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…the shower curtain and toward the door. Marion is visible in the bottom corner, still showering, even though a dark blur appears through the door; I believe Hitchcock intended this to be a sign of Marion’s unknowingness. Tension starts to build in the audience…

…is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime…

…short story “Dry September,” he manages to establish the beginning of a world, its dark mood, and point the reader in the direction of the story’s theme. “Through the bloody September twilight, aftermath of 62 rainless days, it had gone like a fire in dry…

…for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.' Thus, the theme of the story is: without morals and restraints in society, the evil in every man will always prevail.…

…success among our people. He uses light and dark imagery, which is repetitive and abundant throughout the cantos. The light representing reason, truth, righteousness, and goodness as displayed with the fact that the hill to "Divine Light" is cloaked in rays…

…eye while his right was the sun. Seth was a lunar god, in his struggles with the solar god Horus, Seth is seen as a god of darkness doing constant battle with the god of light. We often find the ibis-headed god Thoth wearing a lunar creseant on his head…

…, at the heart of the Puritan establishment, Hester Prynne, the individual, vanishes behind the symbol of her shame. “Hester looked, by way of humoring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented…

…my hands on the electric stove for thirty seconds. There was only a hundred and some odd dollars missing then. Six hundred?? I turned to avoid his eyes. A rush of wind. Darkness. The door slammed and locked as I began to come to. I looked up…

…with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart. On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain” (Hawthorne, 136). Dimmesdale…

…side he says, "It's dark. I can't see it very well" (470). The father is melancholic because his business has recently collapsed. Moreover, there are some family conflicts that are presented only indirectly: the father is prepared to forget his son's…