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were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

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

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

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...

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 ...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

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...

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

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

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, ...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

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...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

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

tying themselves to the underside of Polyphemus flock" (Stories from the Stars). Though the cyclops checked the sheep, "he didnt d...

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

Dee struggles mentally to understand the world in which she has never truly fit. These mental struggles take a number of manifest...

again from the red eiderdown!" (Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as ...