Symbolism Essays

The Halloween festival has been around for over 2000 years. Available documented literature shows that it has its origins in the Celtic Culture and was initially…

Author The book, Treasure Island, was authored by Robert Stevenson, who was born on 13th of November, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland (Daiches, n.p.). Stevenson is a…

Different and changing ideas of land and/or Country Different themes in the poem, ‘Song of the Darling River’ and ‘Australia’ are used to show a changing…

Introduction Painted in 1932, the “Mask of fear” is an artistic masterpiece developed by Paul Klee just before Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany. The…

‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess and ‘Brighton Rock’ Graham Greene, portray themes of good and evil. The texts utilize different literary devices to represent the…

“A Rose for Emily” is a story by William Faulkner about Emily Grierson who is the protagonist of the story. The story that begins with the…

Doubt: A Parable authored by John Patrick Shanley is a play that premiered on November 23, 2004, in Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City. This play…

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a tragic tale published in 1949. The play is considered one of the most classic American stories exploring different…

Symbolism plays a crucial role in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun to illustrate the impacts of prejudice on the realization of success. Hansberry wrote…

Scott Fitzgerald’s play The Great Gatsby highlights the futility of re-conquering the past by depicting Gatsby’s tragic love for the elusive Daisy, regarded as a seminal…

In The Displaced Person, Flannery O’Connor has applied use of several literary techniques in revealing specific traits of the characters that appear in the story. Being…

The Three Dirges, a story set in Guatemala narrates the horror and terror wreaked by the militia on the hapless native Indians. The story starts with…

Introduction Owen introduces a kid to a bayonet, which had a symbolic meaning of death, war, blood, and cruelty. It depicts the innocence of the child,…

“Hills like White Elephants” is a puzzling short story that uses symbolism to fulfill Hemingway’s thematic purposes. The writer uses an untraditional method of telling where…

The literary work that will be discussed is “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. The aspect of work that I will work on is the…

Forgive me, Leonard Peacock is a book about a young boy who contemplates what he wants in life, due to the challenges he had faced as…

Abstract Remarkably, this story starts with the elaborate funeral of the main character, Miss Emily Grierson. For close to a decade, nobody has been to her…

Introduction Symbolism is a style applied in literature in which symbols are used to signify qualities and ideas. This occurs by giving these symbols some meanings…

In Edgar Allan work-Poe’s story of the same name-the unnamed narrator proclaims that his legal name shall unceasingly remain to be a mystery simply because he…

While the 20th century produced a significant amount of seminal short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” are two that have maintained…