Word: metaphor
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Duelling is the central event of Barry Lyndon, but is a central metaphor without meaning. It doesn't suggest that life is a contest of individuals, it doesn't suggest that duelling is a ridiculous feudal survival, and it doesn't say anything about Barry's place as a gentleman or what a gentleman is, to name just three possibilities. Any of these could have given flesh to the film's skeletal frame. Does Barry's adherence to rules of duelling make him a gentleman, or does he take advantage of the rules? After his card-sharping experiences...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is part of an emerging American state of mind, as well as a hang-over of the burnt-out sixties. Taken as a metaphor, it suggests a revolution in the asylum in which the doctors and nurses are overthrown and the inmates reign over all. As a political metaphor it attempts to identify the lot of the oppressed with the lot of the incapable. Even Animal Farm deals with the same theme in a much more complex way. McMurphy's ethic of fuck and fight is hardly a more desirable...
Good morning to the day, and next my gold!/Open the shrine, that I may see my saint." With the miser's first lines in Volpone. Ben Jonson put his finger on it: that deep connection between the two aspects of precious metal, as crude capital and as metaphor of heaven, that so long existed in Christian...
KENNEDY'S CHILDREN. A perceptive replay of the '60s and how one generation of U.S. youngsters hoped, doped, marched, raged and finally despaired. John Kennedy is never the subject of the play but a metaphor for the decade...
Harvard is in many ways the ultimate separation of people from the exigencies of life, and the game of squash is a metaphor for that dissociation. No longer, in squash, does the actual hand impel the ball on its tortuous journey; instead, a foot and a half of laminated wood and the entrails of cats enforces a dainty separation between motive force and object...