... Rebecca. The narrator and her husband, neither of whose names we know yet, find themselves in exile from Manderley, a place of great beauty that now lies in ruins. But their exile owes not only to the physical destruction of their home; a house can be rebuilt. Rather, their exile is a spiritual one, and one freely chosen, to escape the ghosts that haunt Manderley's ruins ... much is certain," the heroine says. "The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again... " Indeed, their exile is not an unhappy one, despite the tinge of regr...

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... does not contain raw sexuality, it is clear to the audience that Derek is interested in Sara. His teaching her to dance hip-hop is a metaphor for teaching her about her sexuality, but Sara's sexual status is ambiguous. Sara and Derek's relationship is developed further through teaching Sara how to dance ... Americans that are uncomfortable with the couple. The class/race issue plays into the seduction of Sara. When Derek teaches Sara to dance, it is a metaphor for opening her up to her sexuality. While Save the Last Dance only uses contemporary music, during the seduction scene a cover of...

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... her heel breaks a floorboard and creates a hole in the floor, foreshadowing the imminent destruction of her body (the breaking and eventual amputation of her leg). These comparisons establish an ongoing metaphor. If the apartment represents her body, then when Richie (her "son") falls into the hole, which literally and symbolically resembles female genitalia, and stays there for a long period ... of time, then her waiting for Richie to come out of the hole resembles a pregnancy. Many other elements of the narrative support this metaphor, including the ongoing visits to the hospital, the...

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... deceived into thinking Hero has been unfaithful He feels more betrayed by Leonato than by Hero, saying, "Give not this rotten orange to your friend" (IV.i.30). The metaphor of the "rotten orange" implies that a once sweet and pure Hero is now spoiled. Unlike Othello, whose actions are intended to preserve not only his own honour, but ... deceived into thinking Hero has been unfaithful He feels more betrayed by Leonato than by Hero, saying, "Give not this rotten orange to your friend" (IV.i.30). The metaphor of the "rotten orange" implies that a once sweet and pure Hero is now spoiled. U...

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... family and what is true for all Chinese "or, more importantly, what is Chinese and what is "the movies"? Stylistically, "No-Name Woman" is a blend of imaginative detail, rich metaphor, and personal musings. The "narrative" jumps back forth between past and present, fact and fiction, Kingston's life and the society in which her aunt lived. A description of how it was ... intended. Writing, rather than speaking, becomes Kingston's way of looking at herself and her family with more maturity and perspective. The final talk-story in The Woman Warrior is a fitting metaphor for Kingston's own ...

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... 's accidental death also related in the terms of objectification, lightheartedly dismissed by two older, more powerful men in an unthinking marginalization, following upon a mother-anxiety nightmare which doubtless is a Technicolor metaphor for castration. Ken Finkleman is to gender issues as an eight-year-old boy is to matches and an old wooden house, but then again, we all already knew that ... Heart, which Singer as far as I or anyone else knows never in fact slept with George Findlay. There's starting to be something slightly sinister about all of this. That little metaphor about the...

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... as your prisoner or as your mother that I am in your camp. Has a long life and an unhappy old age brought me to this, that I have to see you an exile and from that an enemy? Had you the heart to ravage this land, which has borne and nourished you? However hostile and menacing the spirit in which you came, did ... ...

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... extremes of endurance, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. As Susan S. Wadley explains, [The god] Rama's wife Sita exemplifies the behaviour of the proper Hindu wife, devotedly following her husband into forest exile for twelve years, and eventually, after being kidnapped for a time by the evil Ravana whom Rama finally destroys, proving her wifely virtue by placing herself on a lighted pyre. . . . Throughout North ... ...

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... that has happened in one day, the key connection between Septimus and Clarissa was his death and the English society that both people were subjected to. Bibliography 1. Ebert, Teresa, 1985. ``Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ideology: Language and Perception in Mrs. Dalloway.'' Language and Style, pp.152-164. 2. Shaw, Bernard, 2000. Heartbreak House, London: Penguin. 3. Woolf, Virginia, 1996. Mrs Dalloway, New York: Penguin ... ...

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... women and men. Notes All textual references are from The Winter's Tale, Annotated Shakespeare, Vol. 11, the Commercial Press, Bejing, 1998 ① Patricia Southard Gourlay, " O My most sacred lady" Female Metaphor in The Winter's Tale, The Winter's Tale Critical Essay, Garland Publishing, Inc. New York And London, 1995, p. 258 ②Robert G. Hunter, Shakepeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness, The Winter's Tale ... ...

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... now she has splashed in the water like a baby, but now she has outgrown this situation and is seeking full development. Edna's learning how to swim can be seen as a metaphor for her awakening, her sudden terror in the middle of the ocean represents how difficult her journey to personal self-fulfillment will be. She may not be able to go ... ...

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... that has happened in one day, the key connection between Septimus and Clarissa was his death and the English society that both people were subjected to. Bibliography 1. Ebert, Teresa, 1985. ``Metaphor, Metonymy, and Ideology: Language and Perception in Mrs. Dalloway.'' Language and Style, pp.152-164. 2. Shaw, Bernard, 2000. Heartbreak House, London: Penguin. 3. Woolf, Virginia, 1996. Mrs Dalloway, New York: Penguin ... ...

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