The town portrays good and evil as a dichotomy, white or black. ... " Proctor is suggesting that all present within the town as those present in the court are guilty of equal sin. ... Essentially it encourages our curiosity to investigate as to the fate of Proctor. ... There is an extensive use of allusions throughout the play that emphasizes the justification of persecution by use of religion. Miller mainly uses allusions in a biblical nature, pertaining to the town being heavily religious and puritanical. ...

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Allusions a. ... God the Father knocks on the door to our hearts and breaks our spirit; He punishes and corrects the walk of Christians' paths just as parents do on earth. ... God the Holy Spirit shines and burns; like fire, the Holy Spirit burns in us and shines in our appearance. ... This part of the poem is obvious and probably the easiest allusion provided. ... But it seems the speaker is using this allusion to express individuality of each person of the trinity. ...

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However, when one considers how the allusion to the "New Testament saints" fits within the other historical allusions in the story, it becomes apparently clear that Freeman is talking about male saints. ... The third allusion Freeman uses takes place during the confrontation Sarah has with the town preacher who represents the moral establishment. ... "I think it's right jest as much as I think it was right of our forefathers to come over from the old country "cause they didn't have what belonged to "em" (176). This quote expresses the similarities between the beliefs of our nation&#x...

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Upon arriving at Thebes, Oedipus solves a riddle from the Sphinx who had been tormenting the town and causing chaos. ... Oedipus is really deceived by his own doing to do good but it's simply an allusion. ... Never did the ancient Greek philosophers believe that in our decade of the 21st century we would still be implementing some of their principles in our form of the "Oedipus Complex". ...

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However, through a consideration of Johnson's possible Miltonic allusion, his politicization of the pastoral and his characterization of Thales, I wish to explore the idea that Johnson presents the rural/urban antithesis with a generally unrecognized, ironic complexity. ... Lascelles believes that where Umbritius urges Juvenal to come with him, 'ironic overtones can be heard',3 she continues that the town of Cumae, where Thales intends to settle, has been deliberately chosen by Juvenal, due to it being 'an insignificant, depopulated village'.4 Howard D. ... In a re...

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The Utopian city of Omelas comes off as the ideal world to live in, even with the child who is constantly abused for the sake of the town's happiness. ... The allusion to sex might be something that helps people relate to the people of Omelas since it is a natural urge that all humans feel. ... This is some sort of a necessity for this town and its people. ... The boy or girl constantly endures pain and being humiliated so that others of the town can be live life happily. ... (p.1) They make do without the technological advancement and special equipment that people can use to make our liv...

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The persona's inner epiphany of a self destructive society is furthered strengthened through the allusions to "the raft of medusa" which is a painting that alludes to shipwreck survivors that have resorted to cannibalism as they float across the sea. ... This gives the persona of an inner discovery that all change will have consequences, and that the consequences of our materialistic society will ultimately be destruction of our world and ourselves. ... This guilt leads the persona on the unexpected journey of changing his life around which can be perceived through the emotive...

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The side of town I lived on was very refined and exclusive. Many parents like mine, moved to the northeast side of the capital city to mask their children away from the apparent use of drugs and alcohol as well as the violent lifestyles of those who lived in the rural cities and ghettos that surround our downtown area. ... The group of teenagers known as the Waldo's, because their "chill spot" was on a wall outside of their school, used the term 420 as an allusion to the time when they would smoke during the school day which was 4:20 PM. ...

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The audience is left wondering if such powers truly do exist, and if such disaster could occur in their town. ... The only comfort we are given is a hint of what may possibly defeat it, the allusive "heartspels" the author spoke of. ... And the girls laughed and threw things and-Momma had been walking toward her, and now her hand flashed with sudden limber speed, a hard hand it struck her backhand across the jaw and Carrie fell down in the doorway between the hall and living room weeping loudly let us pray to Jesus for our woman-weak wicked sinning souls (King, pg.53)." ... In Carrie...

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Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ... He also became the most influential critical voice of the movement, arguing for example that, in modern civilization, "the poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language to his meaning." ...

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John Kotre's How Memory Speaks describes memory as: "A scene we experience for a moment-and only once-remains clear in our minds for a lifetime, yet we forget the looks of things we see and touch almost every day." ... Through the allusion of the line: "Shoulder-high we bring you home... "The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/." ... Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? ...

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He lives in a much more urban town than Luke. ... Not even his father could help him; "I made vague allusions to personal problems and went away from them in cold despair. ... In this group of workers there happened to be a young man by the name of Hank Spruill who would change the way life was in the small town of Black Oak while he was there. ... On one Saturday, the day the whole family goes into town, the Spruills came too. ... It is a shame that in our society, people must suffer through hard times in order to grow and become more mature. ...

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12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, 16 The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, 17 Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, 18 Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, 19 Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, 20 Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, 21 And seeing that it was a soft October night, 22 Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. 23 And indeed there will be time 2...

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Smoking pot, and cruising up and down the strip are fun times for the narrator just like our kids will do. ... In a way he refers to it as an allusion or a dream he wanted to be but really knowing he wasn't there. ... I am sure he did not commit the murder but due to his appearance and reputation the whole town probably believes that he did. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... Even the sun, which had hidden his face for many days, shed his warm beams upon us as we drove to church, as if to bless our union. ...

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Soon Schumann and Ernestine were engaged, but alas, she left town and the love ended (however, in just a few months Schumann replaced her with a new love interest, Clara Wieck, Friedrich Wieck's own daughter). ... Even the sun, which had hidden his face for many days, shed his warm beams upon us as we drove to church, as if to bless our union. ...

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Well's father was also a race man in Mississippi who refused to be intimidated by the politics of his town. ... (1-21, w&w) CHAPTER 2 The first line in the poem ("you may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies") refers to the way that attitudes towards African-Americans have been embedded within our nation's history. ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American women faced. ...

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The play not only suggests this holiday, but also refers to "the rite of May,"" or "maying- - a similar English tradition that took place on the first night of May, when young men and women would engage in singing, dancing (and possibly more amorous pursuits) in the woods outside their towns. ... Shakespeare's clearest allusion to the royal member of his first audience, however, comes in Act II, Scene 1, when Oberon describes to Puck the fateful flower, "love-in-idleness,"" that will produce the magic juice. ...

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