Mitty, on the other hand, escaped from his hopeless situation, his nagging wife, into a fantastic imaginary world he invented. ... He ran from his problems instead of facing them and invented this, almost comical, private world so he could escape the real one. ... He could not escape the society any more. ... Likewise, Mitty could not escape the reality of life. ... There was no escape for Meursault and Mitty; they had to face whatever came their way; they had to face the reality of the world that they lived in. ...

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She says that there is an escaped convict in Florida and the children have gone to Florida once. ... However, at the end, when they faced the accident that they encounter the escaped convict, Misfit; she told him that he is a good man and told him he is her son in order to protect her life and her family's life. ... Misfit is an escaped convict, but I don't consider that he is not a good man. ...

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It is a part of life we cannot escape. ... While Willie was kidnapped he had multiple chances to escape, but he never did. ... At that point, his sociobiological instincts came into play when he began to cry, try to escape, and plead for one more day to live. ... From the time that Maggie was kidnapped, she fought to escape death. She was rebellious when she tried to bite off Braddock's hand, then she tried to seduce him through sex to escape death. ...

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But Tom does not escape to a world of illusion, he sees life as it is, harsh and mean. ... Even though he faces this reality, it is important to mention that he does not accepts it, as he tries, unsuccessfully, to escape from it, watching movies and writing poems. ... He is aware of it but he constantly tries to find a way to escape, so that he can live his dream, his fantasy, as Laura, Amanda and Jim does. ... As he is not part of the Wingfield's family, he has not been influenced by the problems of this family and therefore is not in need to escape from reality, on the contrary, he ...

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To me, this describes the author's fear of existence without the hope of an escape- even though there is fear in the finality of that escape. ... Perhaps for her, the only escape of our mechanical, useless search for purpose is found in dying, and yet dying is a frightening release. ...

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Edna awoke and confronted the reality to such an extent that she escaped her home, her husband, her life, by leaving for the "little pigeon house". ... This could underline Edna's situation as a reflection of her own - the soul or intellect escaping from the body. ... Edna's boundness of marriage and her only escape from this is stated at the start of the novel itself when Edna gives the "rings" to her husband, when she returns from the beach. ... Thus, the ring may symbolize that Edna cannot free herself from the bonds she has formed, and her only escape, if she must insist on escap...

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Feingold states, it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than one innocent suffer. ... If ten guilty people were set free to save the one innocent, how many more innocents shall suffer due to the ten escaped guilty people? ...

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Narrowly escaping the lawn mower, the toad's leg is "chewed" and "clipped" as though the mower was a carnivore out looking for prey. After escaping the mower, the toad, "hobbling" to the garden is trying to find a safe place. ...

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Jerry was thrown in a world that he felt did not want him, and his human flaw of wanting to escape loneliness led to his tragic death. ... However, although Peter escaped without responsibility, he had to deal with the guilt that it was him who held the weapon that ended the life of Jerry. ... Jerry found that his death was appropriate in order to escape the unforgiving world, while Peter found it difficult to perceive that one would think of such a deadly solution to one's feelings of isolation. ...

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In the teachings of Buddhism, in order to escape the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that inevitably leads to suffering, loss, and pain, one must focus on loving the mind and body and connecting the both of them. ... If one is caught up in the world of material things, they will never escape suffering because they're so attached to the present world; instead of the next one. ... To escape this life, the key is securing peace and happiness with gods though sacrifices and rituals; fixing one's suffering if the gods are sufficient from the offerings. ...

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In every conflict at home, Tom escapes by leaving the apartment. ... In order for Malvolio to escape the coffin, he must sneak out, "without removing one nail" (1419). ... Tom must find a way to escape his family without disturbing them. If Malvolio is not successful at escaping the coffin, he will suffocate and die. ... He "descended the steps of the fire escape for a last time," ready to enter the real world in search of happiness (1454). ...

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In life, numerous people believe that they are entitled to more things than others are. For example, celebrities believe they should be able to participate in more extravagant events, own more prestige items, and sometimes even live longer than the poor, just because they have more money. While livi...

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He has nowhere in time or space to escape. ... The general connotation of death is one of darkness and sorrow, but he now views it as an escape or an end to the light, which had once brought him glory but now only brings him shame. ...

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"The Willingness to Undertake Adventure is a Necessary Part of a Happy Existence" People in today's world lack a sense of adventure. It seems that a person's life would have a little adventure in it, or it wouldn't be very enjoyable. Adventure in my opinion, is one of the essence of life. Today,...

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He has nowhere in time or space to escape. ... The general connotation of death is one of darkness and sorrow, but he now views it as an escape or an end to the light, which had once brought him glory but now only brings him shame. ...

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While escaping his prior occupations, Victor sought to form a life which was so planned and perfected, that his emotional life quickly began to emancipate. ... From this moment, Victor's mind became corrupted, for he could not escape his fashion through anything but dreams. ... Often one will escape from the beauties and imperfections of nature because they feel as if they can compete with it. ...

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In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar occurs the line which is in the subject of this essay. The line is part of the speech of Caesar's reply to Calpurnia's warning that he should not move out of doors as evil omens point to some danger to his life. Caesar refuses to be upset by the omens and decl...

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The poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tiger", by Adrienne Rich, is a poem about woman who is struggling to accept the indignities of her daily life, while focusing on attaining some sense of immortality once her life ends. Aunt Jennifer must find a way to deal with her unhappy and submissive place in life, and...

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As children, one is always told to be like a lily and emit fragrance than to be like an oak. I acknowledge the fact that life is meant for us to be lived, to be enjoyed and like a philosopher may say," this is just a resting place." Nevertheless the analogy from nature is not relevant to human life...

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Rock pools Rock pools are left behind after the tide goes out. Big or small they provide a home for a wide variety of organisms. Rock pools can provide shelter for small organisms to escape larger predators that are to big or that cannot survive in rock pool conditions. The food web diagram sho...

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It makes sense then, that she is frustrated by the fact that she has trouble sleeping, and escaping from the darkness of her everyday reality. ... (63)" They died together, proving Val wrong, and at the same time they escaped from human and earthly corruption through death, thus they escaped together to someplace more fulfilling and pure. ...

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If living persons become so ill that they cannot tolerate the pain they have a "right to die" to an escape from torment. ... Simmons declares bluntly that "it is harder morally to justify letting somebody die a slow and ugly death, dehumanized, than it is to justify helping him to escape from such misery. ... They could avoid those decisions if they could, but there are too many pressures to allow them that comfortable escape. ...

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Agent" (p 3) Smith is unable to take the pressure of his life any longer and longs for an escape. He finds that escape in flight with blue silk wings, however short-lived it is, and the death following it. Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. ...

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Sophie's World is about the life of a 14 year-old girl called Sophie Amundsen. It takes you on a journey though 3000 years of Western philosophy, presenting important and in most cases annoying questions. This is the explanation of philosophy and philosophers given in the book: "A white rabbit i...

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In Virginia Woolf's essay " The Death of the Moth," she is suggesting no matter how much energy one has now they will eventually die. I feel this essay works because of the reality of her words. Her point is well stated in the symbolism that she chooses to use. In explaining her essay she uses the m...

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