The Man with the Golden Arm

Colors can reveal how someone is feeling and are an important factor in literature. Often, authors hide deeper meanings and themes in the colors they choose to use. In F. Scott Fitzgerald`s jazz age novel “The Great Gatsby”, he tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby who desires to marry a girl named Daisy Buchanan. It tells of Jay`s struggles to win Daisy`s heart from her husband and overcome the social class barrier. Throughout the story, color symbolism plays an essential role. At the…

referred to is unknown. It could be any country.However, it could be the country where the poet was living in back then. We also learn that our speaker is an old man who feels like he does not belong there anymore and feels alone. The poem draws this romantic image in the minds of the readers. “In one another's arms, birds in the trees”…

people say Superman is the first superhero but I would say Beowulf an Anglo-Saxon hero who shows so many traits of a superhero. Some people opinion is that Beowulf was the first superhero. Beowulf was made around 1000 AD, nine hundred years before the golden age of superheroes. In the poem, Beowulf shows valor throughout the poem by fighting Grendel, Grendel’s Mother and the dragon when no one else did. Beowulf swam in the darkest waters to fight monsters like Grendel’s Mother. Despite old age…

Now, that I have referenced some history of medieval times, armor, and heraldry; we can now look at some Arthurian stories of the Sir Gawain character and try to piece what his heraldry symbol or coat of arms might look like. I would like to start with the description of the Sir Gawain character in the Pearl Poet’s poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , as it is one of the easiest to interpret what Sir Gawain’s armor looks like and what his heraldic symbol is. This poem was written in the late…

the roles women played in the “golden period” magnify the complexity of roles of women or how that is portrayed. Interpretation of the Quran by the scholars and the feminist interpretation of Mernissi regarding the role of women are completely contradicting the equality of sexes. This misinterpretation comes along when the question of “women going to the war” regard women as plunderers. Another…

the gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image : that of the sailor in the tarot deck from which the man in black had dealt the gunslingers own moaning future. He drowns Gunslinger the man in black was saying, and no one throws out the line. The boy jake ,But this was no nightmare This was a classic act by the man in black to trick Roland into believing jake was back from the dead and was seeking his revenge for his death. Marten transforms jake into a…

The daguerreotype, titled as “Postmortem portrait: man and woman holding deceased baby” is dated 1840-1860 (photographer unidentified, Harvard University visual information access.) It’s a daguerreotype of a couple with their dead baby. The frame seems to be made of wood or leather but it’s unclear since it is worn-out but the inner frame of golden color looks like a honeycomb. There are spots at some place of daguerreotype making it unclear. The shape of the picture is semi-circle from the…

rise and fall of Beowulf In the epic poem Beowulf, a hero emerges after the passing away of another. An epic hero must undergo a dangerous journey and faces an enemy that threatens a nation or tribe. Beowulf is the Norse epic saga of good vs. evil and man vs. monster. The famous warrior battles invaders, monsters, and a fire-breathing dragon. This story of Beowulf is one of the oldest in the English language and is what society views as an epic hero. The Anglo-Saxons believed that a hero was…

All she can do is run-right into the arms of her brother, one who has most likely already encountered a close to home death. When Laura tries to speak, to explain, "It was marvellous. But Lauri-" she is unable articulate how she feels, but no matter; Laurie like all who have experienced death understood, she needn't even try. He held his sister while she wept in his arms, no need for words, just the comforting arms of someone who understands that there are indeed no words to…

Often when reading we can interpret certain events or well described objects as symbols. Symbols within literature all have meanings. As readers we must important make connections and inferences to uncover these meanings. One of the most sought after novels in American literature The Great Gatsby is famous for its use of symbols through color. The Great Gatsby written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald is a story of the illusions that success portrays. Based within the decade of the “Roaring Twenties”, it…