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    Dickens. A Christmas Carol is a Christmas ghost story with many interesting themes. The theme featured in this article is choices. It is mainly shown through the symbolism of the chains on Jacob Marley’s ghost and the bell tolls. This article will show how the symbolization of chains and bell tolls lead to the overall theme of choices. For instance, Jacob Marley was Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner and he had died seven years before this story took place. Seven years after he died Ebenezer…

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    exactly what the protagonist deals with before he makes up his mind in the short story “Yellow” by Peter Carty. The following content is an investigation in the narrative point of view which has a useful effect on how information of the protagonist is delivered. Furthermore, the symbolic features are examined with focus on how they create pictures and depth to the story. Lastly, the essay will explore…

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    example, women were not able to have their independence from others. In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, Louise Mallard, a heart trouble woman feels the freedom she will soon have when she becomes informed about her husband’s death. Kate Chopin uses the fiction elements of plot, symbolism, and setting to illustrate the theme of Freedom in “The Story of an Hour.” Chopin’s plot is much unexpected. In the beginning of the story, the readers…

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    Narratological devices are thoroughly utilized by authors of short stories to give their work a profound meaning. These devices spawn the reader to delve into the mindset of the narrator and to relate significant items within the story to the principal events. Time, theme, motif, and symbolism are examples of narratological devices that aid the development and the read of the story. In the short story "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin employs these narratological devices as method of…

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    how powerless women were compared to men during the late eighteen hundreds in her short story entitled, “ The Story Of An Hour “. At the beginning of the story the main character, Mrs. Louise Mallard has a heart condition. Due to her illness , her sister Josephine and her husband's friend Richards has the hard task to tell Louise that her husband Brently Mallard has died in a train wreck. During this first hour Mrs. Mallard experiences the sorrow of her husband's death and the loneliness she…

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    followed the sickness. During this time, people channeled their fears into their artwork, literature, and music. Edgar Allan Poe, a nineteenth-century writer, had many of the women in his life die and, as a result, wrote many short stories and poems with gloomy tones. His short story “The Masque of the Red Death” is a tale of nobles who strive to hide from those infected with bubonic plague and escape the death that succeeds it. In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allan Poe illustrates man’s…

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    Throughout the story, his crimes bring more tension between him and the readers. Suspense is created by the narrator’s every move, leaving readers hanging on the edge of their seats. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Poe builds suspense by using symbolism, inner thinking, and revealing details to the reader that a character doesn’t know about. To begin, Edgar Allan Poe uses symbolism in…

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    expected that allegories were a big aspect of fiction, as well as their plot lines. I always thought that an allegory was basically just another word for symbolism, but referenced to the past. I didn’t realize that there was more to it. What I have learned about reading this entire semester, is that allegories are not just a tool for symbolism;but are capable to express the thought and ideas of many authors over major controversies, such as women’s suffrage, or civil rights. Authors utilise…

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    is about two men waiting in vain for someone called Godot. b- The zoo story(1958) : is a one act play about a two young men Jerry and Peter, who meet each other in a central park ending up their meeting with a murder. II.Practical Part: The zoo story (1958) by Edward Albee 1-Title: a- Many critics consider the title of the play and observe that Jerry never tells the story of the zoo . b- The zoo story title embodies a story about how the modern life appears in a landscape where humans are…

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    “The Lottery”, is a story chalk full of symbolism. Jackson uses symbolism to help her point out to the readers that humans are not completely innocent, no matter how innocent one may think of themself to be, or how innocent the world around them looks to be. “The Lottery” is very effective in making the reader question why tradition is so important. Jackson uses “The Lottery” to convey her hatred of humans hiding behind tradition and old habits to do evil. In writing this story, she shows how…

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