In the romantic tradition, action is always set in exotic and fantastic worlds that have magical properties and set the story apart from reality. The Princess Bride is set in a land of "giants- "beasts of all natures and descriptions- "truth- "passion- and miracles-(p.17). ... Portraying superhuman strengths and comical flaws serves to make the characters all the more loveable to the reader. ...

• Word Count: 1401
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• Grade Level: High School

You wish to serve" (63). ... Rain also serves as a life-affirming symbol, one which baptizes Henry when he decides to desert the Italian army. It is raining outside almost every time something bad occurs, such as the army's retreat or Catherine's death, and serves to mark these events as random occurrences, just like rain itself. ... An American second Lieutenant in the Italian Army's ambulance corps, Frederick Henry, is depicted as an average man in search of a set of values. ... When Henry decides to row all night across the lake to help him and Catherine escape from the o...

• Word Count: 2198
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• Grade Level: High School

The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the audience the possible conditions of how Shakespeare may have lived (Fitzsimmons, 2012). ... Society within Shakespeare's era characterised particular behaviours with set gender stereotypes. ... Her actions set her well outside her gender role of the time, to which only extended women as economic property or vessels for children, which we see when Lord Wessex (played by Colin Firth) apprehends Will and claims Viola as 'his property'. ...

• Word Count: 1880
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is this kind of love and loyalty that sets Edgar apart from other characters in the play. ... Kent and Edgar are wonderful examples of the magnitude of loyalty, they will do whatever they have to to protect the people they love and serve. ... "Within the world of the play, true justice is absolute, love serves justice absolutely, and injustice must be stopped by love." ...

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• Has Bibliography
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When protecting the honor of God becomes Becket's job, he takes it seriously and begins to love working hard to serve his God. ... Becket prays to God, "It has pleased You to make me Archbishop and to set me like a solitary pawn, face to face with the king, upon the chessboard so that I may do what I believe to be my life's work" (94). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"The Importance of Being Earnest," by Oscar Wilde, is a comedic play that is set in London, England during Victorian times. ... He is the one that presents the idea of "Bunburying" in the first place, and sets the stage for all of the controversy that comes from it later on. ... Throughout the play, the word earnest serves a double meaning. ...

• Word Count: 1981
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It is shown to have extraordinary power over Yvain, as when he first sets eyes upon Laudine. ... The encounter between these two most noble knights serves to give the reader a picture of true friendship between men of the Middle Ages. ...

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She has a costly set of beads around her arm, which should be used for prayer, but end in a brooch inscribed ambiguously Amor vincit amnia (Love conquers all), but unfortunately it seems it is referring not to the love of God, but romantic love. ... The Wife of Bath makes the institutions of church, pilgrimage and marriage serve to her temperament. ...

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The conversation between the two involves an allusion to Sartre and his poetic ability that incited an intellectual revolution that, as Emma recalls, "set an entire generation free.... " In other words, we are here to live because we ARE alive and not because we are here to serve any higher purpose. ...

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Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live her life. She searched to find a peace that made her whole and made her feel like a complete person. To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that she was not like everyone else. In Their Eyes Were Watchin...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find Individualism within herself. Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live her life. She searched and searched high and low to find a peace that makes her whole and makes her fe...

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James Carson, from "The Story of One White Woman,"" and Jake Barnes, from The Sun Also Rises, fail to embody the traditional characteristics of masculinity. While James lacks honor and does not represent a protector, or a provider, Jake remains physically emasculated. Despite the seemingly impo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He does everything to try to protect Mabel from harm by men and to set her up in high society as being Livingstone's daughter. ... This is opposite of how Devil-Bug was introduced, but only serves to further prove what Lippard is doing with his characters. ...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It was more important to consider justice served by outward ridicule, mockery, and branding the letter "A" on a person's garment, which stood for Adulterer, than to try to redeem the person through forgiveness, prayer and personal involvement. ... Without this, the standards that she would set would be selfish. ...

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Often times when one reads a collection of philosophical writings on a subject, one will find authors who are usually associated with another field. Among these are Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung, who are all considered psychologists rather than philosophers. However, they prese...

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