Light and darkness are one of those common motifs found in literature. It came be used to draw a theme or show contrast between characters. An example of this motif is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Throughout Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare creates a dramatic contrast and connection between light and darkness by using scenes that can be happy and bright‚ but have a dark theme‚ and how the characters provide that contrast as well. Shakespeare conducts multiple scenes in the play that have that
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Light and Dark: The Women of Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is an intricate and complex novella that is difficult to interpret. While it functions on a myriad of levels‚ examining issues such as race‚ moral ambiguity‚ and madness‚ most prevalent is the examination of imperialism. Conrad does not take a clear and firm stand either for or against the rhetoric of imperialism‚ though the story certainly points out the hypocrisy of the invasion of an untamed and primeval land in
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Plato’s Outlook on the Power of Light and Darkness (Allegory of the Cave) Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is a metaphor and representation of perception. Prisoners are chained and forced to look up at the front wall inside of the cave while a fire burns behind them. Shadows are cast on the wall and the prisoners inside the cave believe that the shadows are the reality they live in because they have been in that cave their whole life. One prisoner has been taken outside and experiences the real
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Contrast between Light and Darkness The contrast between light and dark and black and white carries a great deal of importance in Othello. I think that these contrasts apply to Othello physically because of his skin color‚ which is black‚ and metaphorically to the progression of the play and Othello’s killing of Desdemona. A strong possibility for the reason Iago wanted to bring down Othello could have been because Othello was black. It is feasible to think that Iago just couldn’t stand to
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Psychoanalytic Criticism Psychoanalytic criticism originated in the work of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud‚ who pioneered the technique of psychoanalysis. Freud developed a language that described‚ a model that explained‚ and a theory that encompassed human psychology. His theories are directly and indirectly concerned with the nature of the unconscious mind. Through his multiple case studies‚ Freud managed to find convincing evidence that most of our actions are motivated by psychological
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Scone to be crowned. Macduff adds that Malcolm and Donaldblain seem the most likely murderers. Suspicion has now fallen on the two princes because they have fled the scene. Imagery This image of the darkness strangling the light of day is an indirect manifestation of the murder of Duncan; the light of day is destroyed just as Duncan was murdered. The old man describes an owl eating a falcon; this occurrences echos the slaughter of King Duncan by his ’nobleman’ Macbeth. Just like an owl‚ which sleeps
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A Streetcar Named Desire: A Light and Dark Perception There are many connotations leading to the words light and darkness‚ but generally‚ most people relate the word light with positive meanings‚ and they associate the word darkness with negative meanings. However‚ in the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams uses the theme of light and darkness in very interesting ways to further highlight key points and characters. He uses light and darkness in both physical‚ as in being actually
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the blue pill or the red pill. The blue pill or the pill of blind ignorance‚ or as the old saying goes‚ “Ignorance is bliss”‚ is the most popular choice‚ for its path is part of what seems to be the safer bet with the lowest variance in outcome. The blue pill doesn’t rock the proverbial boat. It seems to represent the known or a more predictable outcome‚ a security blanket that protects oneself from hard realities in everyday society. For most the truth is too much to bear. The red pill or the pill
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Streetcar Named Desire‚ binary oppositions of light and darkness‚ or fantasy and reality‚ reveal the roles they play in the major characters and how these binaries cannot come together. The motif of light illuminates Blanche’s loss of innocence‚ while darkness hides her insecurities and shadows her fear of reality. Blanche fears light because of the loss she experienced as a teenager; since she has always avoided strong light and stuck to the shadows and darkness of the world. Blanche confesses to Mitch
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In many literary works the author uses contrast to display the difference between good and evil. Most often this contrast is between light and dark images. Dark representing evil and light representing good. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ the author uses many different medians to display the contrast between good and evil. The different settings display the changing developments of the novel. From the civilized and what appears to be good Thames River to the uncivilized and seemingly evil
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