Even Grace herself finds herself in what appears to be a dream. ... She keeps this dream to herself, as she awakes with a wet nightdress covered in Earth. Perhaps it was no dream at all, and that Grace had indeed slept with all of these men. ... "She is now more than pretty...Simon can smell her as well as look at her...her scent is a distracting undercurrent...He is in the presence of a female animal; something fox-like and alert. ...

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Darwin was much more interested in collecting animals and recording their habits than academics. ... The earth was seen as a treacherous place, where even the animals competed to breathe. The humans, especially in Britain were crammed full into housing and also competing like the animals for fresh air. ... Nature only keeps the strongest animals because they are the only ones who can survive nature itself. ... To kill someone, is to be like an animal, and perform natural selection. ...

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In section 13 another notion is presented; to Tennyson, time is something that oscillates along a past-present-past-present continuum, we can experience the immanence of the past, then the past resurfaces in the present, patterning natural or human cyclical phenomena, moreover the past links to the present in which dreams and illusions intertwine with reality. As we can see in section 13 the poet is confused by this intertwining of dream and reality and I think that for the poet the appropriate solution is death, in order to remove this grief.  ... The poet compares himself to the yews...

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1. Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Even though they are all dealing with different issues, almost all of the stories have something in common – alte...

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