I think that the most obvious of those examples is when the man falls in a mountain's spring. ... London also mentions directly that man is only able to survive within certain narrow limits of temperature (864). ... Another theme that I have detected in both of the stories is survival. ... Now, I will talk about the contrasts that I have found between those two same stories. ... To finish, I would say that I definitively preferred London's naturalism to Dreiser's one. ...

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/I know I am pleasing those whom I must. " in reference to the gods (114-115). ... /I am different. ... For example, when trying to persuade Creon to change his mind Haimon uses the metaphor, "In the winter floods you can see/how the trees that give way save every stem,/and how those that strain are destroyed, uprooted "(864-866). ... /I was wrong, not you"" (1458-1464). ... She laments, "Unmourned, friendless, I am led away....

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