SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Great Expectations Symbolism and Realism

Essays 751 - 780

Tsitsi Dangarembga's 'Nervous Conditions'

In a paper that is consists of 5 pages the African American woman Timbu is chronicled through parallels, symbolism, themes, and st...

'Barbie Q' by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this essay discusses how symbolism within this narrative reveals how the author feels about stereotypes, infidelity,...

Water Natural Symbolism in The Seaside Houses and Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever

In seven pages the power of the water symbolism employed by John Cheever in these two literary works is analyzed. There are no ot...

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and its Themes

faded by the slow-turning sunlight" (Gilman PG). Obviously, the wallpaper is not soothing and so the wallpaper, its color, and its...

Themes and Symbolism in 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Washington Irving's 'Rip Van Winkle'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

The Short Story 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...

An Analysis of Bridging by Marge Piercy

A 5 page analysis of symbolism and structure in this interesting poem. An exploration of inner conflict, fluctuation and inconsis...

Dave Saunders in 'The Man Who Was Almost A Man' by Richard Wright

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

Uses of Symbolism in 'Livvie,' 'A Worn Path, and 'Young Goodman Brown'

This trio of narratives and their uses of symbolism are analyzed in 5 pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil' and Symbolism

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Musical and Libretto Contributions of Wolfgang Mozart's The Magic Flute

chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...

Artwork of Egypt's Rishi Coffins

vulture and the cobra frequently are found on both royal and private mummiform coffins from this period. This era of transition m...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

In ten pages this paper discusses the various theories presented by Sigmund Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams including intern...

Male and Female Character Relationships in Mozart's The Magic Flute

In five pages this paper discusses the libretto symbolism and the characters' complicated interrelationships in this opera by Wolf...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and White Elephant Symbolism

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

Influences of Nature and Biography in the Works of Emily Dickinson

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

Analysis of Symbolism in the Short Story 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

Innovative Use of Symbolism by Playwright Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...