Connotation

people, like the Wilsons, who are forced to live and work in the Valley, inhabit a sort of living death, they are zombie-like people who are chasing the American Dream, all of its residents desperately want to leave but cannot. ‘Ashes’ also carries connotations of regret and humiliation; Tom Buchannan humiliates George Wilson both physically and verbally, while his wife despises him for his poverty. The first confrontation between George and Tom shows the attitudes the rich (Tom Buchannan) have…

select word choice and highlights his theme with motifs to add depth to the book. Birds are present after tragic events to almost lighten the mood and downplay the event. The word choice after these events are positive and do not have negative connotations. Tralfamadorians view the world a lot differently than humans and view time as a constant "range of rocky mountains". Kurt Vonnegut uses Tralfamadorians to give the reader a different perspective on events that take place. Mood and atmosphere…

In the recent times, the amount of asylum seekers coming to Australia has drastically increased due to the poor living conditions in their specific homeland. Asylum seekers are people who are fleeing from their home country to get away from the human rights issues they are currently facing; Thanks to the popularity, it has become a very controversial topic in the media. The daily Telegraph's opinion piece (March 18th, 2010) 'A fair go for refugees is a fair go for all Australians,' states that…

partners and that it changes her for the better. However, when Millay could not have it, she missed it to a point of mourning. Duhamel furthered this statement by outright establishing that women want sex too and then feels bad about it because men’s connotations surrounding sex! In an interview with Smartish Pace conducted by Karla Huston, Duhamel stated, “I am very interested in reclaiming women’s sexual experience. Women are so often perceived as objects, sex symbols, and I am interested in…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

suggests that it is based on sorcery and the supernatural, things generally considered lesser or more basic than the moral philosophy which characterizes western religion. Moreover, “devils,” “witches” and to some degree “elves” carry a negative connotation, implying that African religion possesses evil and destructive elements. This idea of African religion as venerating evil is further reinforced by the phrase “Evil to be propitiated,” which suggests that African religion looks to achieve and…

By virtue of being the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto occupies a prime place in the Gothic literary pantheon. However, interest in Otranto has predominantly been informed by its primary position in the Gothic canon, and discussions of Walpole’s text are usually subsumed into a broader analysis of the Gothic genre. This is unsurprising given how expansive the genre has become, including famous works of literature, like Jane Eyre, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber and branching off into…

American individuals (Seller 1998). For example, when an individual is surrounded by discriminatory and racial attitudes, they affiliate the race of that individual with a negative connotation, which can cause African Americans to become inadvertently racist towards those people (Seller 1998). This subconscious connotation is unhealthy, because they become prejudice against other racial groups that just reminds them of how nasty individuals can…

precedent as a new type of ‘Gay TV,’ one that foresees an evolution to an even larger scale acceptance of homosexuality. Although it maintains some of the stereotypes of gay men, such as musicality and style choice, it breaks down many of the negative connotations and even relates some of them to the struggles of straight people. Specifically, the relationship between Kurt and Finn is a bond that introduced a new dynamic for gay and straight friends on television. When all of these aspects are…

One instance of this technique is used in “A Fountain, a House of Stone” by Herberto Padilla, in which the world is symbolizing Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba. In this poem, the world is described in a negative connotation throughout. “Can we describe the world this way,/...nailing us down with its eyes,/hunting down in our innards” (Padilla 308). The personification used by Padilla amplifies the anger and the quality of the symbolism in the poem. In “Man on the…