William Faulkner makes extensive use of the setting in "The Bear". Faulkner uses the woods in which the main action of the story takes place, the animals in those woods, and the historical setting of his novel to represent the values held by the main characters and to act as a motivating force in Ike McCaslin's behavior. One purpose these woods serve is to represent the "Old South" and the dignity and tradition associated with it.
These great woods are the setting for the noble hunt of Big Ben. It is in these woods that Ike McCaslin gains his manhood and learns the beauty of the "old South" which the woods represent. The woods also reflect the change of the South as Ike discovers the horrors that the Southern lifestyle was responsible for. This change is indicated in book five when the woods are being torn down and the noblest game remaining in them are Boon's precious squirrels.
In addition to reflecting the downfall of the "Old South", the woods also serve to illustrate the theme of property rights. Throughout the novel, the author reflects that the woods belong to no man. For example, on page 384 Ike is discussing his choice to repudiate the land with McCaslin: I can't repudiate it. It was never mine to repudiate . Because it was never Ikkemotubbe's fathers" fathers" to bequeath Ikkemotubbe to sell to Grandfather or any man because on the instant when Ikkemotubbe discovered, (sic) realised, that he could sell it for money, on that instant it ceased ever to have been his forever, father to father to father, and the man who bought it bought nothing. Faulkner also makes use of the animals in Big Bottom to represent the values held by the main characters and to reflect the state of mind of the characters.
This old bear is not the only symbol of the "Old South." As Ike is walking away from Sam's grave, he encounters a rattlesnake that represents not the noble side of the "Old South" but the fetid atrocities which it was responsible for.
Polar bears are the biggest animals in the bear family. ... Polar bear cubs are whiter than the adult bears. ... Polar bears can pack in the fat; a single bear can consume 100 pound of blubber in one sitting. ... "Works Cited" Neilson, Barbara "Polar Bears Alive" online. 1997 Polar Bears Alive International. ... Uses 1. ...
Via Bering land bridge formed during the Ice Age, the bears arrived in North America from Eurasia before human being migrated to America (Storer and Tevis, 16).The habitat in California for the bears was a paradise because of the rather sparse population of the Native Americans, Indians, causing an interesting bear-to-man ratio 13-to-1 (Storer and Tevis 17 & XV). ... Moreover, California bear guns are believed to help exterminate California grizzly bears. ... The invention of California bear guns resulted in decreasing the population of the bears dramatically and eventually led the bears to ex...
Grizzly bears in British Columbia represent many things to different people. ... This view of grizzly bears as somewhat of a "flagship" species is reflected in the naming by environmental groups of the large wilderness area of the Central Coast as the Great Bear Rainforest. ... The Wildlife Branch has an official mandate relating to its management of grizzly bears, which was published in the British Columbia Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy in June of 1995. ... One other significant factor affecting some grizzly bear populations in B.C. is the translocation of bears. ... Maintaining high qua...
The Smokey Bear PSA created by The Ad Council has been the longest running PSA in US history (www.adcouncil.org). The need for the Smokey Bear campaign arose during World War II. ... In 1944, Disney allowed the Ad Council to use "Bambi" on their first campaign poster (see fig. 1). ... The Smokey Bear campaign appeals to the nature of man by presenting truth in a logical manner. ... Smokey Bear has his own song, was on the cover of Newsweek magazine and, in 1984, Rudolph Wendelin designed a stamp with a bear cub clinging to a tree with the Smokey Bear emblem as a background. ...
The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) What does the black bear look like? ... Then this bears going be pretty big. ... Female black bears normally mature around 3-5 years. ... The female will mate with 1 or 2 males every breeding season. ... They weigh around 1 once or so. ...
"Sonnet 1" opens not only the entire sequence of sonnets, but also the first mini-sequence, a group comprising the first seventeen sonnets, because they each push the young man to bear children as an act of defiance against time. The logical structure of "Sonnet 1" is easy to comprehend. The first quatrain states the moral premise that beauty should strive to propagate itself: "From fairest creatures we desire increase" (Line 1). ... That way, when the parent dies, "as the riper should by time decease" (Line 3), the child might continue its beauty "His tender heir might bear his memory...
Studies across the U.S. show that "1% increase in a state's gun-ownership rate has also been associated with a 3% decrease in violent crime." ( Lott 1) Many states have adopted concealed carry laws over sixty years ago. ... (Lott 5) Research also proves that "Only extremely law abiding citizens are permit holders"(Lott 1) The fact is that, "In North Carolina permit holders have not had a permit revoked as a result of use of a gun in a crime."... It is proven that, "States let law abiding citizens carry concealed weapons, and have experienced a large drop in the crime rate." ( Lott 2) ...
The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights states: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" (Amendment II 1791). ... In arguing that the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arm, the NRA argues that the Fourteenth Amendment enforces the Second (1). ... Works Cited [1] Freedman, Warren. The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms. ...
(Early Warning Signs, 1) The Arctic ice is decreasing. ... (Early Warning Signs, 1) The ice thickness also seems to be decreasing. ... Walruses rest, molt, and bear their young on the ice. ... (Environment 1-3) The melting of the Arctic ice is also releasing carbon. ... (Presse 1) If this proves to be true, it would severely increase the rate of warming. ...
