... try to give the audience clues as to what! is happening. Ibsen also uses visual cues on stage to help the audience grasp the progression of the script. The Christmas tree that Nora is setting up in the first act is in its full glory before intermission, while the illusions of happiness are still in effect. When the curtain rises after ... intermission and the illusions are starting to crumble, the tree is standing in the background of the set with its candles burnt down, all the decorations removed, and the branches looking ragged and decrepit (Hornby 113). Ibsen masterfully uses all .....

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... seems like her entire surroundings are sexually charged and she cannot escape it, "She wiped the frame that was clouded with moisture. It was stiflingly hot...A bolt stuck a tall chinaberry tree...the crash seemed to invade the very boards they stood upon." She soon gives in to her desires and finds a satisfaction that she had never experienced before. Her body was ... never really alive until her husband died, "Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body." This conjures up the image of something cold and lifeless regaining life again. This is ...

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... of the Beng religion, beliefs, and so on. This group of people from Western Africa worships the earth. Here is a quote from the text which supports my opinion, "The Kapok Tree, for clearly it was the center of social life. With its enormous flying buttress roots providing natural benches and the bright, spreading leaves on its tall trunk giving a wide circle ... ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d"Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by the kapok tree planted...

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... transition from childhood to adulthood at the age of sixteen, Janie struggled with the life she dreamed of living. Growing up she symbolized a blossoming pear tree which represented the true meaning of love and marriage to her. It was at that moment when she knew what kind of love to search for ... and wouldn't stop until her life was as perfect as the pear tree. There are three significant plots throughout the novel that lead her to both love and self-discovery: marrying Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Vergible Woods ... 't make him look just like another man to her. He looked like the...

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... not wish to trust his fate to Lear, Goneril, Reagan, their husbands, or even his naive brother Edgar once his father had passed away. Robert Blake, in the poem "A Poison Tree- wrote, "I was angry with my friend/I told my wrath/My wrath did end/I was angry with my foe/I told it not/My wrath did grow . . . - Just as Blake describes a person ... internalizing his feelings of anger and planning to use them in revenge served up cold, so must have Edgar internalized. Given his intelligence and abilities, it was a sore thing for him when his father cast aspersions on him due to conditions beyo...

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... but not her money will attract men where her beauty might now no longer suffice. She admits that she treated her old husbands with a cold and calculated attitude in her prologue. "Thou seyest, right as wormes shende a tree, Right so a wyf destroyeth hire housbonde." Her marriage to the three older men seems to be purely a financial matter but she used it to ... ...

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... doesn't love Logan and wants to know if she ever will love him. She expresses how "Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah" (Hurston, 24). Janie doesn't care about Logan's sixty acres of land, or the amount of money and prestige he has. Instead she wants to experience excitement ... and blissful harmony and the passionate interaction that she feels while sitting under the pear tree. Janie was in an oppressive relationship with Logan. He ultimately angers when he realizes that she doesn't love him. As a result he treats her unkindly and req...

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... was still something missing in Obadiah Elihue's life. O.E. Parker might have previously believed that he was completely apathetic to religion, but as the tractor he was driving crashed into the tree he found himself calling on the only help he could call on; "God Above."" Parker had used this language before in everyday slang, but this time was different. If Parker ... God had enough of Parker's ignorance and decided to step in. Parker could no longer see his self as something separate from God. Yet he looks back at the burning tree and his natural instinct was to once again, run away f...

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... the young age of sixteen. During this time in her life, she is living with her grandmother in West Florida and spends many of the hot summer afternoons under a pear tree in her grandmother's backyard. On one particular occasion, Janie "saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom" (Hurston 11). "So this was a marriage!" (Hurston 11). Janie believed that ... it's species, while the bee relies on the flower for food and nourishment. It is this experience that Janie will remember for the rest of her life, with the pear tree representing the awakening of the woman inside her and ...

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... less than what she thinks true love should be. Yet, she marries three times and becomes unsatisfied. Janie says that "marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think." She sees herself as a pear tree in bloom, but she's around forty years old before she finds the right "dust-bearing bee" (Hurston 134). She married her other husbands because they represented ... acres of land. Janie survives these marriages by retreating into herself. She discovers that she had "an inside and an outside and how to mix them" (Hurston 186). Janie's "pear tree" dream finally comes true, when she marri...

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... silly." A yearly ritual they engage in is during the Christmas season. They hang a Hallmark ornament that plays "White Christmas," on their tree, and every night they play it and dance in the living room. This occurs from the time the tree is put up, until it is taken down. Relational currencies are sometimes called the "love language," and can be exchanged in ... ...

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... chance to inherit a deceased husband's property. Mr. Spence's vivid use of P'eng's story opens the reader's eyes to the degree of cruelty which relatives of deceased husband's were treated. The tree brothers of the deceased killed the only descendant son, Lien, after an unsuccessful attempt to get woman P'eng married. The law would have allowed the ... tree brothers to inherit the property if woman P'eng had remarried, or if there was no son to receive the property. In the trial of the murder, Ch'en Kuo-hsiang, ... ...

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... called her, Nora's rebelliousness through the use of the macaroons and the tarantella dance, and the changes that will take place in the Helmer's marriage through the use of a Christmas tree. The "lark-, "little squirrel-, and "little spendthrift- Torvald calls Nora is symbolic of Torvald's demeaning attitude towards Nora. "He refers to his wife in the diminutive. She is always little ... Nora dances more and more wildly-(1007). There's no symbolic item more fitting than the Tarantella to make the audience aware of Nora's deception and rebelliousness. Ibensen's use of a Christmas tree t...

