Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. ... Darkness can be linked to the time spent in the womb and seed germination, both of which take place in the dark; darkness is the complementary opposite of light in a fundamental duality. Darkness can also encompass a primitive chaos, and the powers of that chaos; it is not essentially evil, yet it is largely associated with death and destruction. Victor struggles with his mother's death and the evil forces, which took her away from...

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In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. ... He is also one of the foremost pioneers of detective fiction and is generally considered part of the American Romantic Movement especially Dark Romanticism. ... The main concern of this paper is to explore the reasons behind all these dark, coarse and dreadful imagery appeared in Poe's stories, in here "The Oval Portrait". ... In the twentieth and twenty- first centuries,...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are li...

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Before Sigmund's death, he developed many ideas that have influenced today's culture. ... Thanatos, named after the Greed god of death, is the death instinct. ... The purpose of the death instinct is to undo connections through destruction or to terminate life. ... Freud said that when the life and death struggle is directed toward one's self, the death instinct manifests itself in suicide or masochism. ...

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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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Then the Master told the Governess about the previous governess and her death. The readers probably want to know the reason of the previous governess' death. ... The ending of the story also surprises people with the death of Miles. ...

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Throughout history, fashion has been a great and inspirational aspect in life that many people have been able to relate to. Over the years, we have watched thousands of trends run the down runway and back into the closets. The fashion industry is rapidly changing daily with new trends and recurring ...

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On D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers And the Oedipus complex [Abstract]: On D.H. Lawrence 's novel Sons and Lovers, the author in this thesis attempts to analyze the Oedipus complex how to appear, the concrete exhibition, the origin and the aftereffect. Meanwhile, introduce something about "Oedip...

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• Grade Level: High School