The Research Findings 9 4.1 Who Goths really are 9 4.2 Identity / appearance and symbolism in the culture 11 4.3 The media 13 5. ... The reason they like vampires so much is because they are cool. ... They also like things associated with fairies, H.R. ... The amount of sacrifices which take place, are particularly small, and aren't carried out as a Gothic prerequisite, but rather by mental instability (A study of the Gothic subculture). ... The media misinterprets who they are; they are dark, not evil. ...

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With its complex, emotional plot and its rich symbolism, this masterpiece has become a highly prized classic in American literature. ... The crowd watches as a beautiful young woman, Hester Prynne, steps out of the prison threshold into the sunshine, carrying a young infant in her arms. ... They proclaim her sin and pressure her to reveal the identity of her illegal child's father. ... They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another."   ... The citizen...

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"They eat, sleep, and breathe for one thing - making it."" ... They are not comfortable with him calling them out on their materialistic ways and pointing out that none of those things matter when you leave this world. The parish sits in the pews with their rose colored glasses on, unwilling to see things as they really are. ... The reader sees that Willie has figured out how terribly wrong things are in Linden Hills. ... He eventually brought back a young wife, whose name is not even mentioned, who gave him a son to carry on his father's work in the morgue and the building up of the ...

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They are named so as it has a special reference to the education and upbringing of children. ... When they where caught Mr Gradgrind immediately told them off, later asking "what can you possibly want to know about circus shows?" ... From this we can assume that that the children studying the Gradgrind system of education can't do the many things that are enjoyable in their lives as it would not teach them anything. ... Proof is ...

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("Edgar Allan Poe, Symbolism in His Works). ... It was not until after his marriage to Virginia that things seemed to start getting better for Poe. ... They loved each other so much that they could not imagine life without the other. ... He says that her highborn kinsman carried her away from him. ...

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Does artists have a moral responsibility to the society through his artistic works or should they be concerned only with the aesthetics aspect of their profession? Like any other occupations, artists ought to care about how his works would affect the welfare of the society and its morality, and even more so because they are seen as the major mediator of culture in societies. ... He would then begin to dance to show those dancers how they should dance. ... All these Fausts bear a similarity, that is they were all victims of the devil's cunning and devious plots of Mephistopheles. ...

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The light and dark images of the novel contrast not only each other but them selves allowing the reader to envision the struggle one encounters once they have met with the darkness in their heart. ... These colonies barely survive; they neither expand nor retract as the years continue to pass by. ... The river is dark brown and just barely flowing, the forest becomes so thick right before they reach the inner station that the men aboard the steamer could not even see the savages that would soon ambush their boat. ... The novel is densely composed with much symbolism. The title is just one exam...

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The Italian soldiers in "In Another Country- are the heroes because they were not afraid to die. ... As a writer, Hemingway drew heavily upon his war experiences, as is seen in his earlier works that speak of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, as well as, of those who lived with hostile disregard for anything but their own emotional needs. ... He never acts, he never loves, he never carries out his plans. ...

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They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. ... Project Mayhem soon begins to carry out acts of vandalism and disturbance throughout the city. ... Tyler laughs in response, explaining that Jack is better off without all of his things. ... He explains, "You are trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you." ...

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Our topic is built around symbolism. ... They glorify culture and reject Nature. ... They admire it, and even worship it. Furthermore, they believe that Nature is the only place where the individual regains his happiness. ...

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Is it possible for a person to be an accessory after the fact to a crime that was committed twenty-four years before they were born? ... What is it that made some people do what they did and other people to do nothing at all? ... The scene ends with Dussander lying about his past to Todd's parents while they are eating dinner. ... Then, later, in the same scene, Todd says, "The things I'm going to say, they"ll never go away. ...

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They depend heavily on Snowman, constantly questioning things they do not understand, like the hair that grows on his face. ... They have a variation of skin tones yet, they all have green eyes, something Snowman calls "Crake's aesthetic"(8). ... This mindset allows Crake to have a totally different and sometimes irrational outlook on things as well as disassociate himself with the feelings of others. ... The two friends are both products of their upbringing, they both fail to develop the proper sense of compassion and importance of human life because they were never taught to d...

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They are often critical to the plot of a story and are intrinsically demonstrative of a major focus the genre: that which is hidden, or cast off, repressed and defies orthodoxy. ... It conjures up beings - mad monks, vampires, and demons - and settings - forbidding cliffs and glowering buildings, stormy seas and the dizzying abyss - that have literary significance and the properties of dream symbolism as well. ... Dreams, by definition, are not subject to the rules of linear, rational, thought, are subjective, happen in the dark and use a kind of "shadow logic", meaning that they s...

