In most sections of Faulkner's book, The Sound and the Fury, he uses many recurring symbols and images to help deepen the reader's understanding of his many characters. Most of these images can be found in the first two sections of the book, what is believed to be Benjy's section and...

The purpose of this essay is to bring to light the significance of Marie as a character in Albert Camus', 'The Outsider'. Through analysis and criticism, this essay endeavors to reveal her importance as an aid to the better the reader's understanding of the personality of Meur...

Lord of the Flies Often, novels are used to convey a deeper political or moral meaning. Many times a novel's characters are used to camouflage the controversial topics that the author discusses. The characters, in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies symbolize many political events...

A good writer has many tools at hand that help them develop good story lines. There are literary techniques such as voice, point of view, character, theme, and symbolism. One very interesting technique is that of symbolism. With symbolism the author is able to write a story in which many of the...

The Awakening contains many symbolic features, such as the way Edna uses art, the birds (the parrot and the mockingbird), sleep, music, and the houses Edna Pontellier lives in, but perhaps two of the most significant symbols are the clothes in the novel, not only of Edna, but also the other cha...

Siddhartha Symbols can often be used to connect a character or event to real life occurrences. Herman Hesse creates these connections in his novel Siddhartha. Frequently he uses characters as symbols to make readers look deeper into the meaning of the book. The main character in the book, Siddh...

An exploration of the role of symbolism in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. After reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Gabriel Garcia Márquez&ap...

Importance of Symbolism in The Lord of the Flies Symbolism plays a very important role in the novel The Lord of the Flies. In this novel by William Golding, the symbols used help explain the actions of the characters, and they help explain the true intentions of the deeper story. Each symbol h...

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,...

Symbolism in Hawthorne's The Blithedale RomanceIn Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, there are many uses of symbolism regarding the characters and the objects pertaining to them. The names of the characters Coversdale, Zenobia and Priscilla are a major part of this symbolism. The first character ...

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...

Beloved, a novel written by Toni Morrison is more than a fiction. When composing her book, Morrison used many different writing techniques to make it the best possible. One particular technique used throughout Beloved is symbolism. Symbolism is found in the number references used, nature and the ...

In The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, the black clothing worn by the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel foreshadows evil and darkness throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, James creates a character that is \"in the dark.\" The phrase \"in the dark\" means to be without knowledge. The cha...

The Grapes of Wrath combines Steinbeck's idolization of the land, dislike for corporeality and belief that people can survive the malicious influence of their atmosphere. These substantial concepts are woven into the book by the use of inter chapters, the telling of the Joads story and the use ...

Symbolism is used to represent abstract ideas or concepts in a story through many different ways or ideas. Throughout the story "The Catcher in the Rye" by J..D. Salinger symbolism is used quite frequently. Salinger uses symbolism to uncover many different hidden personality traits abou...

The Loss of Civilization Through Symbolism In his classic novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses many elements of symbolism to help the readers gain a greater understanding of his message. Symbolism can be anything, a person, place, or thing, used to portray something beyond its self. It is...

In John Knowle's A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the Devon Academy. The war is a symbol of the "real world", from which the boys exclude themselves. It is as ...

The novel A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, was symbolic for the war that was going during Gene's time at Devon. John Knowles used the description of many natural elements to describe World War II and its effects on the youth at Devon. Prominently, the two rivers described in the book, the Naguam...

Lord of the Flies Cruelty and savagery are all parts of human life. When the reigns of civilization are lifted, cruelty and savagery are left alone to roam freely. William Golding expresses the need for civilized order to maintain the cruel savage beast in us all. In Golding's Lord of the Flies, the...

Symbolism Symbolism is used throughout the course of this novel. Fitzgerald uses many good symbols including the green light and the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg. This book was written in a time when Americans were living very well, but their lives were to be decaying shortly. This played an importan...

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SYMBOLISM OF A SEPARATE PEACE By Jeremiah Noack Thesis: John Knowles uses symbolism in the novel A Separate Peace to show the coming of age, in young people in high school. I. INTRODUCTION II. SYMBOLISM OF CHARACTERS A. Gene symbolizes Phineas B. Complete opposites III. THE...

Imagine a group of young boys who have just crash-landed on a deserted tropical island with no adults or supervision. William Golding showed in his ground breaking novel Lord of the Flies, what may happen in just those circumstances. In his very complicated and diverse novel Golding brings out ma...

In this modern era in which we live, books are no longer the resourceful tools they once were. No longer does anyone sit by the fire and curl up with a nice book. This can be blamed on that wonderful invention of the 1950s, the television. Television has been a mainstay in our homes now for some ...

In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie the authors utilized symbolism to convey important aspects of the novel. Symbolism was used to enhance the importance of the novel by using an underlying message to portray the larger picture. These two authors used symbo...