Antigone's actions were driven by her desire to serve the gods. ... There is no point in Ismene dying too as she did nothing against the law. Seeing as she is the last family member, there is no need for her to die as well. ... She simply was acting in desire to serve the gods and earn respect from them. ... Making a stand against any unjust situation is worth fighting for, for Antigone it was worth dying for....

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The Desire of Knowledge The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall. The desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall, Francis Bacon. ... He falls in love with her, but soon realizes something not quite right about the girl because everything she touches dies. When Geovani finally figures out the truth, Patricia's life revolved around poison, she has already died. ...

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Repressed Desires We live in a society that promotes freedom, yet oppresses our innate desires and inclinations. ... As a mortal, Lucy constantly fights to repress her inner desires in order to adhere to societal ideals of proper behavior. ... Thus, when Lucy follows her pleasure seeking impulses and begs Arthur to kiss her before she dies, Van Helsing acts as society's voice and immediately stops Arthur from kissing her. ... After Lucy's death, the men proclaim that it is better for her to die than to live her life in the sexually liberal way that vampires did. ... The passing of b...

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Blind Desire Desire: it drives you, pushes you forward in life, and only by satisfying this yearning will happiness be possible. ... When examined closely, the main characters in A Streetcar Named Desire each have individual desires, and each exhibits a type of blindness. The theme of A Streetcar Named Desire is the search for fulfillment, but these searches are misguided, because the characters are unable to grasp reality. Blindness to reality and desire for fulfillment play a crucial role when analyzing A Streetcar Named Desire. ...

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As I Lay Dying "I would look forward to the times when they faltered, so I could whip them-, quoted Addie. ... Never truly having the desire for a family this lonely woman was driven insane and chose to believe there wasn't anything after death for her, she believed in a created concept of nothing ness. ... Addie never truly had the desire to have a family, what she desired most was to be alone. ... You live and you die nothing more. ... Kurtz's realization came to him before he died that there's nothing after death. ...

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A Destructive Desire Cheesecake. ... Her desire for something sweet vanquished all other thoughts from her mind. ... Her desire for anything to eat had driven away all her reason again. ... When her panic finally died down, she started driving home. ... Her overwhelming desire to eat had beaten her that day. ...

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"The Burial at Thebes," by Seamus Heany, and, "A Streetcar Named Desire," by Tennessee Williams, both feature second tier women playing important roles, struggling against dominant male power. ... It is a lose-lose situation for Ismene, as she might see only two options; losing Antigone with shame and regret for putting her fear of Creon over supporting her sister, or dying together for the right reasons with dignity. ... Let me die with you and act right by the dead," (p. 35). ... Stella tells Eunice, her upstairs neighbor, "I couldn't believe her story and go on living with St...

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A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Before the action of the play, Stella Kowalski moved out of her family estate, Belle Reve, in Mississippi when her father died. ... Blanche feels hardships were Stella's fault since she left Belle Reve and abandoned her the summer their father died. ... It is a coincidence he died in a hotel called Elysee Hotel, similar to Elysian Fields Avenue where the play took place. ... A Streetcar Named Desire is a very intense play about people and life and various views of reality. ...

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Another comparison made by Larkin is between his desire for isolation and modern society's desire for material goods. He is uncomplimentary towards these people suggesting that they are shallow in their desires. ... This desire for the isolation of the natural world isn't something he shares with other people. ... Larkin describes the desires of the occupants of the city as 'cheap suits.....driers'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ...

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The purest language of plays" - just by studying 'A streetcar named Desire" the reader can identity the numerous symbols Williams' uses to add depth to the plot as well as unveil his characters' personalities, strengths and weaknesses. ... Light, animal characteristics, music and the streetcars Desire and Cemeteries are symbols that Kazan puts emphasis on in the film just as Williams does in the play to lead up to the climax of Blanche's disintegration into insanity and Stanley's brutal triumph over her. ... "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then tr...

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Many notable authors have had different feelings towards pastoral and wilderness settings; Henry David Thoreau was a die hard enthusiast for the wild where the Bible prefers pastoral settings. ... How can it pervade every corner; as they were driven there by misfortunes, necessity of beginnings, desire of acquiring large tracts of land, idleness, frequent want of economy, ancient debts; the reunion of suck peoples dose not afford a very pleasuring spectacle... ...

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Socrates states that philosophy is actually the practice for dying. ... If all mankind took the time to do this also then when their time to die came along also, then they would be ready and would accept the fact. However, who is to say that the soul will live after the body dies? ... He says that the body "fills us with wants, desires, fears, all sorts of illusions and much nonsense," and this is what stops man from learning true knowledge and from being prepared for death (66 c). ... This way a person can still gain knowledge before dying and not be afraid of death when it does come. ...

