The Roque Mallet
The Overlook Hotel has the best roque court in America, and the roque mallet is a symbol of Jack Torrance’s murderous rage and insanity in Stephen King’s The Shining. Roque is an English…
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The Scrapbook
While checking the boiler in the basement of the Overlook Hotel, Jack finds an old scrapbook, which serves within The Shining as a symbol of the hotel’s rich and sordid history; however, the scrapbook also…
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The Clock
On the mantle in the ballroom of the Overlook Hotel sits a clock beneath a glass dome, and the clock symbolizes time’s relativity in The Shining. The clock was gifted to the hotel by…
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Wasps’ Nests
Part Three of The Shining is named “The Wasps’ Nest,” and wasps’ nests are symbolic of many things in King’s novel, including danger—especially the danger of the evil Overlook Hotel. When Jack is replacing shingles…
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The Boiler
The Overlook Hotel burns to the ground at the end of The Shining after the boiler explodes, and the boiler is symbolic of Jack Torrance’s building insanity and murderous rage throughout the novel. When…
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