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Homeric Uses of Light and Dark, 2005.
A discussion on the uses of light and dark in Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey".
6,570 words (approx. 26.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 151.95
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This paper attempts to explore the Homeric uses of simple light and dark terms to develop possible symbolic meanings in the Lattimore translations of the epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". It first explores references to light then dark uses in both epics and then explores individual uses in each epic. The order of explanation develops the point that in "The Iliad" light and dark references mostly describe war, while in "The Odyssey" the terms develop a wide array of objects and situations because there is no major war.
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"First, light seems to appear in both epics when referencing gods, weapons, and other general descriptions. Through reading both epics, one can discover that Homer has utilized light to develop the love and admiration for gods and goddesses, much like other ancient Greek writers. Such descriptions can be seen in The Iliad. In the text Apollo is referred to as: "lord of the silver bow" (Book I, 37) . Throughout the text Homer's descriptions also portray Hera as the goddess with the white arms. Also, when in Olympos the gods and goddesses are said to drink in golden cups. In The Odyssey goddesses are especially referenced through bright terms."
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Light and Dark: The Yin-Yang of Aeschylus, 2004.
An interpretation on the images of light and dark in Aeschylus's "Agamemnon".
1,379 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper analyzes how various representations of light and dark in Aeschylus's "Agamemnon", part of the "Oresteia", seem to mirror masculinity and femininity, respectively. It explains how these images also show how the play is mostly about how the female attempts to usurp male power, ultimately achieving it. Nevertheless, because there can never be absolute darkness or absolute light, the overthrow of the male can only be temporary.
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"In Aeschylus?s Agamemnon, the use of light and dark revolves around their relation to the masculine and the feminine, respectively. Throughout the play, brilliant metaphors and images are used to express this idea, most obviously when related to Agamemnon and Clytaemestra. These images also show how the play is mostly about how the female attempts to usurp male power, ultimately achieving it. Nevertheless, because there can never be absolute darkness or absolute light, the overthrow of the male can only be temporary."
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Light and Darkness in "Romeo and Juliet", 2002.
This paper discusses Shakespeare's use of light and darkness within pivotal scenes of "Romeo and Juliet".
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper elaborates on the importance of the motif of darkness and light in "Romeo and Juliet". There are several scenes which incorporate this theme throughout the play and a complete discussion is offered as to the importance of this imagery.
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"William Shakespeare?s Romeo and Juliet, encapsulates several different themes and motifs. The most obvious theme of the play is romantic love and the relationship it shares with death and violence. Fate, and the role it plays in the characters tragic deaths, is another theme that clearly permeates throughout Romeo and Juliet. However, I believe a complete explication of the play would not be possible without the inclusion of a less apparent motif, the imagery of darkness and light. Several of the important scenes in Romeo and Juliet, are set either late at night or early in the morning, and Shakespeare often uses the contrast between day and night to explore opposing alternatives within the context of the scene."
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Light and Darkness in "Mrs Dalloway", 2005.
A discussion on the chiming of the hours and other symbolism in "Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines how, throughout the novel "Mrs Dalloway", Virginia Woolf uses the motifs of time and light and darkness to add structure and order to the random thoughts, memories, and encounters that make up the novel.
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"Time adds structure and order to the random thoughts, memories, and encounters that make up Mrs. Dalloway. Big Ben sounds out the hour relentlessly, ensuring that the passage of time, and the awareness of eventual death, is always there. Clarissa senses the passage of time and the appearance of Sally and Peter emphasises how much time has gone by since Clarissa was young. Once the hour chimes, however, the sound disappears--its "leaden circles dissolved in the air." This expression recurs many times throughout the novel, indicating how ephemeral time is, despite the pomp of Big Ben and despite people's wary obsession with it."
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Light and Dark Imagery, 2001.
This paper shows the analogy of how light is used to represent life and order and how dark imagery is used to represent disorder and chaos in three literary texts.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The three works analyzed are "The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic", by Jeffrey H. Tigay, "A "Telling" of the Ancient Indian Epic" by Larry Tominberg and stories from Genesis. The paper shows how all these works use the same imagery but in different ways.
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"Throughout the history of man people have associated words that refer to 'light' with goodness, calmness and general peace while words that refer to 'darkness' are compared with evil, chaos and general havoc and tragedy. This can be seen in life and within the literary texts that we read. ?Light? represents the prevailing order and peace in the world while ?darkness? refers to the disorder and chaos related to death depicted through the situational use of words within texts."
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The Middle Ages: an Era of Light, Not Dark, 2008.
The paper examines the Middle Ages in an attempt to determine if they were an age of ignorance and warfare, or an age of learning.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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The author of the paper contends that, contrary to the generally held conception, the Middle Ages was not a time when ignorance reigned supreme and logic and reason had no place. By examining and discussing a number of works relating to the Middle Ages, the author further contends that the medieval period had its great scholars and contributors to human thought. The author examines the novel by Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose" which, whilst a piece of fiction, when examined alongside scholarly works on the Middle Ages, presents, in the author's opinion, a fair and reasonable portrayal of the "real" Middle Ages.
