Nathaniel Hawthorns use of sound‚ colour and symbolism in The Hollow of Three Hills -Leandre Kleynhans LW 11Y AS Levels English Nathaniel Hawthorne turns the perhaps often ignored topic of adultery into a compelling story that keeps the reader enthralled by using various literary techniques. He focuses on using colour and sound as a way to activate the audience’s imagination and create a somewhat magical picture that only the mind could produce. He describes certain things and places in a precise
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execution a sinister action‚ as the idea is what first drives the motion. This is the central theme of T.S. Eliot’s poem "The Hollow Men‚" in which the men depicted find themselves on the brink of hell‚ suffering not from their actions‚ but from their conspiracy to act. Throughout the poem‚ it appears that the men feel that they have done nothing wrong. The title itself‚ "The Hollow Men‚" indicates that perhaps there is nothing to these men at allas if they have done neither good nor evil. The conspiracy
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The Hollow Society As technology and social networking become increasingly dominant in our society‚ our lives grow less and less personal at an alarming rate. If such a transformation continues to occur‚ we could find our world completely dysfunctional and without necessary social skills‚ within a matter of years. This technology-based‚ socially flawed community would not be unlike that of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451‚ where individuals are unable to obtain true happiness due to the deficiency
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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The Hollow Tree During the Civil War‚ Lincoln told the story of “The Hollow Tree” to illustrate the dilemma that the north was in given that many people who lived in the north were actually southern sympathizers. In the story‚ the tree was determined to be hollow and a dilemma faced the owner of the tree and house that lay underneath it. For if the owner of the house cut the tree down‚ the tree would cause tremendous damage because of the size of the tree‚ but if the tree wasn’t removed‚ it
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As the characters in T.S. Eliot’s poem‚ “The Hollow Men‚” come back to society after experiencing horrid events in World War I they fall into a state of limbo and nothingness. Eliot implies that they can no longer see the good in the world‚ which leads them to believe they have no purpose in society. A sense of darkness is apparent through Eliot’s allusions. Throughout the poem the allusions are heavy and lifeless. The first line of the poem is an epigraph which states‚ “Mistah Kurtz--he dead”
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Hollow Souls of a Generation The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a tale that has been passed down for generations‚ seen more clearly through the eyes of each passing generation for what it truly represents. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow may seem like it is just a children’s tale‚ but it actually represents something much deeper. The characters surrounding Ichabod in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are incredibly immoral. They are snobs who don’t care about anything but their
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A) Good Oak: While sawing through the bark of a dead tree‚ Leopold summarizes historical events that corresponded to each concentric ring he encountered. While the tree remained resistant to change‚ society slowly progressed from viewing nature solely for commercial value to overcoming past ideologies and beginning to respect and feel compelled to defend nature. Bur Oak: Leopold depicts key players and consequences in the ‘prairie war’ to illustrate how every player‚ even fire‚ has a role in maintaining
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Poetry Analysis of T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men I picked this poem by Eliot for two primary reasons‚ one of them being that Eliot is one of my favorite modern poets‚ and the other being the view presented in it. That view is one of a barren and dead world‚ with humans as meandering and meaningless objects with no true value‚ and religion (primarily Christianity) as a futile hope for a salvation that will never be granted. Most of that can be observed in section I‚ but particularly in
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The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place described by Hawthorne as "a hollow basin‚ almost mathematically circular‚ two or three hundred feet in breadth‚...the resort of the Power of Evil and
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