Edna's Awakenings Symbolism is one of the most obvious factors in Kate Chopin's Novel, The Awakening. The meaning of each place and objects create major symbols throughout the novel. The ocean is a sense of freedom and solitude. Love is also incredibly symbolic throughout the novel,...

In both the play, Blue Beach by Victor Hugo Rascon Banda and the novel Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquirel symbolism plays a vital role throughout the central ideas. In both of these pieces of literature the symbolic objects are a hotel with everything in it and the use of cooking respectiv...

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 ...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is about a young woman, named Edna Pontellier, who realizes her trapped state in society and who slowly awakens to a new freedom of self expression, sexuality, and self confidence. She so craves her freedom, that she is willing to do anything to get it, no matter what i...

HEMINGWAY'S FAREWELL TO ARMS: A GOOD NOVEL, A POPULAR NOVEL Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) is basically structured around natural symbols that replace emotions and feelings. Characters endure the coldness and cruelty of the war but there is mention neither of pain nor ...

ANGELS & DEMONS AUTHOR DAN BROWN The novel Angels and Demons written by Dan Brown is a thriller, an exiting discovery of histories deepest secrets. An old rival of religion, the Illuminati, arrives to the present to destroy what gets in the way- that's what it makes you think. There&a...

Subject Jemima J by Jane Green is a classic story of ugly ducklings and swans for the Internet age. Jemima Jones is an employee at the Kilburn Herald, a small London newspaper. As she eats her way through her disappointments, her model thin, fly-by-night flat mates treat her like a maid. Two peo...

Anne Sexton Anne Sexton became one of the best known of the often-controversial Confessional poets. Anne Sexton wrote openly about menstruation, incest, adultery, and drug addiction at a time when these topics were forbidden in poetry. There's possibly no other American in our time that ha...

Throughout literary history, authors have been fascinated by the use of the light and dark to adjust mood and atmosphere. Light is often a symbol of pleasantness, contentment and joy, whereas dark more often represents hardship, frustration and confusion. The two images are contrasted frequently, ...

Love and friendship plays a major role in everyday life. This is shown particularly well in the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephan Daldry. It is set in Everington in 1984, during the miners' strike. Throughout the film love and friendship is portrayed in a range of different ways as Billy, ...

Successful and highly praised novels always stand out because the literature has great characters, fascinating and sometime bitter ironies, clashes, conflicts, and noteworthy objectives that rise far above the actual plot structure and embrace much bigger worldly themes. Symbolism is always part of ...

Chikamatsu Monzaemon and William Shakespeare were literary cornerstones of their time. Although separated by a continent of land and nearly a half-century in age, they both used their workings to bring their respective time period to life; Monzaemon gave insight into the pre-modern Edo Period of Jap...

Dorian Gray: The Successes and Failures of the 1945 FilmThe Picture of Dorian Gray is a brilliant yet controversial novel in its times for its immoral views. Although the novel is a great one it has taken about a century for many to praise and accept this aspects of the novel. In 1945 the making of ...

"Garden of Love" Explication In William Blake's "Garden of Love" from his "Songs of Experience" collection, he discusses how a church has been erected in the green he used to play in as a child. In doing so, Blake states that with maturity, one has the ability ...

According to The American Heritage Dictionary, the definition of awakening is "to become aware: awoke to reality". When you think of the word "awakening" the first thing that usually comes to your mind is a new train of thought, or a revelation. Kate Chopin's novella is e...

From the latest romantic film "Titanic" love seems to be generous, wonderful and has the power to conquer anything. However, how many people can show this great side of love? In fact, 'love' can be so brutal, raw or even bring a lot of awful influence to one's life. The pro...

Character Analysis Frederic Henry Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver and a lieutenant ("tenente") in the Italian army, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. The focus of the novel revolves around his love with Catherine Barkley as well as his steady disillusionment with the war. ...

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE By Laura Esquirel I. BRIEF SUMMARY Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of Josefita or ¡§Tita¡, as she is popularly known. She is the youngest daughter of the de la Garza family of Mexico. She was born in a very odd situation. While her mother, Mama Elena is...

"She toyed, sometimes with her unsucked breasts, but at some point her lethargy has dissipated of its own accord and in its place was wilderness, the focused meanness of a flood or an avalanche of snow which only observers, flying in a rescue helicopter, believed to be an indifferent natural ph...

In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck conveys the main themes, isolation, loneliness, and insecurity through many characters. One of the characters who best embody the theme(s) is Candy. Candy is an old, disabled, isolated, unhappy, lonely, insecure, swamper. Candy's lon...

100 Years of Solitude Theme: History is Repetitive This book begins with an isolated town of Macondo and the Buendias family. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iquaran are cousins that got marry and had the town first born child. Ursula mother warns her many times about incest and it consequences....

When comparing "The Luck of Roaring Camp" to "Desiree's Baby" there are many similarities. The most obvious of them being both writers use a child as a certain symbol. The child is used to bring out certain qualities, good or bad, in a man. In "The Luck of Roaring ca...

A good book is one that you cannot quit thinking about. For days after you finish it you will catch yourself daydreaming about it. That is what The Bluest Eye did to me. I can\'t say that I liked the novel, because I didn\'t. It left me with an empty horrified feeling in the pit of my stomach; a rea...

Medieval records of psycho-cosmic journeys arouse feelings of love. This is especially true of The Divine Comedy. Not only do they arouse these feelings but they are also heroic with the achievement of a great reward after a perilous undertaking and may involve a summons that is most often the resu...

Chris Willis Dr. M Newlin English 306 Monday, May 15, 2000 Nanny, a Mule, and a Pear Tree: Janie's Beginning Zora Neale Hurston's work provides the African-American community with a one of the first literary symbols of racial health - a sense of black people as complete, complex, u...