Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... All of the action as viewed by the audience takes place inside the drawing room, an indoor and private place. ... Another symbol, which serves to link Hedda to her pre-marital identity and also serves to construct her in terms of difference when compared to endorsed female figures of nineteenth century is her association with pistols. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitability of her middle class life. ......

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Bubba's walking sticks, yet another symbol of the "lay off" do not "impress" Pearl, however the audience are still able to sense the excitement and aura such a tradition brings to the small Melbournian household. ... Lawler's direction of a small, clustered and tasteless room become lost with a large, spacious room, which appears with more splendor and elegance than first envisaged. ... Kinnear through his stage direction, appears to view the lay off with distate and through Pearl's impact and the setting, he casts a criticizing view on the entire tradition. Lawler's Summer...

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He overcame the precious flaws and applied imagism and symbolism to present moral history of his contemporary times from the view of Nick. The application of symbolism made his work surpass the narrow individual world, connect the subjective with the objective, and amplify as well typify individual experiences.Symbolism, as a unique artistic technique, has two important meanings according to the definition from Webster: one is to explain invisible things by using visible symbols; the other is the connection and relation between symbols and meanings. ... However, compared with other colors, whi...

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Every movement, civil or otherwise, needs a symbol. ... For the abolitionist movement, John Brown was that symbol. ... He brought the figurative "elephant in the room," to the forefront of the political conversation. ... Melville provides a concrete, vivid description of his views on the John Brown raids and trial in "The Portent." He describes Brown as he hangs from the gallows, using the execution scene as a symbol for the events as a whole. ...

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One theory sits with the idea of a metaphorical shift of entities: the room we see is a metaphor for the human body and respectively, Dave Bowman, the main character, becomes a metaphor for the human mind. ... Instead, we are greeted with what appears to be an elaborately decorated hotel room void of doors and windows, complete with renaissance-like artwork and glowing floor tiles. ... What we are first presented with is a somewhat illogical mix of objects: a space pod sitting in the middle of a bright white room with geometric space-aged glowing floor tiling and furniture, artwork and wall de...

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This is what is known as the problem with other minds. ... The first human is given the task of distinguishing between which of the conversations was with a human, and which was with a computer. ... Searle then supposes that he is sitting inside the computer (the "room"), and when presented with an input of Chinese characters, Searle consults a book of rules and creates a response that follows said rules. ... The truth is that the computer, like Searle, does not in fact understand Chinese and only is a manipulator of symbols, not knowing what the output actually "says.... This ...

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In every culture there is a set of people who have common and shared values; customs, habits and rituals; systems of labeling, explanations and evaluations, social rules and behavior; perceptions regarding human nature, natural phenomena,, interpersonal relationships, time and activities; and symbols, art and artifacts. ... People with disabilities recognize the fact that they are different people, with diverse backgrounds, and are often isolated from others with disabilities( VSA arts: Disability Culture). ... We will not change to fit the mold, instead we will destroy the mold and change t...

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The Swiss-born psychologist Carl Jung (1875-1961) worked closely with Freud between 1909 and 1913, but found himself distanced by Freud's views (Wad 120). ... Most "big" dreams occur during REM, or Rapid Eye Movement, sleep are filled with narratives, symbols, and detailed dream scenery. ... Archetypes are the common themes, or in Jung's words "mythological motifs", that emerge from the collective unconscious and reappear in symbolic form again and again in myths, symbol systems, and dreams. ... Every room was familiar and light, but there was no one there. He finally entered the...

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The interview was done in the privacy of her house in her own room and took about 40 minutes. ... She added that it is important to have "someone to talk to and do stuff with." Discussion Adolescents are obsessed with their looks and they are expected to do that because it is through these symbols, wearing the right clothes and having cool sunglasses, that their identities are formed. Adolescents are expected to view self-esteem as crucial; after all, it plays a big role in their quest for identity. ... Experimenting with different roles is expected in Erikson stage and having a role model is ...

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In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... (p.63) Maes was also experimenting with vistas and adjoining paintings of women at household tasks. ... The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. ... Even the two ancillary spaces - the area out the window and the room at the back - are split vertically into two sections, one with a pitcher, one without. ... The two p...

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He argued that we (humans) are not constituted so that we can know all, but are born with enough basic knowledge to enable us to avoid pain and seek pleasure. ... Locke felt that the senses, as receptors, first supply us with particular ideas or images from a stimulus, which the mind by degrees becomes familiar with, remembers, and names. ... A typical moral principle that may be considered by many, including Descartes, as an innate moral, is the belief in God or some other symbol of religion. ... It is only a game of symbol, nothing about existence. ... Since this view seriously conflicted ...

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He communicates this message to his audience by presenting a bleak view of the universe that is typically Langian - thematically, stylistically and narratively. ... Every time a character enters or leaves a room, members of the audience can record the time of the event if they wanted to. ... In Figure 4, it is shown that when both characters are presented together in the same scene, the contrast of light and dark is immediately apparent, not only because of the lighting conditions of the room, but also because of their respective skin tones; Heidt's darker skin color gives him with a more...

