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Fell In Love Male Figure
1,733 wordsUnrequited Love and Gestures of Consecration Young Werther searched for meaning in everything around him, yearning in his relentless love for Lotte. It was not a mistake that a copy of Emilia Galotti was found by Werther's deathbed, this texts content mirrors much of Werther's sorrows. Werther idolized and pined over Lotte as Prince Hettore Gonzaga did Emilia Galotti. Both male characters sought to relinquish his hopeless passion by attempting to win over the woman that they loved in a desperate...
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Younger Siblings Loved One
472 wordsPeople often are not happy with the way they live and would like to change their life style. The story, "Eveline" written by James Joyce deals with a woman who is going though a hard time in her life. She is very confused about her present, and how she would like to live in the future. Eveline's life is great like dust. She lives with her mother, father and two younger siblings. Her mother was very ill mentally and psychically. Eveline's dad is not a pleasant present from life either. He is very...
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Sexual Perversion Bad Faith
1,551 wordsI would like to take this opportunity to discuss Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy and it's integration into his play "No Exit." Embedded within the character interactions are many Sartre philosophical themes. Personal attributes serve to demonstrate some of the more dominant ideas in Sartre's writings. Each of the three characters in the play show identifiable characteristics of sexual perversion, bad faith, and interactions of consciousness. This play takes an interesting setting, that of the afte...
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Sexual Desire Sexual Perversion
1,514 words... where sexual desire and reciprocity is the only possible solution to the problem. Estelle is continually confronted by Inez, who has already expressed her desire. These advances are rejected outright. Estelle continually "pecks" at Garcin, asking for some spark of interest. Her actions have given us more evidence to Sartre's theory of sexual desire and it's relation to sexual perversion. The most prolific and impressive state of any sexual interaction is that of desire. Unfortunately it is a...
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Falls In Love Melting Pot
1,104 wordsTwenty-one years ago, a spectacular film was made by an incredible director of the highly acclaimed film, "Badlands." The movie, "Days of Heaven" directed by Terrence Malick is a movie that shows the confusion of one woman, trying to figure out whom she loves. The movie stars Richard Gere as Bill and Sam Shepard as a rich, handsome, Texan farmer, the two men Brooke Adams as Abby falls in love with. Linda Many plays Linda, Bill's sister and the narrator, in the story. Terrence Malick was born in ...
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Begins To Open Acceptance And Love Mother
689 wordsIn the short story Territory by David Leavitt, the main characters are Neil, Barbara and Wayne. Barbara is Neil's mother, and throughout the story Neil has always wanted his mothers acceptance and love. However, his mother was always too busy to spend time with him. There was always a cause which she had to support, that would take her away from spending time with Neil. Therefore, their relationship became very superficial, and they would make their appearance together in town to show that they ...
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Greek Society Young Men
1,433 words"Lysis, " written by Plato in approximately 380 BCE (the exact year is unknown) is an in depth look, through the teachings of Socrates, at the nature of friendship, desire, usefulness and personal identity. This work is relevant to our course about childhood because the characters in the dialogue that Socrates is speaking with are youths. Socrates reveals through his teachings many of the ancient attitudes towards different aspects of "childhood. " It is quite apparent that this outlook on child...
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5 Th Century Bc Sophocles And Euripides
1,518 wordsWinter squallsDiynysos Dionysus Winter squalls are drained out of the sky. The violet season of flowering spring smiles. The black earth glitters under green lawns. Swelling plants pop open with tiny petals. Meadows laugh and suck the morning dew, while the rose unfolds. The shepherd in the hills happily blows the top notes of his pipe. The gathered gloats over his white kids. Sailors race across the thrashing waves. Their canvas full of the harmless breeze. Drinkers acclaim the grape-giver Dion...
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J Alfred Prufrock Middle Aged Man
1,152 wordsEliot's Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In Eliots Views Of Sexuality As Revealed In The Behavior Of Prufrock And Sweeney Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock tells the story of a single character, a timid, middle-aged man. Prufrock is talking or thinking to himself. The epigraph, a dramatic speech taken from Dantes Inferno, provides a key to Prufrock's nature. Like Dantes character Prufrock is in hell, in this case a he...
