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Thaipusam Procession Thaipusam Festival Devotees
626 wordsThe documentary I watched is about Thaipusam festival. I watched it on National Geographic Channel and was amazed to discover the meaning, the process and the traditions and practices of Thaipusam. It was interesting to watch the procession yet at the same time learn more about it in detail. Every January/February, depending upon the lunar month - on a full-moon day in the Tamil month of Thai, the Hindus will celebrate Thaipusam in honour of their Hindu God, Lord Subramaniam (sometimes referred ...
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Fast Food Restaurant Mid Life Crisis
1,856 wordsIn life, everyone must make choices. Choices give an individual the freedom to decide the path which they will follow. In the movie American Beauty, each of the characters has a choice he or she needs to make. The main character, Lester Burnham, is faced with many choices that could either lead to his ultimate happiness or draw him further into his despair. Carolyn Burnham, Lester's wife, is faced with a loveless marriage that exists only because she does not possess the willingness to break the...
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Cask Of Amontillado Point Of View
848 wordsIn Edgar Allen Poe's tale, the setting of Montresor's catacombs provides Montresor with a place where he can kill Fortunato with almost no evidence on who killed him, helping his attempt at making the perfect crime. The catacombs in "The Cask of Amontillado" are old with spider webs as well as "long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs" (Poe 78). The setting of the catacombs is also dark; Montresor and Fortunato need torches ...
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An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge
1,135 wordsAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce's's tory "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" tells the story of a confederate secessionist, who is being hanged by Union troops. At the time of the hanging, the soldiers drop him from the bridge. Luckily, just as he falls the rope snaps and the man dives into the "sluggish stream." He miraculously takes of his ropes and swims away. When he reaches the bank of the creek, he runs for what seems like forever. He finally reaches home, w...
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Head Of The Family Franz Kafka
1,509 wordsSocial aspects in novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was the author of only three unfinished novels and several stories but he remains one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. The works of Franz Kafka have considerably influenced the great number of writers, artists and cinematographers. For many years critics have been trying to analyze Kafka's works through different philosophical approaches, but Kafka was not a philosopher, he was a common ...
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Play Is Set Act 1 Scene 1
1,158 wordsRising of Spirit in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry in her play A Raisin in the Sun, written in 1959 raises the questions of racism and racial segregation in the contemporary society. The theme of physical, social and moral confinement is one of the major topics arisen by the play A Raisin in the Sun. The action of the play is set in the small apartment in the poor South side of Chicago owned by the Younger's family. "Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Eve...
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What The National Anthem Means To Me
435 wordsWhat the National Anthem Means to Me The National Anthem of America is more just the favorite song of millions of people. It is a symbol of the whole nation. It represents the unity of the Americans, as a great nationality and state. It means to me so much, that it is difficult to express by words, the feeling that needs no explanation to real Americans, because it is inside every citizen in our country and can be easily understand by every one when he or she songs or heard it. The Anthem symbol...
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Head Till Morning Lips My Lips Have Kissed Love
1,080 wordsEdna St. Vincent Millay's "What Lips my Lips have Kissed " The sonnet "What Lips my Lips have Kissed " is a symphony of love, mood and a free spirit of the young woman, who is the main character of this poem. The image of the woman in the poem is vaguely depicted through another symbolic image the tree, which is bare, silent and lonely in winter (Thus in winter stands the lonely tree), longing for love and joy, but the birds have vanished one by one. So the main character of the sonnet tries to ...
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The Passage For Spiritual Renewal
1,057 wordsThe Passage for Spiritual Renewal The Middle Passage by Charles Johnson, which received the National Book Award in 1990, is one of the greatest works of the contemporary African-American literature. The story is set in 1830 and it tells about the freed slave Rutherford Calhoun. Calhoun was a very educated person who used to be a thief. In search of escape from his creditors and undesirable marriage he boarded a ship which he believed to be a New Orleans river board. But the ship tuned out to be ...
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Virginia Woolf Patriarchal Society
1,211 wordsWorld Literature Both Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours based on the novel of Michael Cunningham are two brilliant masterpieces that narrate against the oppression of the human soul and for the celebration of diversity. Both works carry a nostalgic mood, heavily overlaid with the sense of memory. Mrs. Dalloway mostly takes place before World War I, and the rest of the novel focuses on vivid moments in memory that define lives and relationships. The Hours, although it takes place in t...
