In the first chapter, we have adopted a textual approach, by analyzing symbols in the text, and a contextual approach, by relating these symbols to the Romantic movement. ... In both cases we deal with symbols, but when we attach an external meaning to a word we have, in addition to the verbal symbol, the thing represented or symbolized by it.... Chapter One: Symbols and Romanticism Nathaniel Hawthorne, as a romantic writer, nurtures his works with symbols that reflect American romanticism. ... Through this character, the author shows the evil of the exaggerated use of science as a warning no...

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Factual symbol for Coleridge is sacramental (Barth, Symbolic, 13). ... An owl, being a creature of the night, is a true symbol of a herald of death (May 3). Coleridge is describing night, obviously, but through symbol an omen is foreshadowed. ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. ... Coleridge was not intending to make her mother a gothic apparition, but an attention holder and symbol of "Mary-. ...

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Importance of the research To allow society to realise that Goths aren't violent, evil, cult activists associated with Satan, as depicted in the media. ... Subcultures interact with the community through various symbols (such as dress or music). ... They owe their nature to the fact that human beings interact in terms of symbols A symbol does not simply stand for an object or an event: it defines them in a particular way and indicates a response to them. ... Without symbols there would be no human interaction and no human society. ... The media misinterprets who they are; they ...

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"Black as my soul." (158) was Lang's response to the interviewer's question when the interviewer Power asked him in 1973, "How do you take your coffee?" (158). This response is characteristic of the dark underlying tone that is prevalent in many Lang's films. According to Professor Polan, many Lang's films share a recurring theme - destiny, a destiny which is typically random and uncaring. ...

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There are many symbols that show Christ's love, including that of Aslan as a great lion. ... The Bible itself uses the lion as a symbol for Christ," (68). ... The Word of God uses a lion as imagery for Christ and it is interpreted to be a symbol for Christ in this children's novel. ... The animal itself evokes feelings that make it a worthy symbol for authority and majesty," (Veith 71). Veith further discusses about how Aslan in Narnia is a symbol for Christ in our world (78), and that Lewis intended for reader's to make the connection from Aslan to Christ (82). ...

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Also, religion is present in the novels in the form of many symbols and carefully worded descriptions. ... Furthermore, Ahab turns into an obsessed and evil man while Claggart is innately evil. ... The idea of good and evil is broached more often than any other aspect of religion, through the clever use of symbols and carefully worded descriptions. ... His vindictiveness is against the eternal fact of evil" ( Parke, 569). Furthermore, the whale's whiteness holds a special religious significance as the color white " is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things nay, the very v...

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The setting, symbols, and the characters each contain light and dark images create the center theme of the novel. ... The river is the first of these symbols to appear in the story. ... Right away as the reader is able to visualize both settings of each river, they are able to decipher Conrad's metaphor of civilization, representing goodness and light and the uncivilized representing evil and darkness. ... The literal journey into the jungle is a metaphor, or a symbol, for the journey into the uncharted human soul. ...

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Evil III. ... Grendel, the monster, can also be a symbol of Christianity. ... Sir Gawain's shield can be seen as a symbol of Christ, the pentangle representing the five wounds of Christ. ... The main character Constance is a symbol of Christian faith and purity while other religions in the tale are depicted as evil. ... He first battles Grendel the evil monsters then he battles the troll wife and in his last adventure as king he battles an evil dragon that has threatened his kingdom. ...

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These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. ... William Golding uses religious allegory to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. ... The evil within man is shown through Jack who is quickest to bare his animalistic and savage ways and untie his strings with civilization. ... In addition to the boy's illustration of true human nature, Jack and his tribe fully give themselves over to evil. They leave the sow's...

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Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. ... Here the temptation of Geraldine's wild and supernatural appearance unsettles Christabel, and as Gabriele Cocco writes, it leads her 'innocence and purity' to be 'violated by sin'20, the temptation of evil being the antithetical force to pure virtue. ... Unlike Dracula and Christabel, in The Rime of the Anc...

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The lamb also becomes a symbol of the deterministic delight of the divine. ... The lamb, thus, becomes a symbol of God and of the innocence of children as it is only in the children that God is most visible. ... He brings up the question of evil's existence, to quote "The Tyger," from Songs of Experience: "Did he who make the lamb make thee"". ... The poem raises an innovative question that if God is responsible for creating both the good things in life (the lamb) and the evil things (the tyger), how can God be good and moral? ... Satan thus becomes a symbol of the repressed. ...

