In the novels, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Native Son by Richard Wright, a majority of the novels can be interpreted only by the use of symbolism. ... However, Ethan Frome uses the color red to show good health and endurance, whereas Native Son uses red to illustrate the possible dangers to society. During Native Son, the belief of aberration and its effect on human nature and society plays a major role throughout the entire novel. ... In Native Son, snow is interpreted similarly to Ethan Frome's psychological and physical suffocating force. ... Native Son's interpretation of th...

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(Native Son- Book 3:Fate) Richard Wright may well have felt the same way as Bigger felt about his bloody act of violence, about the act of writing Native Son. ... In Native Son, Wright uses words as weapons. ... He whacked harder, but the head would not come off."" - Native Son p106 Book 1: Fear I find this passage from Native Son to be extremely graphic and brutal. ... Dalton's literal blindness and the other characters' figurative blindness; walls, the wall of the Thomas' apartment and of Bigger's jail cell and the "looming white walls-(Native Son Book 1:Fear) of J...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ibsen's early works included two verse dramas: The first, Brand (1866; first produced in 1885), dramatized the tragedy of blind devotion to a false sense of duty; the second, Peer Gynt (1867), related, in allegorical terms, the adventures of a charming opportunist. ... Ibsen became so popular that young playwrights learned from him, reformers adopted his ideas, and moralists quoted from him as from a sacred book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The simple truth that is revealed by his exploration is that whether as a mother to his creation or as a son to his mother, Victor desires to be desired.coab abr seababw orab abk inab foab ab. ... While it is obvious that he wants a companion to quell his loneliness at sea, it seems from this statement that Walton feels a deeper need to protect himself against the evil that could incur from blindly pursuing his quest. ... It seems here that Walton is either overly compassionate, or has been blinded by his prolonged isolation from his feminine nature. ...

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Locke was the son of a Puritan Somerset lawyer who served in the Parliamentary Army during the Civil War. ... He stated that if truth is native to our minds, then observation and experimentation could lead one nowhere, at the most they can only confirm our knowledge and not act as additions to it. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School