Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream, whilst having its more serious elements, in particular the way that it could have so easily been a tragedy and the play within a play, is a more light-hearted, frivolous romp in the forest with the central human characters, the Athenian lovers, showing little growth, development or even distinguishing aspects that can be used to separate th...

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The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture, though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction. ... The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castl...

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The irrational vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerned solely to measure their gross national income, on whose basis they compared themselves with one another, while being indifferent to the natural cost of this economic "progress". ... The Sustainable Development Committee of the United Nations is working on issues arising from Agenda "21, which are roughly estimated to number some 2 500! ... It ...

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