“How does Steinbeck suggest that the relationship between George and Lennie is a unique one?” Steinbeck illustrates George’s and Lennie’s relationship as a very ‘unique’ one due to the fact that during the 1930’s migrant workers had a very solitary existence. The relationship between George and Lennie is effectively portrayed by Steinbeck as unique by exemplifying George’s protective instincts over Lennie and his vulnerability. “Hide in the bush till I come” The commanding verb ‘hide’ demonstrates the quiet, solitary existence of a migrant worker in 1930’s America. Also the noun ‘bush’ illustrates America as a ‘Dust bowl’ with hardly any civilisation and a land full of plants in the hostile environment during the time that the novel was set, foreshadowing the sense of machoism. However, Lennie and George travel together already demonstrating the distinctive relationship between the pair.
Nash 1 Lucas W. Nash Dr. Connally English 1020.60 5 October 2014 Analysis of Symbolism: A Birthmark and a Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to convey his central themes and ideas to the reader throughout his works and his short stories The Birthmark (1843) and The Minister’s Black Veil (1836) are no exception. A comparative analysis of the heavy-handed symbolism used in these two short stories reveals Hawthorne’s style in his approach to creating his personal narrative of the human condition and also, as I believe these works show, how the effectiveness of these symbols differ as a result of the contemporary cultural context in which they are read. In this paper I am going to display this analysis in four sections. The first section will contain a brief overview of Hawthorne’s works and the central theme that overlies them. Second, I am going to briefly explain the plots of both The Birth Mark and The Minister’s Black Veil including the main uses of symbolism in each.
." Even the "F" in F&S, Mr. Fitweiler, will sing Martin praises. He declares, "Man is fallible, but Martin isn’t" (18). Because of this statement, we are inclined to believe Martin is an infallible man that just has his own idiosyncrasies and particular methods. His apparent teetotalism, stout resignation to no smoking, and a general averageness only add to his perceived infallibility.
Steinbeck describes Crooks’ living condition to be, “For being alone…Crooks could leave his things about, and being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men” (67). Crooks’ deformed back deprive him of working with the other men, thus denying him an opportunity for personal contact with them. Next, Crooks becomes accustomed to seclusion and begins to be suspicious of any man who tries to make friends with him. Crooks cannot go in the bunkhouse of the white ranch hands; therefore, he turns Lennie away from his own place. His longing for company wins over and he then invites Lennie to accompany him (68).
Paper code: NEM04361 The ‘Hero’s Journey’: Personal Resonance as Response to Narrative Written by Kori Nemme and Phil Fitzsimmons University of Wollongong Purpose of the Study The overall aim of this inquiry was to illuminate the relationships between Joseph Campbell’s (1991) notions of ‘natural response’ and the shared book experiences of a stage three class using the ‘Hero’s Journey’ (Campbell, 1988). Joseph Campbell (1991) was an American mythologist who analysed and studied myths from around the world. He found that myths are portrayals of narrative and contain a common archetypal pattern of human experience, which he named the ‘Monomyth’, otherwise known as the ‘Hero’s Journey’ (1993). He believed that readers across all cultures and throughout time experience a natural resonance towards the ‘Hero’s Journey’, which encompasses a natural accord with: • • • narrative the ‘Hero’s Journey’ pattern symbolism and archetype 1 • • connections between themes in narrative and the readers’ own life experiences a social, spiritual understanding regarding the like experiences of all humankind Contexts of the Study Joseph Campbell (1993, p. 3) researched the ‘myths’ from around the world, encompassing the religions, arts and written stories and found that all are forms of narrative and encompass ‘the one shapeshifting, yet marvelously constant story’. It is essentially the one deed done by many many different people…a certain typical hero sequence of actions which can be detected in stories from all over the world and from many many periods of history.
Thus, Priam acknowledges his role as a King, “to think of the king’s sacred body, this brief six feet of earth he moves and breathes in…as at once a body like any other and an abstract of the lands he represents, their living map”. However, his insecurity arises from the fact that he understands so little of “what is out there that he represents” since his “more usual role is to stand still at the centre”. Somax has “seen king Priam only at a distance” and, close up, finds him a “spare old fellow”. This however, is
James Wood sees limitation in Babel’s art because of the latter’s “great lack of any inwardness in any of the characters” (Wood 77). However, the lack of inwardness, sensitivity, and vulnerability in his characters is Babel’s way of portrayal of the revolutionary ‘hero’, a person, who lost all values and fought against people like himself for the sake of revolutionist ideologies. In “My First Goose” Babel describes a vivid episode, that not only accurately depicts the essence of Red Cavalry soldiers but also shows the betrayal of values the narrator needs to go through in order to be accepted. Upon his first meeting with the commander of the Sixth Divison he comes across contempt towards himself as a representative of a different class. “Here you get hacked into pieces just for wearing glasses!” (Babel 231), the commander’s response to the fact that the narrator was an educated person who could read and write unlike other members of the Sixth Division and consequently did not fit in with them.
In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, author Thomas Hardy uses late nineteenth century rural England to develop the social and religious conflicts as they affect and create Tess and other major characters in the novel. Hardy uses social and religious conflicts such as marriage, a class system, fate, destiny and masculinity to show how this effects and creates the story of these characters. Marriage is one of the Major conflicts in the text. The marriages hardy has chosen to show distinctly in the text further explain the idea of social conflict in society. John and Joan Durbeyfields marriage which is strongly shown throughout the novel, this was an example of Marriage for love.
It is only as such was he able to see the sheer absurdity in the behavior of European colonists in their newfound land, but more importantly, observe and realize the distant kinship he shares with the ‘savages’—a truly unthinkable idea at the time, and especially, at the location. But perhaps Marlow’s most significant realization is that he lives in an age of darkness, and in this, shares a kinship with the natives around him. Only through realizing thus does he maintain his sanity throughout his journey—unable to succumb, like his white brethren, to his inner darkness. Though European in mindset, Marlow does not ignore any of the details he sees—being, by nature, an adventurer and observer. Whereas most of his brethren subscribe to their condescending assumption of white dominance, Marlow does not let his culture blind him.
All of these texts express the complexity of truth through the differing representations of Hughes and Plath’s turbulent relationship. Hughes’ ‘Birthday Letters’ is a series of poems addressed to Plath that convey his subjective truth of the nature of their relationship and subsequent marriage. The anthology is written with hindsight and knowledge, and includes questioning; as Hughes is unsure of his memories. ‘Fulbright Scholars’ in particular portrays a tone of uncertainty through the use of rhetorical questions, authorial answers, and the repetition of ‘or’. ‘Where was it, in the Strand?’, ‘Or arrived.