This beauty turns Tess into Angels idealized Goddess of nature and he still sees her as a pure woman, opposed to the fallen woman she has now turned into. However, Angels destruction of Tess is even more unbearable than Alecs. As a product of Victorian social culture, Angel cannot conceive of an equal relationship with a woman in his mind; his gender determines his superiority. Angels dissipation in London can be forgiven; while Tesss innocent misconduct cannot. Alecs violence and Angels rejection both reflect the hypocrisy and ill effect of narrow-minded prejudice regarding virginity and chas...

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Lucy is in many ways the angelic opposite to Maggie. In Victorian ideology and iconography women were dichotomously defined as either angelic- pure, passive and ideally feminine- or they were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. ...

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Lucy is in many ways the angelic opposite to Maggie. In Victorian ideology and iconography women were dichotomously defined as either angelic- pure, passive and ideally feminine- or they were demonic- subversive or defiant in some way of feminine ideals and "fallen" sexually. ...

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Frankenstein grew up around beautiful people, his other and father adopted Elizabeth because of her looks, and Frankenstein even goes on to describe her later on as "bearing a celestial stamp on all her features", this gives the appearance of Elizabeth to be paralleled to that of an angel, because of this upbringing, Frankenstein is unnerved by the "devilish countenance" of the "demon". ... She compares Frankenstein to Lucifer, as he "who like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence", he "is chained in an eternal hell", Shelley uses this literary allusion to show Frankenstein as an angel w...

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When Maximus has killed Commodus and he has fallen to the ground the camera views Lucilla in the "royal box", looking relieved but not happy. ... Lucilla is then the focus of the camera with a low angle shot to show that she is powerful an angelic figure with a halo of light surrounding her golden locks of hair, this again symbolising trust and purity. ...

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Wong Kar-wai went on to make films like Fallen Angels (1995) and Happy Together (1997), of which the former had won a number of awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Cinematography, and the latter for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival. ...

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