there are two main characters, Arnold Friend and Connie; who he shows us his evil shocking intentions by all his actions towards the innocent Connie in the story. ... The boots are a symbol of how fake Arnold Friend and the supernatural aura that he puts around himself through this falsehood. ... Arnold represents the evil that poor innocent Connie was just about to get to know. ... Judges 19:17 in the bible, contains the story of a female who is raped and killed by evil men, so that the rest of the people are not hurt. ... In the end, an evil person such as Arnold and how he destroyed th...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Danvers is equivalent to the evil stepsisters, trying to destroy the main character. ... This foreshadows the evil intentions of Mrs. ... Another symbol that reoccured throughout the story was the big slanting R. ...

• Word Count: 1831
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The narrator writes that the house seems to have collected an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. ... Just as the atmosphere and landscape seem translated into the characters, the house, as another aspect of setting, functions as a symbol for the Usher family. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

According to The Oxford English Dictionary, a motif is defined as "A (usually recurrent) feature of a composition, esp. a distinctive or salient one; the structural principle or dominant idea of a work; an object or group of objects forming a distinct element of a design; any small design or symbol". ... Gothic fiction gives shape to concepts of the place of evil in the human mind (3). ...

• Word Count: 2655
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School