The Pilgrimage not only immediately gave the concept of it being a religious revolt with the naming of the rebellion 'pilgrim: Person who journeys to a holy place' but also used religious symbols and artefacts to enhance and out forward the statement that the revolt was one of religious conflict. ... The rebels maintained the statement that the revolt was a religious one and carried this statement through by continuous images of Christ and religious figures and symbols. There was a pilgrim's oath which was taken enforcing again the ideology that the revolt was one of religious p...

• Word Count: 1219
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

Multiple parts of narrative perspective are examined: how the narrative perspective is used to surprise the reader in different ways and how the irony, symbols, and emotions are used to help the narrator explain the characters and events throughout the story as well as understanding the psychopath himself. ... Even though there are a thousand different reasons for deciding to write in a third person point of view and an omniscient voice to narrate a story such as this one, nothing stands out more than the importance of distancing the audience from a character such as this one because he might ...

• Word Count: 3837
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In an early moment of tension, Hepzibah is frightened by the shop bell which she perceives to be "betwitched", becoming fearful that she has "summoned up an evil spirit" (49)-yet we quickly discover that it is simply a sweet little urchin boy wanting to buy gingerbread. ... After all, the narrator has thus far acted as our guide throughout the novel, at times blatantly explicating the meaning of symbols for us-we have built up trust in his opinions, although moments of revoked explanation has left us wanting. ...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Reg Carr, however, highlights that "the anarchists realised what Mirbeau was trying to do, and agreed that [he] had been successful"12, seeing the play as a "a clear indication of the depths of Mirbeau's anarchism, for he regarded any authority, whatever the source, as a potential evil"13. ...

• Word Count: 5030
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate