Edna awoke and confronted the reality to such an extent that she escaped her home, her husband, her life, by leaving for the "little pigeon house". ... This could underline Edna's situation as a reflection of her own - the soul or intellect escaping from the body. ... Edna's boundness of marriage and her only escape from this is stated at the start of the novel itself when Edna gives the "rings" to her husband, when she returns from the beach. ... Thus, the ring may symbolize that Edna cannot free herself from the bonds she has formed, and her only escape, if she must insist on escap...

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While escaping his prior occupations, Victor sought to form a life which was so planned and perfected, that his emotional life quickly began to emancipate. ... From this moment, Victor's mind became corrupted, for he could not escape his fashion through anything but dreams. ... Often one will escape from the beauties and imperfections of nature because they feel as if they can compete with it. ...

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The poem, "Aunt Jennifer's Tiger", by Adrienne Rich, is a poem about woman who is struggling to accept the indignities of her daily life, while focusing on attaining some sense of immortality once her life ends. Aunt Jennifer must find a way to deal with her unhappy and submissive place in life, and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hans plays the accordion to try and ease Liesel from her past, to lighten the mood and escape from her new reality caused by the Nazi regime. ... This reinforces the importance of literature and writing, the love it stimulates and the escape and communication it offers. ...

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When the mind and body are at equilibrium with stimulating forces, we are in a relaxed state. Relaxation is comprised of refreshing tranquility, achieved by removing the accumulated tensions of life. Many studies confirm that this balance in life is good for the body as well as the mind. We can achi...

• Word Count: 791
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Throughout the first chapter of Walden, "Economy", Thoreau states his justifications for leaving society behind in an attempt to show people that life can be lived with bare necessities and still be wholesome. Thoreau claims that his attempt at Walden Pond is nothing more than a two-year experimen...

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Ruth Reichl makes it obvious from the beginning of "Tender at the Bone-, that she grew up in a far from ordinary family, her mother being the cause of much of this weirdness. Her mother plays the central role in her family and thus has a powerful impact on Ruth. This impact is vast and cannot be d...

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The concept of a distant view on life, is applied in both works, be it Gustav von Aschenbach's artistic dilemma in Death in Venice or Cosimo's escape from rules and regulations by leaving the natural life on the ground, to live beneath the sky yet above the earth, in Baron in the Trees. ...

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Immortality, life after death, and infinity are people's concern and interest .Everyone one has a desire to still alive and to examine life and its secrets, Immortality expresses the existence of souls after the death of the body to confirm the fact; that death is not the end of everything .The o...

• Word Count: 2113
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate