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Use of Symbolism in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"
Summary: In "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," J.R.R. Tolkien reinvents some of the scenes from William Shakespeare's classic literature. Tokien uses vivid imagery, symbolism, and lessons from real-life history to tell the story.
William Shakespeare, thought of to be the most genius writer of all time, created a story where soldiers, dressed as trees, would come down a hill and attack a castle. Who knew that years later, 1954 to be exact, his plot would be recreated and real trees take one final march down a hill to flood the domain of an evil wizard trying to rule Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien brings Shakespeare's famous Macbeth scene to life in the most unbelievably amazing fantasies ever to be written. The famous scene from Macbeth is when Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill figuratively speaking. Tolkien takes this idea and creates one of the greatest scenes in literary history when the Ents of Fangorn Forest partake in one final march down to Isengard to destroy it and flood the evil wizard Saruman's fortress and forever deny him the chance to rule Middle-earth...
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