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Gimpel the Fool Literature Book Report/Review

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The author has made a name writing in Yiddish. His works have been translated to several other languages and so he should be a natural candidate in a paper of this kind where the discussion on the usage of language is so central. The story fits our purpose in more ways than one, however.

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The analysis of Anaconda written by Reynold Literature PowerPoint Presentation

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The working conditions are explained to be dangerous, which can cause diseases of cancers or facial disfigurements, etc. Men and women both were supposed to be working extraneously to earn average wages and valued their jobs to a great extent because unemployment was too high.

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How is the conflict between good and evil portrayed in beowulf Literature Assignment

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This motif is so pervasive because it pragmatically envelops almost all the facets of human life. The epic poem Beowulf tends to continue and build on the same theme and portrays the eternal and emphatic conflict between the forces of the good and the evil through the rich exploitation of the symbolism associated with the epic hero Beowulf and the monsters and through the Christian and pagan allusions in the poem.

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Occupy Wall Street Movement Literature Essay

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The slogan of the group was; “we are the 99 percent”. The reason for the slogan was to show the inequality between the haves, considered to be 1% and the have not at 99%. The main purpose was to camp out for days or even months to instigate change in the management of corporations and multinationals.

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A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts Literature Essay

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Author Name Instructor’s Name Assignment Subject Date of Submission A Critical Review on Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts I. Introduction In this paper, I would attempt to provide a critique of the essay Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts written by Bruno Bettelheim.

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The Life of Andrea in Beatties Janus Literature Essay

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Janus is the name of a Roman god and the role that the protagonist of the play, Andrea played is very similar to the legend of the Roman god, Janus. Andrea was depicted as a woman that tried to reconcile between two worlds and this is quite similar to the Roman god, Janus, who is also known to be the god of the past and future events.

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The Tewa World by Alfonso Ortiz Literature Book Report/Review

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The Tewa World is one of the most significant works created on the discipline of Anthropology during the second half of the twentieth century. The research in which Alfonso Ortiz has portrayed the characteristics of the social and ritual life observed by the people belonging to his native Pueblo Indian culture.

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Love in the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Literature Essay

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The author states that Sonnet 14, another of Browning’s love poems in Sonnets from the Portuguese is likewise heavily themed by love. Only this poem draws attention to the way that Browning wanted her husband-to-be to love her. Her idea of true love is therefore reflected in her desire for unconditional love, the prerequisite for true love.

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Use of irony in Oedipus the King Literature Essay

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It is essential to understand the meaning of dramatic irony before analysing the impact of the device used in one of the greatest plays by Sophocles, Oedipus the King and understand the perspective from which Sophocles treated this literary device into the plot of the play.

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Symmetric Encryption Algorithms in Cybersecurity Literature Essay

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For comparing two symmetric algorithms I have chosen Stream Ciphers and Block Ciphers Encryption Algorithms. Stream Ciphers is a symmetric encryption algorithm that encrypts the bits of data and information. Additionally, this type of encryption is performed on one bit at a time (or occasionally 1 byte at a time) of data at some particular time.

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Chicano study mexican-american Literature Essay

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Though such discussions seem primarily common now than before, the search for development among individual nations actually started long before today. Undoubtedly, nations like America, Britain, Germany and France who could be referred to as developmental giants without much controversy started embarking on the journey unto developmental achievement long before now.

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Statement of purpose Literature Essay

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I always had a deep interest in English Literature from my school days. This interest was cultivated by my hobby of reading books. I love reading novels and my favorite author is Charles Dickens. Throughout my school life, I was always drawn to books and English was my favorite subject.

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Director Michael Moores Capitalism Literature Essay

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The movie offers rays of hope. “Mr. Moore would like us to vote” leaves viewers with a hope of a social change while remaining with the present political mechanism. I also find a religious component too in the movie when Moore asks if capitalism is a sin and if Jesus would choose to be a capitalist.

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Or Does it Explode by Howard Zinn Literature Essay

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The present research has identified that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has come to represent one of the pivotal texts of United States history. Clearly, the most unique aspect of this text is its articulation of American history through voices that had been in great part ignored by mainstream texts.

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Virtue is a Power in The Prince Literature Essay

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“The Prince,” since it was published in 1532, has been the product of numerous political and philosophical analyses and debates. The term “Machiavellian,” in particular, has since been marred with negativity because it asserted the argument that Machiavelli strongly believed that the ends will always justify the means.

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Critical Analysis of Emily Dickinson's There's been a death, in the opposite house Literature Research Paper

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At the same time, she experimented with expression in her manner of writing poetry which is considered to be an attempt to free poetry from its conventional restraints as she has chosen to highlight death being a spectacle than a mournful situation (Poetry Foundation).

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The Theme in Everyday Use Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the plot of this short story was in the late 1960s or early 1970s, a period where African Americans struggled to define their individual identities according to cultural perspectives. This was the time when most Blacks wanted to rediscover African roots and were willing to reject the American heritage.

