How is darkness used in the same way by both authors?
A. It represents people who want to hurt the other characters.
B. It hints at the dangers the night might bring.
C. It suggests that the characters are lonely.
D. It shows that the night will bring a new beginning.
⚠️ A. (It represents people who want to hurt the other characters.) is incorrect!
Here is the excerpt:
Read the excerpts from Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. Use the archetypes chart to answer the question.
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
On the other side he looked down into a deep mountain glen, wild, lonely, and shagged, the bottom filled with fragments from the impending cliffs, and scarcely lighted by the reflected rays of the setting sun. For some time Rip lay musing on this scene; evening was gradually advancing; the mountains began to throw their long blue shadows over the valleys; he saw that it would be dark long before he could reach the village, and he heaved a heavy sigh when he thought of encountering the terrors of Dame Van Winkle.
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The ceiling of [the princess’s] nursery was blue, with stars in it, as like the sky as they could make it. But I doubt if ever she saw the real sky with the stars in it, for a reason which I had better mention at once. . . .
. . . According to the legend, however, instead of going to some other country, they had all taken refuge in the subterranean caverns, whence they never came out but at night, and then seldom showed themselves in any numbers, and never to many people at once. It was only in the least frequented and most difficult parts of the mountains that they were said to gather even at night in the open air. . . . In the process of time they had got a king, and a government of their own, whose chief business, beyond their own simple affairs, was to devise trouble for their neighbors. It will now be pretty evident why the little princess had never seen the sky at night. They were much too afraid of the goblins to let her out of the house then, even in company with ever so many attendants.