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The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Vanishing Point Film and Existentialism

on the Today show, but most will die before that time. The speedometer on the car can indeed represent life and how or why one can...

Mockingbird Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

seem to represent the mocking bird are the threats of hatred, prejudice and ignorance. Innocent people such as Tom Robinson and Bo...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

Symbolism Analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks' 'The Life of Lincoln'

In three pages this paper analyzes the symbolism of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem 'The Life of Lincoln.' One source is cited in the bibl...

John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea and Symbolism

humanity. They represent this relationship and offer us a very humble and simple setting from which to examine the unfolding saga....

Women in The House of Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca

give it up once Agustias is married. Poncia warns Bernarda that the women are going crazy being locked up as they are and that she...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Swamp Angel by Wilson and Symbolism

would be important to the scheme of things and the fact that she does make the transition herself--no one is dragging her nor does...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Uses of Symbolism Throughout 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

Death Themes in Othello by William Shakespeare

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...

Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

Catherine Mansfield/Miss Brill's Fur

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

Gospel Of John 7:37-39 Analysis

regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...

Susan Glaspell: "Trifles"

"fundamental difference" as well in the actions of the men and women, a difference "grounded in varying understandings of the home...

Symbolism in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...

Religious Symbolism in Hurston’s “Sweat”

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

The Eyes of Dr. Eckleburg

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

Tree Symbolism in “A Separate Peace”

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

Public Cemeteries

as an aspect of the sacred in secular life, this discussion will indicate how sociologists feel that the concept of the sacred fun...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

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 ...

Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...

Animal and Bird Symbolism in “A Doll’s House”

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

Symbolism: The Lottery, The Necklace, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

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...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

Symbolism in Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...