The father-son relationship of Aeneas and Iulus propels the plot of the Aeneid, allowing destiny and fate to unravel for them both to initiate the creation and establishment of the new empire of Rome. ... Aeneas acts almost as a father figure for Pallas in the absence of Evander who loved his son dearly and treasured him. ... At hearing this shocking news Aeneas is in great distress and the anger drives him to avenge him for his own sake and his father's sake as he also acted as a father figure in the absence of his own father. ... The tragic story of Mezentius and his son Lausus contrast...

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Fathers and Sons Throughout history the differences in generations cause conflict between the established and the revolutionary. ... Changes in a community are not always positive but woe to those that refuse to move when presented with a clear and present danger to the survival of that people. [ The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caused by differences in characterization in the text, which arises, from the principles and beliefs of each character stemming from the generation and the environment in which they were raised.] ... The novel Fathers and Sons highli...

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Changes in a community are not always positive but woe to those that refuse to move when presented with a clear and present danger to the survival of that people. [ The sources of conflict of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev are caused by differences in characterization in the text, which arises, from the principles and beliefs of each character stemming from the generation and the environment in which they were raised.] ... The novel Fathers and Sons highlights the differences created by the generation gap and how it creates conflict between people of the different generations. ... The so...

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Nihilism culminated into an enormous political movement which has been represented through the character of Bazarov in the novel "Fathers and Sons" by Ivan Turgenev. ... In this essay, I intend to write on the influence that Nihilism has had on Russian literature, like "Father and Sons". ... "Fathers and Sons" is a novel that shows the growing drift between two generations of Russians. ... The Nihilists who can also be seen as the "sons" in this particular novel, sought changes in social structure that were western based. ... Turgenev's "Father...

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The conclusion to the parable also seems be left open ended since we don't know what happened after the father talked with the older son. ... Another important character is the father, who gives part of the inheritance to the younger son only to see him leave. ... The younger son's words, 'Father, give me my share of the state', is a quite surprising request that not many parents would comply with even in the modern day. ... It seems like the father trusted that if the son misused his fortune, life would eventually give him a lesson that would humble him. On his son's...

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Morel's dominance over her sons is most evident in her conceivably discrete control over their love lives. ... Morel does not allow her sons to find women of their own, reducing their lives to anxiety and loneliness. ... The theme of incestuous love is a negative force present in both "Hamlet" and "Sons & Lovers"; not just between Gertrude and Hamlet (mother and son), but it also is present in Act One, Scene Three. ... "Sons & Lovers" has an oedipal theme between Paul and Gertrude, the hatred for his father could be interpreted as a key element to the complex. ... This presentation of inc...

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Eliezer works extremely hard throughout the story to keep his father close and avoid being like the other cruel sons he saw, avoid death, and survive the Holocaust. Three times Eliezer saw relationships between fathers and their sons go rotten. ... The third terrible father-son relationship Eliezer saw was near the end when everybody was packed into the train leaving Gleiwitz they stopped in a German township and somebody on the road threw a piece of bread into the train and one son, named Meir, beat his own father to death over the piece of bread. ... Eliezer also understands that his ...

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In "All My Sons," we also see social and individual responsibilities of the time challenged by certain characters. ... "All My Sons" displays conflict between characters relationships, yet again because of secrets. ... Keller's continued denial causes further conflict on their father son relationship as the bond they once had, quickly dissolves on Chris's behalf due to his father's inability to accept the consequences of his actions. ... The letter is also a main symbol in "All My Sons" as it too, is used to conceal a secret. ... In "All My Sons," Ibsen uses money as Keller...

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She exclaims to Father Flynn, "I have my certainty! ... In contrast, Shanley portrays Father Flynn as a more welcoming character than Sister Aloysius due to his easy-going personality and his appeal to pathos that consequently makes it more convincing for the audience to be persuaded towards Father Flynn's case. ... Muller over for a discussion about her concern for Father Flynn's inappropriate "advances" she believes is being made towards her son. ... Muller explains that she supports Donald's relationship with Father Flynn because he is the first person who has...

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If the original Kung Fu rode to prominence on the coattails of Bruce Lee and the "kung fu craze- of the early 1970s, then, the revamped series also reflected a new commercial interest in martial arts film represented by the Brandon Lee vehicle Rapid Fire (1992) and a biography of his father, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993). ... Rapid Fire takes up some of this imagery in its narrative about Jake Lo (Brandon Lee), who was in Tian'anmen with his father during the demonstrations, and who reluctantly gets embroiled in a gang war involving a Chinese drug smuggler who also happens to support...

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A reader who has experienced an alcoholic father develops an image of a drunken man towering over his child, while a reader without that experience draws an image of a man who, after a drink or two, is playing with his son. ... "We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf", can be interpreted to mean that the father beat his son around, knocking things asunder in his drunken haze, or that the son and father played roughly, and in their fun, knocked the pans around. "My mother's countenance could not unfrown itself" is interpreted by readers to mean that the mother was upset by ...

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Specifically, the focus will be on the conflict between father and son. ... The relationship between Creon and Haemon is seemingly too complicated to be considered applicable to the modern relationship between father and son. ... Essentially, the conflict between father and son is created from an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile their opposing views. ... Of course, the figure that presents the greatest threat to the son's desires is his father. ... " The strange feelings that the son has towards his father are made doubly complex by an added fear as a result of his discovery of the ...

