In "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" what does the child symbolize?
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the child symbolizes the fear that lies behind all happiness.
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I think the theme of the poem relates to the nature of the world and appreciating life.\n\n"Light takes the Tree" may refer to darkness when the sun sets (as fits with your interpretation "I am born to die"). The line about the worm climbing the stair refers to a struggle against great odds.\n\nI think the poet is saying to take your time in life and to learn how to live your life as you go.
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OK, here we go...\nAccording to Freud\nThe Snake is a phallic symbol, the legs emphasizing this.\nThe strange roads, if they are forking to the right and left, the right symbolizes moral goodness and purity, whle the left symbolizes deviance and perversion. Mom and Dad would represent guiding figures, possibly in an antagonistic fashion. The snke biting the 4 month old probably sybolizes the act of intercourse. That's according to Freud.\nA less sexually charged interpretation is that:\nThe Snake with legs symbolizes deception, it biting your child most likeley symbolizes that you fear your child will be hurt. The strange roads represent a period of uneasiness in your life, and the Parents represent the authority and guidance to help you along.
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The plot centers around a mother who has raised her two children while the father is at war. These children have an allergy to the sun and cannot go into it. Because they've lived in darkness for so long, its all they've known. When the strange things begin to happen, the believe they are being haunted by ghosts. You find out however, that living in darkness has simply made them blind to the fact that they are indeed the ghosts that have been haunting a real family, and the servants have been sent to help them see the truth. \nThe part where they children are allowed into the light is there awakening, and they realize that they are the haunters, not the haunted...
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I think it means when a boy has a oragasim
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in shakespeare's tragedy of julius caesar, the omens (such as the entrails of the slaughtered animal and the nightmares) emphasize that caesar is ignoring all the signs that he should be paying attention to. they act as blatant foreshadowing and also serve to make the reader more sympathetic to the idea that he "had it comming"
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When Oedipus was born a oracle said he would kill his father and marry his mother. So to prevent that from happening, his parents send him away as an infant(forgot what hapened next). But later he comes back to his home town(no one knows who he is since they all think he is dead), defeats a monster, becomes ruler somehow, marries the queen(his mother). She commits suicide when she eventually finds out he's her son. Then one day he is traveling on a road and encounters his father(never knew his father) and kills him in an accident. \nso basically, the prophesy is fulfilled
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On Children\n\nAnd a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." \n\nAnd he said: \n\nYour children are not your children. \n\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. \n\nThey come through you but not from you, \n\nAnd though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. \n\nYou may give them your love but not your thoughts. \n\nFor they have their own thoughts. \n\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls, \n\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. \n\nYou may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. \n\nFor life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. \n\nYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. \n\nThe archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. \n\nLet your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; \n\nFor even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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It was originally a FANTASY book by C. S. Lewis for CHILDREN.\nAlthough there's a lot of symbolism used, it's mostly character symbolism and not object symbolism. It's obvious that there was no intent for the fawn to represent satan -- if he were supposed to do that, he wouldn't have been forgiven in the end.
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got this off sparknotes, maybe it will help\n\n\nPerception\nTen of The Chosen’s eighteen chapters conclude with references to eyes, seeing, watching, looking, or listening. Perception and vision is the novel’s dominant motif, bridging the entire text from Reuven’s eye injury at the beginning to the final passage, in which Reuven watches Danny walk away after perceiving an “almost blinding” “light” in Danny’s eyes. Vision in the novel symbolizes the ability to see the world, to see oneself, and to see beneath the surface and into the heart of a matter. As Danny and Reuven mature over the course of the novel, they develop clearer pictures of themselves and of the world around them.\nAfter Reuven’s eye accident, he remarks that “everything looks different.” His experience in the hospital gives him a newfound appreciation of his own health. Later, his friendship with Danny teaches him to look beyond superficial appearances. Their friendship broadens and deepens Reuven’s perception of the world and allows him to relate to and empathize with others’ suffering.\nAs the novel progresses, Potok focuses on other senses besides vision. In Chapter 7, Reb Saunders scolds Danny for hearing but not listening. When Danny reads in the library, he covers his ears to block out sound. As Danny’s friendship with Reuven develops, he learns to be a better listener. As a result of Danny’s experience with silence—which parallels Reuven’s experience with blindness—Danny learns to appreciate words. Furthermore, Reuven’s development is apparent in his descriptive language, which becomes more specific throughout the novel. As he becomes more aware of the world around him, his descriptions become more detailed, displaying Reuven’s improved command of his senses. The novel’s final passage mentions four of the five senses, showing the development both Reuven and Danny have experienced over the course of the novel.
