Motif

Thesis- Shakespeare uses highlights of “manly” characters throughout a variety of scenes to define the “motif of manhood” as having very different sides at times between being sympathetic and power-hungry. Topic sentence 1- Macbeth’s regret of committing the murder reveals his manhood as sympathetic C- After Macbeth kills Banquo all he felt was guilt. He kept trying to wash the blood off of his hands even though it was already gone. E-“One cried “God bless us” and “Amen” the other/ seen me…

and their actions in this brutal environment. Cross attempts to guide his team through realistic depictions of war experiences, including ambushes, traps, and mental insanity. O’Brien uses the motif of storytelling, and the terrifying feeling of being alone in Vietnam, to bring a story to life. The motif of storytelling plays a large role in the sanity and nature of the characters. All the soldiers have one thing in common and…

Kate Chopin’s motif in The Awakening is demonstrated throughout the novel of 1984. George Orwell’s novel is about a guy named Winston, who pretends to be someone he isn’t on the outside, and questions the government system he lives in, on the inside. In the novel, there was a major tension developing between Winston and the Party. According to Winston, life since the Party’s rule has been lived in fear and hatred. Anything you said out loud and even what you thought in your mind, could be…

expressive features on the human body, the eye has the ability to show fear, happiness, and even sadness. Many writers have used a character’s eyes or their glasses as a way of providing meaning to their overall story. Examples of the use of eyesight as a motif are in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, with the large eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg hung over a city on a billboard, and in Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story Good Country People, where a girl’s glasses are taken off,…

flooding sea of hot air; it seemed as if someone had left a bakery door open”. A line from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A motif is like when someone says describe the text in one word. Authors like to use motifs to help with the theme of the story. In The Martian Chronicles there was three motifs: courage, discovery, and death. Courage was the most prevalent motif throughout the entire book. Courage is doing something even if it frightens someone. All the men from earth had courage.…

and professing his love to Juliet includes other things besides extensive compliments. Through their exchanges, readers can discover a recurring theme of a variety of motifs. Shakespeare uses these motifs which include love and hate, light and dark, and youth and age to develop a central idea of love and family. To start, one motif that is both a recurring theme in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and a central idea is the notion of love and hate. Romeo and Juliet is essentially a love story, so…

In Macbeth the motif blood is used to show a characterization of being fearful and a mood of shock. In Macbeth, the motif blood is used to show a characterization of being fearful. This quote took place after Macbeth killed Duncan and we see Macbeth talking to Lady Macbeth about the crime he had just committied.”I’ll go no more. I am afraid to think what I have done. Look on ‘t I dare not,” (2.2.65). In this quote the motif blood is used to show a characterization of being fearful because…

instances. Throughout the story, Elizabeth Bishop incorporates a variety of literary techniques in order to describe Cato and Emerson’s experiences. She especially focuses on utilizing motifs. Within the comprehension of motifs, other techniques like archetypes and symbolism must be referenced. In literature, motifs are recurring and repeating themes or ideas. Ideas are represented through the use of symbols or images in symbolism. An archetype is a common…

There are many motifs that can be analyzed in ghost literature and folklore, though one that is ever present throughout the beginning of the telling of ghost stories is the motif of the suicide ghost. This ghost manifests after the untimely demise of an individual who takes their own life. This motif is intriguing, because of its complex nature and the fact that this motif persists through time, as it is seen in early ghost stories to the most recent accounts of ghosts. The suicide victim is…

a storyline that makes you feel as if you were with the Joads through the whole story. With many roadblocks to come, you are almost immersed with the same decisions as they were. This story has many motifs, but at first, they aren’t visible, they may take two or more times to find. The first motif that has been found is strength of the family, and it says on page 6 “And the women came out of the houses to stand beside their men – to feel whether this time the men would break.” One thing that I…