Allegory
.... English poet Edmund Spenser in the late 1500's.
Allegories lost popularity in Europe after about 1600, but some, such as
Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684) gained recognition in later times.
Allegory also exists in other ways. Many novels include allegorical
suggestions of an additional level of meaning. Examples include Moby-Dick
(1851), a whaling adventure that raises issues of human struggle and fate
in a mysterious universe, and Lord of the Flies (1954), a story about
shipwrecked boys that examines the persistence of evil.
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James Joyce's "Araby"
.... and "indeed sterile."(Joyce) This plays a huge role
in the forming of this boy's life, where there is no fun. "Araby" is a
story "of a soul-shriveling Irish asceticism, which renders hopes and
dreams not only foolish, but sinful."(Coulthard) In the story, the only
thing that the young boy has to look forward to is buying something for the
girl he loves, and in the end he can't even do that; and by making the
final characters English, the story leaves an impact on the reader about
the Dublin society. It shows the antagonist of the story to be "a
repressive Dublin culture."(Coulthard)
Through this allegorical piece, the reader can .....
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The Joys Of Reading A Novel
.... example, just the details of the surroundings of the character's
location take seven to eight pages to explain and if the detail is missed,
the reader fails to imagine the intended atmosphere.
The extent to which a novel is studied causes the reader to lose
interest in reading the novel because some interpretations of particular
moments in the novel may not have anything to do relative to the novel.
Doing things like over-emphasizing or over-interpreting causes the reader
to become bored with the concept and in some cases even be confused.
For a novel to be enjoyed by anybody, it must be of interest to
them an .....
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Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend
.... 608). Mike Tierce and John Michael Crafton suggest
that Arnold Friend is not a diabolical figure, but instead a religious and
cultural savior.
On a more realistic note, Joyce M. Wegs argues the symbolism of
Arnold Friend as a Satan figure when she writes: “Arnold is far more a
grotesque portrait of a psychopathic killer masquerading as a teenager; he
also has all the traditional, sinister traits of that arch deceiver and
source of grotesque terror, the devil”(616). She also writes about how the
author sets up the idea of a religious, diabolical figure when she links
popular music and its values as Connie's perverted version of .....
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Arthurian Romances
.... the story. Together they adventure through the countryside and
Erec fights his battles as they go on. The knight will give up on nothing
ever, it is his duty to serve his King and God to the best of his ability.
“Sire, I have no wound from which I am suffering so much that I want to
interrupt my journey. No one could detain me; tomorrow- I shall tarry no
more- I want to leave in the morning, when I see the day is dawning.” (1)
He is extremely fair when dealing with other knights, that is he doesn't
take cheap shots or kill the other off; he is polite and courteous. To his
wife he has total respect and love to give, but he is .....
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How "First Love" Is Represented By Different Artists
.... a good topic to start writing
about in the first place. The lack of realization seems to be a powerful
motivator in the lives of these artists. All of the artists in the readings
seem to have gone through a period of lack of realization before wising up
to what their experiences with their first loves meant. They probably did
not know that their first loves were their first loves until later in their
lives. In the case of Robert Hayden and Theodore Roethke, it took them
their whole adolescent years to realize who their first loves were. But no
matter how long or how they realized it, most of the artists were impacted
greatly by the .....
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A Marxist Criticism On "The Importance Of Being Earnest"
.... the play. He
leaves room for these critiques when he writes about the servants, the
nobles, and the middle class. His view on society and class is very
evident on the way the servants are portrayed.
"‘I don't know that I am much interested in your family life,
Lane'"
"‘No sir; it's not a very interesting subject. I never think of it
myself.'"
In this passage from the play it is very clear that Wilde likes to
give his characters some life, but however it seemed that he was giving the
servants a bit too much, but nevertheless it does establish very well the
position of those servants. In the society Wilde is presenti .....
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A Town Like Alice: Discussion
.... by his captain and he finds
it so humiliating that he looses his will to live. When he's infected by
the fever he doesn't fight it and he dies. This is a mentality that is or
maybe was very common in Japan. A person from the west would never feel so
bad about loosing his face as a man from Japan.
The differences between cultures can be something that maybe some of the
persons would like to change if they got the possibilities but it has never
occurred to them to do so because they are used to the way it is. In the
book this is found amongst the Malayan women that has to work on the fields,
look after the kids and sleep on the f .....
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The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe
.... sister, Rosalie. Another major low point in his life was the death
of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, and his foster father disowning
him, all at one time. The most significant set-back to Edgar Allan Poe was
the death of his cousin/wife Virginia Clemm. This single incident was the
cause of almost all of his feelings of isolation in his in his adulthood.
He felt as though anyone he became close to would die.
Poe wrote about isolation in many of his most popular works. "A
Dream Within a Dream" was not one of his more popular poems, but it
discussed the difficult process of having to say good-bye to a loved one. .....
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The Beginnings Of A National Literary Tradition
.... when the Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867. However,
all of these writers were aware of the lack of a distinctive Canadian
literary tradition and they made efforts to create one for their successors.
While each of these men had their own distinctive writing style they all
sought to contribute and create a ‘national' literature. According to
R.E.Rashley in Poetry in Canada: The First Three Steps " there is no
Canadian poetry before [The Confederation Poets] time"(98). These men were
the first in a long line of authors and artists to conceive of the need for
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Comparison Between Beowulf And Tick
.... about his
accomplishments.
But Beowulf and Tick are also very different. For starters, Beowulf wore
lots of armor and expensive stuff, but Tick only wears a big blue Speedo-
type-thing. When Beowulf went to meet Hrothgar, he wore his expensive armor.
"Glittering at the top of their golden helmets" (ll. 214-215). Beowulf
liked to show of his wealth be wearing expensive armor. Beowulf was more
courageous than Tick. Beowulf does the types of things that Tick would be
too afraid to do. "...Beowulf, a prince of Geats, had killed Grendel" (ll.
403-404). The Tick couldnt kill anyone.
Overall, both Beowulf and The Tick were heros .....
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King Arthur And Beowulf: A Comparison
.... unarmed way of battle.
Described as the strongest man in the world, Beowulf voyages across
seas slaying evil demons with nothing but his bare hands. "…Knew at once
that nowhere on earth had he met a man whose hands where harder." In the
confrontation of Grendel and Beowulf, our hero brings forth a force greater
than the unmerciful dragon. Weaponless, Beowulf slays the dragon with his
divine tools of god. "And was instantly seized himself, claws bent back as
Beowulf leaned up on one arm." Beowulf was seen as a hero who conquered
the evils with his sheer strength. "Strongest of the Geats - Greater and
stronger than anyone .....
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