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I had to go back and reread the poem to remember it in particular from my high school Lit Class (5 years...  sheesh!).  Anyway, its main theme is basically as everyone has said- a warning that even mankind's greatest works shall eventually crumble to dust.\n\nWithin Temptation does a song on their Mother Earth CD entitled "Never-ending Story" that sums up the main point of Ozymandias nicely with the lyrics, "We'll all be forgotten  |  There's no endless fame".\n\nHowever, we can go into a bit more depth about the secondary themes of hope and rebirth.  In lines 10 through 14, Ozymandias reads as such:\n"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:\nLook on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'   \nNothing beside remains: round the decay   \nOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,   \nThe lone and level sands stretch far away."\n\nThese lines serve to anchor the somewhat depressing mood, but give infinite hope as well.  Even though King Ozymandias is telling us to despair, for all we do will eventually disappear, he is also telling us to look upon his works as they are in the here and now.\n\nThe boundless sea of sand that was once his great kingdom may seem like it has been destroyed, but in fact Ozymandias has *created* it as his buildings and monuments have crumbled.  Essentially, the poem is commenting that nothing mankind can build will last- but as those things are annihilated they create the soil, and in turn the plants and stone, that generations down the road will use to build their own monuments.  Even though we may die and rot in the present, we are immortal as part of the life cycle that is always recycling into the next incarnation of life.  Who knows, when we eventually croak, we might all come back as daisies!
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gregory_dittman's answer is basically correct. I will just add that the "star child" (the fetus in the very last scene) represents the re-birth of the main character (the one who goes into the obelisk and sees himself as an old man, etc.) as a new sort of being. This is also symbolic of the re-birth of humanity, thus bringing the story full-circle. You may recall that the story begins with early humans (ape-like creatures) discovering an obelisk. They were starving and about to go extinct, but the obelisk taught them to hunt and eat meat. This sets the scene for learning to use tools, which leads these creatures to evolve into completely different kinds of beings - human beings. (Remember the scene where the creature throws a bone into the air and it morphs into a space station? That was symbolic of the evolutionary "morphing" of the proto-human species into the human species.) So at the end of the movie, we see the obelisk once again open a path for humanity, this time from humans as we know ourselves today into...?...beings of a whole new kind.
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Children in a dream is meant to be a sign of being wistful about something in your past, though it is interesting that they are all of different nationalities, maybe you are thinking a lot about something that happened in your past that maybe effects everyone on a global level... ie it is something that you know other people think about? \n\nA journey in a dream is meant to represent moving on, or escaping something you no longer want to experience.. so the children on this trip could mean that you want to take some good out of an experience, and get rid of the negative, just leave it behind...
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This book is indeed permeated with symbols.If you want ,W Golding uses Robinson Crusoe's Myth but in a reversed variant:to be more specific if Daniel Defoe wants to show the way from primitivism to civilisation,W Golding points to the fact that human beings can easily turn back fom civilisation to primitivism.If you read the book you can see the boys spliting into 2 groups :the one led by Ralph and the other led by Jack.While one group enjoy order and discipline and always want to keep the fire burning so as to be finally rescued,the other group want to rule by fear and terror ,they like to go hunting and paint their faces!Let's take things in turn:The fire is a symbol of hope(because this is the only way they can be seen from the island)When the other boys steal the fire is because they have been transformed by the forces of the evil inside themselves,they have been guided by the primitive instincts inside them.Then we have the conch or that shell that Simon is going to carry whenever there's a meeting on the beach.It's a symbol of order and respect for the one who's talking(they could talk only if they touched the conch showing they have an opinion referring to that problem in discussion)Then Simon is wearing glasses which a symbol ,too,It stands for wisdom and intellingence and for civilised world with rules and obligations.Simon agrees that the fire should burn all the time on the island but he's bullied by the rough boys who are rebelling against order.While doing this they have steps behind to primitivism.So they go hunting wild pigs and invent stories about a creature on the island just to scare the others.The fact that they paint their faces like the savages  shows that they run away from who they are,they want to hide their true identity so they can be free to do what they want :fight,hunt,steal and even kill!\nThe pig's head put in a stick in the middle of the forest is in fact the lord of the flies,i.e the lord of terror,of evil forces lying in human beings.It';s symbolical for the bad boys on the island and it's opposite the conch .\nW.Golding knows very well the psychology of kids.He uses a very simple topic but he finally manages to reach complex things in this book which is part of metafiction literature.\nHope you understood something and if you didn't read the book ,please find some time and do it ...it's magnificent!
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Are you talking about the fictional character from children's books?  Otherwise I have no clue what you mean.
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According to babynames.com, it means "elf army." That sounded amazingly unlikely, so I looked it up at babyzone.com. They say it means "peaceful or the olive tree, which symbolizes fruitfulness, beauty, and dignity." That sounds a little better, I think. -yk
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She's the symbol of strength.  A heroine, I suppose.  She stole food for her family, and that was basically for survival.  I think in the end, she lost all her family.