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How soon before a person who has no terminal illness, desires to be assisted in taking their own life? ... The first is where the person choosing to die is conscious and has requested to do so. ... The person has not died and will not die at that time. ... It should never be left up to another person to determine when you can live and when you can die. ... It discussed the idea of having rights and that not everything we desire can be considered a "right." ...

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Some believe that the act of helping a terminally sick person die isn't immoral, but a kind and understanding act of compassion. ... He points out that when someone has the desire to take their own life; their mental states are under question. ... One might observe that due to the experience related, no one should be allowed to suffer if they desire not to. ... After being presented with all of the options, whether living or dying, the patient will then have to make a decision. Ultimately, the decision should be up to the patient on living or dying. ...

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Death with dignity is a way for people who know they will die a way to do it on their terms, however they see fit. ... Watching someone you love and care about actively die is devastating and painful. ... "There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die," she said, "I want to live. ... In the end the greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. Death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care. ...

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Socrates faced a life ending death penalty, and although he had a well-prepared opportunity to escape and save himself, he chose to die. ... A consequentialistic view of that ilk leaves no range for adjustment and indirectly judges the most human desire to stay alive as weak and inferior compared to society's rules and values....

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This paper explores how Faulkner employs the minor character Whitfield in As I Lay Dying to belittle simplistic Christianity. ... Whitfield is crossing the river because, yes, he does not want Addie to tell of their fornication, but he also desires to make things right with her family before she dies: "I would say to her husband: "Anse, I have sinned. ... A single minor character like Reverend Whitfield has much to reveal about William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. ... Working toward a full understanding of the religious themes in both As I Lay Dying and the entirety of Faulkner's wor...

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Socrates clearly didn't wish to die. ... Socrates' acceptance of death is not the same as a desire for death. One would not say that a terminally ill person who accepts the fact that they are going to die wants to die. Acceptance and desire are two separate concepts and, as the case with Socrates, it is entirely possible for one to accept death without desiring it. ... Socrates' acceptance of death stems not from a desire to die, but from the fact that his integrity and his pursuit of wisdom were worth more to him than his life....

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In Tennessee William's play "A Streetcar Named Desire", the more Blanch Dubois tries to fit in with the new aged America, the more she is setting herself up as a victim to society. ... She is introduced as a woman who seems to be defeated because her husband has died, her family fortune is gone and she has drinking problems. ... Blanche had a drinking problem, she had lost the family fortune and estate, her husband had died of suicide years earlier, and she was fired from her teaching job for having an affair with a student. ...

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Title Street Car Named Desire Author Tennessee Williams SETTING A Streetcar Named Desire is set in the home of the Kowalskis located in a poor, but charming neighborhood of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Blanche describes her long vigils at the bedside of the dying members of the family and how the house had to be mortgaged to pay for the funeral expenses. ...

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Blanch and Stella talk in a sisterly way about Mitch and we realise that she is does have true feelings for Mitch but we also realise that these feelings are not true they are one that are for security rather than the true love that she desperately desires and constituently seeks. ... Perhaps because he lives with his dying mother, Mitch is noticeably more sensitive than Stanley's other poker friends. ... Mitch appears to be a kind, basically decent human being who, it becomes apparent in Scene Six, hopes to marry so that he will have a woman to bring home to his dying mother. ... Though ...

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He says in this speech, flat out: "To die, to sleep-..'... We see here for the first time why he wants to die. ... Even in his desire for death he will speak but not act. ... He is too afraid of the unknown, of the "undiscovered country" (3.1.80) to act on his desire. ... It shows us why he wants to die and also why he chooses to remain alive. ...

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As he puts it "from what I have tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire"(3-4). What he is saying is that he does not fear dying in fire because fire is equated with desire. He feels that dying in desire is not too bad of a way to die. As most people now when something is done with desire there is always a "fire" that is burning inside. ... Frost is saying that he could stand dying through the coldness of hate. ...

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His actions warped the minds of others; likewise, the teenage Stella in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" is motivated by a desire for power. ... These factors combine to make the teenage girl desire to vent all her pent up feelings of anger and betrayal on the baby, no matter how innocent Magda may be. ... The shawl represents Magda's own figurative baby, her sister, her everything, keeping her safe and alive, without which she will die. ... Thus, the baby dies quickly, brutally, and tragically, leaving her sister with the short and fleeting sense of power she craved so desperately. Magd...

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Alliance begins to separate because of the desire of Edmund. ... Mortally wounded by Edgar, sees that Goneril and Regan died for him. ... Dies in the end. ... Later dies because of the stab wound. ... Several questions are raised; What if Cornwall didn't die? ...

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