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Comparison between Whitmans To a Locomotive Winter and Dicksons I Like to See it Lap the Miles Literature Term Paper

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Emily Dickson and Walt Whitman are among the most celebrated American poets of a long time. Emily Dickson is mainly popular with the poem, “I like to see it lap the miles” and Waltman is mainly known for the poem “To a locomotive winter” and of course the popular “Leaves of grass.”

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Analysis of Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Literature Essay

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This work specifically considers the nature of courtship, as a man emphasizes the need to seize the moments of life, as they will soon pass; the narrative later shifts to a meditation on life ending with the seminal lines, “'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” (Keats 49-50).

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The Heraldic Shield Proofreading Literature Essay

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The author states that a heraldic shield usually represents differ rent aspect of human personalities like courage, honesty, beauty, grace, and charisma. So, in order to reflect all these qualities, he chose a couple of birds, animals, plants, trees, colors and a motto. He understands that every shield should represent a rich message to people.

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A Long Walk to Forever Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Kurt Vonnegut’s outstanding works are a result of his viewpoints and acquaintances that aim at making people appreciate and understand his inquiries and philosophies. His literary works concur with his outlook regarding altruistic love, human substantiality, and post-existentialism.

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Depiction of Women Power in Waiting Years and Ants Swarm Literature Essay

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The depiction of women in Japanese literature has evolved with time. This is portrayed by the way attitude towards women changes in literature texts written at different times.

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Inquiry into Media - the Titanic Ship Literature Essay

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The Titanic ship left to New York City from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. It was the safest and largest ship to be constructed. The White Star Line carried the wealthiest people in its first class. They were a mixture of immigrants who wanted a life in America. The wealthiest people included American millionaire John Jacob Aston IV with his wife Madeleine Force Astor.

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The review of the novels We the Animal and This is how you lose her Literature Essay

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The main problem of the stories is ethnicity. In both the stories, it plays a key factor. Ethnicity is responsible for shaping one’s culture and traditions, and it also plays a crucial role in molding the personality of a human being as well. These traditions provide a basis for one’s values that in turn affects the mindset of the child.

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The Representation of Motherhood in Everyday Use and The Glass Menagerie Literature Essay

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The representation of motherhood is one aspect that has been vividly represented in the book “Everyday Use” by Walker Alice and the play “The Glass Menagerie” by William Tennessee. In “Everyday Use” the book represents a mother, Mrs. Johnson, who is anxious about her two daughters, Dee and Maggie who are coherently different in terms of thinking, behavior, decision making and their view on traditional norms.

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Regret and Isolation in John Miltons Paradise Lost Literature Book Report/Review

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Regret and Isolation in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

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American Born Chinese By Gene Luen Yang Literature Essay

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The author states that Yang’s depiction of the significance of race in the everyday lives of the students does not end with Jin story. Thus, Danny’s allusion offers the perfect illustration. Contrary to Jin, Danny is an all-American boy. Consequently, as the reader would guess, Danny enjoys all the privileges that accompany this prestige status.

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The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Literature Essay

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This essay demonstrates that William Butler Yeats, besides being a poet of great repute, played a very active role in Irish politics at the time it was trying to gain its independence from England. As a poet, he wrote poems on a wide range of subjects such as Irish folklore, and on many other uplifting themes.

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A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid Literature Essay

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Jamaica Kincaid in her novel can be said to be structured into four sections each of which is meant to address the diverse issues concerning the island nation of Antigua. Throughout the novel, one will come to the conclusion that the beauty of Antigua that is described by the author is not what it seems.

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The Influence of Kate Chopin on Toni Morrison's Language Style Literature Essay

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Morrison’s Beloved, according to critics, is a poetic-fictional novel that has elements of semiotics resembling that of Kate Chopin and Julia Kristeva (Sadehi 1491). Since semiotics is primarily used to describe the inner feelings, sentiments and desires of a character, therefore, Beloved can be easily categorized as on the lines of semiotics.

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Two Kinds and The Rocking Horse Winner: An Analysis Literature Admission/Application Essay

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Perhaps this was because of the cultural differences of the authors: Amy Tan (Two Kinds) being a Chinese American, and DH Lawrence being an Englishman. However, these differences make them more interesting to compare, as their family dynamics come to similar paths, somewhat, because of the intentions of both relationships.

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A Barn Burning by William Faulkner Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Sarty’s father defiles the rights of other people in order to fulfill his ambitions and desires in life while disregarding other people’s feelings. Therefore, his father’s self-fulfillment is through defiling the rights of other people in order to satisfy his ego. Conversely, Sarty seeks freedom from the life that the family lived.

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors Literature Essay

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The speaker even calls the neighbor an old-fashioned person as he says that, “Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top. In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed”. It is due to the neighbor’s belief in an old adage that the speaker saw his neighbor as a man from the ancient world. The neighbor believes that a healthy boundary between the two farms can make them better neighbors.

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The Issue of American Indians Alcoholism Literature Essay

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The US Census Bureau defines American Indian as “a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment. This category includes people who indicated their race(s) as “American Indian or Alaska Native” or reported their enrolled or principal tribe.