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Ralph had thought the signal fire-a symbol of civilization-was the only way to lure rescuers to the island. ... Golding's experience in World War II had a profound effect on his view of humanity and the evils of which it was capable. ... Though the novel is fictional, its exploration of the idea of human evil is at least partly based on Golding's experience with the real-life violence and brutality of World War II. ... Some believed that the novel explores fundamental religious issues, such as original sin and the nature of good and evil. ...

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Evil Macbeth EVIL MACBETH Darkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. ... The evilness in them brigs out the good in other characters in the play. ... If Macbeth truly did not want to commit evil, he could have refused his Lady's arrangements. ... However, Macbeth shows that he has a conscience and that he can differentiate good from evil. ...

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In this scene, the exorcist and some archaeologists are standing face to face with the evil demon, which symbolizes the turmoil and confrontation to come. ... The possessed person also displays hatred and or fear for symbols of goodness and sanctity. ... The possessed person also displays hatred and or fear for symbols of goodness and sanctity or anything holy. ... Many of us at some stage in our lives have been spooked and felt or feared what might be believed to be an ominous or evil spiritual presence. ... Throughout the church's history, it has identified evil spirits in demon-p...

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Baptism, by imparting the life of Christ's grace, erases original sin and turns one back toward God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist and summon man to spiritual battle. ... Rosetta's rape signifies the loss of virginity and innocence, but can also be seen as a symbol of Italy's fate during the war. ...

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As Victor recounts this event to Walton, Victor shares "when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences" (50). Does Victor see Elizabeth as the evil that took his mother away permanently now? ... Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. ... Light, the avenger of evil forces, symbolizes the source of goodness; and the ultimate reality, purity, and morality. ... Victor struggles with his mother's death and the evil forces, wh...

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She writes about several different themes including good and evil, love and hate, beauty and ugliness, friendship, and death. ... Expanding on the representation of Jesus or God in The Bluest Eye, Alexander understands the problem of how a supposedly omnipotent and loving God can allow the existence of evil and suffering to still take place. ... I don't see Alexander's argument as a problem with the novel in comparison to my understanding that evil and suffering must still take place under the control of a loving God to make the word revolve correctly. I believe differently that ever...

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The story displays some of the darkest elements of the human soul: guilt, revenge, and evil. ... Pearl delights in the scarlet letter and enjoys emphasizing the symbol on her mother's breast. ... Pearl is a symbol in the story; she is Hester's salvation, pride, and joy, and also acts as an eternal reminder of Hester's sin. ... "And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two. ...

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The poem begins within a symbol. ... This idea of birth, re-birth, new beginnings, end of one cycle, and the beginning of a new cycle creates the concept of one of the symbols in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Samuels). There is also another symbol in the beginning of the poem. ... Besides the many symbols in the beginning, there are many more that follow the introduction. ... This symbol looks like an infinite knot. ...

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Jack, a child, shows evil that you would only really expect form an adult. ... Jack was also involved in the in humane murders of Jack and Piggy, again, showing his evil. ... This would have seen him come across as evil, like Jack was. ...

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An evil act is just that, evil. To do evil unto others just for the sake of evil however, is perverse, as can be observed in Poe's stories. ... For those who believe, they are symbols of bad luck, death, witchcraft, sorcery, and the spirits of the dead. ...

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Kurtz resembles the archetypal "evil genius": the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. ... Kurtz can be criticized in the same terms that Heart of Darkness is sometimes criticized: style entirely overrules substance, providing a justification for amorality and evil. ... His perverse honesty leads to his downfall, as his success threatens to expose the evil practices behind European activity in Africa. ...

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It does so through the symbol of the open door. ... When the film opens, the evil in Dussander is dormant. ... Thus, Dussander's evil is linked to Todd's. ... The cat represents a victim of Dussander's evil, and thus can symbolize that evil. ... Thus, the evil of Dussander is linked to Todd. ...

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The first of the five races was the Golden one, who lived in the Cronus era after was the Silver who were evil and imperfect and so Zeus destroyed them, the third was the bronze race who were fight full and brought on the awful acts of Ares (the gold of warfare), after were the heroic these people were created by Zeus and were semi-gods and were a divine and holy race and the final race was the Iron race which people suffered hardships and fatigue, Zeus then destroyed this final "holy" race. ... Symbols and Holy Places Symbols are used in Greek mythology to represent Gods/ Goddesses...

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[S] Initially, Macbeth is far from evil within: "Chance may crown me, without my stir," preferring to let fate lead his future. ... [S] Although Macbeth is tempted by evil as soon as he meets the witches, Banquo, in contrast, is wary from the outset. ... Although he has accomplished his goal of becoming King of Scotland, his guilt for all the evil he now represents is becoming unbearable. ... ," proving that her evil deed in still on her conscience. ... The evil deed of murdering the king becomes too much of a burden on the Macbeths. ...

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