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Symbolism, Symbols, and Themes in Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

down and out derelict who calls himself Jenkins. However, his real name as they find out, is Davies. Aston, appearing to have a co...

Overview of 'A House for Mr. Biswas' by V.S. Naipaul

his dealings with those who are not Indian, or his dealings with his children, and in his treatment of his wife. His pride is wo...

Argument in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake

one can tell that the Angels of Heaven are stoic, devoid of emotion, limited, and conformity. Blake, himself, makes an appearance ...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

Gogol's Dead Souls

to be changed. Unfortunately, though technology seems to advance, human relationships and nature does not seem to advance. ...

Religious Themes in the Butterfly Shaped Poem 'Easter Wings' by George Herbert

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

John Guare's Landscape of the Body

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

Comparative Analysis of Lear's The Jumblies and Carroll's Jabberwocky

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Kesey Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...

Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

African American Imagery in the Nineteenth Century

or by those whose paintings are still recalled and researched. It indicates that although some struggles to free African Americans...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Symbolism and Themes in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Stories

an intriguing plot concerning a ministers request to never remove the curious black veil he wears. When he dies, should the congre...

Religious Commentary in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

Poetic Analysis of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'

a world of what might have been is not healthy. Therefore, he is suggesting that when one determines a course of action, that one ...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...

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 and Theme in 'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty

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 ...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Sidonie Colette's 'The Hand'

hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...

Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

and dies. The plane crashes, but Brian manages to survive it by landing the plane in a lake. Brians journey begins. While he is ...

'Calm' by Loma Crozier

pause, heads tilted as if trying to hear someone softly...