Light/dark Materialized by the play of shadow and light in the mysterious garret‚ the opposition light/dark and its permutations provide the central motifs of the play. These motifs include: sight and blindness‚ ideal and vulgar‚ truth and lie. We should note its significance to Gregers’s cause in particular. Unlike his near-blind father‚ Gregers believes that he "sees his mission in life‚" despite Werle’s warning that he only looks through his sickly mother’s "clouded eyes". Gregers is intent on
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The Handmaid’s Tale Response Paper The motif of time is very apparent in this section. Time‚ something are never thought much of before her new life‚ is now an object she thinks about frequently. “There’s time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn’t prepared for – the amount of unfilled time‚” (Atwood 69). “In the afternoons we lay o our beds for an hour in the gymnasium…they were giving us a chance to get used to blank time‚” (70). “The clock ticks with its pendulum‚ keeping time my feet
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Handel has four motifs which are: ‘And the Glory the Glory of the Lord’ – This motif outlines the chord of A major‚ the tonic chord‚ and moves up the last three notes of the scale. This helps to establish the key. The word-setting is syllabic‚ one word to a syllable. ‘Shall be revealed’ – In this motif the second bar is a repeat of the first bar but a tone lower. The word ‘revealed’ is melismatic (several notes to one syllable). ‘For the mouth of the lord hath spoken it’ – In this motif the use of
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Michaela Barney Mr. Ried AP English 21 October 2011 Douglass: Motif of Animals In today’s society‚ almost all people are seen the same way‚ people have faults about them and have different traits‚ but all are considered human‚ men and woman are able to hold the same positions and jobs‚ and people of all races are able to live together in society. Frederick Douglass was born‚ and raised‚ a slave in the 1800s; life was very different‚ African Americans and white Americans were not
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than others" (Jacobs & Tunnel‚ 89). There are six basic fantasy motifs‚ as discussed by Jacobs & Tunnel‚ including magic‚ other worlds‚ good versus evil‚ heroism‚ special character types‚ and fantastic objects. If a story contains all six‚ it is classified either as a classic fairy tale‚ or a modern high fantasy. Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach is an example of a modern high fantasy‚ as it contains all six fantasy motifs discussed by Jacobs & Tunnel. The most basic element in fantasy
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The 5th Wave‚ was full of motifs. First it was the Teddy Bear‚ then it was her Cell Phone that doesn’t work anymore‚ and finally it was the word Survive. I know the two first word s make total sense but the last one the word Survive‚ it seems as if doesn’t belong. But in reality the motifs in the story they mean so much more than living and a distant memory. The teddy bear that Cassie is always carrying is not even hers. So how does this even connect to the story? Well it was her little brothers
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play‚ Cupid is a motif. A motif symbolizes something‚ and Cupid is supposed to symbolize the erratic love that the teens feel in this drama‚but some of the characters take it the wrong way and think of it a bit differently. Romeo thinks Cupid uses a bow that love is something that you can conquer‚ but it is something that is mutually felt between two people. So in the play‚ Cupid actually makes love seem violent and like something that you can take from other people. Cupid is a motif in the play‚ but
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In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses the motif sleep and dreams Is used to convey contrasting moods. In Macbeth the motif sleep and dreams is used to convey a mood of suspicion. “And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers. /Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature/ gives a response” (2.1.8-11). In this scene Banquo laments to himself that something feels wrong‚ Suspicion has encompassed Banquo. While he can keep these negative feelings at bay in the day‚ at night he struggles
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use of the features of a fairytale to explore the themes in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen‚ author of Briar Rose‚ combines both fairytale and historical attributes in one work. Based on the old tale of Sleeping Beauty‚ Briar Rose is a fairy tale within a fairy tale however‚ the traditional ‘happily ever after’ notion does not apply. Through fairy tale elements of fantasy‚ recovery‚ escape and consolation; Yolen has been able to explore underlying themes in Briar Rose‚ including the brutality of human nature
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Blood The longest running tradition in medicine‚ bloodletting‚ was a widely accepted practice with a three-thousand year-old history from the ancient Egyptians to the late 19th century. At that time‚ physicians thought that disease was a curse caused by the supernatural. It was a common idea that blood carried the vital force of the body and was the seat of the soul. Anything from body weaknesses to insanity were attributed to a defect in this vital fluid. Bloodletting was a method for balancing
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