Final 🤪🤚🏻 Flashcards
Dolls house themes
1) female empowerment
2) money
3) relationships
4) freedom
5) gender roles
What do the macaroons symbolize?
1) controlling because she has to hide the fact she’s eating macaroons - which means her husband controls her eating
2) rebellion - shes hiding it which means she’s doing something she shouldn’t
Paying Debt symbolizing
Sacrifice and rebellion - women weren’t allowed to take out loans but she went against it, risking her life to help her husband
Noras Costume symbolism -
Control - her husband is controlling what she wears
Mailbox with letter symbolism
The letter exposing Nora is in the mailbox is trapped and the only Torvald has the key - symbolizing that Torvald has control over Nora
Dolls symbolism
Dolls symbolize Nora to Torvald.
He controls her, he tells her what to wear (kids dressing up dolls) and tells her what to eat
Themes of F451
1) does technology make us more alone or more connected
2) censorship- control what you see/do (can protect you or blind you from the truth)
3) ignorance is bliss
Paradox meaning
Paradox examples
Doesn’t make sense at first but you think about it then it does
1) half dead half alive
2) firefighters job is to burn books
What does the bird symbolize
Phoenix-
1) Freedom
2) rebirth
There is a wall between montag and Mildred what does that symbolize (2)
1) there is literally a wall between them
3 walls = tv she’s brain dead because all she does is watch tv
2) unable to connect (does technology make us more connected or alone)
What does Beatty symbolize?
He’s in the govt, he knows the truth and yet he still is controlling the society and blinding them from the truth
Similarities between Folls house and F451
1) mentions abt control
Torvald controlls Nora
In F451 the govt is controlling
2) both of the main characters have a character development
Nora realizes that she’s being controlled and she wakes up and she escapes
Guy also wakes up and realized the govt is controlling them - both rebel
Nora rebels society ideals
Guy rebels against govt
Both talk about feeling trapped
Differences btwn DH and F451
DH: female empowerment Money Relationship Gender roles Nora - Clueless girl in toxic relationship F451: Censorhsip Does tech make us more closer or alone Ignorance is bliss Guy - firefighter in a controlling govt Censored
L-rd of Flies Themes
Why is the book all children boys?
Is man good or evil Anonymity Authority Societies we created Loss of innocence Darkness of mans heart
If it were all girls they would try to work things out
If there were adults they would set their ways
But little boys they will go far to try to survive
Jack and the choir:
Jack controls the choir
They are obedient
They have uniform = army
Another theme of LOF
Humans adapt to anything
The boys already begin to try and kill a pig for food
What do rules symbolize?
1) order, safety
2) control, power
3) punishment
Boulder foreshadow and theme
Everything comes full circle
Boulder in chap 4 is a symbol for later on when piggy gets killed by a Boulder
Masks symbolism
Masks compelled the boys and it was also at night
It hide their identity - when anonymous people are more brave to do things they would do if not hidden
Dramatic Irony
You know what the characters in book don’t know
Irony in LOF
1) The children want the adults because they will help them but in the background the adults are having a war with each other
2) Simon said the beast is inside of all of us and now he got killed because he was mistaken for the beast
When Ralph and piggy comb their hair what does that symbolize
Jack and hunters - weapons
1) It reminds them of civilization Revolution
2) savagery good
Conch foreshadow
When the conch breaks taht symbolizes the end of civilization and the island splits
At the end the author brings up little boy again
He wants to remind you that although everything theyve done, they’re still kids
Fire irony
Fire foreshadow
The hunters use fire to try and kill Ralph when that fire ended up saving them
The fire in the beginning that burned half the island was a foreshadow for the fire in the end that burned the island again and ended up saving them
Mildred : earbuds, overdosing symbolism
Ignorance
Ignoring truth
Tracking symbolism: glasses
1) whole glasses on piggy = smart
2) need fire > glasses becomes tool
3) one lense broke - losing clarity, half clear, half blurred, civilization is breaking apart. Piggy is losing himself (calm,rational kid is gone)
4) glasses are gone = civilization is gone, destroyed
Stones foreshadow
1st Roger skipped rocks
Later on Roger kills Piggy with a Boulder
Tracking symbolism: Beast
1) little kids imagination
2) beast is inside of them
3) parachuter
4) head of pig
5) mistaken Simon for beast
Similarities with LOF and F451
Control
LOF and F451 differences:
LOF: free will, peer pressure, present day
F451: no choice, govt, dystopian
Just Lather
Literary Devices
Theme:
Conflict - man vs self (kill general or not)
Setting - barbershop
Tone - suspense
POV - trapped in guys head
Theme: killing isnt east
War is a evil cycle of killing one another
Main literary device of Tell Tale Heart
Theme:
POV
Guilt eats ppl up
Similarities with Just Lather and Tell Tale Heart
Murder
Guilt
1st person
Difference between Just lather and Tell Tale Heart
Just lather: doesn’t kill, justified, normal
Tell Tale Heart: Kills, senseless, insane
Just Lather and F-451 Similarities
Job vs doing what’s right
F-451 and Just Lather differences:
Just Lather: Job is ordinary, one setting
F-451: job is evil, dystopia
Conflicts in A dolls house
Conflicts in F451
LOF
Just lather
1) Man vs society, man vs man, man vs self
2) mAn vs man, man vs society, man vs society
3) man vs man, man vs society, man vs nature
4) man vs society, man vs self
Fire symbolism in f-451
Fire - warmth and destruction
Torvald calling Nora pet names symbolizes
A red flag, why is he calling her pet names and not her actual name = belittling, doesn’t really love her
DH foreshadow
Torvald says he hates ppl who take out loans > his wife takes out a loan
Says a mother who lies poisons her children > Nora was lying
Hearth and salamander paradox
Hearth = fireplace represents warmth
Chapter is abt using fire as destruction
Contradicts
Comparing books to birds
Symbolized freedom and destruction
Tracking symbolism Conch
1st: has power represents civilization
2nd: lost power represents civilization crumbling
3rd: shatters - death of society
Obsessed with killing pigs foreshadow
Piggy ends up dying
Jack’s choir were dressed up like they were in an army foreshadow
It turns out that Jack will end up having his own little army = hunters
