Some prevalent themes in both cultures are cautionary tales, trickster tales and encouragement tales about heroes. ... For example, cautionary tales warn the listener of being untruthful, vain, greedy, or too proud. ... In Aesop's cautionary tale the same lesson is being taught about the pitfalls of being too proud. ... While cautionary tales are prevalent in both European and Native American cultures, so are trickster tales. ... Thus, cautionary tales are told to both the children of Native Americans and Europeans. ...

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: Cautionary Tales In Logic, Math, And Probability As the title suggest, Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability, by Colin Bruce (Perseus Publishing, 2002), is a collection of mathematical tales set in the form of Sherlock Holmes adventures. ...

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WALL-E is an animated movie produced by Pixar and Disney in 2008. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the story follows a robot named Wall-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth seven-hundred years into the future. WALL-E presents a cautionary tale by representing a potential futu...

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I am going to talk about the Nun"'"s Priest Tale by Chaucer, taken from the Canterbury tales, his most famous work. ... II/ SUMMARY OF THE FABLE The Nun"'"s Priest Tale is a fable, a simple tale about animals that concludes with a moral lesson. ... The third of May is alluded to in The Nun"'"s Priest Tale. ... The Nun's Priest's Tale is a cautionary tale about dream interpretation. ... The greater part of the tale deals with the dream and the discussion of it. ...

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Malvolio initially seems to be a minor character, but he becomes more interesting as the play progresses. He seems to be a serious, stiff and proper servant who likes nothing better than to spoil other people's fun. Feste's role also appears to be as a minor character, but in fact his role is of pri...

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A fairy tale also contains a moral, or the story itself acts as a sort of cautionary or warning tale. ... This is fairy tale like as well because princes often fight off dragons in fairy tales. ... The family is living within a fairy tale in the beginning; therefore this story is a fairy tale in reverse. ... All fairy tales should have happy endings. ... In conclusion, Nadine Gordimer did an excellent job of using fairy tale elements to create her own fairy tale. ...

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That argument is the premises, moral, and plot base for Mary Shelley's tale Frankenstein. ... Mary Shelley's story can be used as a cautionary tale to the science community in regard to cloning. ... If you take Mary Shelley's tale and think of it as a warning, it is clear that the effects of cloning would harm the human race. ... Through Mary Shelley's tale, she created and image for readers, and unforgettable story in which you have too look deeper to see the true meaning, rather that the obvious run of the mill horror story. ... Mary Shelley is more effective because the ...

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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian text which reflects on the perils of a monotheocratic fundamentalist society. ... The text is meant to be a cautionary tale as to what could have happened if these people succeeded in their attempt to gain power and had taken over US society. ...

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Themes The self in society - In his preface, Robert Bolt addresses the apparent disagreement between Thomas More's moralism and his periodic recourse to legal and moral loopholes. In this sense, More is carefully realistic at the expense of his beliefs. If More sometimes seems hypocritical, it is ...

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This is not in itself a character flaw but does galvanize Macbeths murderous actions and thus asserts that at the core of this cautionary tale about ambition lays the issue of a combination between fate and erroneous traits. ...

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" (p. 25) The story of Frankenstein tells a cautionary tale of a privileged, inquisitive young man who becomes obsessed with the origins of life and of how mankind- him- would obtain "glory if he could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable" (p. 26). ... Walton helps to nurse Victor to health and this is when he hears Victor's tale. ... His distance from the sinister ethical consequences of his research is surprising, He does not "ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition Now I was led to analyzing all the minutia of causation,...

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Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant flattery and cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. ... In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen herself, one angle presenting a warped realm, the other a cautionary tale to his dismissive monarch. ...

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Wells' 1895 science fiction novel The Time Machine is a cautionary tale of what will befall mankind if capitalism continues to exploit workers for the benefits of the rich. ... The futuristic tale illustrates the true essence of Darwin's theory: there is no guarantee that a species will evolve for the better, there is only the guarantee that successful species must continuously adapt to their environments or risk extinction. ...

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With some persuasion from her husband the tale that began as "but a few pages" grew into an epic masterpiece. ... The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. ... It is almost a cautionary tale of the inevitable disasters that await when mankind attempts to play God, just as Victor tried to do. ...

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In his work, Utopia, Book One Thomas More delivers a tale of the ideal place, which appears real in every way. ... The Achorians are a cautionary tale of what can happen if a nation and its leader care more about war than leadership. ...

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Perfection is something everyone strives for, yet no one can truly achieve. In today's society, an immeasurable amount of time is wasted, and millions of dollars are spent, in the hopes to reach this unreachable goal. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birthmark, he takes readers into a world where the fo...

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WALL-E is an animated movie produced by Pixar and Disney in 2008. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the story follows a robot named Wall-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth seven-hundred years into the future. WALL-E presents a cautionary tale by representing a potential futu...

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In Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein, Shelley outlines the socio-economic issues of her time period as theorized by Karl Marx in his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844. Marx believes that alienation of workers is rooted in the capitalistic system. He writes that alienation occurs because ...

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As the audience for Tartuffe was bound to be members of the established society, the satire serves as a cautionary tale for those who fail to open their minds to the progress of the Enlightenment that is afoot. ...

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"The Worst Day I Ever Had" The empty pit in my stomach growled as the cold December rain poured down on my head. "What the hell is going on?" I thought to myself. "Is god telling me I"m a terrible person?" Up until this chapter in my life, I have never felt this incredibly down. Not in my entire ...

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The play serves as a cautionary tale about what happens when a person believes their own power to be superior to all other forms and sources of power and that the possession of power makes them superior to other humans. ...

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Her strained marriage to Walter is a tell-tale sign that their socio-economic standing is starting to take a toll on the family dynamics. ... " We may not immediately refer to broken dreams as raisins, festering sores, or rotting meat; but these metaphors serve as cautionary statements to personify the consequences of not acting on your dreams. ...

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Abstracts America was first an immigrate country, the ship named Mayflower loading with a group of puritans finally stood their feet at the new continent. From then on religion, especially protestant as the mainstream, laid the foundation of policy making and social morality. Key words: liberty, ...

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One main theme inall the books that we have read so far is the mixing of the Orient and the Occident. "Season of Migration to the North", by Salih, also presents this aspect of the world yet also raises new questions about this relationship. From the beginning of the book, the narrator infor...

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