Every event that occurs parallel's with each other, such as the house, the town, and Emily, the most important of all in the story. ... Faulkner uses the setting set during the post Civil war, by doing so the details help displays a good atmosphere of the town being quite wrecked while having a contrast with Miss Emily's new, young looking house. ... This closely parallels with Emily and the town, Emily being a young beautiful lady as described in this sentence "A slender figure in white in the background-, which is equivalent to the house. ... This shows that Emily is well maintain...

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The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. ... In direct contrast, the color white is associated particularly in this setting with moral and religious purity. ... " Proctor is suggesting that all present within the town as those present in the court are guilty of equal sin. ... Essentially it encourages our curiosity to investigate as to the fate of Proctor. ... " This contrasts Abigail with Moses, an important religious figure that led the Israelites across the Red Sea. ...

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Ultimately, however, Lecter is not parallel to Clarice. ... Thus Gimb apparently has moved from a n exotic setting to various American cities and furether to a hermetic small-town exitence in a cellar. ... Thus the film's major parallel is between Lecter and Gumb. ... We have seen that Claric eis not parallel to Lecter in any significant way. She does, however, have other parallels within the film: the victims of the serial killer. ...

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Larkin comments on what he sees, contrasting the natural world with modern, commercialised society. ... It insinuates that although the town is vast and dark like a shadow, it is not real. ... This creates a contrast between this environment and the calm of the suburbs. ... The people in the town are describes as being a 'cut-price crowd' and 'simple' . ... Between the first and second stanzas there are numerous images which contrast. ...

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In this scene his girlfriend is very literally viewed as a parallel to Eve and an instrument of corruption. ... At first she despises the "geekville" of cholesterol-rich breakfasts and lifeless conformists, yet as she realizes she has the power to turn the whole town haywire just by refusing to play the role of poodle-skirted good girl, she soon begins her Eve-like corruption. ... Afterward, a similarly bright, apple-red rose appears in contrast to the monochrome world. ... Reflecting a tendency in Hollywood productions and literary fiction to continue to circle the framework of "the Fall," ...

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Dreams are one of the most freely experienced actions by humans, and still it is the most rigid and unrealistic thought process that is part of our lives. ... Many immigrants from Europe coming to America in hope of prosperity and easy living found themselves in conditions that were paralleled by the conditions in the European slums of the inner city. ... The horrors of the American Civil War and the growth of towns with slums as bad as those in Europe, and the corruption of the American political system led to many shattered dreams. ... There is a sharp contrast made between George and Len...

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In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... It draws an interesting contrast in the way that it isn't life that's shown through colour but death. The symbolism of colors relates the novel to our society as our world is a colourful place, and by reinforcing the symbol throughout the novel Zusak has continually expressed humanity on a colour spectrum of life and death and how that is relative to mortality. ... The acco...

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In contrast to him in the previous shot, she is clearly and brightly lit, appearing much more innocent. ... Their conversation leads to speaking about how human beings become imprisoned "in our private traps" - in a narrow and minimal existence - in the course of their private lives. Marion sees parallels in her own life - she is caught in a degraded and draining relationship with a weak-willed Sam, similar to how Norman is debilitated by his enforced caring for his mother. ... "I think that we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. ... The harshne...

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These have enriched our past in their own unique way. ... There was a very marked contrast between the poor living in the villages and the wealthy living in London. ... He is described as a "well-to-do corn-chandler in the nearest town- Mrs. ... Pip's portrayal of Magwitch on their first meeting draws a parallel between the appearance of Magwitch and of actual convicts of that time, and also highlights the harsh conditions to which Magwitch has been subjected: "A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, a...

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As seen in Act one, scene one, by Lear believing that he held a God-like status, he lives in a parallel world and is morally blinded by his foibles, he wants to abdicate his power, yet maintain the status that is attached to it. ... By playing the production in a large industrial town in Northern Hungary, Csiszar's vision was received with familiarity by the audience who could relate to the play and its reflective qualities. ... In this scene, Lear's tone and language is formal, with the use of poetic language and verse emphasising his power, "Meanwhile we shall express our darke...

