28 Results for Symbols and Symbolism

Symbolic Logic People use science and mathematics everyday when they make decisions through reasoning. This is known as logic. The definition of logic as in Webster's dictionary is a science that deals with principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration, the science of ...
Of what symbolic value is the California desert? I think California desert symbolize "psalm 23" even though I walk through the valley shadow of death I shall fear no evil for thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. In California desert people hardly survive because of the heat but the ...
The specific passage that I chose contains plenty of symbolism with colors. The passage clearly uses colors to symbolize new, old and transitions through out it. the In the first line Nick describes how the area is empty and everything around is "inessential". Here he describes everything...
"Ironies in Trifles""Trifles is a very interesting play to read. There are many symbols in the play, written by Susan Glaspell. Four particular ones come to mind when I think of "Trifles".The overall play was about a woman driven to kill her husband. One of the symbols is the way she kills him. Mrs....
Charles Lindbergh was the perhaps the greatest hero of the 1920's and was a symbol of the exploration and risk-taking of the era. Lindbergh's claim to fame was doing something that many had tried and failed. Seeking a $25,000 prize offered by Franco-American philanthropist Raymond B. Orteig of New Y...
Anselm Kiefer Kiefer was born in 1945 and was raised in postwar Germany he was greatly affected by the atmosphere and his paintings reflect his attitudes and feelings towards his country's history. Some of his works also spring from his interest into general history, mythology, philosophy, o...
Thorium, symbol Th, is a radioactive metal like element with a atomic number of 90. It is part of the actnide series of the periodic table. Thorium was discovered in 1828 by Baron Jons Jakob Berzelius, a Swedish chemist.Its is ranked 39 in quantites of elements in the earths crust. Thorium is dark, ...
September 11, 2001 was marked as a somber day for the United States and for civilized society around the world. The World Trade Center (Twin Towers) were symbols of economic power in the whole world. Consequently it impacted many people's and companie's financial situation.The destruction of those ...
Calpurnia acts like she's the mother of Scout and Jem. Not only does she cook and clean for the Finch's, she also disciplines, advises, and takes care of all Jem's and Scout's needs. Cal is an extremely well educated black woman who lives in two very opposite worlds. In one world...
Many of the images and events in "Boys and Girls" have to do with freedom or the lack of it. The narrator defines freedom in a number of situations. In this story, the male world represents freedom while the female world represents confinement. In the narrator's perspective, her mother was confin...
Oxygen is the most important element in the periodic table, it's symbol is O . Oxygen is colorless and odorless, it was found in 1774 by a man named Joseph Priestly, the origin of the name oxygen comes from the Greek words oxus (acid) and gennan (Generate). Oxygen has a very important role in t...
"The Catcher in the Rye" is a story of an emotionally disturebed young sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden is telling this in first person, although the whole thing is all one big flashback. The story is one of a young boy trying to grow up in an Adult world. Holden, being the I...
A major source of these generative ideas was an intellectual movement that was neither a religion or philosophy nor a literary theory, although it had elements of all three. Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our world, and ...
In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, light is used symbolically through the example of Estella. Miss Havisham brings Estella up in the darkness, consequently sheltering her from the true meaning of life. By Miss Havisham's orders, the house in which Estella lives is lit only by artifi...
From unwed motherhood to sex and adultery, many of the moral issues and stigmas of Puritan society are still being dealt with today. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large, red "A" on her chest when she is found guilty of adultery and refuses to name the father of her illeg...
" Piggy watched him in disgust. 'Like a crowd of kids – ' " Pg. 38 This sentence is appealing because technically, Piggy himself is a kid. Piggy thinks of other people as kids mainly because he is the most brilliant being on the island. Although Piggy is ann...
Randy Hough 10th English The nonexistent beast serves as one of the most important symbols in the novel. It is representing both the terror and the allure of the natural instincts towards violence, power, and savagery that lurk within every human being. The beast is something that comes from the...
The Hound First, the Hound of the Baskervilles is a terrifying legend about the ancient owner of the Baskerville Hall, who was called Hugo. He fell in love with a girl who avoided meeting him because he had a bad reputation. One day, he abducted her and shut her up in his manor. One night, as he ...
Pat Conroy was an author who grew up in South Carolina.His works were influenced by his life and experiences which occurred from when he was young to the present time. He attended Beaufred High School with a good buddy,Bruce Harper. They did many things together from playing golf to swimming...
William Golding's 202-page novel published in 1954, Lord of the Flies, tells a story about a group of boys that are stranded on an island during World War II. These children must survive on a scarce amount of food, small area for living, and getting along with each other, including "the beast".One o...
The gloomy portrayal, reflexive of the puritan society in chapter one of the Scarlet Letter, was formed by Nathaniel Hawthorne to not only foreshadow events in the novel, but to also unveil the thematic idea of social rejection and Hawthorne's own spurn of social conformity and idealism. Through th...
At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth seems to have a very strong character - almost stronger than Macbeth's - but by the end she is reduced to being afraid of the dark. At the beginning she is Macbeth's 'dearest partner of greatness', but at the end she is his 'fiend-like queen'. She has a lus...
Wild Strawberrys has a special technique that is used in it and this thchnique is the use of a dream sequence. In these dream sequences Isak walks through a desolate city, and is approached by a faceless man, he sees a clock without hands, and watches a funeral wagon crash and leave a coffin in the...
In this story Nick and the fish at the bottom of the river share many similarities. Of course the do not look alike but they seem to think the same in a way. They both have reasons to be where they are.The first one is I think they are both using the river as a place of feeling safe. The fish feel...
From unwed motherhood to sex and adultery, many of the moral issues and stigmas of Puritan society are still being dealt with today. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a large, red "A" on her chest when she is found guilty of adultery and refuses to name the father of her illegit...