Symbolism

Societal Savagery There is an evil, from immoral actions and villainous desires, possessed in all beings. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a complicated and allegorical novel that suggests this theory. When a plane is shot down after being mistaken for a military craft, the school boys that survive the crash are forced to create civilization on an isolated island. With the outside world engulfed in war, two boys, Jack and Ralph, attempt to bring order to the island. This becomes…

Dimmesdale and Hester, to ruin his or her life. However, the sun is able to shine on Pearl, who is even able to capture the sunlight, which reveals how Pearl, symbolizing truth, is able to repel sin and maintain innocence. Hawthorne utilizes this symbolism to reveal that if one is not immersed into society, he or she is able to achieve innocence…

Imagine brutally murdering a friend, all for a useless ritual. Watching someone's life end so slowly can hurt a person’s mental self-being. In the short story, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, the members of a small village witness the morbid events of their annual ritual. Jackson really gives insight of how helpless some Homo sapiens can be at times. Jackson's inspiration was a result of the anger that was inside her about the persecution of the Jews. She uses the ritual to symbolize the…

In chapter 11 of “How to Read Literature Like a Professor,” Foster explains how violence in literature usually means more than just a punch. There are two kinds of violence: character caused violence and authorial violence. Character caused violence is any type of violence in which there is a guilty party. Even if it is not a direct group, there is still someone or something to blame. Shootings, stabbings, drowning, poisonings, bombings, starvation, etc are all examples of character caused…

Hawthorne’s romantic novel, The Scarlet Letter, revolves around the themes of sin and concealment. In this novel, the protagonist Hester bears the scarlet letter, a reminder of her sin in society. However, governor Dimmesdale hides his sin, eventually causing a sense of internal conflict that manifests him. After struggling with his sin, the governor repents, causing both Hester and him to become one with their sins. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses dualities to reveal that society…

The word "modernism", derived from the Latin “modo”, to denote the main direction in the art of bourgeois society, the era of its decline. One more terms to express the same concept are "avant-garde", "avant-garde". The main objective of modernism is : the depth of penetration into the conscious and subconscious human transmission of the memory, perception of the features, including, as in "moments of being" refracted past, present and foreseeing the future. The basic techniques in the work of…

Born in August 22, 1862 in Saint Germain En Laye, France, Claude Debussy was not known for having the greatest beginning to an exciting life. But while his family did not have a lot of money, they were still able to understand his amazing talent with a piano and by the age of 7 he was in Piano lessons. At the age of 10 or 11 Debussy had entered into the Paris Conservatoire, within his time there his instructors and his fellow students were awed by his obvious talent but often found his musical…

Beyond the Socially Acceptable There are many things that can be said about Decadent poetry. It’s central themes are numerous, from aestheticism and beauty for the sake of it, to paganism and the urban, there are a multitude of angles one can take when analysing and interpreting the work of the poets of the fin du siècle. One of those themes is the idea of transgression; going beyond the limits and the law, exploring what is socially acceptable and more importantly what isn’t, and the…

Character cane defined as any person, animal or figures represented in a literary work. There are many types of characters that exist in literature. For example, A Doll's House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. It focus on the difference between women and men during 19 century. There are many major characters play important roles in the play. Nora Helmer is the heroine of the play. She is the wife of Torvald Helmer, and has three children, still a young woman. She is kind, she bought gifts for…

Archetypal Criticism in In the Time of the Butterflies Recurring symbols and themes can be found in just about any form of literature. These archetypes can easily be spotted when using a literary theory. A literary theory is used to analyze and interpret literature. Archetypal Criticism is a literary theory that focuses on common archetypes in literature. Archetypal Criticism claims that certain characters recur in literature, and there are no new stories (Davidson). Archetypal Criticism can be…