Essays on Symbolism

The Yellow Wallpaper, an 1891 short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story about a young woman suffering from what seems like post-partum depression. The narrator, the young woman, tells through her diary about her three-month-long stay at an estate, in which…

Women in the field of literature have been looked down on as subordinates and belittled for a very long period of time. Before the 19th century, women were placed in the opinion of the cult of domesticity, where women were to stay at home and…

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is written by an author whose writing style can give the reader a detailed image in his or her mind. In this text the author uses multiple writing techniques that amplify his poems to the next level. Poe’s Poems…

The mood that is being created at the beginning of the story is very dark and gloomy. Textual evidence to support my statement include the sentences: “It was in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the…

Summary: The Raven portrays the story of an unnamed narrator who is unattended in his residence on an icy December evening. As he is about to fall asleep, he hears a soft hammering at his door, but decides to overlook it. He says that he…

Station Eleven is about survivors and overcoming serious events. Emily St. John Mandel went through a series of different themes in the book, some maybe she didn’t realize she included. Themes of death and survival play a big part of the storyline and create a…

On a snowy Torontonian night, the production of King Lear commences. On the same night, a swine flu pandemic known as the Georgian Flu commences as well. It is Year 0, the flu spreads rapidly in the city, killing the majority, “There was the flu…

The short story, Barn Burning by William Faulkner is full of literary devices. The story is about a family who moves from farm to farm to get by in life and the father burns down barns, hence the name Barn Burning. Which leads the little…

In the novel Stephen Crane uses religious symbolism to convey how Henry’s experiences as a soldier are not relatable to people who are not soldiers and are seen as a spiritual experience. Crane uses religious symbolism through Henry’s surroundings. After Henry runs away from the…

Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” explores the stubbornness of man. And the risk men take to achieve something even if it is not in their reach. The setting takes place in the woods during Yukon winter which is one hundred and thirteen degrees below…