SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literary Device of Symbolism

Essays 781 - 810

Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Social Symbolism

In seven pages this research paper discusses how social symbols including class identities, consumption, housing, and speech are i...

Water Symbolism in The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

everything has been parched almost to nonexistence. The stanza closes with a line from a German translation of Tristan and Isolde,...

Fantasy Literature for Children and Spiritual and Christian Symbolism

In seven pages George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are compared ...

Howard's End and the Symbolism of Materialism and Culture

two major forces, the forces of practical and intellectual, may also be interpreted as the forces of reality and aspiration or of ...

Symbolism of the Statue of Liberty

to Louis Napoleon. By the time it was completed, however, Napoleon was gone and France was a republic. The statue "came to mean ...

Flannery O'Connor's Works and the Symbolism of Stairs

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...

Symbolism in I Saw the Sky Catch Fire by T. Obinkaram Echewa

PG). Often present is the guilt and depravity that each and every person hides behind the invisible mask where their true charact...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Symbolism of Tita's Blanket in the Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

This paper examines what Tita's blanket symbolizes in Laura Esquirel's novel Like Water for Chocolate and in its cinematic adaptat...

Narrator's Possessions' Symbolism in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In two pages this paper assesses the symbolic value of th narrator's possessions in the briefcase. There are no other sources lis...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and the Cyclops' Symbolism

tying themselves to the underside of Polyphemus flock" (Stories from the Stars). Though the cyclops checked the sheep, "he didnt d...

Symbolism of Man and Nature in Willa Cather's O Pioneers

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

Uses of Symbolism in 'Collage of Echoes' by Isabella Gardner and 'The Canonization' by John Donne

is typically associated with the imagery of male strength and the dove, that of female purity. According to the metaphysical belie...

Feminism and Symbolism in Shelly's Frankenstein

a whole has revolted against. The primary perpetrator of this situation in Mary Shellys "Frankenstein" could be identified as Dr....

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Protagonist Symbolism

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...

Water Symbolism in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

Zeena's Symbolism in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...

Symbolism of Darkness and Light in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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...

The Symbolism of Heorot Hall in the Poem Beowulf

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...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

Element Symbolism in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

dissects both the outer meaning of the object and what that object is meant to determine in a deeper sense; and how those objects ...

Dante's Purgatory Symbolism

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the Purgatorio section of The Divine Comedy in an analysis of Dante Alighieri's use of symb...

Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

In five pages this paper analyzes how loss, endurance, and religion are symbolically portrayed in this Ernest Hemingway novella. ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Symbolism of the Olive Tree

In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Lightning Symbolism

more thoroughly. By considering what lightning means in the novel of Frankenstein, and observing how it is used and in what prete...

The Symbolism of Rain in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms

A 5 page exploration of Hemmingway's utilization of natural elements as symbols for human emotion. The universal themes of sorrow...

"A Subaltern's Love Song" - Post-Colonial Symbolism

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

The Symbolism of the Veil in Muslim Culture

Although various cultures and religions have practiced veiling at various points in history, the contemporary practice of veiling ...