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The Songs from Beuern by Carmina Burana Literature Term Paper

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The category of the song is one which belongs as a love song, specifically because of the sentiment which is offered. This is combined with the understanding of Portuguese literature and the values which were held within the poetry. When reading this poem, it can be seen that the values were based on sentiments of love.

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Sports as an academic major at Northern Virginia Community College Literature Essay

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Additionally, nutritionists prescribe that people should take a combination of a healthy diet with exercise in order to control their weight. As stated by French (4), physical exercise is also essential as a means of realising stress especially to improve the mental health for people with mental problems.

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A Raisin in the Sun - Women in Courageous Light Literature Essay

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A lot of conflicts were integrated into the film, not only in the family but also individually. The main conflict, however, it’s in the family’s wish for a better life. An “American dream” as others may call it. Each family member has a different meaning for it but all the same, it is the central idea. Each woman in the play has been given a whole new life by the writer.

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The Un-Invited Guest Literature Essay

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Small scale crimes include petty crimes like robbery etc on the other hand large scale crimes include murders etc. This paper will throw light upon the financial cost of crime to society and it will also focus upon the implications that the criminal faces after committing the crime.

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William Cuthbert Faulkner Literature Research Paper

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The author states that Faulkner started writing poetry during his adolescence. His career as a novelist did not commence until 1925 when he wrote his first novel Soldier’s Pay. During his adolescence, he became friends with Philip Stone who not only acted as a mentor, in enhancing his talent of writing.

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Mayor Perspectives: Environmentalism, Humanism, and Theism Literature Essay

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There are different theories which are uprooted by reputed people. Environmentalism, humanism and theism all three stand for completely different concepts. Environmentalism insists on believing in Mother Nature’s powers and to succumb to its perseverance.

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Assignment II: Cultural Interactions Worksheet Literature Assignment

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The salient feature of this type of music was it had a free tempo and a melodic sway dictated by the Latin liturgical texts. The belief is that Pope Gregory I (reigned 590-604) was the pioneer who codified them paving way to the universal usage all over the western Catholic Church.

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Sexual oppression of Women in relation to the play House of Bernada Alba Literature Essay

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For centuries, the subject of giving equal gender rights is being broached and discussed, resolutions passed, some enactments have been made in legislatures in many countries, but no meaningful improvement in the status of women in real terms is seen. She continues to be painted as an incapable and inferior part of the society, and must remain subservient to men.

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Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx Literature Essay

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The concept of sexuality has remained under continuous evolution ever since the times known to mankind. Different cultures have responded differently towards the same sexual practices in different periods of time, and the level of preference of one sexual practice over another has largely been a matter of societal approval instead of personal preferences.

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A Critical Analysis of Sympathetically Unsympathetic - Character of Hedda Literature Essay

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She wants freedom; yet she cannot but stay with her husband, Jorgen Tesman. George Bernard Shaw refers to this very self-contradictory aspect of Hedda’s character noting that she is “sympathetically unsympathetic”. Indeed, this phrase “sympathetically unsympathetic” literally means “compassionately heartless”.

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Relationship Between the Occult and Madness in Children of the Corn Literature Essay

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He had a great fascination for horror writings and also exhibited a terrific ability to picture his imaginations and vision to reality. Beacham tells, “he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has ever produced”. The children of the corn, as a film and short story, acclaimed a lot of criticism especially by writers of children’s literature.

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Dramatic Irony In Shakespeares plays Literature Essay

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This style of storytelling not only fuels the readers’ curiosity and interest as to what actions will be taken by the characters in their ignorance as the story unfolds, but also makes a significant contribution towards story’s success. This is true because irony is found to be the main force behind success of many darkest and most memorable Shakespeare’s plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet all of which will be scrutinized and explored in this essay.

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Goethes Faust: Representing Good and Evil Literature Essay

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When Goethe made the character of Mephistopheles, his rendition of evil, he knew that he had to throw away many of the characteristics habitually attributed to this enemy of goodness. The perspective of evil in Faust is somewhat limitless. So how can the evil be differentiated from good on the stage?

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Prose Type of Language Structure Literature Essay

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The research paper, in addition, answers the questions related to the speaker’s subject matter of her speech. Lastly, this research paper takes part in the explanation of various settings and preparations that should be made in order for an individual to come up with a perfectly modified speech to the audience.

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Poes Real-life Experiences and Issues in His Dark, Pessimistic Literary Works Literature Essay

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Edgar Allan Poe's stories have real-life substance for they are as dark, mysterious, and remarkable as his real life. Edgar Poe was born on July 19, 1809, to David Poe and Eliza Arnold. In his father’s side of the family, alcoholism was prevalent, and it soon took a toll on David until he decided to leave his family when Edgar was barely three years old (Iszáj and Demetrovics 1615).

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The role of symbolism in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms Literature Essay

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A symbol is a literary device used by the writers that contains different meanings, represents the overall mood or sometimes gives deeper meaning to the literary work more than that is meant or provided by the writers themselves . The use of symbolism gives meaning beyond what is actually being described.

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