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However when news of the bombing of the holy Basque town, Guernica, reached Picasso his ideas for the mural took a dramatic turn. ... The town was of no military importance and its destruction was an act of pure terrorism. ... As a result of this Guernica has become a timeless universal portrayal of the terror of war and conflict and is very relevant to our world today. ... The horses body is supposedly made up of parallel lines of news print. ... The organic figurative shapes of the oil lamp and woman holding it contrast these angular shapes. ...

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In the first chapter, the reader is presented with the description of Jekyll's house contrasting it with the street. ... The characteristics of his home could represent parallel symbols of traits found in his personality: "The Street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger Two doors from one corner, on the left hand going east the line was broken by the entry of a court; and just at that point...

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Drawing parallels to the movie Django Unchained, Django is degraded as a worthless slave by many of the whites within the film. There are multiple scenes in Django Unchained where Django is riding into various towns on a horse. It was difficult for white people within the towns to grasp the notion that a black man had the capability of riding a horse on his own. ... There is no way we will be able to combat the issue of racism in our country, if we continue to allow the use of objects such as the Confederate flag, which still carries a significant racist connotation. ... We see a stark cont...

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"Repeatedly invoking analogies between human and divine love, Donne's Divine poems suggest that erotic love is our only means, experientially, for apprehending our relation with God" (Guibbory 142). ... breathe' and 'shine' suggesting the natural forces of wind and sun are in marked contrast to 'break,' blowe,' 'burn'" (Wanninger NP). ... Although the love or rape theme is commonly adopted by critics, often the job of deciphering between what is sex and what is violent can produce a major contrast from on interpretation to another. ... The speake...

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The way they portray life on a reservation have some distinct similarities, along with a few contrasts. ... The life that they describe more closely resembles one of a small town, or rural country community. ... According to bibliographical notes in the Abcarian, Alexie replied "I write what I know and I don't try to mythologize myself, which is what some may seem to want, and which some Indian men and women writers are doing we don't live our lives that way". ... The main characters of Eldrich's The Red Convertible can be paralleled to the main characters in Alexie's Th...

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The characters in this drama all play curious roles in this depressing time in our country's history. ... The parallels between the theatrical version and film are immense. The characters and plot are similar and this makes contrasting the theatrical version and movie difficult. ... The depiction of the hangings provides insight into the feelings of the town. ... The theatrical version has no mention of the way the town reacted. ...

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By reviewing literature and research that focus on problems of rural areas and problems of urban areas, one can find many parallel examples. ... Some of the main parallel problems include alcohol/drug abuse, gangs, crime and violence, and teen pregnancy. ... These conditions have taken a serious toll on our neighborhoods" (Martinet, 1992). Another author suggests that disorder in our schools leads to violence. ... Methamphetamine use is growing in cities and towns throughout the country. ...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... Also existing with each are parallel meanings of these settings when they are thought of literally and also collectively with the thoughts of memories. ... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... The poem contrasts spring and all of its beauty, to death and...

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While poets like Lawrence have been blatant and undisguised in their socially contrasting ideas regarding sex, other poets have offered more subtle subversions on this topic. ... Furthermore, the wife in the Reeve's tale is the daughter of the town's parson, a man respected for chastity; this again shows the deflection of medieval standards for the clergy. ... In addition, the fabliau tales are widely accepted as Chaucer's best tales both in style and plot, The other genres in which Chaucer writes often "sharply contrast the enormous gust of the fabliau tales" (Lawrence 68) This...

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Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ...

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Throughout the story, satirical references to Voltaire's optimistic theme contrast with natural catastrophes and human wrongdoing. ... How can a town be religious but have no priests? ... Nevertheless, parallel to Voltaire's views, Candide did not want to stay in El Dorado. ...

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Steinbeck's later publications include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Sort Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), Journal of Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! ... He keeps to the back roads and stops only in country towns most of the time. ... Throughout the entirety of the novel, Steinbeck's relationship with Charley seems to parallel his overall relationship with society itself. ... In contrast, Steinbeck incorporated...

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The incident of Bardolph stealing from the French town raises certain points as to that value system; on the one hand he is punishing a soldier for stealing something when they have been told not to, but on the other he is punishing his friend. ... This does help to show his benevolence because as Pistol enters, with a favour to beg of Fluellen: Pistol's good friend and fellow-soldier, Bardolph, has been found guilty of stealing from the conquered French town. ... If Henry were scheming he may have allowed the theft of the religious object, but in an act of respect for the French town thi...

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