It is therefore unsurprising that the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber all display this theme, a breach of the character's moral and pious integrity in their desperation to satisfy their curiosity. In Stoker's novel, temptation is issued from the prurient and lascivious female characters. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by nightmare life in death, 'her lips were red, her looks were free'8. ... Likewise, Coleridge's early life was dictated by his father's ...

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Factual symbol for Coleridge is sacramental (Barth, Symbolic, 13). ... Coleridge was partial to women's rights. ... Other reviewers find the religiousness of Coleridge evident, such as R.L. ... Paul Youngquist feels that Coleridge takes imagination as a divine agent. ... Indirectly, the main characters relate to God as well, as characters of God. ...

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Jane Austen and Samuel Coleridge both did not agree that this was necessarily a good influence on society. ... Samuel Coleridge shares his opinion of gothic novels stating that they have no value. Coleridge thought that gothic novels provide unfathomable characters that the gothic romance authors have come up with very quickly and have not put much thought into. ... Therefore, Coleridge is able to give the society something to read with value that is interesting but does not become foolish. ... Coleridge and Austen's opinion of gothic novels show a shift that was beginning in society....

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Shelley includes references to Percy Shelley's poems and other Romantic poems such as the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Milton's 'Paradise Lost', the references to these show to the reader the Romantic view of the importance of emotions and the imagination, and also the importance of the individual. ... During the novel Shelley uses this idea for the character Victor Frankenstein, who dares to use his imagination to create something real. ... Frankenstein is the main character, a man driven by ambition and scientific curiosity. ... F...

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Marlow arrives at the Central Station, run by the general manager, an unwholesome, conspiratorial character. ... Analysis of Major Characters Marlow - Although Marlow appears in several of Conrad's other works, it is important not to view him as merely a surrogate for the author. ... He is thus "contaminated" by his experiences and memories, and, like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, destined, as purgation or penance, to repeat his story to all who will listen. ... Like these characters, he is significant both for his style and eloquence and for his grandiose, almost megalomaniacal sc...

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Ultimately, this kind of reading threatens to reduce King Lear to a form of melodrama, a story of the straightforward conflict of clearly identifiable and separable forces of good and evil, in which the outcome is tragic only in the sense of being disastrous for the main characters. ... Critics may go on speaking of the grandeur of Shakespeare's achievement and of Lear as a character, but if the standard readings of the play were correct, a more honest reaction would resemble that of Groucho Marx, when, in a meeting almost as improbable as Lear's encounter with Tom o' Bedlam, he...

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