Hearing imagery
The sense of hearing is depicted when the narrator reflects on his past. For instance, the narrator says, "Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made a remark which I had often heard before; it is, indeed, almost a motto of the modern world. Yet I had heard it once too often, and I saw suddenly that there was nothing in it.”
Sight Imagery
Sight imagery is evident when the reader describes the philosophy of sanity and the intellectual journey. The narrator writes, “Let us begin, then, with the mad-house; from this evil and fantastic inn let us set forth on our intellectual journey. Now, if we are to glance at the philosophy of sanity, the first thing to do in the matter is to blot out one big and common mistake.”
The imagery of the land of science
Chesterton tactically uses sight imagery to take his readers into the land of science and describes how the law is applied. Chesterton says, “In fairyland, we avoid the word "law"; but in the land of science, they are singularly fond of it. Thus they will call some interesting conjecture about how forgotten folks pronounced the alphabet Grimm's Law. But Grimm's Law is far less intellectual than Grimm's Fairy Tales.”
Riddle of religion
The trouble of humanity in comprehending the riddle of religion is explained using imagery. The narrator says, “The sages, it is often said, can see no answer to the riddle of religion. But the trouble with our sages is not that they cannot see the answer; they cannot even see the riddle. They are like children so stupid as to notice nothing paradoxical in the playful assertion that a door is not a door.”
