Edmund Spenser’s epicThe Faerie Queene, written in the 1500s, is an early predecessor of many modern fantasy works. This is a multilayered story from classical literature with both historical and conceptual allegory—the title character, the Faerie Queene, was written to represent Queen Elizabeth...
An allegory is a sustained metaphor. It’s a narrative that has both a literal or surface meaning and a symbolic one, in which characters, events, and settings represent specific people, actions, or ideas. Often, an author uses allegory to comment on some historical, political, or moral rea...
How does Gatsby represent the American Dream in ''The Great Gatsby''? In The Great Gatsby, who is Mr. Wolfshiem? What did Dan Cody do for Gatsby in The Great Gatsby? What did Gatsby do to impress Daisy in The Great Gatsby?
wolves have long been symbols of evil and fear in literature. They represent uncivilized dangers, a lack of law and order. As a result, during the European Middle Ages, wolves were hunted by members of the church who viewed them
Gothic fiction focuses on the grotesque, the carnivalesque, and the darkly ominous aspects of human nature as a way to represent the implications of Romantic idealism in a world whose conditions are anything but the lofty heights of the original Romantic works. […] much of the traditionally-ac...
metaphor, heartbreaking in its imagery. The speaker laments at the imperfectness of love and language: how, no matter how carefully and precisely a lover chooses the words they use to love another, those words are, inevitably, broken down by “the waves.” What do those waves represent?
The great increase in the study of dog cognition in the current century has yielded insights into canine cognition in a variety of domains. In this review,
At the bottom of the hill lies theCathedral squarewith a white NeoclassicalVilnius Cathedral. Therecently-rebuiltcontroversialPalace of the Grand Dukesis nearby, showing the original ruined basement and quite plain interiors, supposed to represent various ages (supplemented by the archeological finds ...
could only (Speidel 2013a : 181–184) – be used to depict states, the central question concerning pictorial narrative has been: Can some single pictures be said to autonomously convey stories – and thus be classified as narratives (Wolf 2003: 180) – and if yes, which kind of pictures?
Last year, I chose a different Sesame Street character to represent each verse. I even managed to find an “Angel of Death” version of Elmo. Which was when my brother said, “Um, we’ve got to change this for next year.” I was a little indignant. I knew the song wasn’t ...