Song Of Solomon 2
.... his home town, and the events that happened after his "flight." In general, oral traditions are used in this book to retell past events for both our understanding and for the characters. They take the form of song, story, and fairy tale and are very important to the meaning of the story because they are a major medium of narration.
Naming is utilized throughout the book for the purpose of creating identification and symbolism for the characters and places. On page four a brief description is give .....
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Song Of Solomon Interpretation
.... to the inappropriateness of taking a dead man's gold and to their father's ghostly message, he urinates, enjoying the idea of "life, safety, and luxury" resulting from the gold (170). In his unnatural act, taking a man's life, he has become deaf to his past and to Pilate. Though Milkman urinates on his sister by accident, his act has the same implications as his father's. By inertia, he assumes his father's attitude toward women, placing them in the periphery of his mind, though they are the center and the .....
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Sophocles
.... versed in Homer and the Greek lyric poets, and because of his industriousness he was known as the “Attic Bee” (Rexine 132). “Do to his youthful beauty, he was chosen to lead the chorus in the Paen of Thanksgiving for the naval victory at Salamis in 480 BC.” (Rexine 132)
In Sophocles’ long life he several times held public office, partly do to his fame as a dramatist and his gentle qualities as a man. “In 440 BC he was appointed one of the generals in the war wh .....
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Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui
.... The most obvious example occurs when Oedipus Gouges his eyes out with Iocaste's broaches. This scene is vividly described by the Chorus of Theban Elders, "Deep, how deep you drew it then, hard archer, At a dim fearful range, And brought dear glory down". Not only is this scene physically disturbing, but it is emotionally disturbing due to the dramatic irony. Oedipus, before this, was blinded by his intellectual arrogance. Now, he has been humbled by fate and sees his mistakes, but is physically bli .....
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St. Augustin
.... Some might argue that the sorrow that Augustine describes at both the deaths of his friend and mother illustrates that death was not looked on as a passage to life in heaven, but as a very sorrowful and deplorable event. Though Augustine admits to feeling great sorrow at the death of those close to him, he goes on to point out that these feelings are merely of the imperfect body. When one lets go and listens to his soul he will see that all things begin and end with God. “For the senses .....
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Stones From The River
.... believed that when one receives communion that all of one’s sins will be wiped away. During the month of December the Jewish celebrate Hanukkah, while the Catholics celebrate St. Nikolaus and Christ’s birth in Christmas. We celebrate his birth and than during Lent around Easter we reflect on his sacrifices he made for us. Hanukkah is celebrated by the lighting of the menorah. However, St. Nicholas is the hanging of stockings to be filled with candy or gifts. “That night Trudi left h .....
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Street Car Named Desire
.... by Blanche Dubois. Blanche is a lost cause; she lives in a dream world and is afraid of reality. She was quite drunk when she spoke these words; again the theme of alcohol is involved. It is her steps towards insanity, however, that influence this scene. Tennessee uses his sister's disturbed life and applies it to Blanche's character. Blanche seems like the model character that represents Williams. She is heavily involved with alcohol and she less than living in reality.
Tennessee Williams used .....
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Streetcar Named Desire
.... night. Blanche turns on the radio, but Stanley
demands her to turn it off. Blanche refuses and so Stanley gets up
himself and turns it off himself. When Stanley’s friend, Mitch, drops
out of the game to talk to Blanche, Stanley gets upset and he
even gets more upset when Blanche flicks on the radio. Due to the
music being on, Stanley, in a rage, stalks in the room and grabs the
radio and throws it out the window. His friends immediately jump up,
and then they drag him to the .....
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Submission Or The Drop Of A Fi
.... a "brotherhood." Early on before even joining the organization, he was given an idea as to what the Brotherhood stood for, as is evident by Brother Jack's comment to him during their first meeting, "And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action" (pg 293). Brother Jack insinuates from the start that there is no intention that the narrator should have any individual say or control over what is to be done within the Brothe .....
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Suffer The Little Children - S
.... to a class of third grade children who are, in the majority of the time, quiet, with frightened faces. The characteristics of Kings work demonstrate tension from the beginning to the end.
The structure of the story itself builds up, but the mirror image is building down. At first, Miss Sidley is in control of the situation: Behind her, none of the children giggled or whispered..., Like God, she seemed to know everything at once. The author compares her to God, which put her in a superior position, .....
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Summary Of Kidnapped
.... to see a lawyer so he may get the inheritance. As for Ebenezer he had an appointment with a captain of a ship called Mr. Hoseason. Mr. Hoseason kidnapped David with the consent of Ebenezer, for he did not want the boy to be around. David was forced to serve the captain and his crew. One night on the ship the mistakenly ran over a small boat. Only one man survived. His name was Alan, and he was dressed in the finest of clothing. They quickly cared for him, and gave him food to eat. The captain of .....
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Sweat By Zora Hurston
.... beating. Others in town knew of the abuse Delia suffered from. One gentlemen from town made the comment one day, “[Sykes] done beat [Delia] ‘nough tuh kill three women.” Many people in the town had little to no respect for Sykes because he beat Delia and Sykes even tried making offers with presents to some of the other mens’ wives.
Besides physical and emotional abuse Delia had to put up with mental abuse from her husband. At one time, Sykes put a snake into a soap box to sca .....
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Symbolism In Ethan Frome
.... “It was a miracle, considering how sick she was-but she seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her.” (131)
The incident with the red dish is the most symbolic event in the story. The red dish was a wedding present given to Zeena by one of her relatives. When the red dish broke, it symbolized the breaking of Ethan’s heart when he found out that Zeena wanted Mattie to leave. Zeena never used the dish, she kept it in the closet. One day when Zeena went to get her medic .....
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Symbolism In The Crysanthemums
.... that anything would actually happen.
Elisa's bath is another good symbol that Steinback uses to develop Elisa's character. When she, "scrubbed herself with a little block of pumice. . . until her skin was scratched and red."(Steinback 273) she was scrubbing away the skin that bound her into her conventional role. After this bath she had the courage to ask henry if they could have wine at the dinner tonight, and that they may possibly go to the fights together. After her bath she realized h .....
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Symbolism In The Great Gatsby
.... with him. Yet, most of the time that he throws these parties at his own home, he is alone and does not socialize with the people who attend.
Trying to understand Gatsby is a very difficult thing to do, because there is so much to grasp. Entering into the upper class of wealthy people, Gatsby not only held onto a secret past, but also had the hidden agenda of trying to get Daisy back, whom he had fallen in love with while in the war. As people became more and more curious as to where he came .....
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