She loved them, but said that while she was willing to die for them she couldn't give up anything essential for them. ... When Emma commits suicide and Charles dies, Berthe is sent to live with Charles' mother. When Charles' mother dies, Berthe is sent to an impoverished aunt, where she is forced to work in a cotton mill. ... They do not really like each other, but they have a deep understanding of each other's passions and desires. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jordon, manufacturer of surgical appliances; William developed pneumonia and died. ... Morel is the driving force in her sons' lives, until the eldest one dies and then she is the main thing in the second son, Paul. ...

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• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

It is tragic that both these people had to die. ... They are willing to make any sacrifice in order to have their desire for one another fulfilled.   ... In Romeo's desire to be with Juliet, he is willing to risk capture, and most probably death, in being found within the Capulet walls.   ... She holds fast to her heart's desire despite the foreshadowing threats of her father, "Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee."" ... She resolves to the idea that, "If all else fail, myself have power to die." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm, and Mercutio dies. ... He enters the tomb, sees Juliet's inanimate body, drinks the poison, and dies by her side. ... Montague declares that Lady Montague has died of grief over Romeo's exile. ... Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love of such purity and passion that he kills himself when he believes that the object of his love, Juliet, has died. ... Romeo's love matures over the course of the play from the shallow desire to be in love to a profound and intense passion. ...

• Word Count: 13391
• Approx Pages: 54
• Grade Level: High School

"But rather than expressing the lady's won values and desires, her unattainability often simply projects the lover's quest for perfection---her regard and favors to be won as the reward for his persistent devotion and /or for his extraordinary exploits," according to Bisson. ... "Chaste goddesse, wel wostow that I Desire to ben a mayden al my lyf, Ne nevere wol I be no love ne wyf. ... Not dying for honor, for victory, or for fame, for love, the knights are characterized to die. ...

• Word Count: 3384
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The plot is based around the desires of two young upper class men to marry two young upper class ladies, who in turn desire only to marry men named Ernest. ... Lady Bracknell suggests that marriage is a burden when she explains to Algernon that Lady Harbury "looks quite twenty years younger"(Act1 p19) since her husband had died. ... Upon hearing of his ill health Lady Bracknell merely comments that he should make up his mind "whether he was going to live or die". ... On hearing that Jack has "lost" his parents, which clearly means that they have died, Lady Bracknell declares that it "seems...

• Word Count: 2564
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When Barrie was a young boy his brother David died in a skateboarding accident. ... Right from the beginning, it is obvious that Peter has something for Wendy, the only way that he know how to express those feelings, though, is with his desire for her to be his motherly figure and take care of him. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, his love for mankind and desire for greater discovery was "filling fast" the "scale of love." ... Wordsworth, holding fast to the principle of nature's majesty, is able to resurrect his dying sentiments. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This fact is accentuated by the fact that the presence of the hawk leads them simply to "yield"- the threat of danger and dying merely serves to bring them closer together. ... She uses images full of vitality which appeal to the senses to imply her lack of any fear of dying: the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet". ... Her bleak and definitive statements such as "When I am dead" show her resignation to the fact that she will one day die, and the way she copes with this is by persuading her lover not to be saddened by it when it does happen. ...

• Word Count: 2526
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She was immature and acted irrationally and died as a result of her own foolishness. ... He provides her with any luxury she desires, and they also have two healthy children together. ... She began to realize that she was in a life where she had no choices and could not fulfill her own desires. ... It was as if for the first time she discovered that she had a mind of her own, and she could make decisions based on her own desires rather than based on those of society. ... Her romantic journey had brought back Edna's child heart which is full of love and desire. ...

• Word Count: 4173
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• Grade Level: High School

(V, 1842-6) When liminally translated, this passage says to love him who, out of true love, died upon a cross and rose and sits in heaven; for he will not deceive any living creature who on him lays all his heart. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Still adjusting to his impotence at the beginning of the novel, Jake has lost all power and desire to have sex. ... This scene is indicative of their relationship as Jake and Brett hopelessly desire each other but realize the futility of further endeavors. ... Tell him Brett is dying to know how he can get into those pants!" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The main character in the book, Jay Gatsby, was affluent, but it was all part of a dream, a dream that never expires, a dream that stayed with Gatsby till his dying day. ... This was his dream and he would clutch it till his dying day. " Go away now, old sport?' ... It is because Gatsby desires Daisy so much that he brings himself up to become who he is. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cummings uses "my sweet old etcetera," as a noun, "my mother hoped I would die etcetera," 4 as an adverb, and in "my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et tetera (dreaming, etcetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)," 4 where he uses "etcetera," as an adjective, adverb, and a noun. ... Shocked by his obstinacy, the Colonel throws him into jail, where Olaf later dies. ...

• Word Count: 4790
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's use of language, especially through Romeo's response to Juliet, is particularly effective, as it shows and demonstrates many different aspects of love and desire, as well as showing the true effect on Romeo himself. ... Earlier, we heard him refer to Rosaline as being "rich in beauty" and also speak quite emotionally of his dying love for her. ...

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Abstract Benjamin Franklin stated "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."1 If death is certain, why do so many fear it? Is it our uncertainty of what lies beyond the grave? Is death to be feared as an extinction of life or is there a place of torment that drives th...

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• Grade Level: High School

King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that...

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The first word I looked up was sexy and the definition that the dictionary showed was that it was an adjective that meant- arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest. ... The next word was death and the dictionary said that it was a noun describing the act of dying, termination of life. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1991, a young man by the name of Ville Hermanni Valo decided to form a band. At the time he was working in his Father's sex shop located in a small suburb in Finland and decided that he needed to do something more creative with his life. He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts o...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the play nine actors take part: John "Jack" Worthing: Jack is the play's protagonist; he is the most sympathetic, plausible character, whose love for Gwendolen is far more believable than the other desires we witness. ... He tells Miss Prism he has returned earlier than expected, and explains that he is dressed in black for his brother, who died in Paris last night. ...

• Word Count: 3629
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School