An informal essay regarding the symbolism of Prometheus and Pandora in Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. The choice of allusion within a story holds great significance. Whether it is an image, idea, or a specific character,[…]
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colour in a streetcar named desire (everything i couldn’t say in 20 seconds)
1. blanche dubois Blanche DuBois translates to ‘white forest’. Stella explains to Stanley, “She is [delicate]. She was… nobody was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and[…]
The Wars – Idealism and Truth
PROMPT: A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself. In literary works, a symbol can express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal[…]
Fallen Angel (Critical Response to the Stone Angel Symbolism Prompt)
Prompt: A symbol is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself… Write an essay analyzing how that symbol functions in the work and what it reveals about[…]
Of Colour and Humanity
Colours. They are everywhere, involved in every aspect of our lives. Colours transform the dull and the depressive into the beautiful and the bright. Colours provide our lives with interest and with meaning. Colours allow us[…]
The Colour of Corruption
White is a beautiful colour. White is a quiet and peaceful expression of childhood – it is pure, innocent, virtuous. White exists as a perfect combination of every colour in the spectrum – it is[…]
The Roads We Take
AP Poem Analysis – The Roads We Take “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I[…]
Un Chat
You cannot live with a paw in each world. -Erin Hunter, Into the Wild A simple walk through the park. The same park she had strolled through happily day after day. The same park where she[…]
New vs Old
The south has always had a connotation attached to it; one with slavery and segregation written on its label. The old south: cotton fields with large and extravegent plantation houses; racism and slavery was the normality, it[…]