This idyllic perception of marriage or the desire to engage in marriage prevails not only in the real world, but also in literature. ... The ubiquitous motif of marriage displays Antigone and Haemon's strong desire to wed each other. ... The presence of veils wrapped around Antigone's neck at the time of her death reveals her unconditional desire to wed Haemon. ... Sadly, Haemon reveals his love when Antigone dies and before sharing a blissful marriage that they both so passionately desired, thus conveying the pathetic tone. ... This last illustration of the young couple embra...

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It also took over property left by members who died without any heirs. ... Children were desired by Romans. Sons were especially desired in order to continue the family line, its religious ritual, and its property. ... If the father was to refuse the child as his own, the child would become an outcast, and would be put by the roadside, where it would be left to die, unless someone who wanted a foster child or a slave picked it up and reared it themselves. The Romans called the ninth day of the child life "Dies Lustricus". ...

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Living her life to the fullest, she dies knowing that in her heart, she did the right thing and is in a way proud of her accomplishments. She dies with the burden of fear from knowing what she did was morally wrong. ... She longed for being a great mother, wife and neighbor and she did succeed although her outlook on life soon died along with her husband. ... Edna is brought to the desire to live life more fully and thus she sets out to make her journey of self discovery and her very own awakening. ... At the time of the publication of the book, desire for another person while you are marri...

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However Ona died in childbirth a long with the baby. ... For weeks later the baby died. ... They seem as though they are dieing. ... Nnu desired Abby's life her eldest son provided for her and that all she wanted her son to grow up and do. Nnu hears news that her father is dying and he wants to see her before he dies. ...

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When Andrew arrives back at the house Mary assumes that Jay is dead and Andrews confirms that fact that he did die in the accident. ... Mary tells the children that their father has died and they will never be able to see him again. ... All of those characteristics of his father made it difficult to deal with his lose when he died in 1916 when Agee was only six years old (18). ... In a letter to one of his close friends, Father Flye, he says: "That, however, is fierce and complicated enough to keep me balancing over suicide as you might lean out over the edge of a high building, as far you c...

• Word Count: 1898
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At the end of the play, Goneril fears the consequences of her disgusting actions; after the success of a final scheme, she stabs herself and dies. ... When Cornwall dies, she too approaches Edmund to become her partner, sending a letter and token of affection. ... Regan's wicked desire to rule all shows that she is a character of greed, lust and jealousy. ... Near the end of the play, Goneril and Regan spar over the man they both desire. ...

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Although she tries many methods, none of them have the effect on him she desires. ... This didn't have the desired effect on Bailey so she explains to him and his wife how the children need more variety and they should take the children to see different parts of the world, East Tennessee for example. ... Instead of using the word "died," O"Connor uses the word "killed." ...

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Thus, while Hamlet wants to die and sees no reason to live, he is fearful of what suicide will bring him in his afterlife. ... It also strengthens his desire to murder Claudius, an action he still can not follow-through with, which inevitably deepens his depression. ... It is these feelings of prestige combined with Claudius's guilt which continue to intensify Hamlet's hatred and desire to murder his uncle, and yet still, he is unable to act on these, and his indecisiveness prevails. ...

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This poem centers around the struggle of one African American man to overcome racial diversity and hatred in a home he works in, and it details his inner thoughts and desires to be accepted for who he is. ... Further into the poem, the narrator expresses his desire to sit at the table and be treated as equal, and the reader knows that this will happen for him one day, as his spirit and identity is strong amidst a world of hatred. ...

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The fall from paradise is represented when her father dies leaving her with her step-mother. Which signifies the old dying off in order for regeneration of a higher awareness within her self (Bethards 86). ... The mice represent little fears or irritants (128), the horse represents freedom and expanding a sense of self (111), the birds represent the ability to soar to a higher awareness (65), and the dog represents the masculine part of the self and the need to verbalize desires (89).The evil earth mother also has a familiar a black cat, representing the feminine unconscious (Bethards 74). ...

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Before his death, he was one of the Seven Days, the small group of men devoted to keeping the balance of blacks and whites equal, which is one of the causes of his desire for an escape from life. ... Milkman cannot own himself because he does not know who he is, and he has lost the initiative to discover it when he 'died' from the lack of ability to 'fly'. ... Returning to his wish during his childhood to fly, the belief that his great-grandfather had actually flown revives that part of him that had died in the four-year-old, 9with the possibility that he will be able to fl...

