The Use Of Hands In Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

There are many people that you would not like because of how they look and act. Many people may have the appearance or attributes of one of their parents, but few people look and act different from their parents or any form of human traits. As shown in the short stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Interlopers” by Hector Hugh Munro, the people are like animals because they and act different from other

The hand is personified in the story; “The hand, disturbed by a bad dream, appeared to respond to this startling discovery, this disgust. It regroups its forces, open wide, and splayed its tendons, lumps, and red fur like battle dress, then slowly drawing itself in again, grabbed a fistful of the sheet, dug into it with its curved fingers, and squeezed, squeezed with the methodical pleasure of a strangler.” From this description, the reader can visualize the violent nature that the hand has. In the quote, the hand is described as using its forces, having red fur that resembles battle dress, and digging into sheets. In addition, at the very end of the section the comparison of the hand squeezing the sheets to “the methodical pleasure of a strangler” is a very violent description and gives the reader a aggressive visual of the movements. Not only by the description of the hand’s visual appearance but also by the description of each aggressive fear evoking movement seem to cause the wife to fear the hand. (relates to feeling about

The story starts off rather soft as the woman is simply lying in bed with her newly-wed husband. As the story progresses, however, we begin to see a change in the mood of the story. The woman is lying in bed observing and admiring her husband, who she had just married, but then something peculiar happens. She notices his hand and how large and gruesome it appears to her. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette used very descriptive words to instill imagery, which means that it is visually descriptive to help the reader imagine what the author is trying to convey. For example, she describes his hand to have, “powerful knuckles and the veins engorged by the pressure on his arm” (par. 13). She also said that the hand, “took on a vile, apelike appearance” (par. 17). With these descriptive words, we are able to imagine how atrocious the man’s hand could appear to her.

No two people in the world have the same fingerprints and therefore no two people have the same hands. You can tell a lot about a person by their hands. For example, a harding working man may have rough, beaten-up hands. On the other hand, a man with a desk job may have soft, gentle hands. Hands symbolize our own identity and how we see others. After reading the play Macbeth we can tell a lot about Lady Macbeth by her hands. The word hand is used strongly as a symbol for guilt in the Shakespearean play called Macbeth.

For my breaching social norm experiment I was determined to do something I would never do even if it was a dare, especially since my ability to interact with strangers is not the best. So, I decided to make people feel uncomfortable by holding their hand. What I would do is walk up to the person from behind and slowly make my way to their hand to make them feel even more uncomfortable. People normally hold hands with their significant other, or with someone they know like a friend or family member, so to be holding hands with a stranger is out of the ordinary and awkward.

Ray Bradbury paints images such as hands, throughout his life, not even realizing what he was doing. When Montag first started taking books he was almost floating through his life, not even realizing what he was doing. Once Guy did realize what he was doing, he felt it was wrong because of what he’s been taught to do: “his hands had done it all, his hand with a brain of its own, with a conscience and a curiosity in each trembling finger” (McGiveron 1). The passage is suggesting his hands are pushing him to do the greater good, even though he feels as if he’s not fully aware of what he’s doing. Additionally hands in the book, and in life, can represent the actions people take and how they’re greater than spoken words. Bradbury throughout the

Gestures. This can communicate feelings and helps people to be understood. Arms and hands are moved to accompany what people say and add emphasis to what is being said. Gestures can be emphatic or descriptive.

When we look at new born baby, most of the time when they explore the new world, they will use their hand try to reach the object that they are interested in. To remember how that object feel through touching. When we grow up, when we meet someone, the first thing we will do is to give out our hand to greet other with a handshake, in fact this simple action can also reveal our personality. When we do not like or trying to protect ourselves, our hand will become a fist, ready to punch to express dislike. In a relationship, we often see couples holding hands, which can also explaining as they are fear to lose each other, besides they are willing to hand their life to their opponent. When we are holing other hands, we feel secure and someone to

The bloody hands allude to Jesus's crucifixion on the cross. The particular scene demonstrates perseverance despite everyone's-- and even his-- doubts of success. However, McMurphy "tried, though" (125), which surpasses the wills of others and kindles reverence, inspiration, and hope. As punishment for fighting the orderlies in order to protect George, McMurphy and Bromden endure electroshock therapy.

For my breaching social norm experiment, I was determined to do something I would never do even if it was a dare, especially since my ability to interact with strangers is not what I consider advanced. So, I decided to make people feel uncomfortable by holding their hand. What I would do is walk up to the person from behind and slowly make my way to their hand to make them feel even more uncomfortable. People normally hold hands with their significant other, or with someone they know, like a friend or family member, so to be holding hands with a stranger is infrequent and abnormal.

His hands are the first part of himself to wake up; an attempt to break away from being just another machine. At first he views it as an infection, thinking, “soon it would be his arms. He could feel the poison working up his wrists and into his elbows and his shoulders, and then the jump-over from shoulder-blade to shoulder-blade like a spark leaping a gap”. He also believed that his hands were to blame for the stealing that he did. He considered his hands to be separate from his being; they were the culprits and not him.

Firstly, Fingers as signifiers. The films very first image is a point-of-view shot looking through Ada's fingers as if they frame her world. They are signifiers of expressiveness. Ada is mute and her fingers are her tools of communication. She communicates using sign language with her fingers. Ada also uses her fingers to play the piano. Without her fingers, Ada would not be able to continue with her passion. Fingers are the chosen means of her affectionate sex play when she caresses her husband, and Baine's fingers a hole

The birthmark serrling and the eye of the beholder are forms of media that deal with the same ideas of personal beauty and societal views in this paper I will compare and contrast both of these texts. Where we see that they are more different than they are the same

Thus the focus on hands tolerates social implication that draws on ideas of humanity. It is only humans that seem to possess hands, or humanoid figures such as Grendel (and not paws, or just feet, or

A person could then appropriate a single one of these truths and try to go by it. That is when he or she would become a grotesque. The stories in Winesburg, Ohio do grapple with Anderson 's intended theme, and a story such as "Hands" clearly illustrates what he means by grotesque (Ellis 2).