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The Great Gatsby(symbolism)

... no troubles. Later in the story we learn how it is that he got to the level he is at. As a child Gatsby spent his time working for his dreams. His father comments, AHe knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me.@ This shows just how early that AThe American Dream@ can be instilled in everyone. To add to Gatsby dedication also came his hard work. As a boy he had a schedule of his day with all the things that he needed to do in order to eventually reach his goal. In his time every ...

Number of words: 522 | Number of pages: 2

Grapes Of Wrath: Jim Casey As A Christ Figure

... West. Steinbeck manages to give Jim Casey the exact initials as the historical savior (J.C.), which allows the reader to latch onto this connection from the beginning. Yet, Casey’s relation to Christ goes beyond such mere coincidences, and plays out rather in their similar plans of action. One of the many similarities between Casey and Christ is that Casey had also drifted out to the forests in order to "soul-search" and discover the answers to sometimes hidden questions. In this particular situation, Casey himself states th ...

Number of words: 584 | Number of pages: 3

Examination Of The Reasons For

... Esther the right to go to her father's funeral: `My mother hadn't let us come to his funeral because we were only children then, and he had died in hospital, so the graveyard and even his death seemed unreal to me.` The fact that Esther couldn't really accept her father's death contributed to career problems: she had no idea of what to do with her life, she `thought that if my father hadn't died he would have taught me....` Before visiting New York and getting thrown into the real world Esther had been very successful academically: `I had ...

Number of words: 1174 | Number of pages: 5

All Quiet On Westren Front

... end is "weary, broken, burnt out, rootless, and without hope." Through Baümer, Remarque examines how war makes man inhuman. He uses excellent words and phrases to describe crucial details to this theme. "The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts." Baümer and his classmates who enlisted into the army see the true reality of the war. They enter the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth and they come to a premature maturity with the war, their only home. "We were eighteen and had begun to ...

Number of words: 1051 | Number of pages: 4

Macbeth - Fatal Flaws

... problems start when he kills Duncan. This is done because he has a flaw; he is too determined. He doesn’t let anything in his way of the goal, to be king, proven here: The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be 2 which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.(Act I, Scene vii, lines 1-28) If he had not been so determined to be king, then Duncan would never have ha ...

Number of words: 933 | Number of pages: 4

Huckleberry Finn

... to tell him that it was an bad sign and would give him bad luck. Huck got scared and shook his clothes off, and turned in his tracks three times. He then tied a lock of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. "You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep of bad luck when you'd killed a spider."(Twain 5). In chapter four Huck sees Pap's footprints in the snow. So Huck goes to Jim to ...

Number of words: 739 | Number of pages: 3

The Ineffable Aphrodite

... birth to any of her children. In her anger she created a sickle within her. She instructed her son Cronos to use it to drive Ouranos away. While Ouranos lay with Gaia one evening, Cronos took the sickle and severed his father's penis. Ouranos fled relinquishing his power, and Cronos cast the penis out into the sea. Years later Cronos was defeated by Zeus, and the age of the Olympians was born. Ouranos' penis floated amid the white foam of the oceans, and eventually that combination created Aphrodite. Hesiod said that the word Aphrodite is ...

Number of words: 590 | Number of pages: 3

Harrison Bergeron

... This then leads to their loss of individuality, and therefore to the absolute deformity of humanness. Both the movie and the short story share these themes; they also have a multitude of other similarities, but also have just as many differences. These differences, irony and the symbolism between the two, are what I will be attempting to explore. The first apparent difference between the movie and the short story is that the short story takes place in 2081. In the story the government regulates everything, not just intelligence, but stren ...

Number of words: 1220 | Number of pages: 5

Hamlet 4

... whose works serve to meld literary casts for ages to come. This was his occupation, he wrote and directed plays to be performed. This was his sole form of income that we know of, it was his way of putting the bread on the table. If people did not like what Shakespeare wrote, then he would not earn any money. If the people didn't like what they saw, he became the starving artist. Shakespeare wrote these dialogues in such a manner as to entertain both the Nobility, as well as the peasants. The Shakespearean theater is a physical ...

Number of words: 3130 | Number of pages: 12

The Tempest 3

... a higher power and the other a craving for affection and approbation. Thus, the contrast between them is heightened. Ariel and Caliban symbolize, respectively, pure language and pure body. The name of Prospero’s language is Ariel, who symbolizes his word in action, the precise fulfillment of his desires, who operates as an extension of Prospero’s body. In a way, Prospero, through his creative word, Ariel, can be seen as being omnipresent. However, Ariel chafes under his master’s control, desiring a liberty that would iro ...

Number of words: 1558 | Number of pages: 6

“A Sudden Turn Of Events”

... loud so that he couldn’t hear his damaged engine roar. As we drove to our unknown destination we passed some friends who waved to us. To impress them, he made a right turn at forty miles an hour in a twenty-five mile zone. We continued our journey in silence for about five minuets until a sudden event turned our lives around. As we pulled up to a stop sign, he looked both ways before turning left on to the main street. Without a worry in his head he pressed on the gas pedal and began a left turn. Unfortunately the darkness of the even ...

Number of words: 680 | Number of pages: 3

To Build A Fire: Significance Of Words "Dying" And "Death"

... The confident main character thinks of the old-timer at Sulphur Creek as "womanish." Along the trail, "the man" falls into a hidden spring and attempts to build a fire to dry his socks and warm himself. With his wet feet quickly growing numb, he realizes he has only one chance to successfully build a fire or face the harsh realities of the Yukon at one-hundred nine degrees below freezing. Falling snow from a tree blots out the fire and the character realizes "he had just heard his own sentence of death." Jack London introduces death to the ...

Number of words: 576 | Number of pages: 3

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