... the carelessness of the time. The parties that Gatsby held every week were used as symbolism for the carelessness. Gatsby would stay inside watching his guests, many of whom werent invited. People would just leave and return without notice. The newspapers published public notices on these parties, informing the whole community of both West and East Egg. "In his blue garden people came and went like moths among the ... whisperings and the champagne." At these parties, ... Gatsby would show off his five cars, which were reflected as a sign of wealth. One of these cars were given to Nick ...

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... of gracious heart was John Proctor. He loved by those who knew him, trusted by those who came to understand his heart. Today is our chance to thank him for the way he brightened our lives. For I love my father I gladly will announce this speech on behalf of everyone. He was a wonderful man who lived his life upright and honest. Even ... though he committed lechery, it doesn't mean he wasn't a respectable and honourable man. He stood firm and strong in the witch court, while the judge went against him and accused him with false implications. And the others were lying by going against God...

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... face when she listened to anything pleasant - This name bears irony: Olenka is "darling- to everyone and becomes indulged like a favorite pet. Directly presented to the reader is the trait of Olenka only finding happiness in reflecting the beliefs of her husbands. This causes Olenka to embody female disempowerment- she subordinates her will to male intellect. A foolish but affectionate wife, Olenka does gain ... happiness when married to her first two husbands- theater owner Kukin, and timber merchant Pustovalov- because she has someone to dote on, and Olenka "could not exist without lov...

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... what he wanted and how he got it. Then along with that you have to look at his new life, the one he created for himself, his dream world where money can buy him everything and anything he wants. In Gatsby true life he could never be content with what he had. Gatsby always wanted more even when he became ... very rich and had everything he was not content. He needed Daisy. Gatsby did love Daisy but the whole reason why he wants her so much now than ... Daisy and she tells him she loves him he is not content. He needs her to tell Tom that she never loved him. Then again when Tom beats him...

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... will stoop... I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion." Patrick is wandering through the wilderness, searching and hunting. He has no purpose in life; he just searches. The thing that he is looking for is light. This ambiguous concept of light Ondaatje presents throughout the novel is not ordinary light, but one that illuminates the void of darkness. Just like the moths that Patrick is intrigued by ... that only tend toward light at night, Patrick only seeks light when there is none around him. Patrick continues his eternal search for light because he has none of his ...

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... can use symbols to make stories more profound and entertaining. One example of the symbolism in "A Rose for Emily" is in the tile: "Rose". We usually think of rose as a symbol of love. In the story, Emily's love is Homer Barron. Her father thinks that "None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such." Therefore, ... her father is still with her and watching her. The crayon portrait also represents Miss Emily's refusal in accepting the fact that her father is dead, and moving on. Miss Emily's house is also an important example of symbolism in this story. The readers, ...

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... . "It is also significant that Homer Barron is described as a "Yankee" from the north, which defeated the south, because it another example of Miss Emily's belief that she is better than the society which she inhibits" (Symbolism in A Rose for Emily, 3of 5). Another example of Miss Emily's authority that she possesses over the townspeople, even though she is distant from them, is her being tax exempt ... . This authority is also shown on the occasion when Miss Emily visits the druggist. She only speaks few words and she persuades ... the druggist to let her purchase arsenic, a deadly poi...

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... love for each other. Edna is completely awake and free. Style: Kate Chopin uses a lot of symbolism in The Awakening. I think Chopin uses symbolism for us to better understand how Edna felt as a woman did in Creole society. The parrot being in the cage might give us a symbol that Edna feels coerced. The parrot also not being able to spread his wings and fly is symbolic to this book ... this quote. Personal Response: The book started out in a weird way. When I got further into the book, I enjoyed it. I feel the book was well written and you can infer more if you understand the symbolism i...

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Symbolism of a Flower In the "Sound of a Voice", Hwang uses the flowers to show the need for love and affection, where in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" he uses the flowers to symbolize his main characters thoughts and ideas. The authors in both stories use flowers to symbolize the love, beauty and affection longed for in any woman. In "The Sound of a Voice", Hwang creates a timeless, placeless scene in which two ... attractive to this mysterious man. Her excitement from the mans interest in her chrysanthemums gives her confidence to grow and blossom like her flower. For the last critical sc...

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... create a sense of conflict and suspense. Hardy uses several symbols depicting different characters and how the feel. He also uses places as symbols and how they relate to characters in the novel. Hardy uses several symbols depicting Paris, Egdon Heath, and the bonfires. The two characters which are affected the most by symbolism are Eustacia and Clym Yeobright. These two characters seem to be most effected by ... the symbolism associated with the city of Paris. The most evident and meaningful symbol to the story would be the use of Paris as a symbol to represent ... ...

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... see a Gurov frustrated and incomplete. Love has finally caught Gurov, this time the master patronizer will have no escape. He is doomed to a love that can never be free. In the story the author conveys this idea quite brilliantly. Through symbolism Anton Checkov relates Gurov and Anna's dilemma to a couple of caged birds. The cages that contain Gurov and Anna are of course not metal, but ... they are their current marriages and the bonds of social acceptance. For Anna she could never leave her ... recently discovered some gray hair and was angered by it, further realizing the irony of ...

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... or suggests a relationship or association. Throughout the novel, the setting represents both the character's moods, and the characters themselves. Setting is constantly used to describe Mattie. Mattie is, quite often, compared to spring, a symbol of life. Mattie comes to Starkfield in the springtime. When she comes, she becomes Ethan's reason for living. She is really the only life in the household, because Zeena is sick, and Ethan ... is unhappy. Mattie is also described with the color red. She has a red scarf, red ribbon in her hair, a red bedspread, and red lips and cheeks. The color...

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... further despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... her in what he claim...

