Essays Tagged: "connotations"
God's Law vs Human Law in Great Expectations
tate the reader's awareness of such a conflict, the narrator often uses language that has Christian connotations when relating his thoughts and when giving descriptions of the environment, characters ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Anthropology by Morgan and Wolf
osal of, a person or group of persons species or class,' (p. 1078) this definition hardly holds the connotations so emphatically discussed by the anthropologist Morgan. To Morgan, 'property has been s ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
"Love" in "Narcissus and Goldmund" (a novel by Herman Hesse)
ning the word love is almost impossible. No other word in the Englishlanguage has so many different connotations and uses. There can be no one true singledefinition. However, for the purpose of this p ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
This is a presentation on Diction and Syntax for Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations". Chapters 1-8
tion- Infant means newborn, or new, while tongue means the organ the human body uses when it speaks.Connotations- What Dickens could try to mean in this small passage is that he doesn't have the maste ... n-Freckled means that there are dark spots on one's face. Sickly means sick looking, or not healthy.Connotations- What Dickens is trying to portray in this sentence is the condition of Pip's mother be ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Colonization: The Bringing of Light Into the Darkness
ly viewed as good while savagery is normally seen as evil. This symbolism is not new however, these connotations have been present in society for centuries. We refer to the Middle Ages, when science a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou: an analysis on the use of diction throughout the story.
the widespread novel by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Yet, do we really know? The connotations of the title can drastically alter the perspective of the novel and the meaning it leav ... help to outline other major diction techniques in which Angelou utilizes. Understanding the varied connotations of the word "cage" and the theme it threads throughout the novel gains us some insight ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", and Octavio Paz's "The Street".
le in their tone, whereas the last is quite solemn and worrisome. Frost and Wordsworth put positive connotations behind the themes of their poems, while Paz's theme is mostly negative. All three poems ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Tabloidisation of the media.
w. When first applied to the media it described the smaller size of the new papers but now has many connotations one of which is that it, fittingly, makes the news easier to swallow. Tabloidisation of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
"Siddhartha" , by Herman Hesse.
y using the words "seek" and "find" individually and recognizing that the two words carry with them connotations. We must recognize these connotations in order to be objective with regard to the subje ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Commentary on Yeats' poem, "Leda and the Swan".
ssness of Leda. Most of the words used to identify Leda describe her physical aspects with helpless connotations, such as "the staggering girl (...) the nape (...) her helpless breast (...) those terr ... hs". On the other hand, the words used to identify Zeus are more metaphysical with strong, yet dark connotations as seen in "the great wings (...) the dark webs (...) caught in his bill (...) The feat ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
How is one group or ideology privileged over another in this text? (race & ethnicity in heart of darkness.)
ativity towards the African continent and, therefore, assuming also the African people. Many of the connotations of darkness, such as ignorance (stupidity), primitive natures, evil and death are later ... ans are discriminated against through biased portrayals of death and destruction and other negative connotations in regards to the setting of Africa. They are given no rights of speech, and are descri ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How successful are Descartes arguments for the real distinction between mind and body? Upon which would you place most weight?
aying 'when the body dies the mind will endure and exist separately' (it might very well have those connotations) but I feel he is saying that if the body had never existed in the first place there co ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Why do Marxist historians see the French Revolution of 1789 as 'Bourgeoisie'?
the significance of the transition from feudalism to capitalism examining the social and economical connotations of class conflict and social mobility, both of which are commonly associated with Marxi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution
Why do Marxist historians see the French Revolution of 1789 as 'Bourgeoisie'?
the significance of the transition from feudalism to capitalism examining the social and economical connotations of class conflict and social mobility, both of which are commonly associated with Marxi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution
Commentary "on My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson.
first son which a parent ussualy takes care of more or even loves more.After the title of the poem, connotations of "farewell", "lent", "sinne", "seven yeeres","joy, "pay" and "just day" might mean th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
A comparison of Heaney "Death of a Naturalist" and Larkin "First Sight"
The initial observation is that both poems contain connotations of nature, Death of a Naturalist focuses on frogs and First sight on Lambs. Both contai ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
This essay is about the connotations of the words "house" and "home"
angeably-- after all both do provide some sort of shelter or protection- they embody very different connotations, and their usage evokes different emotional responses.A home does not have to be a buil ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman / What is the symbolism of daemons
hey feel the same things even though they are different. Trying to play with the other daemon shows connotations of a childish nature which in turn , I feel , shows the comfort between person and daem ... d in describing the daemon's behaviour shows that they fear someone with no daemon as they all have connotations of fear and generally feelings of a scared nature. They think that it is unnatural for ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Many Meanings of Blood
constant throughout the entire story. Its symbolic meaning varies from beginning to end. Unlike its connotations in the latter part of the story, it once symbolized positively during Macbeth's battle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
Lies Upon Lies: A thematic explication of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 138
ce the many underlying deceits fabricated to preserve their relationship.Throughout the sonnet, the connotations of the word "truth" manipulate the perceptions of the relationship. In the first quatra ... nd quatrain, the narrator embellishes upon "truth" (fidelity) in the relationship through two other connotations of the word truth. The narrator suggests that the woman's amorous affairs external to t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature