DEATH BY SCRABBLE ANALYSIS

THE ANALYSIS OF THE STORY I analyze this story by using formalism approach, which is concentrated to the intrinsic elements only, ignoring all the extrinsic elements, including the author’s biography. We consider that the story is a good piece of art both in form and meaning. That is why we decide to use a formalism approach.

On the other hand, the story is told in allegory. An allegory (from Greek: αλλος, allos, "other", and αγορευειν, agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal.

It is a form of extended metaphor, in which the objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.

Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of mimetic, or representative art.

Furthermore, the story is also irony. It is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what a speaker or a writer says and what he or she means, or is generally understood.

There is some argument about what is or is not ironic, but all the different senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant; or between an understanding of reality, or an expectation of a reality, and what actually happens.

Irony can be funny, but it does not have to be. It results when there is a disjunction between what an audience would expect and what really happens.