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The metaphor in the last two lines plus also the mention of the sons" age throughout the poem show that the transition and detachment from the narrator's father has happened as the narrator has matured with age. The concept that changing of perspective happens with maturity is also shown in the text Cats in the cradle by Harry Chaplin, where once again we see the falling apart of a father-son relationship, as we did in Fleiks Skrzynecki. Cats in the cradle is a story about a father who sees his son grow up the way he wanted to, like him, only to realise that all the tome he spent at wo...

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This significant educational difference is a focal point in the son and father relationship Seymour represents. ... Furthermore, generational conflict, particularly between father and son, results in a representation of family that digresses from the widely accepted family equilibrium. In a typical father-son relationship, the pair are expected to share a connection and have the ability to relate to one another as men. ... Resultantly, he cannot comprehend his son's reasoning and the pair is deprived of the expected sense of connection between a son and his father. ... Thus, Alf and Hug...

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Willie feels that he must correct the mistakes that his own father made in his life and try to raise the "ideal family", although this is not specified orally through the text, this notion can be inferred by the way Willie is seen in with his sons, in the flashbacks that he drifts in to, you can see the standard American family , a working class father, a house wife (Linda), The elder, all star athlete son whose tragic flaw is stealing (Biff), and the hard working, ambitious, society serving son, who grew up in the elder famed sons shadow, and is tragically flawed with a love of sex (happy). ...

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Another aspect of Homers character is that he is more interested in his elder son, Jim, than he is Sonny. ... At the next church congregation, Reverend Lanier delivered a sermon, in compliance with the mine company that paid his salary, addressing father-son relationships, most likely aiming at the outlaw rocket boys. However, after originally speaking of how sons must respect their fathers, he added, at a request from the Great Six, that fathers should rescue their sons by helping to keep their dreams alive. ... In the future, whenever Sonny needed some more material he couldnt get and mentio...

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All he has time for are the teachings of adult responsibilities by his father. ... The irony is as Michael senior leads his son to the literal town of Perdition; he also, through his criminal deeds, consequently leads his son down the road he himself has led: a road to perdition, or eternal damnation for the sins he has committed. ... "The Road to Perdition" explores the relationship between father and son, throughout the journey. After seeing his father involved in murder, he learns of the life that his father leads. ... At journeys end, Michael junior comes into terms with who his father rea...

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In the highly subjective and evocative text, Skrzynecki captures and expresses the relationship between the father and the composer and the growing detachment of the son from the father's perspective. ... The father witnesses his son gradually distancing from both him and his culture as he grows older. Whilst his father refuses to assimilate with Australian culture, his son conforms to Australian society and its culture, forgetting "(his) first Polish word". The poet uses the Hadrian Wall metaphor to further assert the generation gap between father and son, emphasizing the son's grow...

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Dana, the modern black women, is summoned to save and work for Rufus, a white son of a plantation owner, out of his misery. ... In Kindred, Dana disobeys Tom Weylin, Rufus father, when he clearly warned her not to read anymore and suddenly one day Dana gets discovered, Weylin says, "Didn't I tell you I didn't want you reading' 'I treated you good' said Weylin 'he snatched the book from me and threw me on the floor' 'I never saw where the whip came from; never even saw the first blow coming. ... She knew Rufus would try to physically abuse her bu...

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The nurturing nature of the mother can be contrasted, however, with Frankenstein's father who struggles to understand his son and view the son as a possession. ... The father says to Victor: "My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash". This reaction had a profound effect on Frankenstein, and they also emphasised the unloving relationship between the father and son, which can also be contrasted with that between the mother and son. ... The father remains the dominating figure of the family, but there is no mother to compensate for this. ... Although Franken...

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Okonokwa was petrified of inadequacy namely because his father was a complete and utter failure. This fear of shortcoming made him hate everything his father loved and represented: weakness, gentleness, and idleness. ... He would discourage "women's stories" and would not commend his sons for a job well done because he felt this to be a sign of weakness. ... We see this when he is commanded by the oracle to kiss his "son" Ikefuma. Originally, Okonokwa falls back in the crowd so that he need not actively participate in his son's death; however, when Ikefuma runs toward him saying ...

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The mother was horrified and stated, "This is untrue so please don't let him leave with my son. ... The principal denied the father his request to take his son until more information could be obtained. ... The mother and her attorney commended the school for protecting her young son. ... Furthermore, would the father's attorney knowingly jeopardize his career by allowing the father to bring forth a false document? The principal knew the attorney very well, and she believed that he was a friend of the father's family and was doing a favor for their son. ...

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At this critical point in Willie's existence, his oldest son Biff has returned home for a visit, and Willie's old desire for his son to be a traditional success in life is rekindled. ... When Willy was deciding to go with his brother to look for his father he met Dave Singleman. ... At the age of sixty Willy had built a family and had two sons. ... Since Willy was never successful as a salesman, "he remains confident that his son Biff will be able to make it big in business because of his good looks and his past glory as a high school football star" what he didn't real...

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The Five Relationships are "love between father and son, duty between ruler and subject, distinction between husband and wife, precedence of the old over the young, and faith between friends.... This is based on an understanding that among the five relationships, only the father-son relationship is unchangeable. Confucians believe that when the father-son relationship is properly maintained, the other relationships will be dealt with properly because "One who respects his parents will not behave arrogantly to others.... The first textual evidence for the idea of Three Bonds occurs i...

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This line stresses the idea that the family, and more the father and son, plant corn every Spring together as a business and tradition. ... The father seems to intend to open his son up to a new horizon and the possibility of other occupations. At one point in the poem, the father finds a nest of tiny mice and shows them to his son, "my father stopped at one point/to show me an overturned furrow/the plowshare had unearthed/the burrow nest of a mouse." ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the ability to choose his own identity, one that ...

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