It is important to have the presented relationships scrutinized to see the small glimmers of hope in which are inserted amidst the futility of love which we are initially faced with. ... Although trapped, his wife Ada seems free to move as she enters and exits as she pleases, similar to the small amount of freedom Willie has over Winnie, which can be seen as 'he emerges completely from behind mound He advances forward on all fours towards centre' whilst Winnie is completely 'embedded up to [her] neck'12 by the beginning of at two. It is interesting that both Winnie and H...

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Of course we can also relate marriage to happiness, and happiness to one's freedom in society; something which is strongly challenged in both "Pride and Prejudice" and Orwell's "1984." ... A perfect example Auerbach gives is the anticipation and waiting at the drawing-room, "before the gentlemen came.... If a female of that time were lucky, like Jane, she entered a marriage of love and fortune, and if unlucky, like Charlotte, a marriage without love and happiness. ... However in "1984" it is the totalitarian state that dictates how society works and how...

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Nature actively combines, mingles, and unifies, whatever things we take for granted as physically separate and individual. ... He asks of this due to the union of their blood representing that they were "almost" married, which was swiftly altered to "more than" married. This concept of marriage transforms the flea into a temple, a place where one can be sacramentally united; the flea is the actual "bed" where they were physically united. ... It requires the reader to think and to decipher the code before them. ... I think that another message within the context of this poem would be to allow a...

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