The Carnal and the Crane

obscene Bowery, they corrupt the core purpose of it. They do not see that it is impossible to tie such a white and pure idea to a place so iniquitous and scarred. When they try to tie this knot, they unveil the hypocrisy in their actions and words. Crane instills these qualities of hypocrisy in Jimmie and Mary in order to show the Bowery’s naivety towards genuine morality

The Orient is traditionally viewed as separate, backward, erotic, exotic, and passive. It mirrors a past of unscrupulous tyrannical power involving carnal pleasures and deviating from the restrictive morals of the “occidental.” The Orient displays feminine vulnerability with its progress and value judged as inferior to the West. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American presents the treatment of Phuong as a metaphor for how foreign occupying forces treat her native country of Vietnam, and her depiction

he describes the fate of the adulterous sinners and their punishment as being battered eternally by the winds and storms of hell, as they were figuratively battered by the winds of passion in their lives on earth. He describes with a simile how "as cranes go over sounding their harsh cry, / leaving the long streak of their flight in air, / so come spirits, wailing as they fly" (v 46-48). Finally, he makes use of another simile to iterate how after Francesca tells of her tale of love, Dante faints and

does this by writing: “As, in cold weather, the wings of starlings / bear them up in wide, dense flocks, / so does that blast propel the wicked spirits” (V. 40-42). The lustful are not only compared to starlings, but are also compared to cranes: “Just as cranes chant their mournful songs, / making a long line in the air, / thus I saw approach, heaving plaintive sighs” (V. 46-48). Comparing the wanton to birds does two things to them. First, it makes the sinners less than human as the medieval point

In Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes, identity becomes inescapable and transiently shared across generations and people, rather than belonging uniquely to individuals. The lingering presence of Mr. Mitani after his death reminds Kikuji of all the moral inadequacies Mitani possessed. As he begins to exhibit these inadequacies himself, Kikuji attempts to hide his imperfections by intoxicating himself and engaging in lustful affairs, but ultimately the cycle of shame continues. Ignoring or hiding from the

\\server05\productn\T\THE\26-1-2\THE1203.txt unknown Seq: 1 26-FEB-07 9:49 Fate and Destiny: Some Historical Distinctions between the Concepts Richard W. Bargdill Saint Francis University Abstract There has been a great deal of attention given to the “free will versus determinism” debate. However, little attention has been paid to the most common expressions from this controversy—people’s everyday experience of fate and destiny. In fact, fate and destiny are terms that are often used

TEXT INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS The purpose of Text Interpretation and Analysis is a literary and linguistic commentary in which the reader explains what the text reveals under close examination. Any literary work is unique. It is created by the author in accordance with his vision and is permeated with his idea of the world. The reader’s interpretation is also highly individual and depends to a great extent on his knowledge and personal experience. That’s why one cannot lay down a fixed “model”