Since the prison is a place of darkness and sin, the beauty of a wild rose bush growing in such an unexpected place symbolizes God's grace. By starting off with a prison door and beautiful rosebush, Hawthorne is letting us know that the issues punishment versus forgiveness and judgment versus grace are going to be super important. Like I said earlier even though Hester went through many hardships she was able to overcome and bloom just like a rosebush would. The Scarlet Letter is a dark book at the beginning because the setting of the prison makes me think of sadness. When the prison is being described Hawthorne names everything that makes it such a sad place.
Although both Homecoming and Weapons Training are based on an anti-war theme, Dawe writes about the different aspects that involve war such as death, weapons, lives lost, soldier’s, families and disrespect. He uses titles that have very strong meanings to people that have been involved in war such as homecoming which every soldier hopes to be able to come home to their families again and weapons training where they are taught to use weapons before the war to prepare to kill the enemy. His poem Homecoming about the Vietnam War; the title itself creates the image of a happy and joyful journey; however Dawe ironically uses this to describe the sadness and sorrow of the dead soldier’s journey as they are transported home back to their families. A soldier’s return from war is supposed to be heroic but these soldiers are treated with a lack of respect.Dawe tries to convey the message to the reader that war is futile and that lives are wasted at war. On the other hand the title of Weapons Training creates the idea that the soldier’s are being trained to use the military weapons although the theme suggests that the soldier’s are actually the so called weapons being trained.
“Father and Child” is essentially concerned with the loss of innocence through a negative experience, which allows the persona to grow. Harwood juxtaposes the youthful persona’s potential for both good, ‘obedient, angel minded’ and evil, ‘horny fiend’ in an attempt to foreshadow the possible carnage. As the child shoots the bird but realises it is alive after one shot, the persona’s confidence level drops as the poet juxtaposes the imagined world with one of harsh reality. The child’s innocence is impacted when the father sternly says ‘end what you have
As writing a sonnet, composing a rondeau is demanding exercise for a poet. Analysis: * In Flanders Fields: features the alliteration that helps structure this poem throughout. * “…the poppies grow”: poppies were a symbol for death in war before World War One, but it was McCrae’s poem that helped to popularize the poppy as a sign of remembrance for the Great War. Poppies have been associated with the battlefield since at least the Napoleonic wars, when poppies would thrive and grow on the fields freshly manured by blood. Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines.
Gatsby lived his American dream and in the end found his heart flooded with the power of love and its remarkable betrayal. In time, the clothes we decide to wear, or the objects we put faith into are but beautiful masks covering broken creatures. The desires Gatsby longs for, force him to remember the past in the hope of strengthening the dimming light of Daisy’s love. Gatsby’s life gives way to circumstances that connect two separate ideas in ways least expected. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby the morals of people are challenged through the use of flashbacks, symbolism, irony, syntax, and diction in order to depict the dissimilarities of the social classes.
Throughout this story, I have learned that there is a fine line with pride. “I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” This quote, on its face, is a contradiction. This quote presents no facts, but instead leaves readers hanging with confusion, or at least it did for me. Readers are left to think about this quote, for it “bears two vines, life and death.” Pride is described as a wonderful thing, a wonderful, terrible thing. To have pride in the way you look or act is an absolutely wonderful trait, but a point in time can come where you could have so much pride that you look down on others and set conditions for others to be able to be proud of them.
This heightens his curiosity so he sneaks out again to see a very sick person again in which he would ask his friend what it was, responding with this is sickness, you too shall experience this. Again with his curiosity going he sneaks out again to see a funeral session asking his friend what it was to say this is what happens when you die, saying this too you shall experience. He sneaks out a last time to see a beggar with little yet is puzzle because the man is perfectly content. He then realizes that our desires keep us in this world in which the world is an illusion of pain and misery. The only way to escape this is by reaching Nirvana by completely detaching yourself from the world including your love of family.
In performing the ritual of throwing the flowers into the river, it releases Mark of the overabundance of unhealthy guilt. The flowers transform from a thing of trepidation to an icon of beauty. While still at Kurdistan, Mark undergoes a survivors’ guilt as he deems himself liable to the hastening colin’s death, feeling responsible to both Colin and his wife. This guilt further intensifies as fails to bring Colin’s body home. In a life lesson taught by Talzani, Mark has to learn to ‘forget the dead’ and ‘turn away from the past’, to realize that he is not responsible for the death of his friend and failing to bring his body back.
The personal beliefs and social order which were once static, collapse in the face of God’s ‘test.’ When faced with adversity and desperation, certain individuals embrace the challenge and their heroism shines through, whilst others instead choose to turn their backs on the town, acting in selfish and crude ways. Throughout the ‘Year of Wonders,’ Brooks explores the ways in which society responds to extreme hardship, and the ripple effect which peoples choices have on others within the community. The plague seeds which settle upon the soil of Eyam bring about profound change within the village,
His guilt over the death of his beloved wife and son during World War 2 is a crucial event in which shaped the present Keller. He decides to remove his past and begin a new future in Darwin, however he lost some of his previous qualities in order to start fresh. One of these qualities was his love for romantic music. When Paul visits Vienna, he finds out that ‘Eduard loved the romantics.’ However after the concentration camp, Keller had hatred towards them as it clearly reminded him of the horrors he faced during that time. This accentuates how much guilt the man carries among himself and helps define who he truly is during the novel.