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,...

William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a story that addresses the symbolic changes in the South after the civil war. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect and poverty of the new times in the town of Jefferson. The rampant symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying ho...

In "A Rose for Emily", William Faulkner effectively uses symbolism to illustrate the fading glory of the Old South giving away to the progress of Reconstruction and the new century. It also plays a role in understanding the whole meaning of the story and why Emily is a tragic figure as opposed to an...

Material objects are important to people's lives, but nowadays more and more people cannot be satisfied with just comfortable living circumstances. Driving a better car, living in a better house, and having a luxurious life have become their dreams. Some of the people work hard to make their d...

A Symbol of LoveIn “Janus”, Andrea’s lover buys her a bowl at a crafts fair. “It was his idea that when he could not be there to hold her hand she could hold her own.”(16) Throughout this story Andrea becomes attached to the bowl because it reminds her of...

Zora Neale Hurston uses symbols throughout the novel to explain events, rather than sating them. She interprets many important aspects of life and turns these events into symbols throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God. The important aspects of life being symbolized include faith, the maturation p...

The speaker's last line, "For nothing now can ever come to any good", summarizes and depicts the narrator's state of emotions towards the death of a lost loved one in W.H. Auden's elegy, "Funeral Blues" (16). Auden creates a mood and setting of despair and death, almost as if he wants the reader to ...

Character Analysis and Religious Symbolism in Greenberg's And Sarah Laughed>From the beginning of her career, Joanne Greenberg has excelled in creating thoughtful characters fighting to portray their independent spirit. (Hallsworth, 2) And Sarah Laughed is a short story of the lives of an unlikely ...

A Violet Named Ophelia In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses many symbols to refer to characters. He mentions flowers and herbs to indirectly refer to Ophelia. This can be seen in Act 5, Scene 5, where Ophelia is giving out flowers to Laertes, the King and the Queen. Each flower has an implied symbolic mean...

In the film E.S symbollism lets people view E.S on a deeper level and helps them understand the message of the movie more clearly . It is symbolism that makes the film E.S so interesting .A number of symbols remain through out the whole movie . Hands are used to show the difference between E.S and...

While reading the first chapter of this text book, the one thing that really caught my eye was the section on "symbols". While reading this section it made me think about how big a part symbols do play in our lives. The love symbol intrigued me the most out of all of the different symbols that the b...

In "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," symbols are used to fulfill the quest of happiness and love. This love story, written by D.H. Lawrence, has many symbols, which show hidden meaning. One can fully understand a story, if one can point out certain symbols. Symbols create ideas and...

Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes-intangible qualities of the characters, places and events in their work. In the short story, "A Rose For Emily", William Faulkner uses symbolic elements to define and characterize Miss Emily Grierson.Faulkner uses symbolism to c...

This love story, written by D.H. Lawrence, has many symbols, which show hidden meaning. There are some main symbols within the story that allow us to better understand the meaning behind the actions. As the story progresses we understand it not just thru the characters and their actions, but also t...

In the story "A rose for Emily," symbolisms demonstrate an immense relation to the theme of the story by the author, William Faulkner. Symbolisms help to indicate several meanings in the story including: how her hair helps to show her resistance to change, how she could not get away form her father'...

"A Rose for Emily"In William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily," Emily is in the search for love and security. The use of symbolism develops the theme of the story, bringing to light the issues of morality that arise from a young woman's struggle to find love. Symbolism is so carefully plac...

The Garden of Love Falling out of love can be described as one word: depressing. It's not hard coming back to reality after being swept off your feet by the most beautiful girl in the world. William Blake expressed this through his poem. Set in "The Garden of Love" in 1794, yo...

The Parable Of The Sower This parable is about a sower who went out to sow grain. As he scattered the seeds in the field some seeds fell along the path, where the seed was smashed and eaten by the birds. Some of the seeds fell on rocky ground. When the seeds sprouted on the rocky ground they d...

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...

I very much enjoyed this story, almost hard to believe that it was written in 1899! I can imagine that it was very shocking to read of a woman's sexual awakening. I found the opening imagery very interesting, could this beautiful bird in the cage symbolize Edna? Very interesting that in the...

Since Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre in a first person narration she had to use a lot of symbolic imagery to show the hidden emotions of other characters and the relationships between them. The imagery in relationships is particularly interesting because of the symbolic context that it gives to ...

Love Poem Analysis "Two souls, one heart" - French saying Love between a man and a woman is intimate and profound. It is sentiments that cannot be easily explain, yet it can be express through a mental and emotional thought such as Sandra Cisneros' poem, "Love Poem #1."...

The poem "Funeral Blues", written by W. H. Auden, is based on a loved one who is deceased. The poem is written based on nontraditional and traditional elements. This poem is also based on several different themes such as death, love, order and disorder, and also meaning of love. Through...

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 ...

There are many ideas about deception and infidelity in "The Cloak" by Isak Dinesen that show the true nature of humans. The love for a woman makes a man to do strange things, even sell out his master and his "father". In life, our closest friends may turn on us to obtain someth...