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Symbolism In Hopkin's "The Windhover"
Number of Words: 318 / Number of Pages: 2
... the symbol of the windhover gives way to the figure of Christ.
Yet Christ is not symbolized through traditional symbols, but in clay and
coal. In this Christ is shown to be a component of a physical or material
world.
The flame from the windhover indicates self-sacrifice under stress.
It is interesting that Hopkins puts AND in capitals and the resulting flame
is described as a billion times lovelier than the windhovers image. Maybe
the AND expresses the poets surprise that the spendor of self-sacrifice
should be greater than the windhovers ability to stand still in the air. At
the end of the ...
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Symbolism In The Old Man And T
Number of Words: 1380 / Number of Pages: 6
... follow him to his death and then go out and preach his ways. He believes in the old man and takes charge and tells all the other fisherman to stay away from Santiago after his return. He would take care of the old man when he said to him “Keep warm old man. Remember we are in September.” Manolin only wanted good things for Santiago, he did not want anyone to hurt him or put him down for his accomplishments. He wants to learn from the old man and to listen to what he had to say about him as a young man or of Joe DiMaggio.
Joe DiMaggio represents many things to the old man. Santiag ...
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Conflicting Directions Of The
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... of free will, conflicting with her other direction of oppression.
When Edna felt dissatisfied with the life she is given, she pursues other ways in which to live more fully. She attempts painting and enters into an affair with another man. As her desire for freedom grows, she moves out of her husband’s house and tries to live life as she sees fit. She lives a life reflecting her new philosophies towards life, philosophies that are in conflict with that of society. The oppression by man caused Edna to have a social awakening, illuminating the meaning of the novel.
In “The Awakening,” the conflictin ...
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Okonkwo: Overwhelmed By His Past
Number of Words: 1755 / Number of Pages: 7
... eventually develops to be his ultimate goal in life. As time progresses, he becomes obsessed with the concept of being different from his father, beginning his life having nothing.
With a father like Unoka, Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had. . . . But in spite of these disadvantages, he had begun even in his father’s lifetime to lay the foundations of a prosperous future. It was slow and painful. But he threw himself into it life one possessed. And indeed he was possessed by the fear of his father’s contemptible life and shameful death. (18)
Okonkwo will try whatever h ...
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Lord Of The Flies: The 13th Chapter
Number of Words: 437 / Number of Pages: 2
... was nothing
left to watch.
After a few days at sea the kids and officers land on an island.
As soon as they land on the island Jack and his "group" get together and
tie up the officers with vines on the local trees. This is Ralph's worst
nightmare come true. After they are done Jack tells Ralph, "either your
part of the group or your an outsider and that my group will hunt you for
the rest of your life." Ralph is thinking that this is great because they
will forget everything that ever happened on the first island. He decides
to join there group. For the rest of their lives they lived on that ...
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The Glass Menagerie
Number of Words: 563 / Number of Pages: 3
... scenes, Tom actually leaves the stage and walks up and down the aisle of the theatre. No matter how unconventional his action, it was very effective. That action brought the play to the audience and made the audience feel as if they were active members of the play. Given the fact that the play has the confining effect of a small St. Louis apartment, it makes the audience feel as if they are in the apartment.
Another fact that makes Tom Wingfield stick out in this production is that it is a memory play. This by nature makes Tom the center of the play. It is also a point in the play that ties the ...
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Milton Vs Pope
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... motive, Goddess! Could compel/a well-bred Lord to assault a gentle Belle? / O say what stanger cause, yet unexplored, /could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?” (Pope, ll. 7-10). This is an allusion to Adam’s rejection of Eve in Paradise Lost when he laments, “ ‘Out of my sight, thou serpent!’ ” and to Eve’s crime against God (Milton, Bk. X, l. 867). The motives of Sir Plume’s actions are now seen as similar to that of Adam and Eve’s and it sets up the crime against Clarissa as one that could not be avoided.
While Clarissa seems to be visited in ...
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Comparative Analysis: Cinderella And Snow White
Number of Words: 1186 / Number of Pages: 5
... her and never complained. Snow White mirrored this behavior when she was rescued by the seven dwarfs. They told her to cook, clean, do odds and ends around the house, and other busy-work as in "Cinderella." Behaving just as her counterpart, Snow White complied without protest of any sort, becoming the domesticated servant of the dwarfs' abode (Grimm 3).
The two critics of "Cinderella" also agree that Cinderella was degraded by being slandered by her sisters, mistreated by her parental figure, and forced to sleep near and in the hearth of the chimney. Again, this seems to be a paradigm for Snow ...
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Investigating The Style And Te
Number of Words: 1771 / Number of Pages: 7
... subconsciously to express the thoughts of the mind in a continually flowing way without the constraints of the traditional rules of writing. Kerouac stated that when writing using this method one must “never afterthink to improve or defray impressions” because “the best writing is always wrung-out”, “tossed from cradle”, from “the song of yourself.” Text written in this
original way effectively conveys the emotion and energy of the author as well as allowing the reader to empathise greatly with the story. “On the Road” is written entirely ...
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Attitudes Toward Marriage In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Number of Words: 1438 / Number of Pages: 6
... both with regards to Alison. Still, Alison does
what she wants, she takes Nicholas because she wants to, just as she
ignores Absalon because she wants to. Lines 3290-5 of the Miller's Tale
show Alison's blatant disrespect for her marriage to "Old John" and her
planned deceit:
That she hir love hym graunted atte laste,
And swoor hir ooth, by seint Thomas of Kent
That she wol been at his comandement,
Whan that she may hir leyser wel espie.
"Myn housbonde is so ful of jalousie
That but ye wayte wel and been privee..."
On the contrary, Alison's husband loved her more than his own life,
alt ...
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