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    Lord of the Flies essay

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    Darker Aspects Within Words can be depicted in many different ways. The reader may construe the author’s piece in an entire different way than the author themselves had originally imagined. Most times there is a deeper meaning behind words. In William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ his order of words throughout chapter can be deciphered as dark or mysterious‚ making his theme of the book not only be in his thoughts‚ but the readers also. Aspects can include his use of symbolizing the conch

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    Belonging Paragraph

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    feels confidence. St Patrick’s College Place: 1. When Peter’s mother enroll him to the St Patrick’s college‚ Peter don’t feel belong to the college. Such as school lady “out stretched arms”‚ but “her face over shadows by clouds”. The symbolism creates a sense of uncertainly about his future. 2. After school‚ “caught the 414 bus‚ like a foreign tourist”. The language technique simile comparing him to a “Foreign

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    Speak Essay

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    Symbolism is used to represent many meanings. In the novel Speak‚ the protagonist Melinda draws a tree that symbolizes her in many ways. The tree symbolizes Melinda’s growth and her journey to overcome depression. It symbolizes Melinda’s silent personality. Also‚ it symbolizes Melinda cutting off her depression. The tree symbolizes Melinda’s growth and journey. Right after summer‚ a tree starts losing it leaves and becomes ill once winter arrives. It lives through a dark and depressing period.

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    Speak Essay Symbolism This book walks us through Melinda’s High School experience thought this year. She experiences ‚ bullies‚ petty fights‚ and girl cliques. A tree tells Melinda’s story‚ and helps her accept what happened to her the summer before freshman year of High School. Melinda has gone through a lot and no one knows about what happened the night of the party. To everyone at school she’s just the girl who called the cops to get everyone at that party in trouble. They think she

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    Symbolism and Irony in “The Story of an Hour” “ The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Mrs. Mallard‚ who learns that her just died in an accident. As I continued to read the story I learned that Mrs. Mallard‚ was not your ordinary grieving widow‚ she is actually somewhat happy of the news of her husband’s death. Chopin uses symbolism and irony to show readers the world through Mrs. Mallard’s eyes. Symbolism was a strong term in the story‚ mainly because Chopin uses symbols

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    Commentary of Le Poison

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    literary movements. The themes of this collection of poems were mainly revolved around the negative qualities of human nature‚ industrialism and women which can all be easily linked to the title ‘Les Fleures du Mal’ and the obvious juxtaposition and symbolism within it. This particular poem is very interesting as it explores different types of drugs‚ sins and ‘poisons’ in our society‚ taking the reader on a dark journey from wine‚ to opium‚ to women and then to ‘la mort’ from the point of view of Baudelaire

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    The Glass Menagerie

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    a. Thesis statement- Playwright Williams uses symbolism throughout “The Glass Menagerie” to illustrate the struggle for happiness that each character faces. II. Symbolism a. The Glass Menagerie b. Escape c. The Unicorn d. Darkness III. Conclusion The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the play “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams. Specifically it will discuss the symbolism and imagery in this play. “The Glass Menagerie”

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    The Influences of Vsevolod Meyerhold An immediate way to recognize the lasting impression of a Vsevolod Meyerhold is by seeing whom he has inspired in the Soviet Union and abroad. Some of the various directors in which Meyerhold inspired in some fashion include Eugenio Barba‚ Joan Littlewood‚ Ariane Mnouchkine‚ Anatoly Efros and Yury Lyubimov. What in Meyerhold’s theatre or life left a lasting value or inspired these directors? One might describe him [Meyerhold] as a director-poet. If there

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    The Happy Prince 2

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    THE HAPPY PRINCE Symbolism is the use of symbols to show ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal meaning. Basically‚ it is an object representing another to give it an entirely different meaning that is much deeper and more significant. For instance‚ “smile” is a symbol of friendship. Similarly‚ the action of someone smiling at you may stand as a symbol of the feeling of affection which that person has for you. Symbols do shift their meanings depending

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    III. Paragraphs to explain memorable literary devices/ key images/quotations. * Imagery of Wounds (Symbolism‚ Imagery‚ Allegory) From the moment the boys land on the island‚ we begin to see signs of destruction. Over and over we are told of the “scar” in the scenery left by the plane. The water they bathe in is “warmer than blood.” The boys leave “gashes” in the trees when they travel. The lightning is a “blue-white scar” and the thunder “the blow of a gigantic whip‚” later an “explosion”

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