Introduction
Before starting to write the composition, each writer thinks about the context. The author can choose any genre, any topic for his work, but the most meaningful choice is the approach. Someone can give in to tender feelings and write about beauty or an emotional story. Someone can argue convincingly and rely only on scientific data and logical conclusions. Even Aristotle wrote about the three ways of persuasion ethos, pathos, and logos.
The ethos is responsible for trusting the writer, the pathos for emotions, and the logos for logic and the voice of reason. Often, writers have the tension of facade about which side to choose, so some give preference to both feelings and rationality. The situation with the writing of works between logic and emotions contradiction occurred with Edgar Allan Poe in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and the line ‘A rose by any other word would smell as sweet’ from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet.”
Analysis of the Usage of Feelings and Logic in the Literature Works
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
In his short story, Poe covers the side of the senses and the rigor of the mind. The author describes the murder of an old man by the narrator of the story. The plot is quite simple but unusual because a person kills a man because of his vulture eye (Poe 8). The work includes feelings of conscience and emotions that torment the hero, but on the other hand, the author clearly and ruthlessly describes the murder. Firstly, after the death of the old man, the beating of the victim’s heart begins to pursue the killer (Poe 10). The author has included some symbols and literary devices in his work. One of them is a metaphor about the vulture eye can mean a secret that connects the heroes. The eye is a kind of motif because the story unfolds around it.
Another metaphor is the combination of the heart and the clock that beat in the head of the hero. He precisely planned his crime like a clock, the time pulsed with him, and the beating of man’s heart was like a clock. Secondly, Poe is considered one of the best in the field of short stories. Therefore, he writes without details and does not use the names, and descriptions of the characters. The author is very minimalistic, so his text seems to follow a specific and clear plan. Consequently, the work “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe can be considered stretched between the feelings and the rigor of the mind.
“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde
The play “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde is a comedic work that combines emotion and seriousness. First, the plot consists of the two selfish brothers that are wooing two girls. However, to make an impression, they decided to call themselves Earnest. It is important to note that Earnest is a literary pun because the word implies not only the name but also the meaning of “seriousness” in the title. Nevertheless, the author used a large number of epigrams and paradoxes when describing Lady Bracknell. Epithets and metaphors, comparison, hyperbole, litotes, irony, and many other elements demonstrate the sharpness and brightness of the author’s word.
Since the play has a style of comedy, the audience and readers can not immediately understand the hidden meaning. Therefore, the disclosure of important and serious topics opens up another “logical” side of the work. For example, the author uses real events and places, so the name Mr. Earnest Worthing hides the existing city in England (Wilde 3). The author also raises topics of the nineteenth century, such as bourgeois society, capitalist exploitation, the destruction of art, attitudes to marriage, female emancipation, bigotry, and even vulgarity. To conclude, the author raises the current problems of society and mixes them with the feelings of the characters in the play “The Importance of Being Earnest.”
The Line ‘A rose by any other word would smell as sweet’ from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”
The line ‘A rose by any other word would smell as sweet’ from the romantic play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare combines the emotional and a logical backside of the story. On the one hand, the author describes through Juliet her love for Romeo, despite his name or origin. She compares it to a rose because even if the rose had a different name, characters would still love it and its smell (Shakespeare 41). This line has a metaphor for the rose that symbolizes the name of Romeo.
However, on the other hand, Shakespeare raises the moral values of the Renaissance. The author encourages people to think about the enmity between the clans, which may not be significant. Therefore, the rest of the family should not suffer because of the actions of the previous generation. Hence, Romeo and Juliet go against parental and social rules. Consequently, the line ‘A rose by any other word would smell as sweet’ from William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is not only a touching romantic quote but also a logically rigid line.
Conclusion
To conclude, sometimes writers are guided not only by feelings, emotions, and concepts of beauty but by a strict mind, logic, and science. These directions help to make not only entertaining sense but also describe the serious problems of society. Therefore, such writers as Edgar Allan Poe with “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Oscar Wilde with “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and the line ‘A rose by any other word would smell as sweet’ from William Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet” write in both approaches.
Works Cited
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, Drew and Scammell, 1843, pp. 6-10.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Thomas Creede, 1599.
Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. Penguin Group, 1985.