In order to share the kingdoms, he command his daughters to say how much they love him and promise to give the greatest part to that daughter. The two older daughters, Gonerill and Regan were wicked. ... However, Lear's youngest and the favorite daughter response: "Nothing, my lord". ... In the storm, Lear wanders around talking none sense to the storm and came back to the topic about his two unfaithful daughters as "Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. ... It show that Lear mind his not normal, he was shock from the betrayal from his daughters. ...

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By not even approaching the subject of her daughter's death, it is also made clear that Sethe has detached herself from the act. ... She acknowledges that it was a "selfish pleasure" to make something for her daughter, yet Sethe refuses to admit any selfishness in her act of murder. ... Sethe details a defense for killing her baby to the woman she believes is her reincarnated, murdered daughter. ... Sethe kills her daughter to demonstrate her love. ... This was well exemplified in the story, as each former slave underwent arduous struggles to affix the broken pieces of their lives and att...

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Rosalind is the daughter of Duke Senior and the heroine of the play. ... Celia, the daughter of Duke Frederick is Rosalind's companion. ... His daughter Rosalind, however, is staying with the new Duke and his daughter. ... Orlando consents but asks which of the women is the Duke's daughter. ... Until that time, anything Oliver has worth seizing becomes the Dukes. ...

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The building and start of a relationship can be an extremely exciting and happy time, while the end of a relationship can seem like the end of the world and cause deep sorrow and depression. ... From the time kindergarten starts, friends are made and friends are lost. ... Berthe, their daughter, was not conceived nor brought up in love. ... Emma's suicide marks the beginning of her daughter's life as a poor, common laborer. ... Emma was completely selfish for leaving her daughter alone in life and it makes one think if she ever loved her daughter at all. ...

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Gwendolen Fairfax: Gwendolen is Lady Bracknell's daughter, and is the object of Jack's romantic advances. ... Cecily has heard about this brother, and has written correspondences between the two of them for months by the time she meets Algernon/Ernest. ... We can realize the importance that in that time, the XIX century, had to marry to a well-off man, a man raised from the aristocracy or a man with a high status. ... Now I will tell the story in a few words: Algernon Moncrieff prepares for the arrival of his aunt, Lady Bracknell, and her daughter, Gwendolen, in his stylish and ar...

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Then, on finding he is a Montague, it dawns on her that her love (which she talks of here for the first time) is not as simple as it may have first seemed. ... Juliet's father, Capulet, takes a very simplistic and well-informed approach to love, without compromising to too great an extent the feelings and emotions of his daughter. ... There is no obvious relationship between her and her daughter, but she still sees her, almost, as a belonging, which she cannot identify with emotionally. During the first mother-daughter conversation, Lady Capulet first asks for the Nurse to leave for a whi...

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While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. ... The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him. ... Nel's mother did what she could to drive "her daughter's imagination underground (Morrison 18)," raising her to be polite and obedient. ... When visiting Nel's house she would "sit on the red-velvet sofa for ten to twenty minutes at a time--still as dawn (Morrison 29)." ... They wasn't no time. ...

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In Shakespeare's time this power was thought to have come from the stars and that people's lives were led by this power of fate. ... Star crossed' refers to the astrological outlook on destiny that was much more widely accepted in the time period it was written. ... The period of time they are in though, isn't unusual for a girl so young to be domineered by her father to this extent, especially people of a high class like themselves the father is always the head of the house. ... He doesn't know that his daughter is already secretly married The Elizabethan age was a ...

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Paul's friendly with the Leivers family of Willey Farm, and a tenderness grew between him and the daughter Miriam, a soulful, shy girl. ... A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. ... If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. ... Morel, daughter of a middle-class family, is a strong-willed, intelligent and ambitious woman who is fascinated by a warm, vigorous and sensuous coal miner, ...

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When he finds out from Juliet's nurse that she is the daughter of Capulet "his family's enemy "he becomes distraught. ... At the same time, Juliet awakes. ... Love compels him to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter, risking death simply to catch a glimpse of her. ...

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"My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued to be their single offspring" (p 42). ... As Victor recounts this event to Walton, Victor shares "when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences" (50). ... Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. ... Victor spends time alone with the dead, seeing himself dead at some unconscious level. ... Doctors of the time prescribed it for almost every aliment. ...

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The results of a US study published in the Journal of Family Psychology states, "It is rather remarkable that so many people would think that there is no possibility that their marriage will end in divorce when half or more of all marriages are terminated in divorce...positive illusions about marriage appear to be more powerful than illusions about other aspects of life."1 When the reality does not live up to our 'fairytale-Slumdog' visions, love can transition from being indestructible to destructible in a very short period of time. ... While this metaphor represents Gatsby&#...

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When she elopes with Othello she dishonours Brabantio, her father; however, she shows strength of character by standing up to him, and justifies herself in saying that her duties now lie with Othello: "I am hitherto your daughter. ...

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It is vital to take time to gather positive experiences of sharing together and resolving disagreements and disappointments before the big challenge of being married, moving in together and having a family. ... If there is something about the person that would likely lead you to a life that is below your bottom line, move on and don't put any more time in the relationship. ... It is all right to commit yourself to spending more time with the person, or to agree to be exclusive with the person while you are developing the relationship and getting to know each other better. ... Once it ha...

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The main character in the novel Jane Eyre is a strong, ambitious, self-sufficient woman by the name of Jane Eyre. From very early on Jane struggles to find her place in the world amongst a society who places a high value on social status. Despite three major challenges throughout her life, Jane Ey...

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When she was under the pressure to marry Paris, Juliet stood up for what she thought was right and best for her and refused to marry him, this was a blatent rebelious act against what was sociably acceptable at the time.   ... She did in fact wake up seconds too late just in time to see Romeo drinking the poison. ... When Juliet's mother, Lady Capulet, asks her daughter Juliet about her opinions on marriage, Juliet is very respectful with her answer. ...

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It is possible to recognize the prominent relationships between Beckett's characters through the majority of his works; be it dramatic works, prose or poetry. Throughout these forms he creates seemingly hopeless and impossible circumstances for his characters, this applies to all relationships not e...

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Cummings was among the first to question modern America, and at the same time, create a unique writing style that would later distinguish him among the greatest writers in history. ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... To put Cummings in the same list as Plato and Jesus might seem extreme, and almost blasphemous to some, but his work in "plato told" cleverly uses traditional thought to mark him as a rev...

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Cecily sums up the main theme in the play when she says to Algernon: "I hope that you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. ... (Act 3 p91) Lady Bracknell only allows the marriages of her daughter and nephew Algernon when she realises that they would both get very rich as a result. ...

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The Lefcowitz's spend most of their time discussing Priscilla's sexual history, saying, "Certainly there is much to suggest a background of prostitution,"" (268) even asserting that Coverdale might have visited Priscilla when she was a prostitute. ... When Coverdale sees Priscilla for the second time, after being sick for a while, he says that she is "far better conditioned both as to health and spirits."" ... By this time, too, the poor girl was enthralled in an intolerable bondage, from which she must either free herself or perish. ...

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