Shelley utilizes symbolism when Victor visualizes how "life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of life into our dark world" (Shelley 33). The author's reference to "ideal bounds" can be interpreted as symbols of physical chains that restrain and separate life and death. Victor desires to break the division between the two, leading to the rise of the Creature, the embodiment of life and death. Shelley utilizes visual imagery, creating a scene in which Victor illuminates the dark, unknowing world with a torrent...

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The Venus of Willendorf is carved from limestone and it is red in color, while the sculpture of Khafre is made of anorthosite gneiss, which is valuable, extremely hard and dark color imported stone from Nubia (Stokstad & Cothren 58). ... It is a common Egyptian belief that after death, the soul leaves the body and progresses into the afterlife, but on occasions requires a place to rest. ... It seems that Egyptian art mainly focuses on life and death events like the statue shows, whereas many prehistoric art mainly focus on woman figures as a symbol of fertility goddess. ... In conclusion, thes...

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For example, many people of a fair complexion stereotype all people of a dark complexion due to the actions of a single individual. ... Yet, this stereotypical nametag is farfetched because the death rate due to poverty in America is equal to some third world countries. ... Discrimination is the cause of an extensive amount of deaths, poverty, and slavery. ...

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All these parallels enforce danger to him as he can now clearly see the firm and somewhat repressing connection between himself and the dark, primitive side of human nature. ... This misfortune is a lesson to Gulliver, teaching him that death is inevitable and that he can be relieved from the fear of death. "That if it had been my good fortune to come into the world a Struldbrug, as soon as I could discover my own happiness by understanding the difference between life and death" (Page 229, Paragraph 2) By raising the subject of immortality, "Swift" is questioning the desires and wishe...

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Instead, Aylmer focuses on the "flaw" of his wife, ultimately leading to Georgiana's death and destruction. ... This opportunity, however, leads to Georgiana's destruction and death because Aylmer fails to accept either Georgiana's human nature or his own human nature. Aylmer himself is bound to make mistakes, as evident in his previous failed experiments and in the death of his wife. ... The forest provides Goodman Brown with an experience of the dark side of human nature and provides Hawthorne with a medium for embracing man's imperfect nature. ...

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It is these powers of destruction as well as the uncertainty of death that reminds us of our weaknesses and helplessness. ... In religion, life in the world is meant to serve a higher purpose; and death, not extinction but the beginning of a new kind of higher existence. This life after death is the perfection that we have missed in life. In the end all good is rewarded and all evil punished, in the form of life, or life after death. ...

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For example, to state that every person wants to have sex with their own mother and eliminate their father would be not too short of claiming that human nature is fundamentally evil and dark. ... A: Actually, I distinguished two driving forces: the sexual drive and the death drive. ...

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