In Doctor Faustus Marlowe has vividly drawn up the character of an intelligent, learned man tragically seduced by the lure of power greater than he was mortally meant to have. The character of Doctor Faustus is, in conception, an ideal of humanism, but Marlowe has taken him and shown him to be damned nonetheless, thus satirizing the ideals of Renaissance Humanism. ... The character of Faustus is reasoning and very aware of the moral (or immoral) status of what he is undertaking. ... A quest for knowledge that may seem distant to the individual and yet as a society it is our advancement in te...

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Both Moravia's and De Sica's artistic representations of Two Women depict lost purity and innocence, and the subsequent intense suffering of characters confronted with the reality of a world so different from that of their desires, dreams and ideals. ... The "neighborhood, the house, the furniture and the personal belongings- (Cottrell13) reflect the characters' natures. ... Michele constantly berates the characters for their deliberate moral blindness to the implications of war, a blindness, which results in their being "dead- (Moravia 163-4). ... The sacrificial element of ...

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It assumes that the character of a foreign policy can be ascertained only through the examination of the political acts performed and of the foreseeable consequences of these acts. ... Without such a concept a theory of politics, international or domestic, would be altogether impossible, for without it one could not distinguish between political and nonpolitical facts, nor could one bring at least a measure of systematic order to the political sphere. ...

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This character resembles the Old Testament prophet Elijah in certain ways (see Snyder 81). Cormac McCarthy Journal Fall 2010 1 Elijah predicted a drought (1 Kings 17:1); Ely says he knew that the catastrophe (or something like it) was coming ""I always believed in it " (McCarthy 168). ... They are also, it turns out, "among the ˜best' countries in the world, at least according to standard sociological measures " (Zuckerman 4). ...

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