Category: Symbolism
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Symbolism in “The Egg” and “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”
One of the most effective learning approaches is through fictional and real-life narratives. Short stories have been used in the history of humanity to offer studying materials that allow students to connect emotionally with the texts and relate them with their experiences. The Egg and Bernice Bobs Her Hair are examples of narrations that attract…
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Symbolism in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is the story about a person, who made himself imprisoned in his office. The main theme of the essay is to show the life of most people in New York from the point of view of capitalism which took its development during the time when the story was written. The…
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Symbolism in The Lottery Story by Shirley Jackson
The Lottery was written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and contains many notable themes. It has an exciting plot that, simultaneously, can cause a contradictable sense of averse for the events that take place. It might be rational to suggest that The Lottery is significant and relevant to discuss. The reflections below will explore the…
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Symbolism in Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”
The Masque of the Red Death is a horror story by E. A. Poe that talks about Prince Prospero and his masquerade ball during the Red Death plague spreading. The disease symbolizes Tuberculosis, an illness common during the writer’s lifetime (Jones, 2017). In the film, it is possible to see the resemblance between the fictional…
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Symbolism of Raymond Carver’s “The Bath” Story
The story of The Bath by Raymond Carver is short. It begins with a woman, Ann Weiss, ordering a cake from a baker on a Saturday afternoon for her son’s eighth birthday. On Monday morning, when the boy was walking to school, a car hit him. The husband arrives at the hospital, where the wife…
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Symbolism in Coetzee’s “Disgrace”
Table of Contents Introduction Summary Lord Byron Animals Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Symbolism is often used in fiction to describe pressing but controversial issues. Through subtle comparisons and allegories, authors can connect simple objects and situations to more complex problems. The novel Disgrace, written by Coetzee in 1999, uses a number of symbols to strengthen…
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Symbolism in “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Marquez
Symbolism is often employed in literature to represent, signify, and express ideas and qualities that differ from their literal sense in real life. As a literary device, symbolism can assume various forms by using abstract ideas to give an object a more vivid and deeper meaning by the use of symbols. It has become a…
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Symbolism in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night
In Eugene O’Neill’s play “Long Day’s Journey into Night”, the playwright presents the inner workings of a dysfunctional family long before the term dysfunctional became a buzzword of American psychology. The play, written in 1941 but not performed until 1957, is set in 1912 in the predominantly Irish Connecticut home of the Tyrones. It is…
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The Symbolism of Blood in Barn Burning by William Faulkner
It is generally agreed that different symbols tend to be used as the way of the author’s ideas’ interpretation. In case of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, blood might be one of the metaphors which is reclaimed as a reference for either genetic relationships or committed crimes and their consequences. That is one of the points of…
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Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby
Table of Contents Introduction The symbol of Green Light Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The novel Great Gatsby depicts the unique vision of the American dream and its impact on life of a person during the 1920s. The mystery of which Fitzgerald wrote the novel was based on mystery of the American ideal and romantic love.…