Tuesday, May 28, 2013

symbols


The crucible: The Witch trials; the play can be seen as a symbol of the paranoia about communism that pervaded America in the 1950s.

The adventures of huckleberry fin: The Mississippi River; For Huck and Jim, the Mississippi River is the ultimate symbol of freedom. Alone on their raft, they don't have to answer to anyone, and the river carries them toward freedom.

The awaking: Birds; In The Awakening, caged birds serve as reminders to Edna’s entrapment and also to the entrapment of Victorian women in general.

The things they carried: Linda; Linda represents elements of the past that can be brought back through imagination and storytelling.





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