The dark and gloomy physical setting lays out the mood for Dostoevsky's novel, incorporating a feeling of utter desolation in the reader. ... I am sure it's quite half through your lodging you have become so melancholy" (216). ... It is also in his tomb where Porfiry Petrovitch, a detective, discloses that he knows Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer; Raskolnikov's insane personality then "dies" upon hearing that he has been revealed. ... After reading this novel, I realized that much of the world suffers in their physical environment, a theme clearly presented by Dostoevsky....

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Also, that Nelly refers the Catherine by the pronoun 'mother' rather than by name raises the idea of the status and identity bestowed by motherhood, and that Cathy I's original identity will fade with time, being remembered as a mother rather than an individual – the theme of motherless children also being a prominent theme throughout the novel. ... She die screaming and cussing.' ... 'Did she die like a saint?'... I cannot live without my soul!'... Overall, it is Bronte's unapologetically unorthodox approach to the theme of death that attracts th...

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Themes from individuality to teen angst. ... " (Henry 3) Arguably the most famous quote of this time period, Patrick Henry is saying that he would rather die than live under oppression. ... This lays the basis for the adventures they incur, and the freedoms they both experience throughout the story and how they own earn their own independence. ... I been there before.... In Langston Hughes' I, Too, Sing America, Hughes' says "I am the darker brother. ...

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As his perspective swings between the objective and subjective, so swings the theme from comedy to tragedy. ... At that point, Melville introduces his first bit of comic relief, enlisting the audience's empathy in stating, "To befriend Bartleby; to humour him in his strange wilfulness will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience". ... I never use it myself". ... His though process begins with the suggestion that, allowing Bartleby's occupation of his offices would result in him having to "mason up his remains...

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No one could foresee the horrors that lay in wait at the front; or, perhaps, simply no one wanted to. ... "I am very quiet. ... I am so alone, and so without hope - (Page 191). ... I had never seen a Frenchman before I came here, and it will be just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards us. ... Millions died, empires fell and new countries were born. ...

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I will begin with a short biography on Mr. ... Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 and died by committing suicide on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. ... One of the things that impresses me the most about Hemingway's writing is his ability to involve the reader and not just lay out everything for them, the reader is allowed to have his/her own perceptions of the characters and the story. ... (Gurko) Ernest Hemingway is a very controversial writer due to the themes of violence, despair and emotional unrest found in his stories. ... (Kakatuni) There is not...

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The common themes are money, secrets, love, antagonists and social responsibility which I will explore in detail throughout this essay. ... Chris argues on behalf of the soldiers that "they didn't die; they killed themselves for each other". ... Ranks say's to her "I thought they were forbidden here.... Keller says "You lay forty years into a business what could I do? ... Money is an underlying theme throughout the play as Nora is secretly saving and collecting/earning money behind Torvald's back to pay off Krogstad. ...

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In Bram Stoker's Dracula the question of immortality is one of the main themes as the vampire, being the undead, is not of the living world and is therefore not subject to the prospect of death. ... He has been reduced to household chores, cleaning and waiting on his guest, as evidenced by Jonathan Harker's journal entries that he found the count "making his bed laying the table in the dining room" . ... The vampire would continue along the same path forever while the non-vampire would grow old and die. ... Dracula reveals that he is capable of controlling the minds of those sub...

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In The Great Gatsby, a theme widely explored by Fitzgerald is how class divisions that separate the wealthy from everyone else are presented. ... This is a theme explored in both books, especially at parties such as the one in chapter three in the Great Gatsby, where the drinks and food "floated," offering themselves to the guests, or in chapter ten of Vile Bodies, at the motor races, when Miss Runcible ignores the words of the official protesting about the dangers of smoking. ... I didn't know," before throwing her smoldering cigarette dangerously close towards four open &...

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In the end, as Learned Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution or court can save it" (Ostrowski 6). ... "A citizen should possess "an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public," Blackstone wrote in his "commentaries"---which James Madison consulted often while working on drafts of the First Amendment wording---but "must take the consequences" for any reaction. ... Southeastern Promotions sought permission to use Chattanooga, Tennessee's municipal auditorium for performances of the musical "Hair" (Linder 1 ...

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