This book is known to have multiple themes but I tried to connect all of them into one. The presence of truth is the cornerstone of my theme. ... He wares a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, which made him appear positively deformed. ... He is an old and bright doctor. ... He was clothed with tatters of old ships' canvas and old sea cloth. ...
The greatest ritual of all was the confrontation between man and animal. ... The Hemingway man does not want to die, but he is not afraid of dying. ... While deep-sea fishing one summer in Cuba, Hemingway spoke of the immense pleasure he took in "being on the sea, in the unknown wild suddenness of a great fish; in his life and death which he lives for you in an hour while your strength is harnessed to his; and there is satisfaction in conquering that which rules the sea . . ."" ... There were still dangers involved when fishing far out at sea. ... Another of the matadors is trying to concea...
During this trying time, Poe lived with his Aunt, and eventually fell in love with his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. ... The narrator is a man home alone at night mourning the loss of his love Lenore. ... It is most obvious that Poe's rhyme scheme in this poem reinforces the theme of inconsolable loss through the emphatic repetition of "Nevermore." ... This very intense use of repetition suggests that the theme of "The Raven" may not be so much about "inconsolable sorrow," as so many critics have deemed, but more about a kind of obsessive grief that one feels when a loved o...
Conflict: One conflict is the man vs. man conflict in which it is Pip vs. ... Havesham was an old lady that was always dressed in am old wedding attire which used to be white but was yellowed with age. ... Abel Magwitch: Magwitch was a pretty old man and his face showed the troubles of a rough life. The book shows this when Pip states, "Moving the lamp as the man moved, I made out that he was substantially dressed, but roughly, like a voyager by sea. ... Wemmick was a man of about 40 to 50 years of age. ...
This element becomes a recurring theme in a great portion of religious texts, especially in the Bible and the Koran, both of which are celebrated in a wide construct as being among the main sources of religious literature. ... Both holy books have common themes, stories and/or parables featuring similar characters. ... Both are God's Word for Man, but have a different interpretation of accounts. ... In the Bible, the Apostles wrote Noah's story in a way that showed him, as not only a man of good faith, but the only man of good faith. ... Returning him back to his mother to be nurse...
He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetry. ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock thee". Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as well as in the rest of the p...
However, the tensions between old and new, traditional and untraditional, were great during the last years of the nineteenth century and there was a debate among male and female writers and social thinkers as to what the role of women should be. ... John is the man of the house and he expects the narrator to trust him completely, just as small children have trust in their parents. ... Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. ... She is married to a man she no longer loves and she looks for excitement and pas...
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, /Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers" eyes, / Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers" tears, /What is it else? ... She asks after Romeo, and wonders about his background, clearly intrigued by this young man she has just met. ... One of the major themes of Shakespeare's imagery is that of light. ... Throughout the play, Lady Capulet seems older than her years, as she has a very serious outlook on life and indeed love. ... She describes Paris to Juliet as "a man of wax", trying to persuade, but by no means enforce, Juliet to at least pond...
A man named John wrote the book of Revelation on an island in the Argean Sea named Patmos. ... The scriptures reiterate the truths proclaimed in nature, in history, and in man himself; and, in addition thereto, declare the salvation which God has provided for mankind in Jesus Christ." ... "The book is broken down by four series of seven according to the theme of which is, which was, and which is to come." ... Horrible sores are cast upon the people, the sea turns to blood and every living creature in it is destroyed, the entire water supply of the earth becomes contaminated, the sun will scorc...
Kutuzov is portrayed as an old, wise man who knows through experience that no strategic plan can help predict or lead to the outcome of a battle. ... On the front, panicked soldiers from an unexpected attack suddenly turned around and galloped into a sea of bullets. ... Religion was a significant theme in the novel. Religion was also a significant theme in the author's own life. ... Natasha fell in love with a man at a time when she was engaged to another. ...
In the poems; 'Here', 'Essential Beauty' and 'Faith healing' Larkin explores the universal theme of desire. ... The alliteration used in 'thin and thistled' and 'night north' uses harsh consonant sounds which make the man - controlled landscape sound inferior to the countryside which is natural. ... There is also a powerful image of the land 'ending' and 'distance' over the sea. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression ...
Tho Dalziel a Presbyterian clergyman, an old man, I suppose about seventy years old, lately married to a young woman of twenty-two. ... Competition among groups is fierce so members choose a theme and keep it a secret until the day of Junkanoo. ... The Roots Roots Junkanoo group is the realism of an ideal dreamt up by four young men who were stagnated within the old-time despotic machinations of one of the powerhouses in the Junkanoo World. ...
