There is an extensive use of allusions throughout the play that emphasizes the justification of persecution by use of religion. Miller mainly uses allusions in a biblical nature, pertaining to the town being heavily religious and puritanical. ... Miller intensified through the allusions by showing the reader how hysteria suspends daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire, impulse and hateful urge under the cover of religious righteousness. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ultimately, the son of Victor's transgressions is revealed through allusions "an eternal hell" describing the psychological consequences of challenging the natural order. ... The implications of the creature's possible humanity challenges Victor's morality as he severely neglects his responsibility towards his creation emphasised through the biblical allusion "you, my creator, abhor me". ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", King states, "I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek." This quote, by King, is directed towards the clergy men of the south, in attempts to try and convince them that h...

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• Grade Level: High School

The biblical passages also contain the familiar instruction not to judge others lest you be judged. ... In Measure for Measure's first scene there is an allusion to the new king James I's nervous dislike of 5 crowds. ...

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• Grade Level: High School