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Greek Mythology Tragic Ending
1,189 wordsThere is no doubt that Eustacia Vie is the Heroine of the tragedy Return of the native. Without the majestic air that Miss Vie adds to the novel we are left with a typical period soap drama. Eustacia vie is on more then one occasion compared to classical characters of Greek mythology, and even in her death the nobility of her figure evokes images of classical sculpture. Pallor did not include all the quality of her complexion, which seemed More the whiteness; it was almost light. The expression ...
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Books New York Romeo And Juliet
496 wordsWilliam Shakespeare has written many different categories of plays: comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. Comparisons are abundant between many of Shakespeare? s works. Numerous comparisons can be made in characters, plot, and speech between Romeo and Juliet, which is a tragedy, and Much Ado About Nothing, which is a comedy. First, corresponding characters in both plays include villains, lovers, and friends in addition to characters who provide comic relief. These works have a similar vi...
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Midsummer Nights Dream End Of The Story
815 wordsThe story " A Midsummer Nights Dream" tells about a group of characters that fall in love with each other. However, the whole play is all a dream. The dream also contains dreams within dreams. For example, Hermia had a dream where she fell in love with an ass, and at the end of the play Puck tells everyone that the whole deal was a dream, and that none of this really happened in real life. The title describes the story for it must have taken place in the midsummer type season and was a...
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Existentialist Concepts Mere Chance Hell
659 wordsIn his play, No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre examines basic themes of existentialism through three characters. The first subject, Garcin, embraces existentialist ideas somewhat. The second character, Inez, seems to fully understand ideas deemed existential. Estelle is the third person, and does not seem to understand these ideas well, nor does she accept them when they are first presented to her. One similarity amongst the three is that they all at some point seem to accept that they are in Hell for a...
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Streetcar Named Desire Blanche
767 wordsA Streetcar Named Desire By: Tennessee Williams One of the main themes expressed by Tennessee Williams in his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is to condemn those who display cruelty and harshness in their treatment of others, especially those who are weak and vulnerable. Three characters who demonstrate these insensitive qualities are Blanche, Mitch, and Stanley. Whether the cruelty is deliberate or not, it results in the destruction of others, both physically and mentally. Blanche Dubois, the c...
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Rose For Emily Barn Burning
760 wordsFaulkner s Rebellions William Faulkner's short stories Barn Burning and A Rose for Emily are keys to understanding what Faulkner s feelings about the confines of society. Both are stories of a person going against the traditional norms of society to ensure that they are comfortable in life. William Faulkner uses a similar theme in both A Rose for Emily as well as Barn Burning to portray the idea that rebelling against traditional ways may be the only way to become independent. In A Rose For Emil...
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Avenge His Fathers Death Lady Macbeth
1,494 wordsConsider the role of female characters in Shakespearean tragedy. With particular reference to Hamlet. Are the actions of women central to the downfall of the central protagonist? In Elizabethan England women played a subordinate role in society, economically and politically. As a result, many literary works were reflective of this diminutive role women encapsulated, in many cases gaining little reference at all. In contrast to this trend, Shakespeare's tragedies portrayed the female characters a...
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Turn Of The Screw Point Of View
949 wordsA Freudian Turn of the Screw There is one question about The Turn of the Screw that has never and probably will never be answered to everyones total satisfaction. Is it a ghost story or is it a psychiatric case history? The story which for years was presumed by most to just be a mere ghost story has in later years, after being studied much more deeply has proven itself to some that it is a psychological thriller and an overall thought provoking topic. There are three major areas in which the sto...
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Order Of Things Natural Objects
1,537 wordsOur age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchre's of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us...
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Wife Of Bath Fifth Husband
804 wordsCanterbury Tales: Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a very envious women, who desires only a few simple things in life. She likes to make mirror images of herself, through her stories, which in some way reflects the person who she really is. This is all proven through the many ways she portrays her characters. The Wife of Bath desires the obvious in life, but what she most desires above all is being more powerful than her man, her spouse, and her lover. In a relationship, she wishes to be the dom...
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Town Of Salem Mistress Hibbins
1,488 wordsIn the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn the society of a Puritan town of Salem excludes anyone who is in any way deviant and renders that person sinful. However, the society, the townspeople themselves, is not without fault. However they try to conceal and contain their passions and all their faults because of their fear of exclusion. All the characters in the book that are excluded from society are the most natural and true and possess a second-sense perception and almost magical ...
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