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Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. Happy, of course, is a chip off the old block, confined into his narrow a...

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

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

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...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

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, ...

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

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

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

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

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

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 ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...

idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...

her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...

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

function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...

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...