In some sense both families have the same dream, a dream to be successful and happy, and the dream to have money. ... The play is almost entirely based on the concept of dreams, whether it is an individual dream or the family dream. ... Dreams are also more important to her than material wealth, and her dream is to one day own a house. ... Throughout the play, the Youngers clash over their competing dreams. ... There is a strong core of resentment within Willy, whose actions assume a more glorious and idealized past. ...

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What is the American Dream? It is my opinion that the American Dream can be slightly different for each person but that there are many commonalities between people's dreams within the American culture. I feel that though our schooling and upbringings, we are influenced as to what the ideal of life is within this culture should be. ... The next part of the dream that I have in my head is now a little confusing. ... Now in days, with so many women in the job market, it is hard for me to generalize what the American dream is in regards to the responsibilities of the wife. ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream In the beginning of the play, Hermia was refusing to marry a man named Demetrius because she was in love with another man named Lysander. ... My favorite parts were when Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander were all under the spell and arguing, the play within the play, and the dancing at the end. ...

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In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream love was a main concept. ... Demetrius who was deep within the enchanted woods, had not been able to find Hermia and his rival Lysander and fatigued his fruitless search. ... The irresponsibility of the fairies and their special powers opened way for turmoil within the lover quarrels. ... Power is the main basis for love within the play. ... These powers develop conflict and tension within the play and add excitement and drama within. ...

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Each worker has a dream for the future, which is impossible to achieve. ... They meet Candy, a old crippled swamper, within their first meeting they are informed of Curley's wife, "tart." ... We also get an insight into her lost dreams, to be an actress or a showgirl. ... Instead of trying for her dreams we see her malicious side when she laughs at the other men's dreams. We see from her conversation with Lennie that her unrealised dream of being famous led her to marry Curley. ...

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Other readings such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by William Shakespeare, puts more of an imaginary view of how women grew up and lived their lives. ... Women were also viewed as pieces of property that were giving as gifts to a man, for convenience within their own lives. ... As for Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", an interesting twist is put in on how women lived their lives, and were treated in society. ... Be advised, fair maid; To you your father should be as a god; One that composed your beauties, yea, and one To whom you are but as a form in wax By h...

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"And so Ashur Iddenf lives the world he"d always dreamed of, happy and replete." (66) Little did he know, this dramatic change he experienced would lead him to be imprisoned in the Alley and within himself. ... Ashur's dream of marrying a rich widow and never again having to be accountable for himself imprisons him. He is locked within her control and cannot live his own life. ... He is given a dream life and he finds that this ideal life is what he least desires. ... In Saqr's circumstances, he is imprisoned by the culture and traditions within the Alley. ...

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Lou displays her self-oriented side when she responds to her son's questioning whether a mussel dreams. ""Of course it dreams", I said. ... Lou connects this same mussel in the end of the story to her family when she responds to her son's announcement that the mussel was still dreaming, ""This time things have gotten better in the mussel's dream"" (591). ... Lou and her family may have needed to escape the bonds of a disastrous home life but the troubles produced within a separated family only exacerbate problems later on in life. However, the conflicts produced within a sepa...

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"The Great Gatsby" is a novel that explores the dynamics of life within various social classes in the 1920s. ... While Gatsby shows off his house to Daisy, all the elaborate items within Gatsby's home causes Daisy to come to the overwhelming realization that Gatsby acquired it all for her. ... For most, their dreams have shifted from valuing good character within a relationship to basing their love on material things and excessive wealth. Daisy aiming for less extravagant dreams than she can achieve, and lowering her self-worth by basing it off of wealth and possessions, reflects the over...

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Therefore, the sympathy within this selected passage indicates a pathetic tone. ... Antigone's ongoing dreams of a marriage that never materialized reveal her shattered aspirations caused by Creon's immoral civil laws. ... The sparagmos imagery of the young couple's death, further exemplifies the tone of pathos within the passage. ... The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil laws. ... Toward the end of the play, Creon admits that he, "learned through the blood and tears" of the i...

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Casaubon and her wifely relation, now that she was married to him, was gradually changing with the secret motion of a watch-hand from what it had been in her maiden dream. ... Acknowledging the ideals of marriage within this Middlemarch society' aids in examining some of the changes in ideas that occur inside their culture. ... Casaubon significantly symbolizes the changing of principles held within the culture by dealing with the notion of marriage and the role that it plays within a society. ... Especially within his marriage relationship, Casaubon symbolizes the resistance of th...

