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Symbolism and Imagery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

Literature and Characterization

fears, and in doing so leaves behind his childhood and begins the journey toward young adulthood. One of the earliest devices ...

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)....

Robert Frost's Poetry and Symbolism

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

Analysis of Symbolism in The Sound of a Voice by David Henry Hwang and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Although the animals have taken the stance that "Four legs good, two legs bad" and managed to defend the farm against an attempt b...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Symbolism and Characterization in Katherine Mansfield's Miss Brill

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

Gogol's Dead Souls

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

Set Design for the Play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

seek guidance from an oracle. When he returns he tells the King that the murderer of Laius (the previous King) must be brought to ...

William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' Sonnet 127

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

A Critique of Harriet Jacob's Novel, Incidents From the Life of a Slave Girl.

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

Nikita Mikhalkov's 1993 Film Burnt by the Sun

risen from humble origins, to be transformed by Socialism into the man that Stalin should have been, but was not (Stone, 2002). He...

Literary Analysis of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

length on the hard bricks"(Baum). This line from Baums book indicates that Baum has some particular point to make when he chooses...

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...

Four Poems by Sesshu Foster

the title. The alliteration between "caffeinated" and "concrete" emphasizes the rolling rhythm of the line. The reference to caffe...

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 ...

Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Symbolism

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...

Symbolism of Man and Nature in Willa Cather's O Pioneers

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

Body, Gender, and the Discourses of Mexico, Islam, and Hinduism

of both a man and a woman. These are considered to be pure beings made of Divine Consciousness which can be whatever they need t...

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 (...

Interpreting 'Sailing to Byzantium' by William Butler Yeats

of life in our worldly form, of the power of the many mystical forces of our universe, and the concepts of reincarnation and life ...

Symbolism of the Coyote in The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

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

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...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and Symbolism

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

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

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

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Symbolism

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

Settings and Symbolic Meaning in Stephen Crane's 'The Blue Hotel,' O. Henry's 'After 20 Years,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...