... Jean, that he finally gets people to love him even though tragically the love did not turn out like love. Moreover, through the metaphor of comparing Jean to an angel, Suskind switches the role of the monsters in the story. He let the other characters in the story ... of a turning point in the novel. Moreover, according to Robert T. Carrol's The Skeptics' Dictionary, the vampire has become a metaphor for those who define and create themselves by destroying others. Hence, throughout the history of vampire and readers' perception of what vampires represent, the vampires ... . Conclusion ...

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... been far overshadowed by that accorded to Mistry. His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the ... attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individ...

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... been far overshadowed by that accorded to Mistry. His meteoric career cannot then be credited altogether to the exotic nature of the Parsis. Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the ... attracts in Mistry's fiction, but the way he uses these elements. As in his treatment of Parsi society, he transforms the historical situations and the reality of Indian life into a metaphor that shows how the individ...

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... life of Darcy. Our cold fixation on his pride and harsh demeanor is second-guessed when we visualize the beauty and importance of his estate. This visual also serves, as a metaphor for Darcy's character, "handsome,...standing well on the rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills."" The hills are a symbol of the prejudice held against him by Elizabeth ... was swelled into greater."" Although this is all she witnessed in him, this encounter with his estate brings new light to her feelings for him. "Without any artificial appearance,"" the metaphor continues to describe Darc...

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... 's wife, who of course is his mother. When Oedipus finds out what he has done, he blinds himself and becomes a wandering beggar. Sigmund Freud took the legend of Oedipus as a metaphor for the wish of every small boy to get his father out of the way so he could have his mother all to himself. Most men resolve this dilemma by ... . So hung up with words (p. 79). With Oedipa's inability to separate her play from its author, editor or producer, her search for the original version of The Courier's Tragedy is a metaphor of the reader's troubles in making sense of the novel. Our attempt to draw ...

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... the inability to understand. The images and emotions Pynchon includes entail the painful feeling of sorrow and disappointment from not knowing. Pynchon concludes his argument with the void. He uses metaphor and simile to communicate that the void is the eventual loss of all feeling and human contact. The use of themes and tactics within the novel concludes that the search ... find the hidden truth she leads herself deeper and deeper into the void. Pynchon completes his argument with the description of Oedipa in the void. Pynchon uses figurative language and metaphor to express the empti...

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... the Artist as a Young Man explores what it means to become an artist. Stephen's decision at the end of the novel - to leave his family and friends and go into exile in order to become an artist - suggests that Joyce sees the artist as a necessarily isolated figure. In his decision, Stephen turns his back on his community, refusing to accept the ... ...

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... character, Ellis, is haunted by the fact that he was unable to mourn his father's death, and is currently unable to connect with his son. This haunting becomes the dominant metaphor of Bret's work, as the ghost of his father comes back to warn him of something about his family, and as his son becomes a ghost and disappears. Bret's relationship with ... ...

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... anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats." It is almost as if the oceans strength and unpredictability and the men stuck in the ship is a metaphor for the irrationality of life and the dissatisfaction of the only thing humanity will ever be sure of is the fact that one day everyone becomes a victim to death. Again ... ...

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... labyrinth as a symbolic landscape: those that include a voyage toward the self and those that contain a voyage toward the text... In the case of House of Leaves, the labyrinth acts as a metaphor in each level of the novel. In each level, Danielewski's characters are navigating the labyrinth of self. These navigations of self are evident in the novel's structure. "The Navidson Record ... ...

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... a boy saying "I fired because I am a German " thus asserting the cyclical progression of history. Like in "Tin Drum", Grass inserts thematic objectification in "Crabwalk". He posits Wilhelm Gustloff, the ship as a metaphor to describe the history of war and hatred, the Germans went through. The ship started its voyage with "strength through joy " trips depicting the pre war condition of Germany, then ... ...

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... travel". (Maalouf, 1992) It is significant, then, that Maalouf does not present Leo Africanus as a dweller or representative of Africa, but rather renders him in perpetual motion. Here the key metaphor is the flux of the sea. In Maalouf's book, Leo observes that "God did not ordain that my destiny should be written completely in a single book, but that it should ... ...

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... , when Mr. Weston makes an acrostic for Emma. The Word Game - Similar to the riddle, a word game is played in Chapter 41 between Emma, Frank, and Jane. It functions as a metaphor for the partial understandings and misunderstandings that exist among Emma, Frank, Jane, and Mr. Knightley. As Mr. Knightley looks on, Frank uses child's blocks to create words for the ladies ... ...

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