Essays on Symbolism

The Story of an Hour: Symbolism and Foreshadowing Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the dichotomy between the roles Victorian women enacted on the social stage and their inner selves confined within the walls of their thought process. Preconceived notions of conventional behavior are contradicted in the atypical conduct and consciousness…

They symbols that contributes to the theme of “The World on a Turtle’s Back” (an Iroquois legend) include the turtle, the great tree, and the twins. These symbols contributes to the theme because they all represent one form or another in the story of creation. According to the myth the culture values all that is…

Symbolic-Convergence Theory When a group of individuals have similar thoughts about a certain topic in a group conversation, they can relate to similar issues, experiences, and situations. This phenomenon has a term called symbolic convergence theory, developed by Ernest Bormann, John Cragan, and Donald Shields This theory has different levels of communication, which enhance the…

The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst. From its premiere to the present day, the suite has been enduringly…

Araby, like the other stories in Dubliner, ‘ has both penetrating realism and a symbolic function ‘ , as Michael Thorpe has rightly observed is his brief Introduction to Joyce in Modern Prose . Graphic and authentic picture of life in the city of Dublin in the days of the author’s childhood and early youth…

Symbolism in “Cathedral” In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral,” a man has his eyes opened up to the world through the lad of his Wolfe blind friend, Robert. Carver employs the use of symbolism in the form art representing insight to highlight the narrators blindness to his life. The narrator is not physically blind, but…

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”, the narrator uses alcohol as an excuse for his misbehavior. He emphasizes that he is not crazy and sincerely loves animals, but as the story gets deeper into the plot, you can clearly see that he is mad and the effect his craziness has on his disposition is…

The theme of the short story “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys (1976) is death and the journey home. Without implying literal death, this story is characterized as an allegory, which is described by Clugston (2010) as “a fictional work in which the setting, characters, plot and other elements are all symbols,…

Symbolism of the Quilt In the story “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker focuses on how important heritage and culture can really be in our world today. In doing this Walker uses symbolism, and two different points of view to help us understand the importance of it all. She uses the symbolism of the quilt to play…

Charles Horton Cooley and the Symbolic Interactionism Theory Should we associate the abandonment of ‘self’ with symbolic interactionism? Do you feel the need to ‘change your stripes’ to fit in with society? ‘An individual is an abstraction unknown to experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as something apart from individuals…. Society and individuals…