belonging. By the decision to act contrastingly to a set of opposing values‚ Proctor is still allowing his identity to be dependent on the sense of belonging established by the group he abhors. Similarly‚ Ofelia from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) finds her identity in the rejection of the ‘belonging’ established in her Stepfather’s (Vidal) military base in the mountains of Spain at the close of the civil war‚ 1944. Consider the following‚ lifted from an
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The River Motif In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn… this is the very name that can sound familiar to almost everybody from pupils in elementary school through students at university to elderly grandparents. But the more astonishing is that the characters‚ the flow of events and the bunch of themes‚symbols and motifs included mean for everybody something absolutely different. Till for an 11- year- old little boy it provides a real boyish story full of flabbergasting‚ enviable
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“He just stared at me‚ and I saw that he had no idea of what late was. Glendine‚ his mama‚ probably lets him fall asleep in front of the set every night. I pictured him crumpled up on that smelly shag rug she keeps in front of the TV to catch the spills and crumbs” (2) The Author uses very strong and suitable words in this passage. For example he uses the word crumpled to describe the little boy laying on the rug. He could have used curled up or bundled up. Those words would have a warm cozy feeling
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The Symbolic use of Motifs in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera. Looking at “motifs” in general may at first seem vague‚ yet Kundera places a large amount of weight on the way motifs shape us as human beings and construct the way in which we identify ourselves or rather choose not to identify ourselves. From the beginning of the novel‚ Kundera readily admits to the fictionality of his characters that he has constructed‚ stating that they arose from several “basic situations”
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Settings: KENT: Pip’s hometown of Kent is where the book opens up‚ it “was a marsh country‚ down by the river‚ within‚ as the river wound‚ tweny miles of the sea” (pg 1). Within the town‚ around the churchyards criminals are always presently lurking about and because the town is so near the ocean‚ the mists hung around and not only gave a visual of the murkiness of the area‚ but also represented the ominous atmosphere. LONDON: London is broken‚ every single place described in London‚ including
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Carl Sandburg’s Motif of Blood as a Symbol of Both Life and Death The image of the color red is presented in at least 25 of the poems of this collection. In some instances‚ red is a symbol of passion and life‚ but in others it is offered as a symbol of suffering‚ death‚ and waste. Sandburg frequently presents this motif with the image of blood‚ especially in War Poems. The blood image also has a dual meaning for Sandburg. He uses it to represent both life and death as well. While these two images
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elegy about the death of John Keats. In modern literature‚ the greatest representation of death is in the work The death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy and a short story called The dead by James Joyce. Since colonial times to the nineteenth century‚ the motif of death was very present in the American literature. Scholars such as Gerald Kennedy‚ Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz noted that this theme was very popular in poetry‚ especially in elegies about maternal grief. Examples of these poems could
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Zora Neale Hurston’s novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God incorporates three main themes with motifs that define Janie as an independent‚ intelligent‚ and strong woman. The three themes include: speech and silence‚ power and downfall as means to accomplishment‚ and love and relationship in opposition to independence. In each theme‚ a motif is attached to give meaning of Hurston’s interpretation of Janie. Zora Neale Hurston utilizes speech and silence as an interesting narrative structure‚ splitting
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Pan-Africanism: A Debate Through the Eyes of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X On the surface‚ the two African-American figures Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X are not as different as one might think. Although Garvey was most active in the early 1900s‚ and X was at the peak of his success just before his assassination in 1965‚ both of these influential figures preached the very controversial topic of Pan-Africanism. In a nutshell‚ Pan-Africanism can be defined as the belief that all Africans‚ including
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their rights‚ liberty‚ and respect as human beings equally. Their main aim was to help their fellow African-Americans for justice and liberty but‚ the people who represented them and their viewpoints on how to resolve the problem was quite unlike. The Pan-African Congress was established during the 1900s‚ and consisted of various political leaders and intellectuals from Europe‚ North America‚ and Africa
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