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Essays 631 - 660
a book. In many ways the symbolism may be seen as separate from the story, yet when it is added to the context in which it is read...
era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...
In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...
first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and in Fitzgeralds 1934 novel, Tender is the Night remain stellar examples of the realist g...
In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...
anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...
presenting us with a violent and angry man who cannot be all good because he cannot see truth nor can he forgive. The father pr...
fulfills his part of the social bargain, which is to "give to young and old all that God has given him." Grendel who is describ...
of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...
he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...
his best friend for lunch, and they have a wonderful meal, the food is great, the conversation witty, and life is good. This youn...
the environment and is torn by the pollution that has almost destroyed Lancaster. On top of it all, he doesnt understand his pare...
are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...
We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...
and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...
asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...
an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...
closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...
natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...
the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...
cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
/ 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...
women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...