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... and beauty. Courtly love is also seen in Much Ado about Nothing when Claudio first sees Hero. This is a result of love at first sight which is also present when Romeo first meets Juliet. This was demonstrated when he described her and said, "Can the world buy such a Jewel?" This has two sides of symbolism. One side is where Claudio describes ... Hero as "jewel" to suggest her precious beauty. On the other hand, it also shows the uniqueness of her beauty but also could suggest that she is rare as a result ... and his pride, power and reputation would increase over more ground which make...

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Symbolism in stories is dependent on how the author writes, the title, and the characters. Titles in literature are very important to the symbolism of a story an example of this is Tim O"Brien's "The Things They Carried". As the story goes on it shows not only the literal meaning of what they carried but also symbolically the burdens that they had mentally. In the literal sense O"Brien talks about what different members of a platoon in ... Vietnam carried. This helps him to move to a more symbolic sense at the end of the story ... one else they might seem a luxury. Such as Kiowa carrying his...

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... . Siddhartha is a novel about a boy and his friend trying to reach total enlightenment. The river represents the cleansing of one's spirit, reveals the message that time has no meaning, and Siddhartha effects the novel by revealing the theme of love. The river in Siddhartha represents the cleansing of one's spirit. When Siddhartha finds the river for the second time, he lies down and falls into a deep sleep that reawakens him ... to the world. The river "speaks" to Siddhartha during his sleep, and cleanses his spirit, free of emotional pain. The river also speaks to Vasudeva the ferryman...

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... reason or another. And even though I was hurt, the pain didn't compare to the loneliness I endure sometimes because, since Keisha, I haven't found a new girl (Nicole). Then again, maybe if I had never met Keisha, I wouldn't be searching for a Nicole But I did. In the second stanza, I am expressing the bad days and experiences I have gone through with my parents. The line "My momma said she don't know me ... ," states the conclusion of many arguments we have had over the years. And it seems like the more she goes through her "disowning me" stage, the further away our personal relationship...

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... have read first two parts of the book "The Art of Happiness" written by doctor Howard C. Cutler and the fourteenth Dalai Lama from the 23rd of February to the 1st of March 2003. That book is really interesting to me. In that book, doctor Cutler narrates the conversation between him and the fourteenth Dalai Lama, which tells readers the right to happiness, the source of happiness, training the mind for happiness, a new ... model of intimacy, deepening our connection to others and the value and benefits of compassion. The first part of the book tells the purpose of life. According to the f...

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... not feeling well and was very depressed. Lorraine and John tried to cheer him up by playing games and then they put on their roller skates. The Pigman had a heart attack from the skating and had to be put in the hospital. He told John and Lorraine to make themselves at home, which is exactly what they did. John and Lorraine had a party at ... the Pigman's house while he was in the hospital. Things got out of hand and a few things got broken and torn, like one of Conchetta's dresses. The Pigman came home during the party and was very upset ... . John and Lorraine called the Pigman and wa...

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... happiness and laughter lies a considerable amount of hurt and suffering. The Duke Orsino of Illyria suffers from unrequited love. He is in love with Lady Olivia but she has no intention of getting together with him. Duke Orsino lives in a fantasy world where Lady Olivia and he are together and happy. Towards the end of Twelfth Night, Orsino feels betrayed by Cesario, his messenger ... . Lady Olivia is in mourning, for seven years, for her brother. She refuses to have anything to do with Duke Orsino. Her ... sadness and mourning ends when she falls in love with Duke Orsino's messenger, C...

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... , with a comfortable house. Janie saw him as old and unattractive. Janie says, "He look like some ole skullhead in de grave yard." From her marriage with Logan, Janie learns that marriage does not necessarily mean love. She learns that being the wife of a farmer isn't enough for her, and does not like being told what to do. She cannot live ... . When Janie first meets Joe, she believes that she is in love, but in all reality she is blinded by his faults. Joe values his prized possessions and wealth more than he does his wife. He believes that Janie cannot be socially active with anyone bu...

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... it a more special event. The bond between a man and a woman is sacred, and should be kept special. When people share their first time together, they share the most special gift in the world. In the Bible, it tells people to stay pure. The Bible says that having sex out of marriage is the same as adultery. Adultery is one of the things the ten commandments condemns. The Bible is very clear ... on the power of purity. For three reasons people should enforce the power of purity. Less divorce occurs if ... purity is pursued. A wedding night is even more special if a person stays pure. They...

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... no means popular. He is a wallflower. He is shy, thoughtful, and intelligent beyond his years. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school. Some of these struggles are how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, and experimenting with drugs. He must ... actually really likes her. These are just a few examples of what goes on throughout the book. Charlie has internal and external conflicts. He tries not to like Sam because she has a boyfriend. She told him in the beginning that they would never wo...

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... time. Allie is a rich, and naive seventeen year old girl, and Noah is a poor nineteen year old guy. They fall in love that summer, and spend memorable times together. Allie's parents, don't approve her relationship with Noah. They don't like the idea of their daughter being with a poor man. So they forbid her from seeing him, and she was forced to leave ... engaged to a veteran, who's a rich businessman. Meanwhile, Noah still loves her madly. He was thinking of her so often, that he decided to rebuilds the old house Allie wanted him to. After 7 years, Allie sees Noah's picture in the pa...

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... "Mr. Right" broke up with me. I never had that, those girls you call to go to the mall with or giggle with about guys until I walked through those glass doors, the ones that looked wide open waiting for me to come to change my life in endless ways and to bring sunshine just one more hour longer took a big gasping breathe and had ... my first night at youth group. Walking through those doors I have meet three people who have changed my life in unthinkable ways, the ways of giggling on the phone till endless hours, baking cookies, and most importantly our favorite calzones. I grew up with...

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