In Tennessee William's play "A Streetcar Named Desire", the more Blanch Dubois tries to fit in with the new aged America, the more she is setting herself up as a victim to society. ... She is introduced as a woman who seems to be defeated because her husband has died, her family fortune is gone and she has drinking problems. ... Blanche had a drinking problem, she had lost the family fortune and estate, her husband had died of suicide years earlier, and she was fired from her teaching job for having an affair with a student. ...

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His actions warped the minds of others; likewise, the teenage Stella in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" is motivated by a desire for power. ... These factors combine to make the teenage girl desire to vent all her pent up feelings of anger and betrayal on the baby, no matter how innocent Magda may be. ... The shawl represents Magda's own figurative baby, her sister, her everything, keeping her safe and alive, without which she will die. ... Thus, the baby dies quickly, brutally, and tragically, leaving her sister with the short and fleeting sense of power she craved so desperately. Magd...

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As a result of these prophecies, Mac Beth's desire to become King of Scotland is aroused. ... Lady Mac Beth plays an important role in this play in that she created a plan for Mac Beth's desire to ascend to the throne. ... However, Mac Beth's ambition was not strong enough to carry out his desire to kill King Duncan. ... Just as the Bible states; "as it is appointed unto man once to die and then judgment- At the conclusion of the story Mac Beth dies and received justice for the life he lived, as we all will. ...

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In A Tale of Two Cities, many people were left to die in the Bastille, similar to Dr. Manette; many of who did not deserve to die and could have been saved. Similarly, many of the little children died in Lord of the Flies simply do to lack of concern or care for them. In fact the big boys cared so little that they didn't even know how many little boys died. ... Because her family was oppressed, she a deep desire to gain revenge on the Evermonde family, no matter the consequences. ...

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Although he survived he writes, "It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before." ... In the last verse of "Losses", he says, "It was not dying- no, not ever dying; But in the night I died I dreamed that I was dead, And the cities said to me: "Why are you dying? We are satisfied if you are"; but why did I die?" ... He describes this when he says, "Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live", Seeing this kills a part of him; he is no longer the person he was, but now someone who is in fear of his li...

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In the forth part of the poem Shelley ties all of the images together showing his desire to be the autumn leaves, tempest clouds, and turbulent waves so that he to can be effected by the wind and nature the way the objects are. ... Shelley ends his poem showing that even though everything is dieing and coming to an end with winter on the approach, there is still hope because "If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?" ... The wind is the inspiration that the poet longs for and the leaves, clouds, ocean and foliage all represent the same thing; the poets desire to be creative. ...

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In lines three and four of the poem Frost wrote "From what I have tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire". ... They went to underground clubs, drank their liquor, smoked cigarettes and dressed in beaded outfits adorned with feathers all in a celebration of life, fire, passion and desire. ... He acknowledges the courage taken by those who hear the warnings of the moth to the flame but push on toward their hearts desire. ... If we were to die fighting for what we believe in or for our hearts desire, we have truly lived. ...

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She sense for freedom as her husband died. ... She has found a new desire for life, which she now hopes will be long. ... The loss of freedom was much too great for her to bear and shocked her to die of heart disease. Although she slipped into death, she had died of joy, she regained her freedom. ...

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A Beautiful Dream Lost In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts the death of the old southern lifestyle at the hands of the callous modern world. ... This symbolizes that the two sisters are the last members of a dying world, the Old South. The first evidence that the old southern lifestyle is dying is when Blanche reveals to Stella, her sister, that Belle Reve has been lost. ... Before Blanche comes to New Orleans, her whole family dies off one by one, she loses Belle Reve, she learns of her husband's homosexuality, and then loses him to his own suicide. ...

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""Comrade, I did not want to kill you Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony - "I will write your wife I will tell her everything I have told you. ... It is see from Paul's concern and desire to ease the pain of the Frenchman's family that he is feeling the pain of war. Paul is also seeing the future pain of the French man's family as he saw in Kemmerich's mother when he lied to her about how Kemmerich had died. ... Many i...

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His desire to reveal his sin to his parishioners is conquered by his love for Hester and his desire to save Hester from a harsher punishment. He feels guilty and that guilt eats away at him until a couple minutes before he dies, at which time he confesses his sin. ... This vengeance becomes so much of an obsession for Chillingworth that soon after Dimmesdale dies, Chillingworth passes away as well because he has no purpose for living. Hawthorne shows his disapproval of secret sins by the pain that each character endures and by the fact that each character dies in the end of the story. ......

