Margaret Laurence's, The Stone Angel is a powerful journey of the life of a 90-year-old woman . ... Angel is a compelling journey seen through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her life. ... Asking forgiveness from neither God nor those around her, she must still wrestle with her own nature: "Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear." ... The Stone Angel is an excellent example of the realism and compassion present in all of Margaret Laurence's writing. ...

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Lucy is in many ways the angelic opposite to Maggie. In Victorian ideology and iconography women were dichotomously defined as either angelic- pure, passive and ideally feminine- or they were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. ... In doing this "she rebelled against her lot" and feared "it was not difficult for her to become a demon." ...

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Lucy is in many ways the angelic opposite to Maggie. In Victorian ideology and iconography women were dichotomously defined as either angelic- pure, passive and ideally feminine- or they were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. ... st her lot" and feared "it was not difficult for her to become a demon." ...

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Frankenstein first meets Walton while he is tracking his "demon" in the Artic; this meeting was relevant at that time because multifarious explorers were trying to reach the North Pole, and many other places, as was Walton. ... Frankenstein grew up around beautiful people, his other and father adopted Elizabeth because of her looks, and Frankenstein even goes on to describe her later on as "bearing a celestial stamp on all her features", this gives the appearance of Elizabeth to be paralleled to that of an angel, because of this upbringing, Frankenstein is unnerved by the "devilish countenance...

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Hamlet's first issue to ponder is regarding the nature of the ghost itself; could it be a demon disguised as his father taking advantage of his vulnerable state of mind and tricking him into murdering Claudius, or is it really King Hamlet come seeking help? ... Many hugely significant issues particularly relevant to Shakespeare's time are deliberated; purgatory, the ghost as a demon or an angel, the validity of revenge, mans mortality and most notably the impossibility and fear of not knowing what comes after death in Hamlets famous "to be or not to be" soliloquy. ...

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As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... Satan disobeys God, and the uprising led by him in the Heaven results in the fall of Satan and angels from the light to darkness and suffering. ... Milton presents Satan an Archangel in Heaven, which is a high rank in the hierarchy of angels (Milton 195). Nevertheless, his pride, defiance, and desire to gain more authority than God makes him rebel against God and event...

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Other works include: Historia Syntomos, a shorter, didactic historical text in the form of a world chronicle; De Operatione Daemonum, a classification of demons; De Omnifaria Doctrina, important work on philosophy; Several hundred personal letters, several panegyrics, rhetorical essays and a funeral oration for his mother, including a large amount of autobiographical information. ... The Euphrasian Basilica was built in the middle of the 6th century and decorated with mosaics depicting the Theotokos flanked by angels and saints. ...

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In all of the religions of the world, one of the primary questions that they are to answer is that of the meaning of life and life after death. As long as man has been self-aware and cognizant of the passage of time, he has operated with the knowledge that he, at some time as a mortal man, must end his life and die. He is naturally unable to ascertain the nature of his purpose in life and what may pertain after death, and soon begins to develop an explanation for what happens to him, or his essence when he passes that barrier. The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined...

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