Symbolism

William Shakespeare, George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad compare and contrast different ideas to help bring together his or her thoughts. Light versus dark, Denmark and Norway, Memory and the Past, are examples how an author may compare and contrast situations that may be important to the meaning and understanding of their novels. Besides those meanings, corruption is also a very important theme within these novels too. It shows and explains that a certain act can happen in real life. The three…

The story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story containing shocking realism. On June 27th all the villagers will come together to participate in a huge lottery run by Mr.Summers who hosts all big civic events that go on in town. Each man will pick a slip of paper from a black wooden box and cannot open the slip of paper until each man has one.The name of whom has been selected is Bill Hutchinson. After his name has been called out his wife Tessie instantly starts to protest. Since…

Have you ever noticed similarities in stories you've read? That’s because they all use the same sort of techniques to portray their topic. For example, My Life as a Bat (Story One), by Margaret Atwood, Hope for Animals (Story Two), by Jane Goodall, and An Astronomers Poem (Story Three), by Walt Whitman; are put together in a specific way to make you understand their theme. All three stories are similar in how their text is structured and their tone, but differ in their use of language. They…

In the novel Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, he uses many different tools to help tell this story. This novel is about a young Mexican woman who sets out to the United States to bring back men to save their village from the bandidos, and to find her father who set out looking for work years ago. He eventually just stopped writing or sending money. Urrea has a great understanding of each side of the border since he was born in Mexico to an American mother and Mexican father. At a…

that saturated the Symbolist art movement at the turn of the century, as witnessed in the melancholic works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edvard Munch (Arnason & Mansfield, 2016, p. 137). Symbolism (1880-1910) followed the philosophy that behind the physical world lay a spiritual reality (theartstory.org, 2016). Symbolism gives great emphasis on the use of emotion, feelings and subjective thought rather than that of realistic thought. Symbolistic artists produce works that are personal and express…

In her short story, The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin makes it ambiguous as to how Louise Mallard truly feels in regards to the news of her husband’s passing. Chopin’s use of progressively positive language leads many to believe that Louise Mallard is actually delighted to hear that she is now a widow, rather than being anguished like any person would after the death of a loved one. As Louise Mallard comes to terms with her husband’s alleged death, she repetitively “whispers under her breath”…

Suzanne Collins employs several literary devices to further clarify the themes in Catching Fire. Collins depends on motifs such as food , media and surveillance ,secrets and traps as well as symbolism, foreshadowing and allegory to further link the events together . In a literary work, a motif is" an image, sound, action or other figures that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the development of theme" ("Motif"). Suzanne Collins uses several motifs to assist in the…

Concept: The cinemagraph medium showed me how you can take an original image and alter its meaning by putting emphasis on a specific moving element. I decided to go with the theme of “life” in my cinemagraphs. In particular, the movement and flow of life which is the main focus between these cinemagraphs. After choosing my theme I began to research videos that would reflect the idea of movement of life. I found that a good representation of this would be with the usage of water and environmental…

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” an unnamed man and his husky riskily travel through the Yukon area in bitter, cold temperatures with the hope of reaching a camp (and his friends) by the evening. The man faces the consequences of frostbite in the process of traveling in such harsh conditions. He builds a few fires to keep warm, and to battle freezing off his fingers and toes, but soon his own conscience drives him crazy. When it becomes impossible for the man to construct a fire with his…

Epic of Gilgamesh: The Imagery Within Imagery greatly influences readers’ understanding of literary works. Instead of the pages of a book containing just words, they contain a mental picture within those words. Imagery is the color of the story. “The Battle with Humbaba”, an excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh, is one such colorful story. Within the epic, the depictions of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Humbaba are unveiled by imagery. In “The Battle with Humbaba”, Gilgamesh, the main hero of the epic,…