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In the novel, "Charly" the story is about a boy named Sam that has recently come home from serving a LDS mission. He is attending BYU and majoring in computers. One day his dad asks him to take his new bosses" daughter, Charly, out on a date. His boss's family had just moved to Utah from New York...

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Esperanza then gets a job and has bad experiences there, and not too long after that her aunt dies. ... She still desired to have a new house so that she can be on her own, and pursue her dream of writing. ...

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His older brother is cruel to him but Doodle responds by thriving and becoming more capable of everyday activities in spite of the treatment, until he dies trying to please Brother. ... Brother's pride and desire for a normal brother overcomes any concerns for his siblings feelings or health. ... For example, the doctors say he will probably die and never walk, but on his 6th birth day he shocks his whole family by actually learning to walk and never having to use his wheel-chair again. ...

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Macbeth was lured to kill the king by the desire for power, an appetite that was driven by the witches" prophecies and his wife's encouragement. ... When he is saying the "Tomorrow and tomorrow speech" he sounds very pitiful because he is saying life is too short and worthless; you will die soon and then nobody will remember you. ...

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"And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive" (Eccles. 4:2). ... And I declared that the dead, who already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive. ... "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. ... When people die, nobody remembers them. ... Like the fool, the wise man too must die" (Eccles. 2:16). ...

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When Ted Lavender died as a result of Jimmy not securing the area well enough, Jimmy burned his most prized possessions. ... His illusion of her actually loving him obviously helped him cope with the pressures of leadership and the more general anxiety of war and dying at about any time. ... The letter burning was symbolic of his desire for there to be only unity: not individuals, soldiers: not friends. ... The light got the attention of the enemy and Kiowa was shot, sunk into the muck, and died as a result. ... O"Brien also leaves the war carrying a deep hatred and desire for revenge on Bobby...

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Then as he dies, he lets Wyatt know that there are no white lights. ... He would have died for those people and he almost did. ... He had love, friendship, and the desire for adventure. ... The desire for this mistress grows in every way and he cannot hide it from Mattie. ... They decide to fight and most of them died. ...

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Erdrich starts with two brothers who have a carefree summer ahead of them and a shiny red convertible to take them wherever they desire. ... When Henry returns home, after the war, Lyman finds that his brother no longer has a desire to talk or have adventures like he did before the war. ... After all the turmoil Henry had seen the three years he was away, his mind would not leave where he had come from; whether it be from the memories of killing a human being or from seeing people die right before his eyes. ... He destroys many things on the red convertible so that his brother will be upse...

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Paul's friends let him one by one, Paul got alone, and finally died in peace at the end of the war. ... But it was too late; the French soldier was dying. ... Paul was died just at the end of war, just because of the little butterfly. I consider that the butterfly symbolized peace and freedom, it was his strong desire of peace and freedom made him came out from the trench, and has been shot. ... He did not care about his life anymore, the only thing he wished was to die in peace with a beautiful creature And he accomplished his whish, indeed. ...

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This of course has the desired effect and Bill tops his ball and it goes all of ten yards from the tee. ... The anthrax scare has had us shaking in our boots in spite of the fact that 99.9999% of us aren't even at risk ( more people die from infections from poor hygiene practices in hospitals every week than died of anthrax ) - gotcha. ...

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As a slave, the thing that people take for granted is the thing that he desires more than the world itself. ... Freedom is something worth dieing for to Parker, and possibly, death can possible be the ultimate freedom. ... This hatred towards the institution of slavery not only gave him the desire to be free, but the desire for others to be free. ...

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An example of this would be Jack desire for meat. Jack starts off with the desire for meat, which continues to grow and eventually is what turns him into a savage... This is just one of many examples of Jack obsessing over his desire for meat. ... He dies along with the conch, which also stood for order and rules. ...

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"It had always been his wish and desire to be a big voice and he had to live nearly thirty years to find a chance." (28) ***HOW DOES THIS QUOTE RELATE?... When Joe died, people in the town expected Janie to be mournful, so she put on an act for them. ...

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"(505) The townspeople too, did not interact with her just observed her from a distance to receive gossip as a conversation piece, which cause her to plummet even more into isolation that made her act unhinge and inhuman after her father died. ... Her desire for love and companionship drove her to murder Homer Barron. ...

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