From the days of the cavemen, to the transcendentalist movement of the Second Great Awakening, to modern day, mankind is finding comfort and closure in nature. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, nature is extremely significant in the development of the plot, characters, themes, and main idea. ... By using nature to drastically affect the characters, Hawthorne is able to tie in the themes by foreshadowing future events and portraying the themes through the symbol of the natural world. The themes and main idea are portrayed and are more apparent in the Scarlet Letter by Hawthornes us...

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The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. In Forster's opinion Italians are more joyful and spontaneous, so Lucy's awakening becames from the country's influence. ...

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Both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Fight Club explore themes such as civilized versus uncivilized and the threat of mortality. While The Epic of Gilgamesh explores the evolution of the characters into more civilized versions of themselves, the film Fight Club presents the awakening of a man from civilized culture into uncivilized, rebellious behavior. ...

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The iconic image of the naked and blindfolded man struggling against his bonds, does not metaphorically represent China, but calls or, in fact, screams it into being by awakening and empowering its citizens through an expressiveness that goes beyond the visual and compels the viewer to respond with action (Tang 2008 pg. 180). ... The art piece represents the powerful transformation of "national awakening" as a cultural metaphor into a "political imperative" (222). ... Many important themes of modern and contemporary Chinese art can be traced back to the woodcut movement. ...

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This piece of history was written at the time of a religious revival, the "Great Awakening", which was marked by waves of conversions that spread from congregation to congregation- conversions so intensely emotional as to amount at times to mass hysteria. ... This movement called for something totally new and outrageous a bold experimentation and a sweeping rejection of all traditional themes and styles. ...

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The beast's heraldic nature is reinforced through the imagery of Jesus' divine conception and birth in the manger, paralleling the beast's awakening after 'twenty centuries of stony sleep' in its 'rocking cradle'. ... Furthermore, Yeats masters the traditional sonnet which commonly addresses romantic themes, but he corrupts the literary mode by depicting rape, a taboo act against the tradition of love-making. ... Through 'The Second Coming' and 'Leda and the Swan', Yeats was able to express how temperamental themes such as cycles of bi...

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At this point in the novel, the presence of an Oedipus complex in Paul is so patent that one can hardly consider it as a submerged theme. Looked at another way, a major theme of the book is the gradual awakening of Paul to the deadly effects of his Oedipal fixation on his mother. ...

• Word Count: 1244
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• Has Bibliography
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