Genesis chapter 1 states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. ...

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Johnston (as previously identified) acknowledges, "The Beast is an externalization of the inner darkness in the children's (man's) nature, and its ascendancy is steady, inexorable, as is the path to savagery, increasing in intensity with each new regression on the part of the boys." ... They mistake him for "the beast" during the darkness of a thunder storm and maul his body then dispose of it from a cliff into the ocean. ... Simon was mutilated and killed due to the fact that these boys were too overcome by their cravings for blood and death. ... Jack felt no remorse towar...

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Surely, the theme of the poem, Arthur Henry Hallam's death provided him the excuse to question his faith in God and as well as in the rest of the poem, to question his faith in nature and poetry. ... In the stanza of the preface it is shown the important effect that time have on human being, that is to say, the death "They have their day and cease to be"; every man has his system or his time, which is divided by days, then being a linear time, there is an end. ... As we can see in section 13 the poet is confused by this intertwining of dream and reality and I think that for the poet...

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The body is corrupting and a walking death which we are bound to. ... Consequently, once he reaches the outside world, the bright light of truth blinds him since he was in the dark for so long. ... I believe our bodies serve as a reminder that we are immortal because they will perish when death occurs. ...

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In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... (BE 33) In Sickness Unto Death he states: "For the self is a synthesis in which the finite is the limiting factor and the infinite is the expanding factor". ...

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It is these powers of destruction as well as the uncertainty of death that reminds us of our weaknesses and helplessness. ... In religion, life in the world is meant to serve a higher purpose; and death, not extinction but the beginning of a new kind of higher existence. This life after death is the perfection that we have missed in life. In the end all good is rewarded and all evil punished, in the form of life, or life after death. ...

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The Dark Age with its pessimistic art shaped the society in the same way. ... He was not damned to death or insanity as in Marlowe or Mann's Faust, nor was he saved as in Goethe's Faust. ... However, to live as an outcast is often time worse than death or going insane. Although you are alive, you are avoided like death and although you are sane, you are treated as if you are insane. ...

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