Within the Elizabethan comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare masterfully takes two characters of the mortal world, Hippolyta and Theseus, and uses them to illuminate the world of another couple, Titania and Oberon, who occupy the opposite side of the spectrum, a world of disorder, disenchantment, and disillusionment. ... On a last note, Theseus and Hippolyta are regarded throughout the play as being a loving couple, never really displeasing one another. ... On this note, besides the point that Theseus and Hippolyta have conflicting views on the time period between four days the...

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Before bed each night, we put our matching pajamas on together and went into the bathroom to brush our teeth. ... We alternated picking books that mom would read to us each night before we fell asleep. ... Dad left us a note on the counter and wished Danielle and I a good first day at school. ... I realized it was the same book my mom read to me the night before.  ... Mom reminded us everyday and every night that she loved us forever. ...

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While each of these influences are separate and distinct, it also important to note that each of them are intertwined and always manipulating each other. ... It is important to note that this train of thought directly influenced the very characters telling the stories. ... Early in The Decameron, as the seven women discuss matters in the church, one of them enviously notes that the people who pursue this "free-spirited" outlook "draw no distinction, as I have frequently heard and seen for myself, between what is honest and dishonest; and provided only that they are prompted by their appetite...

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The reader must note that the poet who wrote "Cousin Kate" was a wealthy lady, and so could not have encountered the situation in her poem, whereas the poet for "The Seduction" could quite easily have experienced a teenage pregnancy. ... One the night of the party, the girl fell in love with the idea of being in love, not with the boy. ... She rips up all her "My Guy and her Jackie photo-comics" and breaks the heels of the high white shoes which she had worn that night. To the reader, it seems like she is trying to destroy the memories and what happened the night of the party. ...

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She described how she would sit and gaze at him when he perused the newspaper or how she would leave sweet notes in his lunch pail. ... The poet expresses her love for her husband, Robert Browning, who is also a poet who wrote "Meeting at Night. ... " (l.5-6) Browning is saying she loves him whether it is day or night. ...

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Then a night came. ... To express the warmth that flutters within you when beside a fire in a small home in Shilovka, with snow piling upon the windows, closing you in for the night, you feel for the first time the touch of your lover's hand. ... A song whose notes flowed like the paint strokes of God. ...

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Every night he walked the two blocks home wondering what had become of his life. ... The two spent a few weekends up the Jersey shore talking late into the night of their aspirations. ... The two took walks, went to Lincoln Center, to museums, to movies and dined out some place different every night. ...

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While walking in the hallway at work Winston receives a note from a beautiful woman that reads, I love you. ... One night he wakes up screaming Julia, and he starts to think what has happened to her. ...

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"Carmen" is an opera in four acts. It was written in 1873-1874 and debuted in 1875 (Oxford Dictionary). It portrays the dangers of the Romantic ideal. The ultimate climax - Carmen's murder - was seen as too controversial for audiences of the time and was nearly omitted. Fortunately, Bizet was suppor...

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In order to determine whether Adam and Eve forfeit paradise, it must be determined whether Eden, as presented by John Milton in his epic work Paradise Lost, truly serves as a paradise for it occupants. Milton's Paradise successfully serves as a paradise for Adam and Eve because it induces unqualifie...

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Manuel Puig's The Kiss of the Spider Woman, through many different discourses, tells the story of the developing friendship between two prison cellmates, Molina and Valentin. The initial natures of Molina and Valentin are primarily revealed through dialogue between the two. As they interact throug...

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