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Odyssey Odysseus Eternal Youth
1,692 wordsMystical Caves Used Throughout Mythology The use of caves in mythology to depict darkness and abandonment has branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only few venture, and yet its mysticism has attracted the interest of philosophers, religious figures and thinkers throughout history. These myths are exemplified in Homer? s Od...
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Light And Dark People Of Thebes
872 wordsKing Oedipus by Sophocles Blindness is the downfall of the hero Oedipus in the play? King Oedipus? by Sophocles. Not only does the blindness appear physically, but also egotistically as he refuses to acknowledge the possibility of him actually being the murderer of Laius, the former King of Thebes. Coincidentally, he is also Oedipus? s biological father. The use of light and dark in the play is strategically applied in order to better understand the emotion that lies within the characters. As bl...
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Fire Escape Tennessee Williams
1,013 wordsWhat theme does is it empowers a novel or story. There is a reoccurring theme throughout the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Williams uses the symbolism of the movies, the fire escape, and the nailed coffin to illustrate his theme that the harshness of reality often leads to escape. These symbols all support the theme of escape and freedom. The fire escape is always an escape for Tom when he wanted time to himself or just to relax from the household and warehouse life in which bo...
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Faith In God Iambic Pentameter
856 wordsNature and Death Literature delivers or expresses ideas according to the social and cultural settings of the particular time of the writers. Even though, it is designed to be in a certain time frame, the concepts overlap each other. The poems In memory of my dear grandchild by Anne Bradstreet, Upon wedlock and death of children by Edward Taylor though were written in different eras, they have a common concept death. The writers in their poems describe that death is a natural process and compare ...
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Tichborne Elegy Nature Imagery Life
661 wordsCarpe Diem Tichborne s Elegy by Chidiock Tichborne and Sonnet 115 by Edna St. Vincent Millay are two romantic poems that use nature-imagery as a metaphoric expression. The events inspired to write these poems were the loss of a loved one and the loss of one s own life. Even though the poems are two totally different situations, they both express the importance and similar outcomes of life and how it is relative to nature. In Tichborne s Elegy, nature is used to give the alternative, yet dreary o...
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Wanted To Die Choice Of Words
865 wordsIn The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, can be perceived as a masochistic person. His younger brother, Allie, had died from leukemia and Holden somehow blamed himself. He thought of his brother as being a better person than he was and that he should have died instead of Allie. After his death, Holden projected his anger against himself in a masochistic manor. Three instances where the reader can see that Holden is a masochistic person are when he punched the car and garage windows...
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Great Gatsby Fitzgerald F Scott Fitzgerald
1,373 wordsThe Great Gatsby The American Dream The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to capture its illusionary goals. This dream has varying significances for different people but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream and in order to do this he must have wealth and power. Jay Gatsby, the cent...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Green Light At The End
693 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald s use of symbolism and colors in The Great Gatsby is prominent in every chapter of his novel. To fully understand the meaning of his color use, a reader must recognize the situations in which these colors are used. The color green is traditionally associated with spring, hope, and youth. One possible meaning of the color green is envy. Gatsby can be seen as an envious, jealous character. He once had the love of his life, Daisy, but now she is married to another man. He spends...
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Aspects Of Life University Of California
1,629 wordsSymbolically, a river means different things to different people depending on their religion and culture. In Siddhartha, the significance of the river is held more in the religious light. Religion plays a large part in everyone s life. In Hermann Hesse s epic story Siddhartha, the images of the river represent the river s knowledge and wisdom. In the Christian and Islamic doctrines, the image of river represent tranquility, peace, serenity and the presence of a holy spirit. The aspect of religio...
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Amy Lowell Early 1900
1,084 wordsSymbolism in Patterns by Amy Lowell Breaking the Patterned Mold When one hears the words, I sink on a seat in the shade, they will most likely form a visual image in their head, such as a person sitting under a tree. Amy Lowell, an imagist, uses sharp images, precise wording, and figurative speech as a means of poetic expression to arouse the senses of the reader. In Patterns, Amy Lowell explores the hopeful liberty of women in the early 20 th century through a central theme. A woman s dream of ...
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