Personification

Canto 1- Virgil-Personification- Virgil is the guide for Dante as he travels through Inferno. Virgil represents those that guide us in this life. People that guide us and help us along our way such as parents, teachers, or religious leaders. Most of the time when we need a guide we usually have a guide who is experienced or has been there before. Virgil is a very wise poet and is experienced. Virgil is there to protect Dante as he goes through the depths of Hell. It can symbolize just how a…

The U.S. Constitution is a vital document to the people of present day America. It is the center point of many argumentative scholars and the secondary topic for awkward situations. It begins with the famous Preamble and the phrase “We the People...”. Although the Constitution had been conceived by the founding fathers of the new nation, its primary goal was to convey, to its citizens, an image of a strong Republic. To replace and surpass the infamous Articles of Confederation and “[ ] form a…

Ralph is the personification of Social equality and the protagonist of the story. He is one of the eldest boys on the island and by default a eligible candidate for the leadership position and a Crouch-holder. He is around the 12 years old, well-built and as per the novel one would have the impression he will grow into a fighter but never to a Mischievous sprite. He symbolizes democracy by the demonstrating qualities of being fair, decent with the other boys, considerate and sensible. As a…

emotions and feelings that made them into someone who was not really there. At the end, the speaker learned that they shouldn’t follow societies rules for being accepted and they became someone who they could live with. The author uses metaphors and personification to portray that people mustn't hesitate to be themselves. The speaker tells people have to be someone that they aren’t ashamed to be. The speaker states, “Judgement is forcing me to change for acceptance”(Kelly 5). The speaker says…

malignity" (1:49) remains one of the most quoted assessments of Iago to this day. Noting that Othello shares a number of features with traditional morality plays, Spivak argues that Iago is best understood as a version of the stock character Vice, a personification of evil with a dangerously privileged relationship with the audience. Building on Wangh's analysis of Iago as a paranoiac motivated by hatred for the wife of the man…

One of the most important symbols in Animal Farm is personification. Personification is used all around on Animal Farm, making all the animals talk and giving them human characteristics. By personifying the animals, Orwell was able to satirize some of the most serious political figures of the era. A well-respected pig, Old Major, like Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, is idealistic about the workers coming together and living a communist lifestyle instead of being satisfied with hard labor that…

routine every day. Working at a job they don’t like, in a town they don’t like, surrounded by people they don’t like. (Epistrophe) We have all seen it, we all know it. Many of us grew up watching this happen to everyone around us. Life is sneaky. (Personification) It tricks you into believing you have all the time in the world; but in reality you don’t. “One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is…

Orwell uses personification to give a deeper meaning to the literary text, bringing inanimate objects to life encouraging us to understand an aspect in a new perspective. For example Old Major, the pig who introduced the idea of freedom and equality to the other animals…

Wilfred Owen was a war poet who enlisted in the British army in 1915 and began writing poetry after meeting Sassoon at the ‘Craiglockhart War hospital in Edinburgh’ (1). Anthem for Doomed Youth was one of the poems which was written with Sassoon’s help; he helped Owen transform his poetry and encouraged him to publish his poetry. In Owens’s preface, he wrote his ‘subject is war, and the pity of war.’(2)Owen presents death in the poem Anthem for Doomed youth by using vivid, strong and bold…

In a seventeenth century Puritan society, the New Englanders practiced a form of theocracy, a system of government where the church and its officials hold the power, but the religious leaders served as role models and upholders of religious law and not as politicians. For that reason, it was very common that life in a Puritan town was full of judgment, repentance, and obedience. Nathaniel Hawthorne examines these ideas and the dynamics of Puritan life in The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne faces…