Motif

and Jack. The author explores the idea that physical confinement is not the only form of imprisonment. Donoghue relates to wider ideas of imprisonment, such as the responsibilities of motherhood, social expectations and mentality. Characterization, motif, symbolism, theme, narrative perspective, imagery, and allusion are all manipulated effectively within the text to explore different forms of imprisonment. The views shown relate to current society, thus allowing readers to interpret Donoghues…

Constructing deep themes through the unionization several highly polar concepts, Aeschylus portrays the mythical border between piety and anthropocentrism while elucidating the dim line between blood and water. Most religious or spiritual people share a universal belief in a relationship - or a covenant - between humanity and the divine, yet they struggle to understand the barrier between the two. Structural analysis of Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy illuminates the distinctions between humans and…

In my diary entry, I chose to write a letter from Biff to Willy. These are the characters of the Death of a Salesman by the author, Arthur Miller. I did this to show how Biff felt about his’s and his father’s belief. From what I have read in the play, it seems to me that Biff was living in an unhappy and unsuitable life in New York. As the author states in the book, Biff had tried to do whatever he can to please his dad, not because he was interested in the job. It seemed possible to me to put…

Medea by Euripides) share some common similarities including prophecy, tragic flaws, and death. These three similarities occur in all the plays, and they are closely related to each other, meaning, one leading into the next. All these similarities are motifs and can be seen throughout the plays. The first similarity the plays have in common is their use of prophecies. Prophecies foreshadow events that will happen later in the play, and almost one hundred percent of the time, prophecies come…

Love and hate have seemingly battled each other since the dawn of humanity. But which one prevails in the end? In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses parallelism between symbols and characters, along with fulfilling of the rosebush motif to portray that stoicism can outlast both love and hate. Hawthorne employed three different symbols throughout The Scarlet Letter: a rosebush, iron, and wood. This clever repetition acts as a double-edged blade within the story. In the first chapter,…

Boggs’s family. A universal theme developed by Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, is that a person’s differences make them unique in their own ways; this theme is supported by the juxtaposition of Edward’s costume to the neighborhood and the motif of the scissors. The juxtaposition…

high social status of the family. Therefore, women who are eager to weave and motifs are woven into the cloth Pua it will reflect the social position of this…

sequences of the world tree as it relates to the fall of man in Genesis, the Mayan creation story, and the circular symbolism in the film will be explored. The world tree motif is used to underscore the film’s message that it is necessary for man to accept the natural laws of life and death in order to achieve wholeness. The world tree motif is first presented in the film through a quote from Genesis detailing the fall of man and the sin of immortality, laying the foundation to interpret a…

The Lamentation of Christ in a Cartouche with Flowers is framed within a cartouche which has a garland of flowers draped around the it and image. The scene of actual lamentation is in the center of the painting depicting a group of cherubs removing the shroud from the body of Christ revealing it the Virgin Mary, who is wearing blue and red drapery with a grey vail. Mary clutches her heart, which has been allegorically pierced by a sword as cherubs look upon her and the body of Christ each…

back-and-forth conversation with Polonius. Well rehearsed and clever, his quips do seem more soaked in meaning as they are punctuated with childish faces and mocking imitations- as a young adult might if they were feigning purposeful madness. A motif more emphasized in this incarnation…