Each character experiences the competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live morally, act peacefully, follow the true and the good or the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act violently and enforce one's will. ... This divine bow made in civilised way is used for primitive ends of survival, making the great archer, who owns the formidable bow of Hercules, as savage and elemental as the island that he inhabits: he hunts wild animals and birds, lives in a cave - his animal den. ... A further paradox is that the hunter is being hunted like a wou...

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Thus, if looking at the animal instinct, they are also setting the border between the outsider and also the same species to protect the community and their areas. ... "They enhance selection of 'worthy males' and provide breeding stations for animals that require male assistance in raising the young" (Westin, 57). ...

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Within The Fox and The Ladybird, it is possible to reduce these to the concepts of numerous dichotomies, a tripartite character composition, the dream as a vessel, animal and primitive connotations, and the will of the sub-conscious. ... This usage of archetypal animal association employed by Lawrence enables the reader to interpret the relations of the three characters like that of the hunter and hunted predator and prey. The effect of this is two-fold as it both simplifies the interactions and reduces the intent and will of the three people to the basic animalistic instincts, relating to...

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