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These components are a central computer, control unit, overhead projector and holographic combining lens, which together provide the pilot with an approximate 30-degree by 25-degree field of view. ... These user friendly pieces of equipment are all illuminated green to provide the maximum visual acuity at all levels of light all while allowing "unwanted symbols to be removed from view by an anti-clutter feature" (Interavia, Jan/Feb 1997,p.32). ... Anyone who has flown with a HUD will tell you "With a glass screen showing a highway in the sky and giving approach guidance based on real time ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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These industries created the shift in our thinking from viewing children as trusting, impressionable humans that should be protected from the not so innocent adult world, to seeing children as "economic resources to be mined." (www.commercialalert.org) Alcohol promotions target youth and encourages positive affiliations with alcohol by linking drinking alcohol with attractive symbols and role models. ... When I first viewed this commercial I was intrigued by the animation and felt that kids younger than I, would find this interesting and cool, which is precisely the issue at hand....

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While Winton's Cloudstreet is presented from the point of view of two white' Australian families, several aboriginal values and beliefs can be found being mirrored in the text. ... It takes the black man' as a symbol of Aboriginal culture to bring Sam to realize that "you shouldn't break a place. ... Finally there is human's coexistence with the land and nature that deals with perhaps the most challenging issue in the play, the drowning of Fish Lamb. ... In view of the fact that the play is almost wholly dedicated to one social group, most if not all of the remaining...

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" (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – complete with no apparent literary devices that the reader would have trouble comprehending. This is the key factor which makes this poem stand out from the rest – because of its open nature and non-complex form that if you tried to search for any meaning or symbolism behind Frost's words, he has almost intentionally left a vast space for interpr...

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It is certainly significant that she mentions herself as being "kept in the room". ... Her behaviour is very ironical, as a person should feel most at ease with, and not the opposite, when around somebody that loves them. ... She is mentally weary at having to 'battle' with her illness and is weary of being treated like a child. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... Just as she views the design of the wallpaper as "horrid" because she, perhaps unconsciously, sees it as an expression of her inner turmoil and illness, the creeping woman ...

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Brave New World deals with the power of science and technology as a, means of killing of individuality and replacing it with narrow compartments of fact or simulated sensation. ... Persuasion takes a more subtle form in the debate with Mond and the Savage. ... Brave New World is contrasted with our own modern society. ... Probably the most symbol and motif within the movie is the eyes which are omnipresent from the opening scenes where the fire of the city is reflected through blue eyes. ... Another symbol which is apparent in the movie is the bonsai plant which symbolizes man's dominatio...

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However, in order to fully recognise this element, it is necessary to be familiar with some of Lawrence's own views on sexual relations. ... Count Dionys, obviously representing the Dionysian is depicted as a bohemian, small, dark, with black beard and eyes and "fired with a keen male energy" (The Ladybird, p.159). ... In both instances, we are faced with a weaker party and a return soldier. ... The conflict between Banford and Henry is manifest in the scenes in Banford's sitting room; "She resented the big, raw, long-legged youth sticking his khaki knees out and sitting there wit...

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Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. ... Cole was famous for the spiritual or moral symbols he was used to put in his work. ... As Albert Boime says, "inevitably, the extermination of Native Americans is tied to the conquest of the wilderness and its transformation into an Edenic garden - The wild and dark area with the natives on the left contrasts with the right side of the painting, a light and open area occupied by the white Americans, which represents the "paradise regained - in which civilization...

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It is certainly significant that she mentions herself as being "kept in the room". ... Her behaviour is very ironical, as a person should feel most at ease with, and not the opposite, when around somebody that loves them. ... She is mentally weary at having to 'battle' with her illness and is weary of being treated like a child. ... The wallpaper might also be a symbol of the interface within Jane's mind. ... Just as she views the design of the wallpaper as "horrid" because she, perhaps unconsciously, sees it as an expression of her inner turmoil and illness, the creeping woman ...

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In the three sets of poems, "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow", "The Chimney Sweeper", and "Nurse's Song", Blake explores the two disparate but connected perspectives of our human lives through vivid concrete imagery, powerful abstract symbols, and ingenious juxtaposition. ... The parents viewed the baby as "a fiend hid in the cloud" (Line 4), which shows the ingratitude of the parents towards the life of the newborn. ... On the contrary, the illustrations in Blake's original plate for "Infant Sorrow" are contrastingly in a d...

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In Donne's "Elegy 19: On His Mistress Going to Bed", Donne's persona commands the woman to undress; "Off with that girdle" (line 5), "Unlace yourself" (line 9), "Off with that happy busk" (line 11), "Off with that wiry coronet and show The hairy diadem which on you doth grow;" (lines 15-16, 1283), "Now off with those shoes" (line 17). ... The male gaze, which refers to the lens that men view the world and women, is also seen in Ovid's Amores 3.2, but unlike Donne, the audience also gets insight into the female's re...

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During the previews, the theater distorted pictures of popcorn and candy and placed them into their previews along with the phrases "YOU ARE HUNGRY" and "YOU WANT CANDY AND POPCORN". ... The theater also released the scent of popcorn throughout the room in an extremely small dose to stimulate Jim subconsciously. ... The idea that people may be affected by unconscious stimuli may have originated with Democritus, when he mentioned, "Much is perceptible which is not perceived by us." ... A common error when dealing with subliminal messages, however, is mistaking subliminal for subtle. ... Sublimi...

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