Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ... The house in Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion" at Wax Harry's birth shows that the familial bonds that are now made concrete have exorci...

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Betty, one of the girls that was in the forest, comes down with the flu, or so the town thinks, or that she is possessed with evil spirits and the town forces Tituba to tell them why she has compacted with the devil. ... Tituba then scapegoats all of these questions by saying she saw spirits of some Puritan women form the town. ... After this happens in the house, some townsmen come by and has a warrant to arrest Elizabeth because she has been accused of being a witch. The person who accuses They were not going to arrest her at first until a poppet was found in the house. ... Elizabet...

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Much of the small house, 40 miles south of London, is presold to corporate or individual sponsors. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interpreted it in the play and how they represented the fair...

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They lived in larger houses, controlled particular trade centers, and took better gifts at rituals. ... According to the text, with the aid of spirits, men and women could inflict injuries or even kill their targets. ... These misfortunes included the loss of belongings, injuries, and house fires. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the past, the people of northern Europe believed that bogs were inhabited by gods and spirits (who had control on their lives) and they thought the bogs were places where they could communicate with the gods and spirits, and dead relatives as well. ...

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The Shaman usually has at least one or more spirits in his or her personal service. ... There are also spirits which control the weather, spirits which interact with humans, and others who inhabit the underworld. ... Sacred Texts: Native traditions have been preserved as an oral tradition, not in written form. ... The spirits are then asked to depart and perform the needed acts. ... Traditional housing: There were many variations across North America: conical wigwams or tipis, long houses, and cliff dwellings. ...

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Ultimately, the use of such devices encourage the reader to read further into the text, and help produce a feeling of excitement, and a much anticipated climax. ... Much like her mother was, Lydia is also led by her youth, "high animal spirits," and "blind love" causing her to be "lost forever" if she doesn't marry Wickham. ... Throughout her tour of the Pemberly Darcy's house keeper, Mrs. ...

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The atmosphere is relaxing and comfortable even though the place is a mad house of activity with servers rushing back and forth, taking orders, getting drinks, ensuring the lunch crowd makes it back to work on time. ... Some patrons seat alone, eating, texting on their phones or just observing the others in the establishment, while others were an odd mixture of old and young, men and women, conversing and laughing. ... There will be other meals and spirits shared within these walls. ...

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After reading the text MACBETH, by Shakespeare and viewing the film version, directed by Roman Polanski, it is logical to see that ambition and the deceptive appearances of what really is, is central to the dramatic development of MACBETH. ...

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In an ile, people are related to each other not by blood, but by being in the same orisha "house-. ... The godparents become the spiritual parents of the spirits reborn in their godchildren. ... The eggun, the spirits of the dead, are honoured before the orishas. ... The water acts as "a kind of spiritual cleansing and as a subtle "trap- for impure spirits."" ... Some light cigars so that its smoke may attract spirits - especially African spirits. ...

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Beings whose spirits are associated with matter necessarily experience suffering. ... The Mahabharata-which contains the Bhagvad-gita, one of the most religious texts in contemporary Hinduism -tells the story of a conflict between related clans for supremacy in northern India. ... As soon as the rain touched the earth, trees were appeared on it, and they became houses for the people, they used them for their entire livelihood and all their enjoyments. ...

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Slaves used these mediums, among other things to, lift their spirits, let out their sorrows, pass down tradition, and give them hope for the future. ... Black and white spirituals share many tunes and texts; blacks and whites mingled at camp meetings, and musical influences probably traveled both ways. ... They made friends, fell in love, played and prayed, sang, told stories, and engaged in the necessary chores of day-to-day living, from cleaning house, cooking, and sewing to working on garden plots. ...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... During this time Friedrich would lie to his daughter about Schumann, deliberately feeding stories to her to dampen her spirits. ...

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Gladkov continues to explore the emotional aspect of his characters by pointing out the history they share, a history that negatively shapes and cripples their spirits. ... Likewise, she loses her nurturing qualities: she no longer takes care of the house, which is described as, " where the mice have fouled where the cozy fire has died now swarm with the stinking vermin" (Gladkov 27). ...

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They find an abandoned house from the "unmentionable times" and make the house there own. ... Not every man can be as happy as the next, and therefore the forced brotherhood of all men will only deplete the spirits of those who are successful. ...

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For all their awareness of the contradictions involved in writing "realistic fiction" and their consciousness that language could not provide a transparent "objective" verisimilitude, novelists as realists still believed that language could represent the world beyond the text and convey a meaning outside of language, a nonverbal truth. ...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the...

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The Crucible (1952) was originally intended to be called Those Familiar Spirits, referring to a spirit that a witch presumably sends out to torment her victims. ... Critics said it was not a good play at that time, however, later it was found to be superior. he House Un-American Activities Committee summoned Miller to a hearing. ... The director of the l958 off-Broadway revival for The Crucible drew the consequences of the revised text and introduced 'a narrator,'...

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