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example, include architectural features that are symbolic of the "holy mountain, the sacred cave and the cosmic axis" (Moffett, Fa...

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

Although various cultures and religions have practiced veiling at various points in history, the contemporary practice of veiling ...

poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...

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

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

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "A Subaltern's Love Song" by Betjeman. Symbols of post-colonial significance are de...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...

This essay focuses on the symbolic meaning of the journey as it pertains to "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty and "I Used to Live Her...

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 ...

This is the function of a shawabti, but does it really describe the way in which one was lovingly carved, placed, or the perspecti...

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

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

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...

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...

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

be a Bride --/ So late a Dowerless Girl -" (Dickinson 2-3). This indicates that she has nothing to offer, that she is a poor woman...

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

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

reside," with the house representative or symbolic of the society as a whole (Goloversic). If we picture the house as society we ...

"too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers" (Shelley NA). In this we see the slow develo...

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

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

all of its aspects. This also ties in with the idea that they are traveling to the city of Canterbury to be redeemed. Here, the po...

At the same time, however, it reflects a twinge of sadness with Allens passing and the importance it played in his life year after...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...