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    Whuthering Heights

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    A Comment on the Romanticism in Wuthering Heights Part One. Introduction The English female novelist Emily Bronte is world-renowned for her wonderful novel-Wuthering Heights. This novel is famous for its gothic style as well as its love theme‚ which attract readers in an extreme method and technique. Most of its readers intend to allocate it into “horror fiction”‚ because there are too many horrible plots and terrified atmosphere that shade its tender emotion to some degree. No one can escape

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    Crucible Allusions

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    One allusion Miller used is New Jerusalem‚ meaning the holy city of heaven in the Bible. I believe Miller used this allusion in order to show us how his characters viewed their land in America. They believed that they were the ones who were selected by God to find this New Jerusalem. But I also think Miller had intentions to make this allusion ironic because when they Puritans came to America to pursue religious freedom because they were persecuted for their beliefs in England. However‚ they also

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    Allusions In Literature

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    There are few works that truly stand alone when it comes to literature. As such‚ many allusions to other works are brought up whether explicitly or unbeknownst to even to author An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. However‚ in the poems “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” by John Keats and “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” by John Milton‚ the authors explicitly allude to specific works to incite

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    Great Allusion

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    Knowing what an allusion is‚ is the firs is exactly how the allusion of the World Series of 1919 is mentioned in Fitzgerald’s novel the Great Gatsby. The fixing of the World Series is mentioned in passing but it creates an underlying sense of mystery to the novel that is previously not as prevalent. This allusion introduces not only the character of Meyer Wolfsheim‚ but also tells the reader a little more about Gatsby. This allusion also develops the American dream. Gatsby had always been a mysterious

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    Archetypal Motifs: A Re-reading of Wuthering Heights By Doyin Aguoru Ph.D ENGLISH DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN I Biographical writings about the Brontës life and literary influence occupy a significant portion of critical writings about their works. Most critics agree that the images‚ characters and themes of their poetic effusions and narratives are largely influenced by their childhood experiences. However‚ critical assertions about Emily Brontë‟s Wuthering Heights further emphasize the significance

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    Allusions In Antigone

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    Greek plays did. The Chorus was used to provide wisdom‚ advice‚ and morals directly to the characters‚ and also provide background information to the audience. In Antigone‚ the Chorus uses the literary device of allusion to introduce a different atmosphere and tone into the play. The allusions referenced by the Chorus provide the

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    Apollo Allusions

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    The Apollo Theater‚ which is located in Harlem‚ NY‚ is an allusion to Apollo. This theater is mainly known for its African American performers. However‚ many people enjoy singing and dancing there. Since Apollo was the god of music‚ this theater is an allusion of his. Another allusion referring to Apollo is the Apollo Spacecrafts. These spacecrafts were specific missions by NASA who sent men to space. This alludes to Apollo

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    Allusion In Antigone

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    In Antigone‚ Sophocles uses allusions to praise her courage in accepting her fate. Antigone shared many similarities to Danae. In Ode 4 as the chorus describes the misfortune of Danae it is stated that “a prisoner hidden in a chamber like a tomb‚ although she too‚ came from a noble line. And she my child had in her care the liquid streaming golden seed of Zeus‚”(line 2-4). This mirrors Antigone in the way that Antigone is too thrown into a cave and looked in it as if it was her tomb. Danae was imprisoned

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    Allusions In Leda

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    Allusion: To make a casual or an indirect reference to something. Example: “ A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall‚ the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.” and basically the whole sonnet. Yeats‚ W. B. (n.d.). William Butler Yeats. Retrieved from http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/865/ (Originally work published 1928) Function: The entire sonnet is an allusion to the creation of the trojan war‚ which eventually led to the death of the king “Agamemnon”. To understand

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    “Man is born free‚ but everywhere he is in chains.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Many readers enjoy ‘Wuthering Heights’ as a form of escapism‚ a flight from reality into the seclusion and eerie mists of the Yorkshire moors‚ where the supernatural seems commonplace and the searing passion between Catherine and Heathcliff absolute. Yet Wuthering Heights reaches much further than its atmospheric setting‚ exploring the complexities of family relationships and Victorian society’s restrictions; similarly‚ in

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