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An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's, Jacob's Room

death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...

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...

Imagery as Used in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

level to something much deeper. The trick in appreciating Dickens use of symbolism is to figure out what his images mean. And wha...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

Imagery and Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

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

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...

Robert Frost's The Road not Taken: Oral Presentation

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...

Battle Royal in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

Of Mice and Men/Symbolism

55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...

Sylvia Plath's 'Above the Oxbow'

is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

A Synopsis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's, Love in the Time of Cholera

This paper provides a synopsis and overview of Marquez's classic novel, Love in the Time of Cholera. The author notes Marquez's u...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Analysis of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and William Shakespeare's King Lear Act I

In five pages there are four questions answered in an analysis of how metaphor and imagery are employed in these two literary work...

Medieval Poem 'I Sing of a Maiden'

next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Literary Tools in Jack London's Short Stories

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Symbolism and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

conscious mind. * _ The kinds of wishes that are fulfilled in dreams and why they are forbidden in consciousness. * _ Dreams and d...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Significance of Poison

that he will do anything to avenge his death and bring the now King Claudius to justice. He understands that it will not be easy ...

Water and Taoism

Appreciating the goodness of life in all senses -- mentally, physically, spiritually -- is what Taoism strives to achieve. These ...