In novels, setting often contributes to the action and themes of a play. ... Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream lays out how the setting of Athens shows the harsher side of the play. ... Shakespeare shows the unforgivingness by, "Either to die the death or to abjure Forever the society of men.... Shakespeare displays the mischievous by, "Forsook his scene and entered in a brake, When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixèd on his head.... To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?...

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Although a lot of people die, they are dying for their love or to help a loved one in need. There is a lot of hatred in the play, but I feel that love is really the main focus. ... A lot of people die for love. ... He was guarding the burial ground where Juliet lay and Romeo, who loved Juliet more, came along and killed Paris so he could see his wife. So the theme of the play is love and most of the play is based around love. ...

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They talk about Bob, a boy Soc who Johnny kills, wanting for somebody to lay down the laws and tell him to stop bullying people. ... Being a loyal friend is not only a theme in the book, but also related to our society today. ... Once Johnny dies, it is incomprehensible to Dally. ... So Winston loses it when one thing he loved dies. ... I don't want that to happen to you. ...

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Shadrack a shell-shocked veteran of World War I. ... I believe that your upbringing affects how you love, whom you love and what you consider being love. ... Their bond is so close that while Sula lays on her deathbed, Nel goes to visit Sula. ... Everyone eventually will die. ... The first character to die in the book is a soldier in World War I. ...

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Oliver Sacks uses setting to show how one thrives when his interests are fully accessible, and dies when recourses are cut off. ... From the beginning to end of this book, in every chapter, Oliver describes his affair with chemicals, metals, and all other scientific subjects he could lay his eyes and hands on. ... "It was "understood" by the time I was fourteen, that I was going to be a doctor; my parents were doctors, my brother in medical school. ... Conflict, provides a structure for which the theme is built on. ... This book is a reminder to me to stick to what I want to do, and wh...

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Suffering allows the auto biographer to hold his audience in relative awe over the central theme of his work, the discovery of an unknown experience, an unknown life. Through the theme of suffering, the true relevance of the autobiography, as a genre of literature, emerges. ... Within the genre of autobiography, suffering provides the strongest medium for the theme of self-discovery. ... However, it is important to understand the motion of the theme of self-discovery for both the author and the audience, before observing it. ... Wordsworth, holding fast to the principle of nature's maj...

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It is the general belief that "if I do not know, therefore it cannot be" state of mind that causes people to feel this way. ... At the beginning of the story, "A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his galoshes", but he was trying to "scrape the snow [off]"(185). ... He cherished the "colour on her cheeks and that her eyes were shining," that made "A sudden joy went leaping out of his heart"(223) When Gabriel walked with his wonderful wife the snow was beginning to be "slushy underfoot; and only streaks and patches of snow lay o...

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The words that Edmund uses, "an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star" (I.ii.105-6), recalls the words of his father just minutes earlier. ... "My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so it follows, I am rough and lecherous," Edmund says. ... I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing" (I.ii.106-110). ... "To both sisters have I sworn my love," Edmund says. ... Although Edmund's punishment is death, he dies proudly...

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Act I Scene 3 shows how important reputation is and how they see each other. ... "Now I see, I see in Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be" She turns everything on its head, leaving Antony dumbstruck, not knowing what to do or say. ... Antony is taken to see his Queen one last time before he dies and even when faced with her lover's death, Cleopatra cannot not stop performing. ... And even as Antony begins his dying words of: "I am dying, Egypt, dying. ... Cleopatra's role in society at the time is often question and Shakespeare's choice of play during that period...

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But in 1871 she developed the Grave's disease and often believed herself to death, religious devotion and mortality became consistent themes in both her poetry and prose. ... Christina died on the morning of December 29, 1894. ... In 'After Death', which she wrote in 1849, the poet-speaker lays on a bed, with a shroud on her face, observing the surroundings before the burial. "He did not love me living; but once dead He pitied me; and very sweet it is To know he still is warm tho' I am cold." The theme of death appears next year also in her brother's poem 'My Sis...

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"I have no Heavenly Father!'' ... " 'And what am I now?... " I already told thee what I am! ... Chillingworth's revenge consumed him and it was the only reason he had to live, he died a year after Dimmesdale dies because there was no more meaning in his life. ... Women need to lay low and not be too good or too bad because either one will cause society to turn on them. ...

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Escamillo is a toreador, who is cherished by all and also falls for Carmen the first time he lays eyes on her. ... Act I The story begins in the square just outside the cigarette factory in front of the guardhouse. ... He refuses because he is in love with Carmen, she then tells him that his mother is dying and he finally decides to leave telling Carmen that he will return for her. ... The criticism of Carmen affected Bizet's fragile health and died only three months after the premiere (Great Composers). ... Many of the themes in the opera were thought to have been profane; women ...

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This is a prominent theme of the book "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold". ... That's impossible of course one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold d"you see what I mean?" ... "I can't talk like this, Control."" ... As Liz lay dying, shot at Mundt's orders Leamas made a choice; he could come out of the cold, or die with the person who showed him how to come out of the cold. ...

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This is a prominent theme of the book "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold". ... That's impossible of course one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold d"you see what I mean?" ... "I can't talk like this, Control."" ... As Liz lay dying, shot at Mundt's orders Leamas made a choice; he could come out of the cold, or die with the person who showed him how to come out of the cold. ...

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Armand has told me I am not white. ... I shall die. I must die. ... Themes Racism and Gender Bias Like many other American men of the mid-nineteenth century South, Armand Aubigny bases the worth of a person primarily on his or her race and gender. ... But I know it isn't true."" ...

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