Symbolism Essays

Symbolism is a concept the author Shirley Jackson doesn’t seem to take lightly. Her short story “The Lottery” is teeming with objects and concepts that don’t show the reader their true meaning without a little digging. Three of the symbols that are very important to the story are the black …

Symbolism in literature can convey a much deeper meaning than what we interpret at the first reading of a story. This is one reason it is always a good idea to go back and read a passage or story more than once for analysis purposes. Our opinions can vary greatly …

In every country, every city, every house, each person in the human race faces a life-changing problem that ends up being saving one’s life. This is seen in Hawthorne’s The Scarlett Letter, where Hester is punished for her sin and the symbols that throw her off of society’s circle are …

In Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the golden carp is a symbol that contributes to a theme in the novel. The golden carp represents many things. It symbolizes a magical religious order not related to Catholicism. Antonio learns about the fish’s presence when Samuel tells him about some God …

Symbolism can transform a mere rock into pure diamond. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, presents the theme of the universal and inevitable functions of choice and time. Frost successfully supports this theme through vivid and continuous symbolism, among the entire story. Initially, Frost introduces an idea that every …

Alice was the first person in the world to survive a brain transplant. She was involved in a terrible accident and the only way to keep her alive was to place her in Gail Jarred’s body. She used to have the same copper red hair and freckles as her identical …

“Literary Significance through Symbolism in The Chocolate War” The Chocolate War, written by Robert Cormier in 1974, is set at Trinity, a Catholic high school for boys. However, this is no ordinary school, it is a twisted place controlled by the tyrannical Vigils, a school gang that doles out ‘assignments’, …

J.M.Synge’s Riders to the Sea is fraught with numerous symbols elevating the domestic tragedy to the position of a universal tale of suffering.Most of the symbols used in the play are archetypal in keeping with the classical spirit of the play .The most powerful symbol is that of Sea, the …

‘The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, both uses symbols to tell stories. In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson used names to stress the theme of the story but in “Young Goodman Brown” Hawthorne uses name to in rich the theme of the stories. Both …

The Boondock Saints was a film released in 1999 about the MacManus twins. The MacManus brothers began as two regular Irish men working in a meat factory, but after encountering several traumatic events they begin a new career, which involved the killing of men that they deemed corrupt and evil. …