English Literature Coursework Examine the settings that the writers have chosen for their stories in "The Signalman", "The Man With The Twisted Lip" and "The Red Room". ... Dickens had managed to combine the old with the new, the supernatural past with the modern railway in this narrative. ... The "Red Room" by H G Wells does not provide the reader with much information about the world beyond the castle where events take place. ... "On either side, a dripping-wet wall of jagged stone, excluding all view but a strip of sky" indicates that the signalman was also deprived of sunshine in that...

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The House of Ravenclaw, which has an eagle as a symbol, is easily associated with the element air, as all uses of air in magic correspond to intelligence. Moreover, their common room is specifically described as being wide and airy with great views to outside. Gryffindor is associated with fire since it has a lion as a symbol. ... They have a badger as a symbol, a hard-working, tenacious and sociable animal that has some characteristics associated with the earth signs. ... Moreover, the Slytherin Common Room is under the lake. ...

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(pg.29 l.36) Because he says "Elves", which is entirely random, the narrator's playful personality is made more clear to the reader, and it also shows the great contrast with the neighbor's view. ... When the man with whom he's sharing a room, Layfayette, tries to be his friend, Dr. ... The symbol of doors leads the reader to understand the characters. ... Magoon is being lead to the room, he goes "down a narrow passage of doors".... This obscured view is caused by the darkness. ...

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One of the most important parts of the house in terms of symbolism is the library, and Winton uses this to present his views on the racial policies of Australia in the 1950s. ... Thus, when Rose and Lamb make love in the library, "their sudden love remains in the room, hanging like incense". ... In this case, the house as a whole, and the aboriginal man are used a symbol to prove this. ... We are first introduced to this when the old lady dies in the house while playing on the piano and "her nose hit middle C hard enough to darken the room with sound". ... Throughout the novel, the Aboriginal ...

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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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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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Without properly describing how the living room looks, the girl uses the world "cheesy" to create her living room. ... The story is first person narrative and objective because the story is based on the girl's point of view. ... A drink is a symbol in the story. ... There is another symbol, hand. ... The two doctors are symbols of different ways of living: Dr. ...

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Among other subjects, his fear of marriage, his desire for escape and independence, all disguised as symbols and metaphors. ... Kafka wrote in his letter that he confined himself to his room with friends and books in order to avoid his father. His room plays both a safe haven and a prison at the same time. In the story, Gregor's room may symbolize Franz's limited ability to communicate with his father. ... Although he thought his father would consider him an equal, and viewed his father's marriage as ideal, he did not want to risk fathering a son like himself. ...

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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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Symbols used by Eliot in this poem suggest that women are lesser and therefore alienated. ... This challenging of stereotypical gender roles is reflected in "Prufrock" with the use of a range of symbols. ... Eliot expresses these anxieties in both poems through the use of a range of symbols. ... This symbol of the unconscious body suggests that he views himself as weak and powerless, revealing that he is socially inadequate. ... "She has a bowl of lilacs in her room" (Line 41). ...

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His wearing of a blackface in this song was also a symbol or metaphor for being American. ... A powerful scene is when Mary enters the room and Jack is applying the black face paint, he is clearly distraught and conflicted by his Jewish culture and his career. ... In the final song of the play, "Mammy," blackface is used again as a symbol. ... This could be viewed as Jack being responsible for his father's death and that he disappointed him to near death, and that by the time they made peace it was too late. ... So, as his father's ghost appears behind him in the synagogue it is a sy...

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Searle's reply to my argument, that consciousness lies within a beings understanding and awareness of self, would lend itself to his Chinese Room example. This example refers to a scenario where a man is locked in a room and given a large batch of Chinese writings. The man is also given a set of instructions in English on relating the Chinese symbols to another set of symbols, along with rules on how to answer back with Chinese symbols. ... Searle's argument here is that the man doesn't really understand Chinese; the man "produces the answers by manipulating uninterpreted for...

