First the chrysanthemums symbolize Elisas children She tends her garden and handles the chrysanthemums with love and care just as she would handle her own children Elisa is very protective of her flowers and places a wire fence around them she makes sure The pests represent natural harm to the flowers and just as any good mother she removes them before they can harm her children The chrysanthemums are symbolic of her children and she is very proud of them When Elisas husband compliments her on
Reality and Religion Ada begins to contemplate her own views of the world and rejects Monroes belief that the objects on earth are gifts from another world in Fraziers novel Cold Mountain She finds comfort in the predictable elements of life such as natures cycles after she sees how useless intangible items are to her such as reading and learning languages Thus she denies the importance of invisible items However Inman disgusted by the images of war burned into his mind seeks refuge in the spir
A Community Makes All the Difference in George Eliots Silas Marner Silas Marner by George Eliot was first published in 1861 during a period of sweeping changes in social class and economic standing This period is known as the Industrial Revolution and took place from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture manufacturing mining transportation and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times In George Eliots Silas Marner commun
Fellow Shakespearean enthusiasts once again we have seen one of Shakespeare brilliant texts slaughtered and smeared onto a movie screen The BBC version of Macbeth Shakespeare Retold strays so far from Shakespeares original text it is no longer a good representation of the story The essence of the original play is all but gone and all that is left is a shell of its original self This has happened before I think we all remember the abomination that was Baz Luhrmanns Romeo Juliet How many more tim
After reading two beautiful poems by George Gordon She Walks in Beauty and When We Two Parted a reader can see some similarities and differences between those great works by a brilliant author Both poems have in common the content of words that are said the both addressed to a woman which author has a deep feelings for but one poem describes the beauty of that woman when second one describes the feelings of the author Second both poems are written in the sad tone those poems dont sound happy bu
The first poem I am going to study is Remember by Christina Rossetti This is a Petrarchan sonnet which means there are two quatrains then a sestet The lines in the sestet look like they are all over the place with the rhymes but this because this style of sonnet was first written in Italian and they had a lot more words which rhymed in their language As this is a sonnet it has fourteen lines each with ten syllables In this poem Rossetti is talking to her husband and asking that he remembers as
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in the 1690s revolves around the witchcraft hysteria and human vengeance that plague Salem and which split the town into those who use the trials for their own ends and those who desire the good of the society It is this paradox which we find to be a major theme of The Crucible good versus evil In order to keep the community together members of that community believe that they must in some sense tear it apart Miller relates the intense hysteria and vengeance
Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Hieghts and the Great Gatsby Summary comparison of heroines in wuthering hieghts and the great gatsby Comparison of the presentation of the heroines in F Scott Fitzgeralds TheGreat Gatsby and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Introduction to The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby He presents us with many characters one of which is quite complex Daisy Buchanan She is stuck in a love triangle with the affairs brings tension and envy to an unex
Crime And Punishment by Feodor Dostoevsky and The Stranger by Albert Camus are novels from different time periods with asimilar context and influence but the authors are contemplating as almost all literature does the same unanswerable questions both presented by and a result of the human condition Death and its relevance to life are important themes in these two indispensable works of literature Significant characters in both works are affected by the death of those around them The use of guns
In Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown and Joyce Oates Where are You Going Where Have You Been most will recognize the similarity and differences that occur in the stories Young Goodman Brown is more of a religious story while Where are You Going Where Have You Been could be considered more secular The settings differ in various ways such as forests versus the mall However the main characters correlate with their authors Hawthorne a man and Oates a woman both understanding and pursuing the