In Monte Carlo, she meets and marries the older, wealthy Maxim de Winter, and becomes "Mrs. ... Maxim de Winter - A cultured, intelligent older man, and the owner of Manderley, a prized estate and mansion on the English coast. ... Ben - A harmless man, mildly retarded, who spends much of his time on the beach near Manderley. ... Danvers, and a man called Favell, and wonders where they are now. ... Van Hopper, a nosy, gossipy, vulgar woman, recognizes a handsome middle-aged man who is staying in their hotel, and points him out to the heroine. ...
It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. ... We can also read Ralph Ellison's (Invisible Man, 1952) work. ... The phase of transition from Africa to America took place on the slave ship which had two important functions: the first was the "transmutation", which meant that the transportation of the bodies of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean transformed them into slave...
Gatz said something that Nick disagreed with, Nick still hesitantly, agreed with him, as to not hurt an old man's feelings; as apparent by the following quote: "If he lived, he would have been a great man. A man like James J. ... It shows that Nick's morals are high he can not hurt an old man who had just lost his son; whereas Tom's morals are so low, that he hurts a poor stranger walking down the street, who is trying to make a living. ... Thus, showing theme of morality. ... The theme of morality is shown through their conscience actions. ...
The king goes across the sea on a ship, and a storm arises and drowns all aboard. ... Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... In her dream, Alcyone sees Seys at the foot of her bed, and he tells her that he has died and that she must find his body by the sea and bury it. ... The knight then begins a tirade against Fortune, who turns her wheel at a whim, making him, a man she has favored before, into a miserable wretch. ... Socrates taught that the philosophical man should be above the vagaries of Fortune. ...
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden" depict the 19th century belief that it is the white man's destiny through God to colonize Africa and other under-developed nations. ... Rudyard Kipling's " The White Man's Burden" was published in McClure's Magazine in February of 1899, just three years before Heart of Darkness was released in Great Britain. ... The second stanza of "The White Man's Burden" speaks of how patiently and selflessly the Europeans took up the "burden" of Africa, even in the face of unknown terror...
His plays made the everyday man confront himself and evaluate the society and himself with a different perspective. ... In Peer Gynt, the rebel is against society where a young man chooses to live a life of a waste, only to find himself, ultimately, living in a world of lost opportunities. ... This period saw several masterpieces like Ghosts (1881), Hedda Gabbler (1890), A Doll's House (1879), The Lady from the Sea (1888). In all these plays of this period, "Ibsen deals directly or indirectly with the theme of the individual attempting to realize himself in ...
From the time he was seven years old until he was in the mid thirties, Pip shows us the important events in his life that shaped who he became. ... "Great Expectations" discusses various themes on crime, law and the criminal justice system. ... It's grey looking, and he describes the sea as "the distant savage lair" he's describing it as if its frightening and horrible. ... It goes on to say "as a man started up from among the grave." ... "A man with no hat, and with broken shoes." ...
The juxtaposition of Poe's life and work is most evident in the morbid personalities and melancholy themes of his literary compositions, similar to those of his life. ... Poe's paternal grandfather had been a wealthy man, but his father, David Poe, had left the family to become an actor, and Edgar was left with nothing. ... During the fall of 1823, when Edgar was fourteen years old, his classmate Robert Stanard introduced Poe to his mother, Jane Stanard, who was a beautiful and compassionate young woman. ... In the first of the poem's three stanzas, Poe compares Helen's b...
William Golding presented numerous themes and basic ideas that give the reader something to think about. One of the most basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and without these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. ... At the time religion played a very important part in people's lives and the advances in science and man's newfound desire to create may create a widespread loss of faith. ... Victor, by creating a life with old body parts is playing "God" in a sense, at a time when religion was a key part in peoples live...
... 73 I should have been a pair of ragged claws 74 Scuttling across the floors of silent seas... I grow old ... 121 I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. 122 Shall I part my hair behind? ... 123 I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. 124 I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. 125 I do not think that they will sing to me. 126 I have seen them riding seaward on the waves 127 Combing the white hair of the waves blown back 128 When the wind blows the water white and black. 129 We have lingered in the chambers of the se...
A common theme in the four plays is conflict and how they deal with it, through forming coalitions or favoring peace. ... As the men are lying down the logs, a Chorus of Old Women came with pitchers of water and dump it on the Chorus of Old Men after hurling nasty insults were exchanged. ... The Chorus of Old Men feared that the women had been conspiring with Sparta. ... The last treaty was the thirty-year vintage of peace on land and sea. ... He goes to Euripides, a play writer, to get some old ratty beggar clothes from him that he used in one of his plays. ...
It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man. ... He was a sensual man, and yet was indifferent to sensual things. ... He was a man without any conception of gratitude. ... A man like Strickland would love in manner peculiar to himself. ... I am a man, and sometimes I want a woman. ...
Later he married an older woman named Ann Hathaway and had three children. ... I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. ... But Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. ... Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honourable man. ... On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures." ...
