Allegory

Nathaniel Hawthorne can be considered one of the most important writers of the Dark Romanticism movement in American literature. Most of his writings were settled in the Puritan New England and, as a result, aimed to show the inherent evil existing inside of the Puritans and human beings (Bell 107-8). “Young Goodman Brown” is one of these tales in which the protagonist starts a trip to the forest where we are shown this evil and depravity inside human beings. Although Brown feels how he loses…

Simon and Piggy, are killed by the other boys. Their deaths serve to represent not only the dominance of males in society but also the rejection of typically feminine characteristics – reason, diplomacy and sensitivity. Although clearly an allegory for human nature in its entirety, Lord of the Flies also represents a world without adult intervention and the tenets of social responsibility that come with maturity make way for the baser aspects of free-will. Burgess also examines the…

The allegory, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a fictional novel about a plane crash on an island without any adults. The setting of the book is an island; “the shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or declined against the light and their green feathers were 100 feet up in the air.” And that the is,and is hot and tropical; “here and there, little breezes crept over the water beneath a haze of heat”. There are three main conflicts in this novel, they are a conflict with nature,…

The allegories I have chosen are The Furies, or the Erinyes. The Furies are ministers of Hades. They follow his orders, or go off on their own to punish crimes that juries and judges can not. Punishments likely mean torture, physical and mental. There are three Furies, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto. Each one presides over a certain offense. Tisiphone presides over sins caused over hatred and anger. Megaera presides over sins crated with envy, and Alecto deals with crimes from lust and ambition.…

belief that man is generally good, innocent, and meant to be pious and God-fearing. Of course not everyone agreed with this sentiment, and soon followed the subgenre of Dark Romanticism. The two are similar in that their stories are often moral allegories, but the morals and their meanings differ greatly. Dark romanticism paints man as inherently evil, constantly walking the path of corruption (though many times unintentionally). Young Goodman Brown is a textbook example of a dark romantic…

With the help of the staff Brown continues on his dark journey. The staff could represent Brown’s already loss of innocence because it could be an allegory of the reenactment of the story of Eve, where she loses her innocence from taking the forbidden apple and he loses his innocence from the staff. The Devil’s staff could have been the reason of the altar scene occurring, the devil is shown offering…

What’s your biggest fear? Spiders? Heights? In Lord of the Flies a novel written by William Golding a group of boys crash land on an island and have to learn how to survive or die. Fear of a so-called beast who dwells on the island ends up corrupting the boys. It ends up destroying the utopian look of the island. This highlights the dystopian theme. Throughout the book the author uses many literary elements to give the novel an allegorical side. Some of the literary elements he uses are irony,…

corpse-like mask” (296) are the only tangible proof of the Red Death’s supernatural, gothic existence” (Fear and Symbolic Imagery in Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” Guercio 77). As stated the masked man is no normal person but, is, in fact, an allegory for the Grim Reaper or an angel of death. The masked man who had slithered into the masquerade ball is shown to bear a resemblance to the Grim Reaper and thus enforces the statement that even with all the money in the world you cannot escape…

The conch alongside the beast have a crucial impact to Piggy and Jack, and to the events that occur throughout the entire span of this allegory novel; without them, the story will not be as effective with the representation of the main theme: civilization vs savagery. These two symbolic objects show us the conflict between the two competing forces that exist within all human beings. The beast provokes fear to erupt onto the island which later foreshadows to several animalistic behaviors,…

Hawthorne, he must also be seen to be a critic of the teachings of Puritanism” (Connolly 311). He then started to begin a style of romance fiction which came from his own beliefs. He used themes such as psychology and human nature through his work of allegory and symbolism. During Hawthorne’s time, which was the 19th century, this was a common type of work. Since he was writing in the 19th century, there was not advanced technology like there is today, therefore, Hawthorne had to give lengthy…