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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The author wants the reader to make their own judgment on each character's desires and whether or not the reader wants the same desires of the characters. ... Her true desires are not shown here. ... Margaret's values are made clear to the reader here but her true desire overall is quite vague. It is difficult to recognise her true desires here and the pattern of the novel does not allow the reader to fully figure out her desires. ... "Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die"" (Page 198, Forster) A connection is needed intern...

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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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If a dying person wanted to die, it was permitted for others to end his life. ... It is their desire to end the pain and agony. ... No one wants to die. There is no such thing as dying as well. ... They found that a patient who strongly expressed the desire to die could say the opposite even some 12 hours later. ...

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What is love, why does it sometimes grow, and why does it sometimes die; these are questions often asked by humans today. ... But the desire to love and the desire to be loved contain different elements for different people. ... We desire permanence, especially when we desire to be happy. ... Confidence to be the friend of our partner growth then the relationship will prosper and it will not die. ... Love has a chance to endure or to die. ...

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Such examples include when a family member dies or when one experiences an accident. ... Juana leads a simple life with simple desires which mostly comes from her culture. ... She still desires a simple life and doesn't want the pearl to complicate it with materialistic desires. ... Juana desires a man and survival without one is impossible (59). ... She believes that they"re in this together and if Kino must die, the family must dies along with him. ...

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The goal is for his "self" to die. Siddhartha had one single goal--- to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow--- to let the self die. ... Siddhartha becomes focused on letting the self die by freeing himself from desire, dreams, pleasure, thirst, and sorrow. ... A shudder passed through his body; he felt as if something had died. ... It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. ...

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As the story of his life unfolds in The King Must Die, Theseus develops from a passionate youth who had a small grasp of life to a reserved and knowledgeable king. ... Theseus manipulates situations to suit his purposes, and is able to achieve the ends he desires without revealing his intentions. ... Thus, when he dies, he goes to the gods with nothing but a record of his life; if he lived honorably, then he has lived a good life....

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Everyone in the novel will try to fold or shape other people to satisfy their own selfish desires. ... All of the man's relationships revolve around money, which eventually causes him to die truly poor. ... The man dies with a large sum of money, but no one to mourn over his death. ... After all the money that Gatsby accumulates, he ends up dying empty-handed. The only thing that has the ability to keep one's soul alive after they die are memories and friendships, but because Gatsby never had any real and valid friends, he dies truly poor. ...

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According to Epictetus, in order to have a good life, we must master our desires and achieve tranquility among the disorder in the world. ... Epictetus claims that in order to live a good life, we must master our desires and know how to control them. ... With this new mindset we will never be disappointed in life and we are in complete control of our desires. ... Epictetus notes, "If you kiss your child or your wife, say that you are kissing a human being; for when it dies you will not be upset," (Epictetus 12). ... While explaining that being drug free "sucks," he admits...

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He is not content with what he has and desires much more in life. ... Gilgamesh, like many of us, has a burning desire to be successful in life. The epic illustrates how human nature has the desire to obtain more than one possesses. ... People want to live longer, healthier lives, but dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. ...

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Both females encounter unwanted marriages,but are able to follow their true desires to be free. ... Victors and Victoria`s desire to be with one another had finally come true. ... He coincidentally grabs the cup of poison at the alter, drinking it thinking it was wine and dies immediately. ... She follows her hearts desire and decides to wait on getting married. ... When Lord Barkus finally dies a blue butterfly flies by beside Victoria and Victor as well as when Alice is beginning her new adventure and going with her desires to explore the world the blue butterfly passes beside her symb...

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Mother Courage predicts that her children will die and that it is their virtues that are their downfall. She predicts that Eilif will die at war, Swiss Cheese due to his honesty and Kattrin by not remaining quiet. ... Mother Courage has, in the part been viewed as an almost likeable woman, who's desire is to see herself and her family through the way alive. ... Mother Courage, although she does not die is also a victim of her business mind, her desire to work. This desire to work that is partly responsible for her being left alone at the end of the play. ...

