The dream-like ideals are crushed by a harsher reality and the survivors are left with the scars. ... Blake attempts to bring home the fact that we all have innocence of the lamb and ferociousness like the tiger, but we are all chained by the chains of civilization (religion, law). ... An angel is releasing the soot-covered boys from their "coffins of black," and they are dancing away as they are released. The sky above them is blue, not black, and healthy, green vegetation, grows around the text. ...

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"The younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me. ... I don't like it here. I'd like to stretch my wings. I've been looking over the pasture, and the grass over in the field looks to me like it's a lot greener."" ... "I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands."" ...

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Part I One of the topics discussed in class earlier in the semester that really stuck out to me was the existence of God. I feel as though, this topic in general, the topic of whether God does or does not exist, is not black and white (as in concrete), but instead contains a lot of "gray area.... I like the way one philosopher today puts it. ... Therefore there must exist a God: an Uncaused Being who does not have to receive existence like us-and like every other link in the chain of receivers.... Things have happened to me, that's all." ...

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The characters are ordinary people like us, taken from the lower and middle classes of society, who struggle with everyday problem, such as poverty, sickness, crime, family strife and other problems within marital and paternal relationships. ... To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in his works, represent the powerful old patriarchs who rule over the minds if not always the wills of their families, reflected by Ephraim Cabot in Desire, Abraham Mannon in Mourning, and James Tyrone in A Long Day's Journey, while the mo...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School