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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...

'Helen Todd My Birth Name' by Sandra McPherson Explicated

beyond the obvious. Characteristically reminiscent of the very essence of the authors literary interpretation, the poem reflects ...

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...

Pinckney Benedict's Town Smokes and Symbolism

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Hans Memling's The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

young woman in the same green gown as we see on the woman to the right of the Madonna. In the door panel, her hair is loose about...

'Snake' by D.H. Lawrence

In nine pages the metaphor and symbolism in the poem 'Snake' are discussed as well as the author's life and the perceptions of him...

African Art and Symbolism

of the symbols of a culture if we have not been born into it, or lived within it for a long time. However we may say that, modern...

Poetic Analysis of 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell

ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...

'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...

'Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Snow Queen' by Hans Christian Andersen

The psychological symbolism that exists in each story is examined in seven pages to explain why there are psychologically unsatisf...

Literary Analysis of 'Miss Brill' by Katherine Mansfield

In 3 pages theme, tone, and symbolism are analyzed within the context of Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Miss Brill.' There ar...

Uses of Symbolism in Dante's Inferno Cantos XXXII, XXXIII, and XXXIV

In 5 pages these cantos are analyzed in terms of Dante's use of symbolism with ice a particular focus of consideration. There are...

'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination is examined within the context of this poem by Walt Whitman in five pages with imagery a...

Richard Wright's Native Son

In ten pages this novel is analyzed in a consideration of aesthetics, strengths, weaknesses, development of character, and the aut...

Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus Painting by Salvador Dali

In five pages this paper discusses how symbolism is used in this otherwise conventional portrayal of Christopher Columbus's discov...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

In 7 pages the 1984 novel by Milan Kundera is analyzed in an examination of techniques such as the tone of dream like surrealism a...

'Mockingbirds' of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Scout is also a "mockingbird" and, as she is the narrator, the novel itself becomes her song. Throughout the novel, Lee brings out...

The Seventh Seal and Cinematic Symbolism of Director Ingmar Bergman

In five pages this paper analyzes the symbolism Ingmar Bergman employed for existentialist effect in his 1957 film The Seventh Sea...

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 ...

The Open Boat vs. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

injured while enjoying an African hunting adventure with his wife, Helen. The primary theme is death, and how man often puts off ...

Transportation and Speed in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In 5 pages this paper examines these motifs and the symbolism they represent in this 1955 novel by Jack Kerouac. There are no oth...

Symbolism in 'Birches' by Robert Frost

In two pages this paper discusses the implications of the imagery and symbolism featured in the poem 'Birches' by Robert Frost. T...

Hurt and 'Home Burial' by Robert Frost

In three pages this poetic narrative by Robert Frost is analyzed in terms of burial and tree planting motifs, other symbolism, the...

My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover/Browning

development of the discourse from a singular perspective leaves no room for consideration of the feelings or response of other cha...

Comparing the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

the nightingale makes him oblivious to the influences of the outside world, he can then focus solely on the peacefulness and beaut...

Birds and Their Symbolic Meaning in the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Yeats

In six pages this paper considers the significance of bird symbolism in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Colerid...

Critical Analysis of 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1791, he was exposed to radical "democratic" beliefs which diverted him from his studies (Hill 3). He left Cambridge in 1794 with...

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge II

In five pages this paper discusses symbolism and structure as it relates to this famous poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Five sou...

On Walden Pond by Ralph Waldo Emerson

to get rid of material goods as they do not matter. He uses a simile when he says "Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage...

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,...