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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...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

/ 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...