He gives power to the sea by describing it at high tide as baring "her bosom to the moon". ... Proteus, a sea god who could change his appearance to elude capture, is seen rising from the sea, facing the injustices inflicted upon nature, placing the cycle of life back in balance. ... Wordsworth selected Triton, the master of the seas, as the savior to the world to represent a re-birth. Water has always been a symbol of new beginnings and when the sea gods rise from their watery depths to correct the excesses of humanity, a re-birth will have taken place for the world. ... In the sonnet "The W...

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Since the Beginning of time men have searched for answers for things he could not understand or explain, in his Quest for answers he thought that there was a Greater force or being who controls or looks over the world and everything in it. ... The gods received credit and praise for things such as rain showers, calm seas or a sunny day, etc. ...

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The creation of the world, the presence of a higher being, perception, the possibility of an after-life and maybe most importantly our ultimate purpose in life, are just a few of the issues philosophers have dealt with. ... In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... According to Lucretian thought, we live within a world where "nature, free in a world no lords and masters rule, does everything by herself, without the gods.(54)" It is not possible for Gods to exist because "Gods know no suf...

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Firstly, we see these two composers discuss their opinions of religion and its place in their contemporary worlds. ... The effect of this is that Shelley is able to express her opinion that the theist's natural world is sublime, and so therefore religion and God must be of similarly great power and importance by extension. ... Not only did these composers grow up in the age of Enlightenment (the dawn of a society that used science to describe the natural world), these composers saw the horrors of the French Revolution and this made people question the existence of a benevolent God. ......

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He is also very confused about his place in the world, since he is trapped between two competing cultural identities. ... Gabriel talks to Ultima about his longing to move to California, a wish he thinks will never come true because his older sons are fighting in World War II and he cannot move his family alone. ... Antonio's confrontation with ideas of good and evil are shown in his use of religion to try to understand the world. ... Antonio's realization that the church does not have the same kind of power as Ultima has suggests to him that no single way of interpreting the world c...

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Further upholding his moral integrity and spiritual perspective on life, Crusoe comments on his list, saying, "Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony, that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable, but there was something negative or something positiv to be thankful for in it." ... He states, "In the first place, I was remov'd from all the wickedness of the world here. ... Crusoe supports this notion in saying that "the most covetous miser in the world would have been cur'd of the vice of covetousness, if he had been in my case." Defoe uses Crusoe's isol...

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