Major Symbols in Winesburg, Ohio In Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson paints a picture about life in a small town. Anderson uses many symbols to convey the feelings of his characters with in the town. The most important symbols in Winesburg, Ohio are the use of the words fist and hands that symbolize the anger and frustration of the characters. ... Stuart (2) With Alice Hindman in the story "Adventure" we see another character that is frustrated with the outcome of her life. ... While working on his sermon he finds that he has a view of Kate Swift's room, a teacher in town. ...

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There are a number of contextual symbols in Ibsen's work. ... A symbol of affluence and luxury, the piano is a symbol of status for Hedda and Tesman. ... Hedda is more or less parting with her piano, as she is parting with how her life once was. ... The symbolism used by Ibsen allows the reader or viewer to gain an intricate view of his work, especially the character of Hedda Gabler. ... When explored, these symbols allow for multiple perceptions and views of the drama. ...

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Snow is an example of one of these symbols. ... The setting is essential to the work as a whole, allowing for the snow to be used as a symbol, for the song to be sung at the party, and for Gretta to speak to Gabriel in the motel room. Last, Huston keeps the point of view the same as the story, as well as the shifts in the point of view. The story begins with a point of view of the party before Gabriel arrives, as does the film. ... This point of view changes yet again at the end of the story while Gabriel and Gretta are in the motel room, as included in the film. ...

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With this distinction in mind, there is no room to imagine that women are inferior to men. ... Islamic family role provides them with security and ensures them with a social and economical shelter, first within the family then in the community. ... The Quranic view of women reports that there is no different than that of men. ... In the traditional view, Jewish women were given 3 basic laws to keep: 1.The Jewish future is invested in our children and how we raise them. ... Islam religion does not have many symbols. ...

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English Literature Coursework Examine the settings that the writers have chosen for their stories in "The Signalman", "The Man With The Twisted Lip" and "The Red Room". ... Dickens had managed to combine the old with the new, the supernatural past with the modern railway in this narrative. ... The "Red Room" by H G Wells does not provide the reader with much information about the world beyond the castle where events take place. ... "On either side, a dripping-wet wall of jagged stone, excluding all view but a strip of sky" indicates that the signalman was also deprived of sunshine in that...

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John (the narrator's physician husband) has diagnosed her with a nervous depression. ... The narrator states, "The most beautiful place, the rooms are on different floors and have different setups in every room" (705). ... The narrator has a big airy room on the top floor, which contains the yellow wallpaper. 3 The Yellow paper is a symbol of the narrator's sickness. Writing is also a symbol of forget ness. ... Night is also a symbol of sleep; to her daytime is the best time to sleep. ...

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Traditionally this symbol could represent a view of possibilities, or an opening to another world', but in this instance it also becomes a view to what she does not want to see. Through this symbol, she sees all that she could be and everything that she could have. ... She will still be forced to creep about the room. More immediate to facilitating her metamorphosis than the house itself is the room she is in, specifically the characteristics of that room, the most important being the yellow wall-paper which also plays a double role; it has the ability to trap her in with its intrica...

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A Room of Many Thoughts One of the first things to notice about A Room of One's Own is that it is not a typical lecture. ... She is showing us what she values most about writing while at the same time artfully expressing her views on women and fiction. ... Woolf herself may be seen as a materialist at times on account of her generous use of symbols and her interest in "things,"" often observed first in the physical sense. ... She connects this intimacy to the things of life with upholding the real. ... These random objects and descriptions paint a picture of A Room of One'...

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The House of Ravenclaw, which has an eagle as a symbol, is easily associated with the element air, as all uses of air in magic correspond to intelligence. Moreover, their common room is specifically described as being wide and airy with great views to outside. Gryffindor is associated with fire since it has a lion as a symbol. ... They have a badger as a symbol, a hard-working, tenacious and sociable animal that has some characteristics associated with the earth signs. ... Moreover, the Slytherin Common Room is under the lake. ...

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Formalistic Criticism for "Revelation" Formalistic critics often analyze stories by showing the relationship between various elements" meanings such as: plot, characters, point of view, setting tone, diction, images, and symbols. ... The room may also represent the protagonist's small mindedness. ... Turpin sees "a woman with a yellow sweatshirt and wine-colored slacks, both gritty-looking, and the rims of her lips were stained with snuff. Her dirty yellow hair was tied behind with a little piece of red paper ribbon. ... Formalistic critics could also talk about O" Connor's use of ...

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The couple is obviously inside a room with a substantial amount of light coming through the windows, and the woman appears to be pregnant. ... A similar symbol is the convex mirror that hangs behind the couple and shows everything in the room including two witnesses. The mirror is decorated with circular scenes from Passion of Christ that represent God's promise of salvation for the figures reflected in the mirror. ... The way in which the couple is standing shows a conventional 15th century view on marriage and the roles. ... Even though there are still many unanswered questions to the...

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"The Yellow Wallpaper"" is about a woman that suffers from a mental illness and is kept in a room with only a bed and her own thoughts, which ultimately lead to her mental downfall. ... Gilman builds the majority of this story on the yellow wallpaper that stands as a symbol for the many struggles that a women in that day and age had to deal with. ... The color yellow is normally associated with illness. ... Jane describes her view from one of the windows in her room. ... Here, the word "riotous " is a direct result of her desire to go against the guidelines of what is expected of her and to le...

