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    Frankenstein: Allusions

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    David Pham Professor Robert Guffey English 100 13 November 2012 Frankenstein: Into the Depths of Allusions An allusion is a figure of speech that is a reference to a well-known person‚ place‚ event‚ or literary work. These allusions are typically used by an author who intends to make a powerful point without the need to explain it. Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein provides many examples of allusion ’s. She connects the story of “Prometheus”‚ Coleridge ’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ and Milton ’s

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    hamlet allusion

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    Allusion Literal meaning How it develops theme Sources I would have such a fellow whipped for o’erdoing Termagant (II‚ii‚14) It out herods Herod (III‚ii‚14) I would whip a guy for making a tyrant sound too tyrannical. That’s as bad as those old plays in which King Herod ranted. Please avoid doing that. In this allusion to a Moslem god (Termagant) and to Herod‚ the Biblical King that beheaded John the Baptist. Hamlet is talking to the troupe of players and advising them not to overdo their

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    Prufrock Allusion

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    oil painting by Caravaggio in 1608. The biblical allusion tells the story of Herod‚ the tetrarch‚ imprisoning John the Baptist for divorcing his wife and uptaking his brother’s wife‚ Herodia. Furthermore‚ Herodia’s daughter Salome requests for John’s head on a platter from Herod who promises to fulfill her desires (Graves). Eliot utilizes the tale to convey the degradation of power Prufrock will experience under the infatuation of the woman. Under

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    Allusions In Stargirl

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    Throughout the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli‚ there are many literary allusions. Most relate to other books‚ but some relate to real life. Stargirl is cheering at a basketball game. Unfortunately they are losing. There‚ Leo makes an interesting observation. “A kid names Ron Kovac. He stood six-foot-eight and averaged thirty points per game. Our players looked like five Davids flailing against Goliath” (69). This quote relates to the biblical story about David and Goliath. In the story‚ Goliath is a giant

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    Shakespeare Allusion

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    In “How to Read Literature like a Professor” he uses many literary terms like symbolism and allusion but the one literary device I’ll be focusing on in this essay will be how he used allusion throughout it. One of the allusions used is in chapter five “When in doubt… it’s from Shakespeare”. The author alludes to past Shakespeare plays and how they’re depicted later on in the 1970s and around the 1980s. Some of his plays have transformed into completely different ideas from what they originally were

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    Allusions In Beowulf

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    “Beowulf” contains significant amounts of allusion to the Old Testament and the New Testament because of the contrasting characteristics of Beowulf‚ Grendel‚

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    Biblical example A Biblical example of this was King Saul. Saul was threatened by David and tried to kill him. He used various tactics hoping to kill David‚ but without success‚ because God was with David. The entire story gives us many insights into what some refer to as "the control spirit" which is active in many segments of church life today‚ including the Pentecostal/full gospel/charismatic circles. Saul’s downhill progression began when he felt compelled to offer a sacrifice himself - something

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    Allusion To Culture

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    Shiloh Gustafson 10/28/2013 ENGL 3201 An Allusion to Culture Hypothetically‚ say time travel were invented and two writers‚ one from today and one from a time long past‚ were given the same‚ very specific prompts. The likely result would be two entirely different products. Though the topic was the same‚ the two writers came from two very different times and cultures‚ producing two works unique to each. Just as light is absorbed and reflected by everything in the Universe‚ literature – poems‚

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    The Tyger Allusion

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    In the critical analysis of William Blake’s The Tyger‚ Thomas M. Curley explains how Blake uses allusion to the Bible and metaphor of God’s creatures to describe the divine paradox between innocence and experience that humans cannot grasp.(-but not for an all-powerful God to create) He describes that The Tyger is composed of questions from a child’s curiosity about how an all-powerful being could create both the good and evil that exist in the world‚ which furthers his theme that human aspect is

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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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