... directly because of his choice of literary style, nor because of the iceberg theory. While Kafka's novella is comprised of sentence structures that can be interpreted in different ways, the ambiguity in the novella comes not from what is said, but from what is not being said (Sokel 204). Kafka's novella was translated from German many times by different authors throughout ... misunderstand to mean the definition that is most commonly associated with it, of referring to an animal when, in fact, it was intended to connote the less common definition. The ambiguity that arises from the resu...

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... is dealing with the burdensome obstacle of unplanned pregnancy. Many different themes such as one's choices and the consequences that follow, doubt and ambiguity, as well as the relationship between man and woman develop throughout the story. Hemingway also exhibits various examples of symbolism including the attention to ... hopes of finding true love and happiness. Another theme portrayed in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" is the feeling of doubt and ambiguity. As time progresses throughout the story and the couple's verbal "tug-of-war," the reader witnesses the irrevocable det...

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... . The novel blurs the lines between real stories and stories that the author created in order to cope with his past in Vietnam. O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to ... and making new memories with him right at that very moment. "That's what a story does. The bodies are animated. You make the dead talk" (O'Brien 231). The general ambiguity in the truthfulness of stories in the novel personally made me more inter...

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... inconclusive and equivocal, just like Marlow. Therefore, a reader's first expectations are rather inexpressible because one is put a half-state, where the clear literal meaning of "heart" is set against the ambiguity of the "darkness". The "darkness" in the novel works on both the characters and the readers, where it highlights the states of confusion and incomprehension of the mind. It seems ... revealed, when the narrator warns us that we are about to hear of one of Marlow's "inconclusive experiences". It is through Marlow's indecisiveness that the novel achieves its air of ambiguity,...

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... . Fowles himself insists that he understands neither his own protagonist nor her modern women version. The narrators only possible response to Sarah and her shifting life story is one of ambiguity. The epigraph of this chapter also directs to the ambiguous nature of the composer's intentions. As with chapter thirteen, the first chapter also demonstrates a nexus between the epigraph and the ... ...

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... . Fowles himself insists that he understands neither his own protagonist nor her modern women version. The narrators only possible response to Sarah and her shifting life story is one of ambiguity. The epigraph of this chapter also directs to the ambiguous nature of the composer's intentions. As with chapter thirteen, the first chapter also demonstrates a nexus between the epigraph and the ... ...

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... that produces "a shudder even more thrilling than before" (45). He makes a valiant effort to pass the house and surrounding atmosphere off as a figment of his imagination. It is this psychological ambiguity and imprecise explanations the further toy with the reader's emotions. ...

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... For Emily" is told through a pluralized first person point of view. The narrator is a peripheral observer, a basic representation of the entire community gossip, is in essence specifically indecipherable. Despite his ambiguity and lack of direct information, hearsay presents the facts accordingly so that the story can be followed and understood properly. The use of this omniscient narration, made up of a progressively ... ...

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