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This letter is decorated with compressed lines, circles, triangles, and many other strange objects. ... The cross is a very sacred symbol of how Christ died so that all human's sins would be forgiven. This symbol of forgiveness shows that they view their God as being forgiving. ... In religious art during the Byzantine era the ram, lion, and eagle were symbols of, Luke, Mark, and John. ... There is more room for mistakes in the Chi/Rho page then in the "Allah" page. ...

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The main point of view is of the narrator who is a married woman whom has a child, she is spending a summer in large house in the country. ... The narrator becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in the room she is made to stay in. ... Once she started prattling on and on incessantly about the wallpaper gave a clear inside view of the extraordinary that was occurring. ... By throwing away the key was a symbol that she had fully accepted this life she was forced to live. ... The nice room she wanted could be the greeting room. ...

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Upon my entrance of the Hindu temple, I was amazed at the extravagant statues dressed in bright colors, which illuminated the entire room-this made me curious to know more, yet I was too shy to ask questions, as I thought it may disrupt the peaceful aura of the devotees. ... Similar to Geertz analysis of religious symbols as having a "deep meaning" and "evoking powerful emotions and motivations in that religion's followers"(Guest 598), the prayer leader told me that these statues were symbols of the deities that represented the "multiple personalities" of the...

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Finally, through the characters misinterpretations of symbols, torment became a consequence. ... Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio; Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure."" ... (V, ii, 77-81) Without speaking with Cassio and asking any questions, Othello reveals his fragile mind as he enters Desdemona's room with the intent of murder, because the illusions had caused him enough suffering. ... (p. 154) Holden's ignorance and curiosity to where the ducks went reveal how his illusions had prevented him from viewing the reality of the situation, and nearly led hi...

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To some, the mask is a symbol of culture with a spiritual message. ... The mask on the fantasy man, painted with religious symbols and animal-type facial structures, reminds me of a familiar element in many folk and traditional ceremonies. ... The painter wanted this man viewed as on an equal plain with other humans; he wanted him to appear as a human, rather than as a god or a superhero. A dark and dingy room engulfs the mystery man. ... The aim is to make the viewer stop and stare at the work, then as you are about to walk away, you are drawn back with a view of extended reality. ...

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The reader becomes a member of society understanding the views of the other town's people. ... The flashback begins with the exposition. ... After she was buried a few of the town's people went up to the room that they knew no one had been in for forty years. ... The color rose found at the end of the story in the room where Homer was found represented love. Smell was one of the most important symbols throughout the story. ...

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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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Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subject since.... In the absence of this connection with the doctor, she runs to Leo Irving and decides she is in love with him. ... Rather, she escapes to the garden, which is a symbol of eroticism and sexual awakening throughout the play. ... By contrast, after walking with Anni...

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The first view (the world of the present) shows time as amechanical progression.? The second view (the world of tradition and the past) shows the past asdiminishing road.? ... The picture of her father is just another symbol of immobility and her unwillingness to let go of the past. ... In this case, the watch is a symbol of time; yet in this house, time is invisible. ... When Homer Barron, a symbol of progression, comes around to pave the town's sidewalks and construction modernizes the town. ...

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Grete's significance is found in her changing relationship with her brother. ... At the time of this sermon Father Paneloux "...hasn't yet come into contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth..."... By the time of his sermon of the second Week of Prayer, Father Paneloux has carried his view of the plague to a level of radicalism. ... Gregor's reaction to the violin playing episode is the climax and symbol of Grete's metamorphosis and Gregor's demise. ... So inconsiderate and oblivious is he to others, that he begins a dangerous j...

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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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There are many different symbols throughout the novel that can help the reader interpret Fahrenheit better. Perhaps the most obvious symbol in Fahrenheit is machinery and technology. ... (Stanley 102) Flaster 2 The wall televisions are TV panels that take up the entire wall space in a room. ... He destroys them with fire" (Colmer 109). ... Flaster 4 The theme of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 can be viewed from several different angles. ...

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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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