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"From the very start of the novel The Name of the Rose Eco decisively shatters stereotypical Monty Python and the Holy Grail beliefs about the medieval era. Upon arriving at the monastery in Melk, William amazes his apprentice, Adso, by deducing what several monks, including the cellarer, Remigio of Varagine, are searching for. "during our whole journey I have been teaching you to recognize the evidence through which the world speaks to us like a great book"(Eco, 23). William of Baskerville is no ignorant man. From this one passage about the Brunellus, the missing horse, which culminates in a lecture to Adso, in which that sentence is the highlight, the reader realizes that William knows how to observe the world and draw logical conclusions. He uses observation, inference and ultimately confidence his own intellectual prowess to deduce the Abbot's most prized horse has gone missing. Furthermore, the reader is also meant to understand that Adso does not represent the ignorance of medieval ages, but rather the ignorance and inexperience of youth. He is, after all, the young apprentice of William. Adso does not have the same life experience or reservoir of knowledge of William. He is Eco's literary tool in which to answer the questions of the reader. Adso often asks exactly what the reader is wondering."
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Darkeness and Light in Byron's "She Walks in Beauty", 2008.
A discussion of darkness and light in Lord Byron's "She Walks in Beauty".
855 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper analyzes Lord Byron's poem "She Walk's in Beauty", which combines images of darkness and light to create a unique internal and external aura. The paper maintains that this aura surrounds the beautiful woman who he describes in his poem. Each one of Byron's three stanzas describes a natural, a physical and a spiritual aura which surround the woman. Byron uses images from the natural, physical and spiritual world to describe the emotions he has towards this particular woman, represented in images of both light and darkness. The paper concludes that, through his poem, Byron has combined the beauty of the natural world, the physical body and the spiritual being to create a timeless expression of love and admiration.
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"Byron's first stanza concentrates on the natural beauty of the woman who he encounters. "She walks in beauty, like the night/ Of cloudless climes and starry skies" (Ln.1-2) .Byron has immediately introduced us to a woman whose beauty is that equal to the beauty of nature. Her beauty is represented by the darkness of night. The image of night creates an aura that surrounds her. Byron is describing how beautiful he feels the night is and that this woman represents that beauty of night within her own aura. Nature is both day and night, both dark and light. In the first stanza the images of day light and dark night both represent the woman. The lines "All that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes," (Ln. 3-4) represent the combination of day and night within the woman. She is a combination of the best of the day and the best of the night. Her combination of dark and bright creates, "that tender night Which heaven to gaudy day denies" (Ln.5-6). She is not the overpowering "gaudy," brightness of day. She's the perfect combination of light and dark. Not even heaven bestows this beautiful light on the day. She is a pure, natural and heavenly creature on earth."
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Darkness to Light., 2002.
This paper discusses the journey from darkness to light of characters in the film, "Dave".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the journey from darkness to light of characters in the film, Dave, in terms of how their journeys were similar or different, and in what sense they were in the symbolic cave of Plato's analogy. The content also includes consideration of whether there is any point in a character's development when he or she rejects or adopts Machiavellian tactics, and how that decision affects the character's development.
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The Dark and Light Motif in "Invisible Man", 2000.
Essay exploring the contrast between black and white, good and evil in Ellison's novel, "Invisible Man".
2,282 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 70.95
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Ralph Ellison?s use of ?dark? and ?light? motifs are explored in the construction of this tour-de force novel. The publisher argues that Ellison often inverts our traditional notions of dark and light, or black and white to help blur the line between right and wrong. The essay intends to examine the many different passages that deal with direct contrasts between the symbolic meanings of black and white (good vs. evil, or vice versa) and the passages indicating fundamental differences between literal and figurative blindness.
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"In this novel, there is a sense of good-men and bad-men, and the central journey of the novel is the narrator?s, as he tries to find both goodness, and self. In a sense, the Invisible Man is searching for the basic human goodness that he understands lies in all men. The novel portrays certain characters as these so-called good-men that must bear the ?white man?s burden.? Such a burden is usually taken to mean the subordination of black men at the hands of the whites, but groups who appear on the surface to help the blacks often disguise its meaning."
"It must be noted that not all of man?s darker side is repulsive to Ellison, because he often refers to certain good emotions that spring from this darker well of the human psyche. However, man does seem to have a darker side that is totally evil, a side that he tries to hide with rationalizing and conjecture."
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Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", 1973.
This paper explains Joseph Conrad's metaphorical use of light & darkness in his novel "Heart of Darkness": Light is viewed as symbolizing life, passion and hope, darkness as symbolizing mystery, ignorance and despair.
