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    to Florida where their vacation takes a bitter turn. While taking a hasty detour, the family bumps into the criminal, the Misfit, and is brutally murdered on the spot. In the short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, O’Connor utilizes emblematic symbolism, indicative foreshadowing, and capricious setting to illustrate there is no escape from the inevitable path of disastrous fate. Through the whimsical setting, O’Connor illustrates illuminating imagery that intertwines eloquent details throughout

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    Janie’s Discovery of Self Through Symbols In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie Mae Crawford deals with her loss of self and rediscovering herself through symbols that describe each of her relationships. After Janie discovers what she thinks love is, she undergoes three marriages that define her idea of love through the way her husbands treat her and the recurring symbols that appear in each one. These relationships range from passionless to abusive to positive and

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    Keywords: Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Symbolism, Bird Imagerey, Animal Kingdom, Philosophy Introduction The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of the masterpieces and the imperishable novel of Thomas Hardy, although it has never enjoyed the popularity of Tess and Jude. Hardy was at the height of his creative powers when he began work on it at the age of forty four. Initially, the novel appeared serially, in twenty installments, in 1886 in an English periodical, The Graphic, and was

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    Hell (2004) the main characters Clive and Hanwell deal with loneliness simply through hope. While over twenty years apart, these two narratives explore how an individual deals with the notion of loneliness through the use of the colour red, the symbolism in animals, and the condition of blindness. However, Carter illustrates the refusal of the protagonist to simply accept any circumstances; but the interference in any situation. On the other hand, Smith demonstrates the acceptance and balance of

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    Birthmark” is a about a scientist who strives to fix the imperfections of human nature. Not only does he kill his wife during the process, his attempt to have any control over human nature dies as well. This story is ironic in the way Hawthorne uses his symbolism in his characters to portray. Judith Fetterley says, "The Birthmark demonstrates the consequences to women of being trapped in the laboratory of man 's mind, the object of unrelenting scrutiny, examination, and experimentation," (Fetterley 32).

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    theme of symbolism to convey the relationship between a vacuum cleaner and a widower. The poem can be seen as a symbolic description of the experience he is going through after the demise of his beloved wife. The sentence structure and the type of figurative language requires one to evaluate and analyze the poem effectively to understand the meaning. The line in the poem “The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, its bag limp as a stopped lung” (Mays 580) is indicative of the symbolism that his

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    October 2016 Title In Nathanial Hawthorne’s short story “The Birth-Mark,” the use of symbolism is heavily portrayed. Although the birthmark is the most prominent symbol in the story, it is not the only one that Hawthorne used. Hawthorne uses the narrative to show the world that humans are mortal beings, and that no person is knowledgeable enough to assume the role of an all-powerful god. Through his use of symbolism, Hawthorne addresses the issues of the imperfection of human nature, human mortality

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    (A critique of Stephen Crane’s use of symbolism in Red Badge of Courage and An Episode of War) A tortured man who wrote beautifully tortured tales, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote in his one and only novel, “...words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”. No writer creates reality better than Stephen Crane (1871 -1900). Crane is greatly commended for his naturalistic style of writing, which has the goal of writing the most realistic representation of events with

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    drama, symbolism is one of the important literary devices that is commonly employed by many play writers. It imparts the play’s hidden meaning and portrays emotions and conflicts in the characters. Equally, Ibsen’s play, A Doll House makes an extensive use of symbols which does not only make the play captivating but also enables the reader to get a deeper understanding of the underlining ideas. Indeed, Symbolism is a literary device that is evident throughout Ibsen 's play. Examples of symbolism in the

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    every day? Everybody carries things that symbolize who they are or where they are from. Those things may be heavy, light, or even things that you cannot see. In the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, he introduces a lot of symbolism in every object mentioned, many of them you can see, some you can’t see. In this short story, the narrator tells of the burdens carried by each soldier and the meanings of these things to the men. The things they carried described in detail the

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