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The mind and heart are fragile items to toy with. ... Both are symbols showing the inner feeling of the women portrayed. ... In the end she got what she wanted, but it came with a heavy price. ... The room became a symbol of her oppression, try as she may, she can not leave it. ... In "The Story of an Hour" the view from the window portrayed her release and freedom. ...

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(pg.29 l.36) Because he says "Elves", which is entirely random, the narrator's playful personality is made more clear to the reader, and it also shows the great contrast with the neighbor's view. ... When the man with whom he's sharing a room, Layfayette, tries to be his friend, Dr. ... The symbol of doors leads the reader to understand the characters. ... Magoon is being lead to the room, he goes "down a narrow passage of doors".... This obscured view is caused by the darkness. ...

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One of the most important parts of the house in terms of symbolism is the library, and Winton uses this to present his views on the racial policies of Australia in the 1950s. ... Thus, when Rose and Lamb make love in the library, "their sudden love remains in the room, hanging like incense". ... In this case, the house as a whole, and the aboriginal man are used a symbol to prove this. ... We are first introduced to this when the old lady dies in the house while playing on the piano and "her nose hit middle C hard enough to darken the room with sound". ... Throughout the novel, the Aboriginal ...

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He describes how she uses symbols such as reading, music, and walking to present her characters in accordance with the novel's themes. ... Like reading, Elizabeth plays because she enjoys music, with or without an audience, while Miss Bingley uses music as her feminine "social status symbol" and also as a means to attract men (Moler 52). ... These walks associate her with her art-nature characteristics (Moler 54). ... The first time is at Netherfield in the drawing room, and the second is in the shrubbery at Netherfield (Moler 54). ... Moler presents his views on the symbolic motifs ...

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Current feminist critics have come up with a profusion of in-depth views and symbolism that have altered the way this work is read. ... In addition, setting is a strategy for the author to introduce symbols in the text, symbols that are not obvious to decipher at the first read. ... These symbols represent Gilman's view on the status of women in the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century. ... The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols and meanings beyond the first reading's impressions. ...

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Symbolism is the art or practice of using symbols, especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representation (Websters Dictionary). The technique is used to emphasize the importance of ideas by leaving out important details of the story and replacing them with symbols. ... I view white, as a pure color that is very delicate just like a baby is when it is born. ... The landscape itself is a symbol. ... He also says that they"ll be fine afterward saying that there is only room for the two of them in thi...

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The story is written with somewhat of a slanted point of view, as seen through the barber's eyes. ... But most importantly, Téllez uses imagery and symbols when describing Captain Torres and also with the shaving cream and razor blade. ... When an animal first enters a room is as if they creep in the room silently, which is exactly how Téllez seems to describe Torres in the beginning of "Just Lather, That's All-. ... With shaving cream on Torres face the barber seems to think clearly, but with only a little remaining it is hard for him to think clearly and rationally. ...

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The scene begins with a close up of the helmet. ... This indicates that the armor is a symbol for the clan's honor. The camera then zooms out and the lighting changes, illuminating the set, and for the first time, we are able to see the Iyi clan's symbol on the pedestal and the opulence of the room. ... However, despite its opulence, the armor is sequestered in a secret room in a large mansion, and is thus hidden from public view, suggesting that its purpose is not to impress honor through extravagance, but to remind the Iyi retainers that they are indeed honorable samurai, and to p...

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Chapter One: Symbols and Romanticism Nathaniel Hawthorne, as a romantic writer, nurtures his works with symbols that reflect American romanticism. ... "3 Hawthorne's reference to the Inferno may be deliberate; through it he shows the romantic point of view toward culture. ... One notices here the sharp contrast between the darkness associated with the room and "the bright sunshine" of the garden. The opposition between the room and the garden reflects Hawthorne's romanticism; that is to say that culture imposes restrictions on individuals, whereas Nature provides the...

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Many people want to visit Hanoi because they would like to view the Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh and the house where President Ho used to work and live. ... Behind the Mausoleum of President Ho, you will see one of the symbols of Hanoi and Vietnam. ... After the front room is a small open courtyard built to let the light in. It is usually decorated with ornamental rocks, small pool with a variety of fishes, plants, and flowers. The backroom is used as living quarter with the dinning room and bedrooms. ...

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Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... All of the action as viewed by the audience takes place inside the drawing room, an indoor and private place. ... Another symbol, which serves to link Hedda to her pre-marital identity and also serves to construct her in terms of difference when compared to endorsed female figures of nineteenth century is her association with pistols. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitability of her middle class life. ......

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Poe was a man who had experiences with a disease that killed many people in his lifetime. ... An English scholar expands on this idea: "The seven chambers can work as a symbol for time that passes by in life and its phases, because their interior design and lighting color differs from each other. ... The last room is decorated in black and is illuminated by a scarlet light. ... The clock that presides over that room also reminds the guests of death's final judgment. ... Poe describes this morbid character in the following, "His vesture was dabbled in blood --and his broad brow, ...

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My room was a small space of practical use hung together. ... Touching stuff that roam my room for years, place after place. ... A sock in the middle of my room reminds me steps to a long evening, a watering can next to a tall plant. ... A common symbol with the function to test an individual's feeling or trait These symbols are widely used on social networking sites like Facebook and Hyves but have now lost their meaning completely opposed. ... Smileys or emoticons are symbols with which Internet users can express a feeling or mood. ...

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