But Father Amaro was not willing to. ... In the list of the ten commandments of God, one of them stated that no one should kill. ... At the start of the show, a young girl whose mother loses her job as the place where they work shuts down because of the Taliban. ... The young girl's mother somehow despised the fact that she is a girl and not a boy and so, she could not help them survive since women are forbidden to work ultimately adding to her burden. The young girl's grandmother then suggested that they cut her hair off and dress her up to look like a boy since she is still young a...

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As a result of this evil, Hamlet suffers greatly when he learns of his mother's rushed marriage: "a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer-married with my uncle, my father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules: within a month, she married. ... According to the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, all males possess this tendency, which is marked by a desire to kill their fathers and marry their mothers; as occurs in the earlier Greek play of Oedipus the king. ... Hamlet displays all these traits: he is extremely sad over the death of hi...

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Under the laws pertaining to "Of Succession- woman take clear inferiority to man in terms of inheritance, "Among Burgundians we wish it to be observed that if anyone does not leave a son, let a daughter succeed to the inheritance of the father and mother in place of the son."" ... Even if there is a son and daughter, the inheritance is not always split equally, "If moreover she has but one brother, let not half, but a third part go to her on the condition that, after the death of her who is a women and a nun, whatever she possesses in usufruct from her father's property shall go to the ne...

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That would be scann'd: A villain kills my father; and , for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. ... "A villain kills my father; and , for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven."" ... Despite his redeeming qualities, Hamlet possesses a major character flaw: misogyny. ... In one particular instance, Hamlet is lamenting the marriage of his mother to his dead father's brother. ... Later on, Hamlet confronts his mother tersely. ...

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Pride possesses Okonkwo's every fiber. ... Nwoye knew it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories his mother used to tell"" (pp. 37-38). ... "Okonkwo is trying to destroy all signs of laziness in his son, specifically because he is beginning to resemble Okonkwo's father. Perhaps Okonkwo's most defining moment is when he is asked to kill his adopted son, Ikemefuna: "He heard Ikemefuna cry, "My father, they have killed me!' ... While his hubris is recognized as an extreme, there is no doubt that people in the world today possess ...

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When the reader is first introduced to the character of Iseult, a princess, her father is offering her as a reward to the man who kills a ferocious dragon that had been terrorizing Ireland, the land her father reigns over. Iseult is really reduced to no more than property of her father, and would therefore have no say in the matter of choosing the man to whom she would be wed. ... Bravery was, however, the most highly praised and cherished virtue a man could possess, and so it was assumed that that would be enough to make him a fit husband. ... Iseult is committed determined to see Brangien...

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It was a disastrous time in the prince, Hamlet's life as his father had just passed away, his uncle then took the kingship and wed Hamlet's mother, then the ghost of his deceased father appeared to him with instructions for revenge and, finally, the love of his life was no longer permitted to see the prince by order of the lady's father. ... Hamlet talks to his mother in a clear, truthful and rational manner and even offers to Gertrude: "...It is not madness / That I have utter"d. ... Hamlet makes no attempt here to disguise the fact that he believes that Osric is a member of th...

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Two of the prevalent figures that possess this attitude are Achilles and Hector. ... Throughout the poem, Achilles is reminded of his destiny to be killed in battle and not return home to Greece. Although he senses his demise, Achilles does not remove himself from the battles because of his notion that he will be killed. ... It seems that according to Achilles" version of the Heroic Code, this revenge appears to correspond, although it seems that he possesses coldhearted rage to modern readers. ... Although his mother and father beg for him to come back inside, Hector refuses. ...

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With Gertrude, Hamlet would also like to express his anger towards her, as well as possibly kill her or make her go insane, without arising suspicion in others that he possesses a hostile rational mental state. ... One means of achieving it would be for Hamlet to kill his mother or make her go insane, which he has the license to do thanks to his feigned insanity. ... Also, he needs his mother's love much more than he needs Ophelia's love. ... (The evidence for this arbitrary reliance on his mother's love comes from his father and Claudius both professing of their powerful need f...

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I remember my mother would play her records when we would clean up on Saturday mornings. ... However her life was not all glitz and glamour that one would think a person with such a title should possess. ... Sally Fagan never married Billie's father Clarence Holiday. ... She got this from her favorite on screen actress Billie Dove and her father's last name (Yanow). ... Black people were often killed for looking at someone the wrong way. ...

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So when Hrothgar needs help defeating Grendel, and Grendel's mother Beowulf feels a social obligation to aid Hrothgar for helping his father. ... Beowulf assesses the situation realizing that conventional weapons had not killed the beast, and he knows that he must fight the creature with his bare hands. ... "After Beowulf kills Grendel, the scops reflects the Danes joy by singing about Beowulf's victory" (Critical Analysis of Beowulf). ... As Beowulf fights Grendel's mother, evil, he quickly assess that like Gredel, conventional weapons will not kill Grendel's mother, h...

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To deny abortion is denying the mother certain civil rights. ... The poison was hoped to be just strong enough to kill the fetus, yet mild enough to keep the woman alive. Also, sometimes women would receive physical blows to their abdomen an effort to kill the fetus. ... The case set boundaries and regulations illustrating how much power the mother and state possess in deciding whether to abort a pregnancy (12 Tribe). ... Demented fathers may also rape their daughters, which is called incest. ...

