Essays 241 - 270
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...
people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...
he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...
day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...
saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...
hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...
does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...
"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...
complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...
1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...
Color One author suggests that "It was to be expected that as primitive man developed the weaving art, the introduction of ...
idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...