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Esperanza's family had always talked about heir dream house that they planned they would own a t some point. ... In Rosa's case she has too many kids to handle, and her dream of having the big house and great dinners are now gone. ... But there are other ways that you can feel "trapped" within your life. The last trap that Esperanza views within her neighborhood is lack of education. ... Esperanza saw something similar within her own home. ...

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Instead, of showing her the affection she dreamed of Logan had her perform manual labor on his land. ... With her first dream of love and self-discovery destroyed her tone had changed. ... Their argument reassured her to continue to follow her dreams of love and self-discovery. ... People within their town began to characterize Janie as a beautiful woman. ... However, the people within her town had different feelings towards him. ...

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"Madame Lantin seemed the perfect example of the virtuous woman to whom every sensible young man dreams of entrusting his life". (1034) She was pure and innocent, or was she? ... Madame comes off similar to these characteristics but within the story she turns into a different character. ... "Madame Lantin seemed the perfect example of the virtuous woman to whom every sensible young man dreams of entrusting his life". (1034) She comes off gentle and caring but slowly turns evil and conniving. ...

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They lack hope due to their loneliness and feel as if their dreams are unattainable. ... Due to Curley's wife's isolation on the ranch, she has lost all hope in her dream of starring in the pictures. ... She pours out her pent up frustration of her unrealised dreams and ambitions. ... Crooks is the character filled with the greatest sense of despair within Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. ... Also Crooks tries to destroy the dream George, Lennie, and Candy share...

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Generally it is most teenagers' dream to have a successful future while married to someone they have gotten to know, feel they are compatible with, and most essentially, genuinely love. ... However, in some rural areas in Ghana, the youth have their dreams shattered by their parents because the parents rather feel as though it is their right or obligation to find a partner they deem suitable for their son or daughter. ... Most arranged marriages will obviously not have happiness within it as a result of ...

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I still would love to and I still dream of the faint possibility that we could live happily ever after. ... Sometimes, dreams can be the only thing that can make us smile, not laugh of something but smile of happiness. At the moment, I love, I dream, I weep, but I still have hope. ... Because they have taken the risk, because they have had the courage to love no matter what, because they have sought love only within themselves and not in the cruel critic that society is. ...

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Followed by the traditional idea of the 'American Dream', the 'ideal' way to live became to be the nuclear family. Functionalism directly supports this traditionalist approach, including heterosexual marriage and specific gender roles within the household, including instrumental roles for men and expressive roles for women. ... However, this view can be criticised due to a growing age of family diversity, and abuse within relationships. ... This links with Marx's theory of the 'chain of inheritance' within families, as kin passes down items such as proper...

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As Warren notes, "In the American Dream, woman figures not as the dreamer but as an object in the dream" (6). ... She was described as "the sensuous Madonna", the "embodiment of every womanly grace and charm", the "bygone heroine of romance", the "fair lady of our dreams" (Chopin 272), the epitome of what a true wife and mother was expected to be. ...

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It is the "Fairy Tale" Romance Courtly love is a fairy tale idea displayed during the medieval times. It was an idealized sort of relationship that could not exist within the context of "real life." The lady in the courtly love relationship was typically older, married and of higher social statu...

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"I love you, only you, no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. Oh! you have made me so unhappy with your indifference. Oh! I have suffered, suffered! Now you are here we shall love each other, my Robert. We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else...

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Success is not about accumulating wealth or fame, but doing well in relationships, having an actualized dream career, and affecting the society positively. ... Furthermore, accomplishing a dream career can also be considered as a factor for a successful life. ... Success in life is within the reach of everyone, and a broader knowledge of success needs to be in our consciousness, so that we will not miss out on the opportunities in the world, but seize every happy moment that helps us appreciate life. ...

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Chopin was severely criticized for depicting a sexualized and independent-thinking woman who questioned her role within the southern patriarchy. ... She awakens from a dream and finally reaches reality. ... The question is, is Edna a strong enough women to pursue her sinful dream? ...

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She seems to have pulled herself up by her bootstraps and attained the American dream. Another successful hired girl who pursued the American dream is Tiny Soderball. ... She found joy in her family and within herself. ...

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He said, Within myself, I had sustained, from my babyhood, a perpetual conflict with injustice... His years of dream  dream which he had been cherished since he was humiliated by Estella  came true. ...

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