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Steinbeck's use of archetypes and symbols in The Pearl In Steinbeck’s The Pearl, archetypes and symbols are used to develop the theme of striving for the American dream. Corruption of wealth, greed, and fate all lead to the development of this theme. Steinbeck also uses correct historical representations of that time which greater represent the theme of the American dream. The American dream can be described as innovative and industrialized to create happiness. During the 19th century…

Throughout the play, Tom has been wanting to escape from home and be away from the family. Laura is a shy girl, and her mother, Amanda, has been seeking for a gentleman caller for her, but doesn’t work because she’s fragile like glass. Because each symbol in the story shows what they represent, it includes the feelings and their actions. Furthermore, the glass menagerie symbolizes Laura as a transparent glass. When light is shined on the glass,…

William Faulkner. The most effective literary element in this short story was the symbolism that Faulkner used. The symbols that Faulkner used made it very clear that time has a major impact on life in many different ways. These symbols and how clearly they represented time’s effects on life were what made “A Rose For Emily” such an effective short story. The first effective symbol is Emily’s house. In most fiction, old family houses are typically symbolic of something. In “A Rose For Emily”…

Symbols could be a person, place, or thing that can have different representation and meanings depending on how it is referred to. In the The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, contains vast amounts of symbols that when first read can be taken in the literal sense but have different meanings that Fitzgerald wants to get across. Important symbols in the novel that play an important part to the characters are the green light that Gatsby sees and Doctor T. J. Eckleburg’s eyes. First, the novel…

The reader can relate to this cat’s name because, in general, people have an identity they keep themselves and a side they don’t want others to see. Therefore one can agree on Eliot’s representation of these multiple personalities because one holds different personalities that rely on where they are and who they are with. The poem, “The Hollow Men” uses many different examples of symbolism. Eliot speaks of “death's other kingdom” (line 16) and “death's dream kingdom” (line 32). The “dream…

that moments before being hit, Piggy was trying to talk sense into the members of Jack’s tribe, using the conch as symbolic leverage for his “right” to speak. In this sense, when the boulder is released by Roger, a member of the tribe, it became a symbol for the tribe’s defiant savagery that sought to eliminate the previously established order. As the conch is destroyed, it marks a very important turning point, as it…

5. An effective symbol that appears in the story “A House for Us” by Etidal Osman is the lead-colored marble that the narrator and Rami fight over, which symbolizes the religious and territorial conflicts between their nations. The two children are friends that like to play marbles together. Every time they play, the narrator gets the green ones, Rami gets the blue ones, and they argue over the single lead marble. In the end, the narrator ends up giving the marble to Rami because he says he…

Tennessee William incorporates many different symbols into his play, The Glass Menagerie. The symbols cover the breadth of the play and bring about a new meaning to details that are mentioned. A glass unicorn and blue roses are connected to the character Laura Wingfield, and a fire escape relates to the whole Wingfield family. Laura’s unicorn represents her uniqueness. As Laura’s character is developed throughout the play, it is made clear that she has always been different from others…

Beginning with the title “The Natural”, Roy Hobbs was born with a natural talent of being one of the greatest players in baseball history. Roy symbolizes the title of the book as a natural baseball player. There are many levels of the symbolism represented in this book. The bird’s, colors, names, and objects, can all represent another meaning. The Wonderboy bat is first introduced in the book in the first chapter named Pregame. The Wonderboy bat has two symbolic meanings in the book. The…

The symbols in the giver and in the Truman show has similarities but more differences than they do similarities. In the giver some of the symbols are the apple which means knowledge and they also have the sled which means freedom in the giver. Although some things in the Truman show that are different symbols than in how giver that are the plane or the light that fell meaning where he was was fake. In both the giver and the Truman show red meant love and feeling while water meant death and…