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Almost every character possessed a unique power that led way for much desire. ... Here we will take a look at the authoritative aspects along with the powers of perception and desire. ... Power of infatuation and romantic desire is a third form of power used in Shakespeare's play. ... The power she possesses will drive her to any length: "So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord, Ere I will my virgin patent up Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke My soul consents not to give sovereignty" (1:1 80-84). ... But you cannot deny their love, even though they are listening ...

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For his gold I had no desire. ... But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. ... This desire is fulfilled by their ego which their conscious mind controls. ... After their desire had been accomplished their morality let them realized that they have done wrong deeds. In "The Tell-Tale Heart " narrator dies out of realization of his guilt. ...

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There are many ways that this is found in literature including going by desire, by chance, by abduction, and by being lured by an outside force. ... Huck goes because he desires to begin his journey. ... Every time that he does this he is symbolically dying and reemerges a more experienced person. ... Holden deals with his own mental hallucinations, cognative disotience, and his desire to stay innocence, his Peter Pan complex. ... The glass motif also appears when his brother, Allie, dies. ...

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If Aylmer were unable to remove this birthmark, she would rather die than live with the knowledge that he found her repulsive. ... Aylmer was so insensitive in his desire to perform this procedure on Georgiana. ... His endless desire was to have the ability to change what God had created in His own image and likeness. ... He was so proud of his achievement that he completely overlooked the fact that his beloved wife was dying. ... With those final words, Georgiana died. ...

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The way in which Victor describes embracing and kissing Elizabeth implies that he has sexual desire for her. ... He masks his mother with Elizabeth so that he does not have to consciously admit his desire for his mother. ... Elizabeth had assumed the role of woman of the house after Caroline died. ... Victor may have continued to hold onto his desire for his mother through Elizabeth. ... When she dies, he is left feeling abandoned by her. ...

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The way in which Victor describes embracing and kissing Elizabeth implies that he has sexual desire for her. ... He masks his mother with Elizabeth so that he does not have to consciously admit his desire for his mother. ... Elizabeth had assumed the role of woman of the house after Caroline died. ... Victor may have continued to hold onto his desire for his mother through Elizabeth. ... When she dies, he is left feeling abandoned by her. ...

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The first scene in which Odysseus desires to attain nostos is on Calypso's Island. ... Although she is profoundly beautiful, Odysseus desires to return home to his family... ... Here, Odysseus is afraid that he will die without attaining nostos first. ... This shows that the attainment of nostos is an onerous task that Odysseus desires to complete. ... He says, "My treacherous queen, Clytemnestra, killed her over my body, yes, and I, lifting my fists, beat them down on the ground, dying, dying, writhing around the sword. ...

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Desiring what we can't have, not selfish desire is what causes suffering. Everyone has desires; it's removing the desire for things that we can't have that will bring happiness. ... Desiring the unattainable is absurd. He did not say stop desiring. ... Craving is desiring to excess ." ...

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This shows his intense passion and desire that he puts toward his dream and fantasy of being a famous pioneer. ... First the source of this strange desire came because of the death of his mother from which he never seemed to recover. ... Similar to Victor, Mary Shelley's mother died when Mary was an infant. ... They seemed to die out after the medieval writings of stories such as Beowulf. ... She had an imagination and a desire for change which made her a great romantic writer. ...

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Lily Bart is a very developed character who is caught between her desire for luxury and reality. Following the loss of the family fortune, both of Lily's parents died, leaving her to live with her aunt, Mrs. ... He is aware of the fact that he has nothing to offer to Lily as far as finances and the luxurious life she desires. ... There he found that she had died in her sleep. ... Had it not been for rumors and their triumph over her, she may not have died the way she did. ...

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Envy is the sixth deadly sin, and is the desire for the possessions, position, or qualities of another. ... Due to her ambition and envy, she lived vicariously through Macbeth and desired to be hailed queen. ... For example, Macbeth can not control the family, time, or place in which he was born, nor can he choose how, when, or why he dies. ... Macbeth was destine to become king as was he destine to eventually fail and die. ... Surly, if someone knew how he or she was going to die they would try to avoid death. ...

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He enjoyed his younger years in Wales, and his later works reflect his desire to relive his happy childhood. ... This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... This line means that time is keeping the narrator until it is his time to die. ... Thomas presents a vivid image of how quickly one's life can pass and a universal desire to recapture youth. ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. ...

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