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They even sing the words to old Major's dream five times in succession before Mr. ... Old Major does know a few things though. ... Although they lack the intelligence of the pigs they serve, the horses can convince other animals to follow the cause using simple arguments. ... Soon the animals are fed up with Jones (pardon the pun) after not being fed for over a day, so they organize and successfully carry out the long- awaited revolt. ... When the Jones crew attacks, they were gored, kicked, bitten, and trampled on. ...

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There is symbolism in this small tale, however, for when the turtle first tried climbing over the wall, a wild oat got stuck in his shell, and after being hit by the truck and flipping himself over, "the wild oat head fell out and three of the spearhead seeds stuck in the ground" (Steinbeck, 22) . ... They "puttered while they stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a droning roar" (Steinbeck, 47) and were driven by a "man sitting in the iron seat [He] did not look like a man he was a part of the monster [the bank]" (Steinbeck, 48) The bank informs the men that "a...

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They are that he will become the thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor and the king of Scotland. " All hail, Macbeth! ... All of the characters in this play that represented evil got what they deserved but there is character such as Duncan and banquo who did not get what they deserved but if it was not for them the evil would of not been destroyed. ... "Will it not be received, / When we have mark"d with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't?" ...

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Ideas, values, issues in relation to context LOOK AT HOW HAMLET WAS VALUED FOR ITS TIME, THE WAY IT WAS STUDIED IT"S VALUES, SYMBOLISM etc. ... They want him to get better so that they can go home. ... No one thinks to explain to them why they are there, what they need to do, or when they can leave, and they cannot ask. ... Unlike Guildenstern, he doesn't look for signs--he accepts things as they come. ... They do as they"re told, never asking questions. ...

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More conservative people feel that the set rends are new and have never seen things such as these before. ... However, such trends are not new, they are in fact a timely tradition commonly used throughout the ages. ... One should first realize that tattoos are not new, nor are they necessarily a frivolous practice. ... Not only were earlobes stretching common, more extreme things were performed. ... Some of the most dye hard fans claim they love the pain and the rush it gives them. ...

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It combines involved characters with deep symbolism to tell the story of a troubled woman and what drives her to suicide. ... The Romantics believe that society teaches conformity, and it dictates the way people see things. ... Edna is also free from the burdens of all labor, as she has servants to carry out any necessary tasks. ... Edna is "forced to admit- that they were right (Chopin 655). ... They have fun together and share many close moments. ...

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On the third of January, 1892, Mabel Suffield Tolkien and Arthur Tolkien had a boy which they named John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. ... The trilogy has multiple things going on at once, allowing for interesting themes and a complex plot to form. ... Some of the mechanisms they encountered were tanks, machine guns, and poisonous gas. ... "The pastoral landscape in Tolkien can include the works of men, elves, and hobbits, if they are in harmony with nature. ... During the timeframe of the war, an individual might view the world differently then they previously had. ...

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She catalogues the men and their subsequent fates, how much money they left their widows, how they died carrying her picture. ... Will they become begrudged spinsters dependent on some in-law? ... Both the illusion and the awareness of the illusion pervade the play, and symbolism calls attention to itself or is pointed out by Tom. ... When they come up again, Tom and Amanda are engaged in a loud argument while Laura looks on desperately. ... When she does not accept "the movies" as a response, he goes into a sarcastic litany of all the illegal, immoral, blood-curdling things he's real...

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They tell him that Jack plans to send the entire tribe after him the next day. ... Similarly, the children are so shocked by the officer's presence, and are now psychologically so far removed from his world, that they do not instantly celebrate his arrival. Rather, they stand before him baffled and bewildered. ... They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. ... When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. ...

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In numerous ways of thought and plot, they are very similar stories. And yet they bear smaller differences from their dissimilar authors. ... These goddesses had another motivation, however, for favoring these particular men above all the other valorous soldiers: they were the children of gods and men. They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ... Their goddess-mothers didn't want them harmed, and often they fragmented the rules of war to save their sons' lives or motivate the troops. ...

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The term „institution‟ is used in nominalist sense, to mean a group of persons organized according to cultural principles to carry on activities which fulfill their basic individual and social needs as human beings.4 Similarly, Arthur W. ... They wait until the problems work themselves out, following predictable and stereotyped patterns of behavior as they do. They are at the mercy of their emotional pursuit of the domestic ideal, and the solutions which occur are accidental. ... In addition to Realism and Naturalism, the playwrights had their experiments with epic, symbolism, Expressionis...

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They emerged into the present world through a small hole in the ground - the world's navel. ... They also seek to acquire a guardian spirit who will be close and supportive for their lifetime. ... However, they appeared after the European invasion. ... To carry out the exercise, you will need a second person to act as a drummer, or a cassette recording of Shamanistic drumming. ...

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