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... occasions and is punished by his chi. He beat his second wife, Ekwefi, even during the week of peace; she received a sound beating. She only trimmed a tree, yet Okonkwo has accused her of killing the tree. When he loses control he cannot decipher good judgment from bad judgment, since he is blinded by rage. He has committed an abomination to the earth ... ...

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... ugly as hell, it does not bother Bud and Olla who are filled with pride of achieving something in their lives by having a child. At first, Fran appears to be cold and arrogant towards their hosts but grows warmer as the visit progresses. Something happens inside of her when she sees the obvious self-satisfaction Bud and Olla get from their ... 70s. Alcohol is a natural part of people's lives in many of the stories. It also appears to help people to deal with their misfortunes and ease the encounter with the cold reality. As Duane puts it in Feathers: "Drinking's funny. When I look back ...

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... order to survive. The only difference these two groups have is their sexual preference. And because of this hatred or homephobic, it has started a new cold war, which is not aboard, but here at home. A cold war that both sides are equally divided. Through out the years that neither side could have dominate the debate over one another. Various pools have shown ... gays. A quote from a lesbian clearly showed the struggle they have to endure, "we've come a long way since then. The old concept of family left gay people out in the cold. We were presumed not to live in anything that could be ...

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... in Tess seem one-dimensional. Angel Clare, who appears briefly in the first section, is shown to be graceful, kind, and life loving but after a while, the genuine "angel" turns cold and heartless. Alec D"Urberville, who in the beginning took advantage of the pure Tess, ended up offering a home and family to her when she had no one else to turn ... on Angel and giving into Alec, Tess could rid her and her family's lives of any dissatisfaction but she waits and waits for Angel to return to her. Despite Angel's cold abandonment, Tess is true to her husband and holds out for as long as poss...

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... and daughter die during the famine, he goes and works at Wang's estate. II. Setting Wang Lung's farmland is in the northern area of the province of Anhwei, which is a cold and dry country. Once every five years or so it suffers a drought in which no crops grow. This region is bare of forests, it has no woodland in which to ... walled country town. His house has three tiny rooms, a thatched roof, and walls made of earthen bricks, with small window holes covered over with paper to keep out the winter cold. The kitchen is nothing but an earthen oven in a shed shared with the ox's stall. Wh...

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... of those passions from which she could have never achieved in the material world in which she lived. The "chill" of the water is both metaphorical and real. Society gives a cold response to her pursuit of independence and, because of her behavior, removes its protection and cloak of respectability. Therefore she is naked and ... cold because stands alone "apart from society. Yet, Edna is exhilarated by, too. She is in control in the midst of turmoil. She continues forward into the "deep." The swirling ... ...

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... permanently, not just his and Martha's but also from Nick and Honey's marriage too. Some may argue that the ends do not justify the means, as his methods are rather cold and hurtful, but the end result is all that's important to George, with that being the expulsion of hypocrisy from their lives. Obviously the biggest expulsion of hypocrisy that George ... play is at first seen to be passive and complacent. He is pushover compared to his wife Martha, who appears to rule the roost. Trapped in a marriage with a demanding and cold wife, who in turn is influenced by her powerful father, Geo...

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... in Tess seem one-dimensional. Angel Clare, who appears briefly in the first section, is shown to be graceful, kind, and life loving but after a while, the genuine "angel" turns cold and heartless. Alec D"Urberville, who in the beginning took advantage of the pure Tess, ended up offering a home and family to her when she had no one else to turn ... on Angel and giving into Alec, Tess could rid her and her family's lives of any dissatisfaction but she waits and waits for Angel to return to her. Despite Angel's cold abandonment, Tess is true to her husband and holds out for as long as poss...

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... crying and because he is unable to understand his wife, they have a fight. It is the first of many fights. Just as in "The Lady with the Dog-, they become cold and distant to each other. Eventually, his wife has a male companion and Pozdnyshev assumes that they are having an affair. This is the turning point in the relationship. Her purity ... . In Dostoevsky's "The Underground Notes-, the underground man was way too crazy to fall in love with someone. "The Kreutzer Sonata- is the most tragic of all. Pozdnyshev murders in cold blood because of his own egoism. Only Dmitri and Anna put the...

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... opened Miss Havisham's eyes to what she had created in Estella. During the argument, Estella admitted to never loving Miss Havisham, she responded to that by telling Estella she had a "cold, cold heart"(Dickens 289). Estella replied by saying, "I am what you have made me"(Dickens 290). Even though Miss Havisham had taught her how not to feel towards people, you would ... ...

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... three times. Each marriage helps Janie finds her own wishes and goals in life. Janie gets her definition of love from "nature," when she witnesses the "marriage" between the pear tree and the bee. Now that she knows what she is searching for, Janie is determined to find it, and she will settle for nothing less. Yet, she doesn't find her ... ...

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... that breaks the roles of the Woman Question, are discovered through Catherine Givings' own discovery of her body and sexual intelligence. Through her childlike ways, she ultimately picks from the Tree of Knowledge in the garden, and shows her husband how to love. Works Cited Al-Shamma, James. Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Print. Dolan ... ...

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