Symbolism in writing is the profundity and shrouded significance in a bit of work. It is frequently used to speak to a good or religious conviction or worth. Without imagery writing is only a cluster of trivial words on paper. The most typical bit of work in American Literature is Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne's utilization of imagery in The Scarlet Letter is a standout amongst the most huge commitments to the ascent of American Literature. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne depicts a standout amongst the most puzzling youngster figures in American writing. Despite the fact that she is an illegitimate little girl of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl assumes a vital part more as a dynamic power of good watchman than a static image of sin in the plot. A lot of Hawthorne's Symbolism is elusive however a few images are likewise self-evident. The jail speaks to the wrongdoing and discipline that was joined in the early Puritan life. In the same part he portrays the congested vegetation of weeds around the jail. The weeds symbolize how degenerate human advancement truly is. He likewise brings up a positive image, the wild flower bramble. This speaks to the blooming of good out of the murkiness of all humanized life.
Diaspora communities feel alienated because they cannot decide which space they belong to. The notions of identity and home are problematized and characterized by a sense of continuity and discontinuity, a conflict of location and dislocation and a process of hybridization. Espinet's The Swinging Bridge (2003) resembles outstanding indication of the psychological conflict that happens in the mind of the diaspora. Feelings, homes and identities are indeed swinging and cannot be certain to belong to a certain space or time. The question that is raised in this paper shows that there is no fixed home for a diaspora to belong to. This is due to a psychological clash between homes, identities, cultures, politics and many other factors that reconstruct and help in the formation of a hybrid identity that belongs to none in particular and cannot be accepted in all. So, this identity starts swinging between homes and cultures. The idea of 'bridge' in Espinet's The Swinging Bridge, is no more than an illusion and a dream that the writer tries to present as a solution for this dilemma of estrangement.
Alienation is an inevitable aspect of the modern life. Due to the rapid changes in culture, societies, technology and most importantly, psychological science, myriads of people in the contemporary era are alienated. However, the phenomenon of alienation is not new, it has been there for quite a while, but was not given or announced publicly. Anytime anyone oppresses some of their desires and/or attempts to hide aspects of their real lives, they feel alienated and isolated from this world. Further, the more conspicuous consequences of alienation and the name came to prominence after the ruthless process of colonization. It was owing to this heartless segregation among the races and cultural or ethnic discrimination that alienation surfaced publically and the authors and/or intellectuals commenced to address it. Among them Lahiri deserves a lion’s share for her novel the Namesake. She logically and smartly portrays the psychological status of her characters and shows the bitter consequences of alienation through her depiction of the novel’s main characters. The paper thus attempts to focus on the problems of alienation and how the characters in the Namesake experience it.
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