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His methodical and logical nature of thinking is exemplified through his "matter of fact" way of explaining death: "Your father lost a father, that father lost". Shakespeare has used the repetition of "father" 3 times for added effect. ... The audience believes that the king does possess human qualities, does feel guilt and remorse. ... He opts for the latter option; contradicting the reasons he gave as to why he did not kill Hamlet himself. The audience infers from this that the true reason why Claudius did not kill Hamlet himself was out of cowardness. ...

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Hamlet is trying to grapple with the death of his father and remarriage of his mother, thereby causing him to use metaphors to present his melancholic state of mind: How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't, ah fie, tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. ... But two months dead The first soliloquy reveals Hamlet's disgust with the "stale- world and attempts to find the origin of his unhappiness, which he believes is his mother's body and sexuality. ... Hamlet attemp...

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Miller portrays dreams as important, but if there is a lack of knowledge about oneself or what is real, then having "the wrong dreams" can kill when taken to extremes (Requiem, Line 15). ... The negative, violent attitude that Happy possesses portrays how he is in a poorer condition than Willy is. ... After Biff talks to his father, he finds "the woman" in the room having an affair with his father. At first, Biff could not wait for Willy to come to his school and make the teacher change his grade, but once Biff knew that his father was a cheating on his mother he told him "never mind" (Act 2,...

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Emily's mother died of cancer and so her sister took over raising the children. ... Catherine lived with her father which was a normal family on the average, a bit poor. ... (Novel Guide) You said I killed you- you haunt me then! ... It is my belief that due to Emily Brontes" upbringing by her preacher father and loss of mother, and her stay at the rectory that was so poorly taken care of, that Emily's" fantasies helped her to create this story which seems more like a Gothic one than a Victorian one. ... This means that his spirit is not moving around as a 'ghost', nor...

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Sarty expresses a hope that his father will change. ... But this peaceful interlude ends abruptly that evening with the mother anguished cry: "Abner! ... Thus, we notice that Sarty does not possess enough maturity. ... Whether Mr Snopes is actually killed, we do not know; it's not important. For Sarty, his father is dead. ...

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'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely (1.2.135-37). ... But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.... ... Claudius has also wed Gertrude, Hamlet's mother and queen of Denmark. ... Hamlet is the most prominent vengeful son, but in the course of working out his vengeance, he inadvertently kills Polonius. ... When the players arrive at Elsinore, Hamlet requests the first player to recite a favorite speech about Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, who killed King Priam of Tr...

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The ability to lift his father's spear that "No other Achaean fighter could heft [ and that] only Achilles had the skill to wield" exemplifies his strength above all men (171). ... For example, as he discovers the women of Ithaka to be servicing the suitors that raid his home, rather than kill them, Odysseus remembers his loss with the Kyklops and says to himself "Down; be steady. ... When his mother Thetis reveals to him his two fates, "hold out and lay siege to Troy, [and] glory never dies [or] voyage back to the fatherland [and] glory dies," Achilles chooses death. ... Achilles also p...

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The aging Cantwell, with his heart problem that threatened to kill him at any moment, falls in love with the young Italian countess Renata, who is based on a woman that Earnest had been involved with, Adriana Ivancich. ... It was soon after this, in June of 1951, that his mother died in Memphis, Tennessee. Not since he was a child did he get along with his mother, in fact he blamed her for his father committing suicide, yet he attended her funeral. ... Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quit...

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The play opens after Oedipus' two sons Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other in a civil war for the throne of Thebes. ... She says that she fears, not men's condemnation, but penalties from the gods if she does not act The painful evils that beset her life (the loss of mother, father, and brothers) make death a gain in her eyes By contrast, if she had left her mother's son unburied, she would have grieved She expects to win glory for her gesture to the gods. ... To Antigone and most of the Athenians, possessing a wise and logical mind means acknowledging human limitat...

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In addition to a successful king, he possesses the capabilities of investigating as well-swiftness, perseverance, and wisdom. ... Had Oedipus not hastened to travel on the road but waited until Laios passed him, this whole story would not have happened regardless of the fact that he is doomed to kill Laios. ... With this belief, Oedipus is informed that "Laios was killed on the way to Delphi" (140-141) and the prophet Teiresias is then brought to Oedipus. ... Concerned about the drunken man's statement that Oedipus is not his father's son (1017), he goes to Apollo for tr...

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Beowulf possesses many qualities that by the definition of the times, make him a hero. ... One of the most important qualities in any man of this time was who your father was. This quality is so important the poem begins by mentioning a father, Shield. ... I think sympathy for Grendel's mother is order as well. ... Queen Modthryth's was an evil queen who killed anyone who looked at her the wrong way. ...

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No longer possessing the strength to continue with the practices of physical slavery, slave owners as well as the government were left scrambling. ... Green recounts the night that the Klan killed his father and mother, then re-emerges later in the story as the reader begins to realize that Captain McBane had taken part in Klan activities that degraded and might have even killed many innocent Blacks. ...

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Explanation: Beverly Goldberg plays the role of the often-overbearing mother who will do anything to make her kids happy and be their best friend. ... She is also the type of mother who wants to be a best friend to her children. ... Explanation John Hickam plays the role of the type of father often seen in movies that plays favorites with his children and often neglects the other, but will undergo change to reflect a love of both children. ... She will do whatever she can (i.e. sending the huntsman out to kill Snow White for her and disguising herself so that Snow White won't recognize...

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