First, the land, animals and natives complement each other as though they were living in a paradise. ... This is important due to how Dinesen keeps connecting the landscape to a godly paradise. ... Lulu came in from the wild world to show that we were on good terms with it, and she made my house one with the African landscape, so that nobody could tell where one stopped and the other one began " (p.76). ... Within the text, Dinesen equates her farm with a form of paradise. ... At the end of the book when the narrator is forced to leave the farm, the tale turns into a tragic account of paradis...

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With just this one word, the reader can grasp the tense mood of this section. ... Alba would slip down through a skylight and land noiselessly in that paradise of long forgotten objects- (p269). Before Clara's death, even the basement of the big house on the corner was shown as a "paradise,"" a heaven, to Alba. ... The house lost its magic; its spirits were gone. ... Hence the name of the chapter is the "Epoch of Decline."" ...

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, a famous writer, known by his famous works The Great Gatsby and Side of Paradise he spent tons of his life writing. ... His family was middle-class, but his family lost their jobs causing for him to be moving around the country and eventually out of the country in need of his family to find occupations. ... An example of his unique sentences of the fourth paragraph of chapter one of The Great Gatsby he says, "If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of...

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Between 1402 and 1403, he sculpted the second door of The Doors of Paradise, called The Sacrifice of Isaac and entered it into a contest, but lost to his competitor, Ghiberti. ... The cupola of the Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, was one of Brunelleschi's most famous and difficult tasks that he overcame. ... The cupola is a big dome that covers the Santa Maria del Fiore and considering how difficult it is to design one so big and sturdy, especially in the time period Brunelleschi was in, was a difficult task to complete. ... One of Brunelleschi's most famous masterpieces was th...

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Genesis reflects how one ancient people explained not only their own beginnings, but also the creation of the world. The first few chapters also introduce the "fall" of humanity. We were created along with the rest of the world and were in paradise, until the opportunity to gain knowledge arose. ... Innocence is lost and experience is gained which leads to an increase in knowledge and the attainment of wisdom ultimately leads to the decay of man. ... After reading, Paradise Lost, an epic poem about Adam, hell, and original sin, the creature states, "Like Adam I was apparently united by no ...

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The Director in chapter 3. ... ": Mond in chapter 17. ... But by doing this we have lost a kind of deeper happiness or "true" happiness as John referred to as but more importantly we have lost our sense of individualism, "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!": The Director in chapter 1. ... The Savage in chapter 17. ...

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Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... 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...

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After the battle takes place, the dwarfs seem to not be able to see that they are in paradise. ... The ignorance and fear that overtake the dwarfs prevent them from entering paradise. ... When Lewis" mother dies, he becomes lost and confused. ... During a number of consecutive chapters, the passion is expressed symbolically and extremely accurately. These chapters parallel the events leading to Christ's crucifixion and Aslan's sacrifice. ...

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"The Man of Laws Tale" is one of a saint's legend. ... In the final chapter, the King is dying and wishes for his sword Excaliber to be thrown into the water. ... Many of the knights die on their quest but one knight finally finds it and brings it to Arthur that cures him instantly once he drinks from it. ... "The Wife of Baths tale" is also one of adventure. ...

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The first child I will mention is discussed in the "Peasant Women Who Have Faith" chapter. A peasant woman goes to see Father Zosima because she has lost her son. ... This woman had already lost three other sons and just couldn't stand to lose another. Father Zosima tells her a story about a saint who comforts a grieving mother, like herself, who had lost her only child. ... He understands that men themselves are to blame, because they were given paradise and they traded it away...

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One can argue that Victor himself is a kind of monster, as his ambition, secrecy, and selfishness alienate him from human society. ... Whereas the reader expects Victor to reflect the joy of having finally reached his goal, his reaction is one of horror. ... While one may assume that his repulsion is due to the physical appearance of the wretch (56), Victor had created the monster and thus knew very well what the creature looked like before it awoke. ... Here, the reader gets a broader view of Victor's characteroone that involves consideration of his loved ones. ... His previous failure t...

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Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. ... The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. ... During chapter 24, Walton takes over telling the story, and again Shelley uses epistolary form for him to do this, as Walton is again writing to his sister. ... The monster would collect food for the family and was repaid by them with "Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch&...

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The book scrutinizes human behaviour in its most natural and un-conditioned shape and proves to be one big allegory. ... Upon the arrival of humankind in both places though, they become much less like paradise and ultimately carry out the same fate. ... The scar symbolizes how human nature can destroy paradise by simply entering it. ... Along with the lost battle to stay good, or the rise of evil, comes the fall of Simon, who, as stated before, represents goodness and Christ. ... The island being a microcosm of the adult world, the society the boys form is like a mirror of the one they come ...

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In the morning, he hears Jack talking and torturing one of the twins to find out where Ralph is hiding. ... " When he learns what has happened on the island, the officer is reproachful: how could this group of boys, he asks-and English boys at that-have lost all reverence for the rules of civilization in so short a time? ... Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies that the two are more closely connected than the story has illustrated. ... Golding died in 1993, one of the most acclaimed writers of the second half of t...

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The material is divided into three books, each with three chapters. ... Book three portrays Gloria and Anthony who have totally lost their youth, their dreams, and every last ounce of love they had for each other. ... He is one in a long line of dreamers to follow in the next five novels Fitzgerald would ever write. ... Gloria is one in a long line of Golden Girls in Fitzgerald's novels who are beautiful but pathetic, empty and self adoring. ... No one must dare jostle Gloria in her routines. ...

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