“The Pumpkin Eater” By Alexi Kondylas The short story "The Pumpkin Eater" by Isabelle Carmody is a coming-of-age rite of passage and an allegory. Events in the narrative show quest conventions that are common throughout history. Like with; traditional gender roles are restrictive, beauty can cause unhappiness for women, and that love and marriage trap women. The quest short narrative have conventions that assist the exploration of ideas with the quest - the journey and prize. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (princess) thought that having true happiness meant finding a man/prince to sweep her off of her feet/ to instantly fall in love , and take her away from her castle/home.
Aly Tracy Religion and Sin In Anne Dillard’s essay the sense of reverence is present in explaining the beautiful process of death and how that correlates as a representation for how one should write, while Virginia Woolf’s essay expresses death as insignificant and even pessimistic which correlates to her life and ultimately her suicide. Anne Dillard uses many contextual words and phrases that relate back to Catholicism which gives the expression that death is meant to be beautiful and not feared in the eyes or religion because one has something greater to look forward to after life. Virgina Woolf contradicts this expression by giving a negative connotation throughout her essay that life is nothing really to live for and as Woolf uses often that life is pretty “insignificant”. Dillard uses many Catholic words and undertone meanings to help support her idea that death is a beautiful process within the church. Some may fear death but it’s a process that is natural and should not be feared.
Miss Strangeworth thinks that she is like her golden fountain pen and everyone else is insignificant. Jackson uses archetypes to support the theme of “The Possibility of Evil” by making Miss Strangeworth use roses as the plant that she tends to every day. Roses look fragile but they hide their thorns. Miss Strangeworth is like the roses because she to hides her thorns. A rose also could stand for royalty and Miss Strangeworth thinks of herself as the princess of the town when she says, “A princess can see a lot of trouble sometimes” (3).
This shows that the girl is aware of the dangers of going to see the Erl-King, yet she keeps returning. Therefore, she is conscious of her situation and is making clear decisions to maintain it. The Erl-King can be seen to represent nature, as he is almost made of it: “When he combs his hair that is the colour of dead leaves, dead leaves fall out of it.” This is a literal description that the Erl-King is made from nature. When the girl keeps returning to the woods to see him, this represents her desires. Carter is showing that the sexual urges of a woman are natural and that society should accept them, not take judgement on a girl for entering womanhood.
Fundamentally, it exaggerates the change of season which means ‘new life’ and maybe Bronte is trying to indicate that Jane has started a new life and it’s just the beginning for her future; perhaps the ‘lilies opening’ could link to Jane and how she has ‘opened’ throughout the novel. Bronte goes on to build an element of suspense, as she finishes the paragraph with ‘A handful of herbs and blossoms to put in a coffin’. This could have a polysemic meaning because as a reader it adumbrates the death within Lowood that has devastating effects. Bronte accordingly leaves the reader with a sense of ambiguity and perhaps the contrast of ‘opening’ and ‘coffin’ portrays the lifecycle that everything experiences and perhaps signifies a sense of life and death. Moreover, the flowing elegancy of the beautiful image almost creates a ‘heavenly’ picture, then ‘coffin’ undercuts everything that’s natural.
In the opening stanza, the composer clearly outlines that the poem has a carpe diem theme which is Latin for "Seize the Day." The line “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may” is a metaphor for living life to the fullest while the image of roses suggests a number of things such as being symbolic for sensuality and the fulfillment of earthly pleasures, Roses being vegetation they are tied to the cycles of nature and represent change and the unstableness of life. Like the "virgins," the roses are buds which are fresh, youthful and full of life, being youthful, like life however is challenging with many decisions to be made. The poem shows that life is short and life is such that one day one experiences joy which is suggested in the line “And this same flower that smiles today” and the next day death symbolized by the setting of the sun and the line “tomorrow will be dying”. Again this relates back to the thesis that change can happen rapidly or it could take years even
The emergence of the scientific revolution was closely related to the art during the Enlightenment period. Flower painting promoted the scientific study of flowers and plants, especially for women, during the Enlightenment. Flowers were deemed something reserved for women. Many women began to study flower anatomy drawing each part of the flower individually and understanding the structure before drawing the flower as a whole in order to represent them as accurately as possible in creating realistic, beautiful paintings. Mary Moser’s flower still life, for example, being released into society played a role in the desire to draw and study flowers and plants.
In Songs of Innocence and Ode: Intimations of Immortality nature is used to add a double meaning to the story. Nature is used in both Songs of Innocence and Ode: Intimations of Immortality as a way to symbolize life. That being said, I can make the general assumption that Romantic writers valued nature so highly that they interrelate it in their masterpieces. In The Ecchoing Green (from Songs of Innocence), the use of nature signifies the cycle of life. The way Blake uses nature is to show natural settings of in which the stage of a child endures: “The Sun does arise,/ And make happy the skies./ The merry bells ring/ To welcome the Spring.” (1-4).
How does Margaret Atwood depict the importance of pregnancy in the Gileadean society and how it affects the women? Within the innocence of chapter 1, we perceive the Gildeadean Society as a society built around religion, yet progressing further into the book we find that the entire structure of Gilead is built around one thing, reproduction. Apparent dropping birth-rates is what has forced Gilead into a state of control over the population and in particular, women and their bodies. By stripping the women of their various rights, the authorities of Gilead can subject them to the pure use of reproduction, controlling them so as to have control over their bodies. Handmaids are fertile women whose social function is to bear children for the Wives.
Steinbeck uses the “chrysanthemum” flower, the variation of her clothing, the way she interacts with her husband and the tinker as examples of symbolism. Page 2 The “chrysanthemums” flowers symbolize the extension of Elisa Allen herself. The flowers representing her beauty, femininity and sexuality . Which for her is where her power and strength lie. The flower is everything she is and everything she is made of.