Symbolism is the practice of investing things with a symbolic meaning, or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations; in other words, discussing or explaining a broader, more general topic by linking it symbolically with a specific event in a literary w...

Every person in the human race has a personality, thoughts, and feelings. The philosopher Freud spent years studying the human mind and dreams that humans have, trying to determine what influences them to think the way they do. He came up with a theory that the human mind consists of three parts. Th...

Of all his writings, this novel shows Swift's merits of his mind. His extraordinary queft of expression. It is written in a very strange language. It is understandable nowadays, but not then. This novel shows the tendency of the XVIIIth century to see truth in relative terms. Is this Swift's opinion...

Whether a reader connects to the symbolism of Heart Of Darkness or is merely reading it for fun, one cannot go away from this story without a lingering feeling of uneasiness. Joseph Conrad writes what seems to be a simple story about a man in search of an ivory hunter; one must look deeper into the ...

In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut incorporated many places and time frames. Earth and Tralfamadore are the two main places and also contain many differences. Earth symbolizes reality in many senses, while Tralfamadore symbolizes fantasy. Unlike Earth, Tralfamadore is a utopian society, while ...

Contrasting Imagery with Symbolism The story The Cathedral by Raymond Carver is a story of transformation of a human character's life from depression and carelessness to belief and diversity. A cathedral is a symbol of faith, conversion, creativity and strength and is therefore a substantial c...

"Young Goodman Brown" is a story composed of symbols that represent a rite of passage for the characters. In this story we find that a form of evil may exist in all humans (based on the experiences of Goodman Brown). Two symbols that help the reader understand the transformation of good to evil are...

Carol P. Christ explains the effect symbols have on females. She claims the symbol of a female Goddess does much in the way of helping women overcome their feelings of shame and doubt towards their own body and soul. Christ says the symbol of the male God undermines women deeply, and it hinders th...

When we think of an intelligent being we think of someone like us, a creature that is able to think and communicate effectively . Communication or language is a process every child learns from birth, and we continue to use it until our death. The structure of our language gives us the ability f...

Shealynn Takash Professor Allen English 20 29 February, 2000 THE BLACK BOX: SYMBOLIC OF DEATH AND FADED TRADITIONS While the setting of Shirley Jackson's, The Lottery, takes place on a clear, sunny, June day, it does not take long for the skies to turn gray as she introduces the readers...

BARTLEBY: THE NARRATOR'S UNBORN CHILD In Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street," a scrivener named Bartleby disrupts the narrator's tranquil lifestyle by means of mere passiveness. Bartleby leads a morbid existence and everything that he says ...

In Virginia Woolf's narrative essay, "The Death of the Moth," she describes a series of events that a tiny moth goes through one afternoon. The moth is stuck in a window, and struggles to get out of the window until its fate takes over, and it dies after trying for so long. The moth i...

Microcosm of the world In his novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes symbols to convey the idea that the island is a microcosm, which has analogues in the outside world. By converting the setting, the objects, and the characters of the story into symbols, Golding is able to truly expr...

New World Order In the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding shows us as the reader how rules, laws, and other regulations are all forgotten that human nature will revert to a primitive state of being. The overriding theme of the novel is the conflict between two competing impulses that exi...

Kristen Brentzel The Signs of an Author Symbols add so much to an authors work. To be able to play the game of figuring out those symbols is on reason most readers pick up certain author's writings. Hawthorne is one of those writers. In this book we are showered with wonderful symbols ...

Carl Jung\'s religious beliefs were based largely on personal experience, in spite of his introduction to organized religion in his childhood. Therefore, when he offers an interpretation and analysis of his patient\'s dream, Jung endows each symbol and fantasy with meaning. In his writing, Jung expl...

In the classic novel, The Lord of the Flies, William Golding shows an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. Golding uses the conch, Ralph and The Lord of the Flies to represent this symbolism. The conch is obviously more than a symbol Golding had used this to...

In Hills Like White Elephants the point of view is third person objective. There is no sense of feelings or thoughts from any of the characters. Although, there is evidence of feelings in the story by what the characters say. I believe that the story would have had a different plot if you we knew wh...

What is Language?We define language as a system of communication that is primarily verbal, symbolic, dually-patterned, and arbitrary and is used by humans with common cultural expectancies. Language is also a means to communicate ideas, knowledge and emotions to other individuals through the use of...

The Matrix: The Problem of the External World The film The Matrix addresses the philosophical problem of the external world in a manner that few have ever even remotely considered. Many people casually question what is real, and what are we actually seeing. However, few develop in depth theories...

In the poem "Birches," Robert Frost uses simple language to bring his readers into a deep and abiding relationship with the world around them. This poem describes Frost's growth from a young "swinger of birches (Frost 160)" to an old man who went through various trials and challenges with s...

Imprisonment comes in many forms and is frequently experienced by many people. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is a story with a theme about imprisonment, it symbolically shows many imagery and objects that represent imprisonment and implies that physical, financial, and obligation im...

Animals have a huge influence in art throughout history and have been represented in many ways. Some representations have been very realistic with much detail while other depictions seem to tell a myth with their sketchy pictures. Various forms of art have conveyed ideas and concepts of animal\'...

In the last part of the novel Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, a dichotomy is established which crtiticizes two extreme ideas of man. The Houynhnms, a race of horses, are meant to symbolize man as a supremely rational being and the Yahoos, a primitive, vulgar version of humans, are made to sy...

Human nature is born in all of us, it's constant. It started with the primitive man and Darwin's Theory of Survival of the Fittest. Politics are something that humans created. The whole idea of society has been created by man. The boys in "The Lord of the Flies" have in a sense ...