion.” (1) Similarly, these characters wanted to have it all, and it ultimately leads to their death. In this story, they were dancing with death, and in Poe’s stories, death always wins. An additional similarity between the short stories “The Masque of the Red Death” and “Cask of Amontillado,” is the characters’ names are modeled after good traits lack that trait by dying in the end; this happens to both Fortunato and Prince Prospero.

As they are travelling, walking along through the city, the walking itself is in fact a metaphor for the narrator's persistence. They are never walking alone at a brisk pace, or doing more than walking. They simply continue to walk, avoiding stopping by things or events around them. This shows that the narrator has a grudging persistence about maintaining their depressed mindset: If they bothered to stop and look around and attempt to interact with the world, they would not maintain the same monotonous mindset. By just continuing to walk, they are allowing their bad mindset to persist. I know from personal experience that just stopping to look at things, and trying to take in the world a little more, can make a positive difference. The continued walking signifies the narrator’s unwillingness to break out of their negative mindset. As they are walking however, it is always dark, and the darkness signifies their depression. If they were to stop and take in the world around them, the world they were walking though would not remain as dark as it has been. The darkness of the world is due to the narrator’s choice of time, and is a clear attempt to isolate themselves visually from the rest of the world. Furthermore, as the narrator is walking around the city, everything that is described is far away. The narrator's inability to get close to anything they are describing is a metaphor for their loneliness, the fact that they always feel so separated from everything around them. This, in turn with the walking and darkness, is the way that the narrator helps keep their mantle of depression in

Although Edgar Allan Poe wrote his short stories to entertain his readers, he also believed it was necessary for the writer to encourage the reader to think on different level about the human being in society. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the powered protagonist Prince Prospero tries to escape the plague without changing his lifestyle. Through Prospero’s actions Poe teaches that human beings think they can escape the power of death and that people have a responsibility for those who are less fortunate than they themselves.

Figures of speech such as irony are used by Poe to create his style. In "Masque of the Red Death" it states, "No pestilence had ever been so fatal or so hideous. (…) The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courteirs might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. (…) There were buffoons, there were improvisatori,

The setting symbolizes the main character’s feelings. The mood of the setting seems quiet and desolated and bumped out on the empty road (p. 2, l. 12) the road is empty like the main character’s feelings – he feels oblivious to anything hadn’t wanted much of anything, really (p. 2, l. 15) It is like nature is ‘on his side’. When he is out with his son and has just successfully crossed the river he feels good and halfway across, with the hot smell of the pines coming from the shore and the sun strong on his face, he knew he’d made it out the other side. (p. 3, l. 66-68) it is like the weather and setting is good when the main character is feeling good and successful. Particularly the rain has a big role in the short story and is mentioned many times throughout the short story, and it also has a symbolic meaning. In the yard of the house he used to live in with his ex-wife or ex-girlfriend the grass is beaten down by the rain. It could be a symbol of him being beaten down by the break-up with her, or his feelings towards her. And when he is on the trip with his son and he goes out to pee When he crawled out of the tent in the middle of the night to pee, the rain had stopped and he could see stars through the missing places in the roof. (p. 4, l. 80-82) it is like the rain has cleared up for him, or cleared up like him. He and his son would be friends. Nothing mattered more. (p. 3, l. 70-71) is shows that when he is with his son he feels good.