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    Gender Roles in Dracula

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    Gender Roles in Dracula In a time period where females had narrow gender roles‚ Bram Stoker wrote his novel‚ Dracula. The Victorian culture often suppressed women and their value. Traditional Victorian women were thought of to be pure and virginal. Bram Stoker revealed another side of women that was not often seen. These qualities were like that of the emerging new feministic culture called the “New Woman”. The concept of gender roles in the 1890’s was very conflicted; Dracula challenged traditional

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    Imagery is one of an author’s most powerful tools. Imagery provides much deeper understandings of the most dynamic topics embedded in literary works. William Shakespeare applies the effect of imagery to further portray certain characters in his play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. By using imagery to describe Caesar‚ one of the main characters‚ Shakespeare highlights Caesar’s main characteristics and convinces the reader of Caesar’s sheer amount of power and ambition. Shakespeare first utilizes imagery

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    Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses his trademark descriptive way of writing his stories to describe the scenery of the island‚ the appearance of the boys and their behavior‚ and the beast that is claimed to share the island with the boys. Golding uses this imagery to create a visual picture for the reader‚ so they can feel as if they’re seeing the events in person‚ and to have a better understanding of the book and Golding himself. The descriptions he uses to describe the boys as the story progresses

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    Imagery: Imagery is the ability to form mental images of things or events. It is words or phrases that create a vivid image in the readers mind. Authors use imagery to try to get readers to see what the author sees. Example: “The woods were no longer woods and every little tree now seemed like a world in itself. The tiniest twig was like a fairy-tale world about which a thousand stories could be told” (375-376). Gaarder‚ Sophie’s World In the book‚ Sophie’s World‚ a girl named Sophie‚ who

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    the great A.T. himself. He took a friend with him‚ Katz‚ and they took a trip they would never forget. Bryson is very descriptive with his tale‚ “A Walk in the Woods”‚ and uses imagery a lot. He creates tense and shockingly alarming moods in his writing‚ especially in this story‚ which engages the reader only more. Bryson’s imagery is thorough and precise throughout this story‚ using all 5 senses to create a mental picture in the reader’s mind. In lines 182 and 183 of his story‚ Bryson says that every

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    Role Of Nature In Dracula

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    In this essay‚ I would like to expose myself to the question how the non-human agency of a bat can be reflected through Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula? Furthermore‚ does nature exist in any prediscursive form prior to its marking by human culture? In Stoker’s Dracula a big bat flaps and buffets its wings against the window of Lucy Westerna frightening her out of her wits. In this novel bats can be seen as representing the uncanny and mysterious of nature; and moreover‚ as we humans are part of nature

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    Color Imagery in Othello Imagery‚ as defined by Webster ’s Dictionary‚ is the use of vivid figurative language to represent objects‚ actions‚ or ideas. In Othello‚ Shakespeare makes use of colors to represent ideas or to set the mood for the scenes taking place. The use of such color imagery enhances the play‚ causing the reader to look past the mere words and search for the deeper meaning behind the scenes. The predominant colors that Shakespeare makes use of are black and white; however‚ some

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    Discuss the use of imagery of light and dark in the novel. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men‚ the imagery of light and dark is used to deepen the themes of the normal. Sometimes darkness or "light lifting" can mean more than one thing. In this essay I would explore this subject. "Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse‚ inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to

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    Rabbits represent Lennie’s dreams and the impossibility of their fulfillment. Rabbits are a simple summation of everything Lennie hopes for‚ revealing his very simple thinking. Even when George first tells the story of the dream farm‚ it’s at Lennie’s prompting to tell him about the rabbits. For George‚ the farm is all sorts of freedom and happiness‚ but for Lennie‚ it is simply access to soft things. Given the evidence‚ the audience knows these rabbits will likely be added to Lennie’s telltale trail

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    In Joe’s account‚ he makes the reader appreciate his pain and fear by using figurative language‚ emotive language‚ and imagery to express them. He reveals his pain in the line ’...a fierce burning fire coming down the inside of my thigh...’. A ’fierce burning fire’ is the symbol he used to depict his suffering‚ as though there is a blazing fire burning and spreading in his thighs and in ’...the fireball rushed from groin to knee’‚ a ’fireball’ is the metaphor he used to illustrate the intensity

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