Human experience is knowledge or practical wisdom gained from observation or encounters, questioning what it is to be human. ... " Likened to Satan in John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Victor turns from God and the natural, pursuing an obsessive passion, "my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature". The recurring intertextuality of "Paradise Lost" and recurring darkness motif symbolizes Victor's blind attraction to science. ... Los Angeles globalist nature in 2019 conveys consumerism and greed through the void of natural elements, neon lights unna...

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The Great Gatsby, a novel written by Fitzgerald, includes many autobiographical elements of the author's life. ... Gatsby views Daisy, as Fitzgerald viewed Zelda, with an idealistic perfection that blinds him to her limitations. ... From that moment on, Gatsby dedicates himself to winning Daisy back. ... Scott Fitzgerald", "This Side of Paradise" was a literary and monetary success, and allowed Fitzgerald the financial security to finally marry Zelda in 1920" (Bowers 4). ... Fitzgerald sought the exciting lifestyle of the 20's with his earlier literary success, &q...

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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like it both describe many serious elements and embark upon an exploration and treatment of some of the most seriousness of life's experiences and themes. ... A Midsummer Night's Dream, whilst having its more serious elements, in particular the way that it could have so easily been a tragedy and the play within a play, is a more light-hearted, frivolous romp in the forest with the central human characters, the Athenian lovers, showing little growth, development or even distinguishing aspects that can be used to separate th...

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In Cervantes's Don Quixote the literary elements stray from the poems of John Milton in the fact that their allusions, diction, and syntax differ, but they both however convey the same theme of passion of accomplishment. ... As he was growing up he received his education from Jesuits. ... In the year sixteen hundred and fifty one Milton became blind. ... Without diction a meaning from a work of literature would not be able to be determined. ... This idea is in a contrast to Milton's most famous work, the epic poem "Paradise Lost," which has a periodical complex structure. ...

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HEAVEN AND AFTERLIFE IMAGERY SYMBOL ANALYSIS When you die, you go to heaven, which will be like paradise. ... Better than paradise, in fact, heaven for the soldier will be just like England! ... In the ninth line, the speaker imagines what it will be like in heaven (hint: like, totally super-awesome), and thus shifts or "turns" the direction of the poem away from the earth and toward an afterlife in the sky. ... Now, we're telling you all this stuff about rhymes because Brooke's poem combines elements of both the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean sonnet. ...

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The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture, though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction. ... The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castl...

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The irrational vision of an "affluent society", an earthly material paradise, had dominated the mind of peoples for twenty years, to the point of blindness: all countries had thrown themselves into a competition of ruthless development and were concerned solely to measure their gross national income, on whose basis they compared themselves with one another, while being indifferent to the natural cost of this economic "progress". ... The Sustainable Development Committee of the United Nations is working on issues arising from Agenda "21, which are roughly estimated to number some 2 500! ... It ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate