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signifier of the race they wish to leave behind. Brown celebrates blues as a way of connecting people, and of giving them something to hold onto as they battle the hardships associated with not being white in America. While those who wish to be white spurn blues music as “too black,” Brown proves in his poem that blues is an essential way of bringing people together. He paints a picture of its immense impact when he describes the listeners crying together as Ma Rainey sings. This, in turn, serves as

A Symbol of Ambiguity Although the 20th century is far from a perfect world, it is difficult for people to comprehend and understand the harsh ways of the Puritan society in the 17th century. In his classic novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne effectively utilizes symbolism to display the evolution of several characters throughout the book, particularly the character of Hester Prynne. Within the novel, Hawthorne develops the significant symbol of the scarlet letter A to portray the strict

Discussing some of the Deadly Sins Dante had his fair share of the real human experience, whilst traveling through hell in Dante Alighieri’s “The Divine Comedy”. Characters in literature have been popularized since this masterpiece to favor sins as a type of personality trope. The lazy bum, the angry husband, or the prideful peacocks; the list goes on and on. The cause and effect of these traits have served well to teach generations of readers, the ideas and meanings of our actions as humans. Although

In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, there are two constant struggles. One is the struggle between Victor and himself; the other is between Victor and his creation. However, his creation could be viewed as a reflection of Victor and also a reflection of his society that is driven by selfish motives and with little or no regard for the natural order of events. Victor’s creation represents the negative consequences of trying to change natural occurrences. Victor is constantly faced with the

To her, Summer will pass with half a smile, because she will see her lover soon, and half a spurn because she must wait all summer before seeing her lover. She uses summer because most people see summer as something fun, but for Dickinson, she cannot truly enjoy summer without her lover. In the second stanza, Dickinson says that is she had to

In Frankenstein, Shelley uses the following to set the scene of the monsters human side: "'All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us" (Shelley, chapter 10 ). Shelley uses the words "hated," "miserable," and "dissoluble" not just to provide the reader with the condition of the monster’s

There is no doubt that Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a moral play as it focuses on the dangers and consequences of blind ambition. Justice is served to Macbeth, but not for the other characters who were murdered by him. Macbeth’s death marks the end of the play and shows that he finally got what he deserved as a result of his greedy, impulsive and prideful personality. As for the other deceased characters, such as Banquo and Duncan, they represent the good morals that Macbeth lacks. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s

The dark neighborhood near Hull House was home to brothels, saloons, dope peddlers and all-night "druggists", plying their trade along Sangamon, Green, Peoria, Curtis, Carpenter and Morgan Streets. Prostitutes beckoned openly from open doorways to the string of whorehouses that operated between Monroe and Lake Streets. It was a horrible place, and amidst it all were the broken-down refugees and immigrants. It was to this people that Jane Addams' Hull House appealed. Addams was given a 25 year, without

good man. In the book of Siddhartha, in his journey to reach enlightenment he had to overcome many obstacles and distractions that came his way. Siddhartha once said “It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself,

When writing a song, the song writer puts certain meanings behind specific words. When people read a song without the rhythm, they can put two and two together of what the meaning behind it is supposed to be. Each song has a different meanings and passions behind the words. In the song “Beasts of England”, the meaning is very on the spot. Even though the meaning of the whole song is very blunt, it does not mean that in every stanza, that the meaning is as open. In the first stanza, the meaning