Essays Tagged: "allegorical figure"
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by-Joyce Carol Oates
oing, Where Have You Been?", the problem of evil encapsulates the theme of the story. Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate this theme. She also alludes to hell through the character ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Scarlet letter 4 =
hree levels: as a real child, as a continuing symbol of Prynne and Dimmesdale's adultery, and as an allegorical figure sent to torment the sinners and direct their actions. Only Dimmesdale can "ripen" ... she is the symbolic embodiment of the scarlet letter, neither she nor it can be tossed away. On the allegorical level, Pearl functions here as an agent of the divine, preventing Prynne from avoiding t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne