Taylor Corey Mr. David Hatcher Honors English III 4 August 2014 Chapter One Reflection Chapter one introduces Ishmael‚ who seems to me like a very sad person. He loves to go out to sea to get his mind off of everything. He says “whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp‚ drizzly November in my soul…” which indicates that he is sad and not happy with himself. He almost seems like he has a suicidal side to him. He is a very simple minded person who does not care about
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ESSAYS 1. Puritan views of New World in colonial America 2. Compare and contrast literature of Whitman and Dickenson in terms of God‚ man and nature 3. Man’s nature perceived by Hawthorne‚ Faulkner and Melville. 4. American dream and experience in 20th century American literature 5. Poe’s idea of rationalisation (symbolic poetry‚ short stories‚ invention of detective story‚ science fiction‚ tension on symbolism and psychological analysis) 6. Transcendentalizm 7. Establishment
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Title: A Reading of Symbols in Moby Dick Abstract: Moby Dick is not merely a whaling tale or sea adventure‚ but also a philosophic novel with symbolic meanings. Moby Dick represents God owing to his godlike characters and his awfully severe beauty. Ahab symbolizes the league human with evil. In the whaling trip‚ we can see his bravery and patience‚ as well as his madness and stubbornness. The third symbolic element is the idea of the “counterpane” that is woven throughout the story as a symbol
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The Literary Criticism of D. H. Lawrence Author(s): René Wellek Source: The Sewanee Review‚ Vol. 91‚ No. 4 (Fall‚ 1983)‚ pp. 598-613 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27544211 . Accessed: 28/12/2010 10:04 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you have
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Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle The story of Rip Van Winkle was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker‚ an old gentleman from New York who was especially interested in the histories‚ customs‚ and culture of the Dutch settlers in that state. It is set in a small‚ very old village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains‚ which was founded by some of the earliest Dutch settlers. Rip lived there while America was still a colony of Great Britain. Rip Van Winkle is descended from
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