Study on the Symbolic Meaning of the Main Characters’ Name in The Scarlet Letter” (2015), suggests that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbolism to greatly enhance the importance of three of the main characters in his novel. Lei supports her suggestion by talking about the different ways in which each character’s name is symbolic, and how that directly correlates with their characteristics and their actions. Lei’s purpose is to elaborate on the depth of the main characters names in order to reveal to the
everything is connected through the repetition of events, the inter-generational storyline and the ending of cycles. Throughout the novel, events, motifs, and characteristics are mirrored, bringing attention to the cyclic nature of the novel, as well as connecting characters and ideas together. Rosa and Alba’s green hair, for example, is a seemingly minor trait that is shared between two very different characters. Alba is”the only one who had inherited something from Rosa...”p296 While
white mug, with my name ‘Lizz’ printed in a colorful playful font. I love my unique mug not only because of the fun design, but because it is personalized for me. The personalization of the mug makes me feel connected to my special mug. If another member of my family were to use my mug, they would feel no connection to it. When an item or product is personalized to us, we feel an instant connection to the object. Why have a plain mug, when you can have one with your name on it? Personalized
William Shakespeare once said, “What’s in a name?” “ A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” In the novel, The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri, Gogol Ganguli struggles with his own name throughout most of his life because he is unable to truly assimilate to either of his culture’s, American or Bengali. He was named after a Russian author, Nikolai Gogol, whose book had literally saved his father’s life in a train accident. When Gogol was born, his parents had been waiting for a letter from their
look past the surface of a literary work to find a deeper or hidden meaning. Writers use devices, such as symbolism, imagery, foreshadowing, irony and allusion to reveal these meanings. If these are overlooked, important aspects of the story can be lost. One literary device that Foster emphasizes in his book is allusion. Every story has elements of another story, and Foster devotes Chapters Four through Seven explaining the meaning of allusion in works by Shakespeare, the Bible, and fairy tales.
A person is created by the experiences they go through and by the things they learn throughout their life. It is the question of who each individual is and what makes up their identity. Writers, no matter the type, have been addressing the issue of identity for thousands of years. One playwright who stands out in this regard is Shakespeare and his play Hamlet. The play continually questions who the individuals are and what makes up the person they are. Yet another play can be associated with Shakespeare’s
are closely connected. Language and vocabulary determines someone’s thought process. Based on the words in the dictionary, which make up language, a person’s thoughts are limited and restricted. In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith, the protagonist, wants to overthrow a totalitarian government that follows rules of a fabricated man, Big Brother, in Oceania. In this society, the government, called the “Party”, limits and restricts what the citizens of Oceania can do and say. It limits
the themes of the play, interpreters have extracted a wide variety symbolism from the Godot's name. Some, taking an obvious hint, have proposed that Godot represents God and that the play is centered on religious symbolism. Others have taken the name as deriving from the French word for a boot, godillot. Still, others have suggested a connection between Godot and Godeau, a character who never appears in Honore de Balzac's Mercadet; Ou, le faiseur. Through all these efforts, there is still no definitive
‘Place-names.’ When Basso first began to work with the Apache people, one of his Apache friends told him to ‘learn the names,’ because they held a special meaning with the community. (Cruikshank 1990: 54) Place-names are special names given to a specific locality where an event
the expedition to success was Meriwether Lewis. I chose to look up his last name due to the fact that his last name is the more well known than his first name. Lewis is the english form of the french name Louis, this form was also derived from the german name Ludwig