The play, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is the perfect example of a "coming of age" archetype. ... Hamlet's innocence and naivety are revealed when the audience sees his reaction to his mother's remarriage. ... Within the coming of age archetype, this is known as "the quest" (Stahl). ... Shakespeare used the coming of age archetype to show delaying adulthood is what caused this entire tragedy. ... Shakespeare uses Hamlet and the coming of age archetype to show what different experiences can do to us all....

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Throughout the book she is associated with light, gold, innocence, nature, angels, beauty and purity. ... This innocence is connected to children in the book. ... It is clear from this that Eppie is Silas" saviour, she had brought him back from the brink of despair where he had no love in his heart to a place where he is free from the premature aging that had gripped him. ... Eppie's innocence, her love and her connection to the "other world" bring back Silas" soul "as her life unfolded his soul, long stupefied in a cold narrow prison was unfolding too". ... Eppie has not been corrupt...

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I will use the Cycle of Human Experience to dissect Sylvia's coming of age story, by documenting her experiences as they relate to the points in the cycle. ... She becomes aware of him when she hears his whistle, which symbolizes the taking away of innocence. ... In this work the male stranger, "the enemy" intimidates Sylvia with his age, demands and his shotgun, which is the recurring phallic symbol in this story. ... She also wanted to portray that it didn't matter the age of the woman because they were all ill-treated the same by men from children to adults. Even though she u...

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This age gap between James and Liu creates an important difference in their characters. ... Liu reveals his innocence when he asks Minnie if she loves him, questioning, "Do you have for me the love feeling-(75). ... - Therefore, this scene serves to further contrast Liu's innocence with James' experience, implying that Liu's masculinity results from being an outsider to society. ...

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And he also tells us though the world fills with lure, we must restrain ourselves from bad urges and keep ourselves in innocence and purity. ... But it is closer to our age and life. ... In a competition which people vote for their most favorite writer, Dickens' name is on the top, surpassing the famous English novelist of the present age, the writer of " Harry Potter". ... His prolonged influence in the civilization of the mankind can't be reached by any writers of his age. ...

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It is then that Karl meets Frank, a young boy who has seen more sadness than his age should have allowed. ... Karl relates to Frank since they both went through a lot at a young age. ... Previously it was mentioned that Frank was a boy who had seen too much sadness for such a young age. ... Frank is never portrayed in a negative light and his boyish innocence can still be seen, particularly through his relationship with Karl. ...

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In this way Shakespeare makes a point about the innocence of couple also suggesting that time and thus familiarity causes the attitude towards sex to degrade. Another issue is age - Juliet is only fourteen when she is forced into marriage and thus would have to endure sex. ...

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It became the way Juliet viewed making love with someone, seeing that at such a young age would confuse and scar her. ... War strips men of their innocence, boyhood and many times happiness and turns them into people that they never wanted to be. ...

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William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play regarding jealousy and its decomposing effects on the human psychology. The title character is a noble, highly ranked idealistic general. Due to jealousy, Othello transforms into a raging, uncontrollable murderer, in the desperate search for revenge. In...

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Rather than change from a disgusting larva to a captivating winged creature, Lolita seems to get more vulgar as she ages and loses her innocence and nymphet powers. ... Just like Lolita, The Collector is also about obsession to a woman, but this time the subject is not a 'nymphet', it is a girl of the same age. ...

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This may be construed as she lost her innocence and virginity before marriage, Laura was no longer considered a suitable prospect for marriage. ... She looked everywhere for the Goblins and their crazy good fruits but could not find them; hence she wasted away and aged prematurely which caused her death. ...

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