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"The novel, "Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad, makes great metaphorical use of light and darkness. Properly analyzing these metaphors requires being aware of what they have symbolized in the past. Light has often been used as a symbol of life, passion (fire), knowledge (seeing the light), hope and the future. Dark-ness has often been used to symbolize death, mystery, ignorance and despair. Thus, light has very positive associations, and darkness has very negative ones. Readers bring these associa-tions with them as they read Heart of Darkness.
Conrad's use of metaphor, especially in the first few pages, reveals his great love of the sea. He describes a ship,sitting in the harbor with canvas gleaming with varnished spirit. The ship is surrounded by a haze that is emanating from the land near it: "The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back ... "
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"Araby" and "Heart of Darkness", 2008.
This paper compares the imagery of light and darkness in James Joyce's short story "Araby" and Joseph Conrad's work, "Heart of Darkness".
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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The paper looks at James Joyce's short story "Araby" and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and the important role of light and dark imagery in both texts. The paper shows how, while the authors of "Araby" and "Heart of Darkness" use this imagery to very different effects, in both works images of light and dark are central devices employed to convey meaning and illustrate themes.
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"As the title of Conrad's novel would suggest, imagery of light and darkness is of great importance in this narrative. From the opening of the novel, the text and its characters seem to exist in a permanent twilight. The narrative of Heart of Darkness is a tale told by Marlow to a number of listeners aboard a boat on the river Thames around sunset: "The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed in a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth" (Conrad 7). The imagery of darkness is thus employed to establish a reflective mood from the outset of Conrad's narrative. Clearly, the imagery of twilight - at the close of the day, and when the promise of the day has been realized or not - is conducive to reflection."
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"The Heart of Darkness", 2002.
A review of the book "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, focusing on the symbolic search for light in the midst of the darkness.
1,223 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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This paper analyzes the literary work by Conrad, "The Heart of Darkness", illustrating important and interesting themes and symbolism. The paper discusses the book and the main characters of the story, and describes the lead protagonist's quest for light, for inner peace.
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"Joseph Conrad, author of the Heart of Darkness creates the idea of nihilism. Darkness created a fascination resulting to an obsession with Marlow, the main protagonist in the story. He is on a quest for some shimmer of light in the heart of darkness, the African Congo. Kurtz, a man with no morals or any self-restraint intrigues Marlow by his abrupt change in lifestyle. Marlow hopes to find a glimmer of light in Kurtz, but shockingly fails to do so. In the acceptance of darkness, Marlow is desperate in finding some glimmer of light, but in the end only attains inner peace instead of finding the light itself."
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"The Matrix" and Plato's "Cave Allegory", 2002.
A comparative analysis of the themes of light and darkness in the film "The Matrix" and Plato's "Cave Allegory".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will discuss the relation of Plato's "Cave Allegory" with the movie "The Matrix". By understanding the relationships between light and darkness within the movie, we can understand the relationship that both these stories share in their scope. The movie will be examined to show the light and darkness relationship, as will the "Cave Allegory" in comparison to make clear how the two stories are interconnected in their scope of knowledge verses ignorance.
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"Araby", 2005.
This paper analyzes the use of color, light and dark in James Joyce's short story "Araby."
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper offers an analysis of the use of color, light and dark in James Joyce's short story "Araby." The paper explains how the symbolism of color, light and dark leads to an understanding of the story.
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"Colors are a form of non verbal communication and as such are symbolic. For example in Western culture white signifies purity and light while black signifies darkness, evil and death. In literature, symbolism joins the story's external action to the theme. This use of symbolism holds true in James Joyce's short story "Araby" where the use of color, particularly light and dark, contribute to the theme and understanding of the story."
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Fear and Solitude: Bronte, Snowe and Villette, 1998.
An examination of how Charlotte Bronte's real life fear and isolation are reflected in the main character of her novel, "Villette", through the use of light and dark imagery.
2,588 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper examines Charlotte Bronte's life against the main character of her novel, Villette, to reveal two women afraid of imagination and light and in preference of isolation and shadows. The paper also looks at Bronte's unimaginative childhood, tough upbringing,and lonely life in Belgium and reflects how these experiences translated onto paper in the character of Lucy Snowe. It also discusses how light and dark images are used often in the novel to convey Snowe's fear or the light of life and her preference for the darkness of solitude.
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"Lucy's favorite place at the school is the alley. It is blocked from any sunlight by the vines and branches which have grown above it, making it "quiet and shady" (174). For Lucy, who prefes the shade and is herself a shadow, the alley is a perfect haven: "the very gloom of the walk attracted me" (174). Gordon, referring to the alley as a path, comments that Lucy "takes this path only when others are at prayer. In short, she takes the path as Protestant and alien" (259). This statement echoes Bronte's own loneliness and separation while in Brussels. Norman Sherry adds, "it is hers in actuality and in symbol -- for Lucy's world is then as sequestered and isolated as this alley, her nature is just as repressed and concealed" (97). When Lucy decides to hide the letters, she buries them in the alley. "
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