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Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

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 Allegory in “Young Goodman Brown”

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

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...

A Symbolism Analysis of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

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

Emily Dickinson's 'I Years Had Been From Home'

clue which would support this idea might be the first few lines where she discusses returning to a previously held thought, idea, ...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

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...

Position Paper on Religious Symbolism in 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

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

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and the Cyclops' Symbolism

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

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

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...

Literary Device of Symbolism

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

Carlos Fuentes' 'The Death of Artemio Cruz'

do this type of disjointed reminisce. The story gives a great illustration of how setting can become as real and subtle a charac...

Symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper

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

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Animal and Bird Symbolism in “A Doll’s House”

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Symbolism: The Lottery, The Necklace, and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

Gospel Of John 7:37-39 Analysis

regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...

Symbolism in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

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, ...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Catherine Mansfield/Miss Brill's Fur

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

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

Tree Symbolism in “A Separate Peace”

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

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

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