Hawthorne & Poe On Dreams
How do authors use the idea of dreaming to make us think about what’s real?
Hawthorne used the idea of dreaming to make the readers think twice about what they believe is real or not by describing a character’s behaviour and how it would change drastically because dreams that we have causes us to double think of what we’re seeing is reality or not.
Poe tells us readers how the author points out everything he has experienced has been a Dream, everything from a bittersweet departure to standing near the ocean and reflecting on oneself is all simply a dream. In the line “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream,” and I believe that this supposedly refers to the idea that everything we would and have experience(d) in our lives isn’t what it seems.
Both authors seemed to have delivered the message that not everything is what it seems through providing a scene or line that contains a hallucination or a dream.
Hawthorne used the idea of dreaming to make the readers think twice about what they believe is real or not by describing a character’s behaviour and how it would change drastically because dreams that we have causes us to double think of what we’re seeing is reality or not.
Poe tells us readers how the author points out everything he has experienced has been a Dream, everything from a bittersweet departure to standing near the ocean and reflecting on oneself is all simply a dream. In the line “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream,” and I believe that this supposedly refers to the idea that everything we would and have experience(d) in our lives isn’t what it seems.
Both authors seemed to have delivered the message that not everything is what it seems through providing a scene or line that contains a hallucination or a dream.
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