The speaker calls his dearly beloved "cruel and sudden" because she has just murdered the flea. ... The speaker's dearly beloved answers that the death of the flea can not make either of them less dignified. The speaker agrees with his dearly beloved for once on the topic of premarital sex. ... The speaker believes then that for his dearly beloved to surrender to him will be just as simple and effortless as it was for her to end the flea's life. ... He then turns his argument around indicating that despite the moralizing and holy beliefs he has just been raising about the death of...

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These beloved women made the men who loved them run the gamut of emotions. Women had power over the way men acted, felt and spoke; at the drop of a hat the lover would do anything for his beloved. These men would risk being caught by jealous, angry husbands just to spend a night of pleasure in the arms of their beloved all done in the name of the all-encompassing love. ... Chivalry and women's role in keeping it alive were important reasons men kept their honor and did their duty towards their beloved. ... Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of ...

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"When a lover suddenly catches sight of his beloved, his heart palpitates." ... I don't think that the beloved would want their beloved to remain unhappy and if it meant her remarrying shortly after your death then so be it. ... "Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence of his beloved" that's a load of hooglewash if I ever heard it. If that was true people would look like zombies and their beloved wouldn't talk to them. ... "A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved" if this where true I think that love would really stink...

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"When a lover suddenly catches sight of his beloved, his heart palpitates." ... I don't think that the beloved would want their beloved to remain unhappy and if it meant her remarrying shortly after your death then so be it. ... "Every lover regularly turns pale in the presence of his beloved" that's a load of hooglewash if I ever heard it. If that was true people would look like zombies and their beloved wouldn't talk to them. ... "A true lover is constantly and without intermission possessed by the thought of his beloved" if this where true I think that love would really stink...

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For example, in the beginning Macbeth shares everything with his beloved wife, and nothing is kept from her, as we see in the letter he sends her in Act 1, scene 5. ... Perhaps the most chilling sign of love lost between these two is when Macbeth hears of his "beloved" wife's death in Act 5, scene 5. ...

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Provided from the reading text, "The Brides Bed", by Kahlil Gibran, ". . . he is my beloved, and I killed him because I loved him . . ." A sacrifice is primarily made as the bride kills her bridegroom, or beloved. ... As the bride clearly shows a sign of true love, stabbing her beloved with the dagger and admitting that she was the one who did it. ...

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Two Portraits of women in Poe's tale Ligeia. Not only does Ligeia's unusual beauty represents the main theme throughout the story, but the text reflects Poe's rejecting the "ordinary", a common theme in literature. The writter rejects classical values and welco...

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The Bear Came Over the Mountain," thrilling to the young Fiona's suggestion that they marry, observing that "She had the spark of life," and two lines later Fiona is seventy years old and losing her mind, five decades of their marriage now backstory to Grant's witnessing of her decline In "The ...

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"The Storm": The setting The setting of this interesting short story sets the stage and produce the atmosphere that helps the reader feel the story. There are several elements in the setting of the storm, that will lay the groundwork for the rest of the short story. It was interesting ho...

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The plot of my story is about two gods that were going to marry but when they got to the wedding ceremony so that the god of marriage could make them husband and wife, the god of marriage turned at them with a sad face and told them that their marriage would not last for long because Eurydice was go...

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"I love you, only you, no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! you have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh! I have suffered, suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else...

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Hamlet's Loneliness Shakespeare's work "Hamlet" focuses on several general themes that run throughout literature. The least obvious theme is loneliness. In Hamlet most of the suffering and loneliness Hamlet endures is brought with the secrets and betrayals he is forced to keep. In the story th...

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"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water"---Kate Chopin Throughout her life, Kate Chopin had many female influences. She benefited from having many female mentors, whether they were strong and independent widows in her family or the nuns...

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"I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed; my love is more than his; (If not with vantage) as Demetrius; And which is more than all these boasts can be, I am beloved of beauteous Hermia." ...

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The play A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen, is concerned with the conflict between social distinctions and duty. This play is about women's need for independence and her obligations to family and society. The reader can easily recognize sacrifice and guiltlessness in the play. One can follow a theme t...

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In this review I am not talking about people who have already had kids before marriage. If you got pregnant before marriage please don't get all offended. I am not judging people after the fact. This is more geared to people who have not had any kids and who are not married yet. I am not calling tho...

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The Drawbridge "Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, we are here today to determine whether or not the Baroness deserves not only our respect and pity, but the honor of a royal burial. Today, however, I implore you to carefully review the actions of this dishonest, disloyal, and deceitful woman and re...

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"The Pot of Basil" is an organic narrative story about a young woman named Lisabetta who lived with her three wealthy brothers. Lisabetta eventually falls in love with a young man named Lorenzo who had been hired to work for the brothers. When the brothers learn of this they take Lorenzo deep int...

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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, set in the late 1800's to the early 1900's, begins by introducing a woman with a terrible heart condition and the tragic event of her husband's death. Considering her troubles, her friends and family endeavor to forestall her terrible misery from harming her gr...

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Ovid's Amores The main concept that surrounds Classical Greek literature is the fact that Eros, or love, is the enemy against all reason. In his collection of poems, Publius Ovidius Naso verifies and elaborates on this idea of irrationality. Through these poems, Ovid illustrated the power of Eros...

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1 There is a romantic union between blacks and whites, which gets destroyed because most people think that the relationship is wrong due to the fact of jealo...

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The middle aged housewife, a mother of three precious children, broods mournfully about the upcoming divorce. She bitterly curses the name of her soon to be ex-husband, who instigated the divorce with petty excuses: "I just need to rediscover my individual identity", and his favorite: "It's not you,...

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Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour" is a sad tale of a woman trying to escape her future. The ironic story of Louise Mallard is hard to understand without understanding the relationship with her husband, Brently Mallard. The Mallards were a typical couple of that time, loving and repressive. Brently...

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She forges a letter, supposedly from Olivia, addressed to her beloved, telling him that if he wants to earn her favor, he should dress in yellow stockings and crossed garters, act haughtily, smile constantly, and refuse to explain himself to anyone. ...

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To Darcy's surprise, such a mistake preempts Elizabeth, characterized by her prejudice towards Darcy's wealth, to not only reject his proposal but to accuse him of being the " means of ruining, perhaps forever, the happiness of my most beloved sister?" ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate