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Symbolism in Two War Novels

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 ...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

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...

Symbolism in Faulkner and Mansfield and an Analysis of Poetry

(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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

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...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

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...

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 ...

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 [...

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...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

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...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Susan Glaspell: "Trifles"

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

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...

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, ...

Issues in Morrison's The Bluest Eye

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Dali and Bosch

daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...

Symbolism and Allegory in “Young Goodman Brown”

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

David Pinter's The Dumb Waiter and Symbolism

1/3 that is white. Another symbol that involves Gus is the window. Gus is always asking questions and seeking something ne...

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...