Ernest Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway's story Hills Like White Elephants is about an American man and a lady drinking beer outside a station bar while waiting for a train from Barcelona to Madrid. The atmosphere surrounding them is strained as the man attempts to persuade the girl...
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Gregor's Metamorphosis and Its Significance Gregor's physical transition into an insect is complete. However, he does not alter significantly in the novel. During the metamorphosis, the reader has the opportunity to engage with the ridiculous, crazy, and nonsensical activities of the universe from the perspective of an 'insect.' The Uncertainties of Gregor's...
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Symbols are symbols of one thing used to evoke a certain interpretation of another. This kind of play or story writing can be seen all over the place. Symbolism in contextual literature employs structures, figures, contexts, or terms to portray other entities such as ideas (Thomas). It is divided into...
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Symbolism is a literary practice that employs symbols to convey a more important and profound interpretation rather than the apparent literal meaning. Among these symbols are images, scenarios, things, and persons, to name a few. Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is a novel that employs meaning in a variety of ways,...
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Orwell incorporates symbolism to reinforce the novel's multiple themes. Orwell wrote 1984 with the main aim of educating future generations about the risks of accepting a totalitarian state. The speaker uses strong metaphors to intensify the meaning of the thoughts when relaying the knowledge through various themes. Orwell uses icons such...
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Dante's Divine Comedy Dante's Divine Comedy is divided into three major "cantiche": inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise). Each cantica is organized in multiples of three, with hell containing nine rings, equivalent to Purgatory's nine terraces and paradise's nine heavens. The number three represents the Holy Trinity, on which he...
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The piece of literature is the work of Flannery O’ Connor posted in 1965 in the month of January. The setting of the story is during the racial segregation era when the African Americans and the American Americans did no longer live in harmony. Most of the white people considered...
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Schindler's List is a 1993 American film adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark. The film follows the life of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who recruited thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi death camps during World War II in his factories. The film's use of metaphors has predominated in...
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NASCAR: A Curious Word and Its Significance in the Southern States NASCAR, a curious word that ignited my intrigue when I first came across it. As such, the word has been widely used by people in the southern states. While listening to the conversations of the people I was sitting next...
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee WilliamsSymbolism in literatuer is when symbols are applied to represent an idea or a quality by attaching a symbolic meaning that is different from the actual sense. Symbolism can also use an object to represent a completely differnent idea in an intense and highly significant...
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Fences is a film about a black family in Pittsburgh during the 1950s. The story of the films centers around a period when American culture was still emerging and civil rights campaigns and foundations were still in their infancy. Racism was also an issue for Americans, and bigotry was a...
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The chocolate industry is one of the world s most important agro-processing sectors. Its versatility of taste and presentation has won over many people around the world. Chocolate elicits a wide spectrum of positive emotions, whether it is consumed as a beverage, in a cookie, or in ice cream. It...
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