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    that reflect our culture. Even when we don’t know it‚ we are either influenced by symbols‚ or are helping those symbols influence others. Without the use of symbolism‚ a culture or society cannot continue to stand. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows how symbols are created‚ and how those symbols become powerful. Three of the symbols he uses are the conch‚ the pig’s head on a stick‚ and Piggy’s glasses. The first symbol we come across is the conch shell. It is a beautiful shell that Piggy

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    Shania Reid Ms. Milliner EES21QH - 03 10/20/16 Margret Atwood uses language to show many factors in the novel the “The Handmaids Tale”. In the Gilead age power was wanted be everyone. Which lead people to do anything for power. Women were deprived of their freedom‚ making language the means of escape. This novel was portrayed from a young woman’s life named Offred. Living in Gilead dealing with various restrictions towards women. With this mindset of society different roles were set for women

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    and milk and selling it and making money off it to buy whiskey and that is s lose of animals rights and freedom because some animals are not getting enough food and milk and they are starving and dying. Napoleon controlling the animals and gaining power is also loss of animals right and freedom because the animals can’t do what they want if napoleon controls them they only do what napoleon

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    William Shakespeare‚ a talented bard of the fifteenth century‚ wrote many sonnets and plays using famous plot devices‚ many of them that he made up himself. One of his more famous works‚ Hamlet‚ is a revenge tragedy that uses the plot devices of hesitation by the hero‚ suicide‚ murder‚ and conspiracy. All these plot devices have a huge effect on the play and contribute to the audience/reader’s experience. One of the more famous plot devices is Hamlet’s‚ the hero‚ hesitation to kill Claudius and

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    In the novel‚ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ foreshadowing is used to give the readers an idea to what could happen towards the end of the book. There is slight reference‚ which hint slightly‚ and also direct parallel of the situation‚ with Candy and his dog. There are episodes in the novel where Lennie’s physical strength and childlike incompetence‚ which are presented to emphasise the instinctive threat‚ which he poses. When George talks of what happened in Weed‚ he proclaims that Lennie

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    In this passage‚ Twain uses superstitious imagery in order to reveal Huck’s religious beliefs as he expresses a fear of receiving bad luck through for accidentally killing a spider. This shows that despite Huck’s attempts to separate himself from the restrictions of society (ie: his resistance to the widow’s attempts to civilize him‚ his desire to join a band of robbers with Tom Sawyer‚ his fondness for smoking‚ etc.)‚ he is still influenced by its values and teachings. Because he has been taught

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    Stalin‚” whereby Orwell uses his wit to draw attention to the wider issues in the society of his time. Firstly‚ Orwell creates satire in his novel by using anthropomorphism to give human traits and characteristics to the animals. He used this technique

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    How does Steinbeck present Crooks’s and Curley’s Wife’s relationship? Steinbeck shows us how people become stronger with the support and companionship of others through Curley’s Wife’s relationship with Crooks. After hearing Candy’s speech about the dream they now all share this hope of a better life together. This dream includes Crooks‚ who before was irritated by the other men’s company‚ is now realising how lonely he had been before and this almost reachable dream could become a reality

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    Fitzgerald’s incredible use of realism and symbolism. Symbolism and realism the key elements that made this work a success are evident in the development of plot‚ setting‚ and characters throughout the novel. When carefully read it is clear that The Great Gatsby has several plots and underlying sub-plots. Fitzgerald uses realism to develop these plots by choosing plots that would be believable to readers. For example‚ the main plot of "The American Dream"‚

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    to emotion packed novels and countless other forms. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984‚ the society of a nation known as Oceania is under constant control and surveillance from a government called the Party. The Party’s stability and continued power rely on the inability of the people to have emotions or thoughts‚ as that could lead to rebellion. In order to control the people‚ the Party manipulated the language by using its slogans and a language known as Newspeak. The implementation of Newspeak

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