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His pride in the United States was coupled with his Orthodox Jewish faith, although not too deeply observed, having been exposed to a more secular socialist leaning Jewish culture through the "Workmens' Circle" and by reading the "Daily Forward" the leading secular Yiddish newspaper in the United States during the great immigration of Eastern European Jews prior to World War I and subsequently served the needs of that generation until it more or less died out in the later part of the twentieth century. ... He left his native Russia in 1904 at the outbreak of Russian Japanese War, not havi...

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'I wasn't really thinking about if he was gonna die or get unconscious', Hall said about his thoughts before committing the murder (Wallace, 2013). ... Anger "increases the individual's level of felt injury, creates a desire for retaliation/revenge, energizes the individual for action, and lowers inhibitions" (Agnew, 1992: 60). ... At one NSM meeting just a few weeks before he died, Hall's father boasted that 'by the age of nine, my son was able to operate a Gen-1 night vision and infrared scope.' ...

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James desires to have that chance again but it is out of reach, and this is what disappoints him. ... Mary was to become a nun, a career free of the evils in the world, but that dream was soon demolished when her father set her up with the famous actor James Tyrone, whom she desired. She was love-stricken as soon as she met him, and the desires in her other life were now exiled from her. ... Eugene plays himself through Edmund, who in real life died from the measles. ...

• Word Count: 1904
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He doesn't seem to really believe in Jesus and doesn't have any desire to: "If you would pray, Jesus would help you. " "I don't want no help; I'm doing all right by myself. " His doubt of Jesus results in him feeling like there is no such thing as right or wrong or any real meaning to life itself. ... She did end up dying, but it wasn't on the highway and her body was dumped elsewhere so no one probably found her. ...

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THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER Every human being desires to rise in life or society; it's how we get there that determine our consequences, Greed has no boundaries with social inequality, however the innocent pay the maximum price. ... The irony of the story is the boy died in vain, his mother never acknowledging his sacrifices, to win her approval and affection. ...

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Personally, I do not believe that, like my friends' new iPhone6 always dies, and he has already sent his second iPhone 6 to the Apple store. ... He also desired to be the pride of my grandparents. ...

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Unfortunately, it was not that easy for Fred because he had already learned some of the essentials for reading, so in turn when it came to his masters telling him to leave it alone, the desire was stronger than ever. ... She felt that her and Boy Willie's dad died for the piano and they owed it to his memory to keep it in the family. ... Troy not once gave Cory any kind of encouragement which is why Cory had such resentment towards him even after Troy died. ...

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In her book, On Death and Dying (1969), Elizabeth Kübler-Ross suggests the 5 stages of grief as denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. ... Camille comes to the conclusion that 'Ann and Natalie died because Adora paid attention to them', proving that Amma was jealous of the attention that other girls were given instead of herself. At the end of The Lovely Bones, Susie is able to witness one of her utmost desires take place: the death of Mr. ...

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One journalist concurs to this by stating, "He acknowledges the miraculous efficacy of prayer while disavowing any desire for it" (Sloan 118). ... When she realizes that she has no results using her moral approach The Misfit takes her life and she touches him dies with a smile (337). ...

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What I felt, as I stared at the mutilated insect, wasn't pity; it was closer to a lost word between revulsion and desire. ... She seems to think there is a reason that everything happens and feels like she needs to figure out the reason Boyd Ellison died, or her father left. ...

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We are first introduced to this when the old lady dies in the house while playing on the piano and "her nose hit middle C hard enough to darken the room with sound". ... The fact that Fish's body desires a reunion with his spiritual half and the fact that he is only complete when the two parts, spiritual and physical are united reveals Winton's beliefs as the reader is positioned to see that spirituality is an integral part of life and brings fulfilment and completeness. ...

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Dee's desire to hang the quilts up shows that she respects them, but does not understand the true meaning of the quilts. ... When a family member never learns how to quilt, the tradition slowly dies out. ...

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My grandfather, Antonio, who I never had the opportunity to meet and with whom everyone said I shared a great physical resemblance, died when I was still a baby. ... That did not stop my desires to travel with him as much as I could to get to know him better and learn to be a good man like him. ...

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A hot July day in Missouri is just a few degrees of humidity away from truly feeling like death. You aren't able to step onto your front porch to pick up the newspaper without coming back inside with a few beads of sweat on your brow. I was staying with my grandma and grandpa in St. James Missouri,...

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