written by Harper Lee. The focus of my essay is to analyse how symbolism was used in the novel. Before I start analysing the novel, there is symbolism show in the title. The mockingbird is the symbol of innocence (anything that is good and bad in the world) the mockingbird only sings to please others and so it is considered a sin to kill a mockingbird. This relates to real life, for example there are some hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport; some people kill innocence, or kill people who are innocent
a family whose entire existence rests on filial piety. Filial piety is the belief that children should honor their parents at all costs. For example, when Mr. Oyama’s father left his children with massive debt, he counted on their filial piety to pay it back. The Oyamas are honor bound to repay this obligation, which has left them poor and hopeless. This means that Toshio, the eldest son, is expected to take on the debt because of his filial obligation. However, he does not completely buy into this
Jewish survivor of the holocaust and the Second World War. Art
positions of power and backgrounds, with all of their observations being heavily punctuated by different motives and biases, helps one gain a lot of perspective over the entire situation. The impact that the dealings of these people have had on the world as we now know it also becomes clearly evident once one starts analyzing it. As a lot of queries that initially rise in one’s mind get answered when reading the accounts, there are even more queries that in turn get borne out of these answers. The
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and
1) I chose boots as a central item of clothing. Boots, in the context of war, are common. They unify all military men and represent a stereotype of power. Power, however, leads to stratification thus diminishing this unity. Men of all ranks march heavy and project their overactive sense of pride yet the boots worn by men so similar may represent vastly different authority levels. To clarify, authority itself is not an issue. It is the underlying hypocrisy and absurdity and ultimately, blind jingoism