In James Joyce's novella, "The Dead," Gabriel Conroy's character plays a central role in the theme of paralysis throughout the story. ... He speaks to separating the living and the dead. ... Although Michael is physically dead, Gabriel's condition is no better. ... Gabriel is spiritually dead, no more alive than the late Michael Furey. In the final lines of "The Dead," Joyce illuminates Gabriel's inward change that causes him to examine both his own life, and human life in general, by complicating his understanding of the living and the dead. ...

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His obsession with Catherine and idealization of her as heaven is made most clear after she has been dead for years. ... Heathcliff says that when Catherine is dead, he will be in hell, ""I shall writhe in the torments of hell"". ... Heathcliff has lived his life for Catherine and when she is dead, his life loses all meaning and Heathcliff sees no point in living. ... With Catherine dead, Heathcliff can only seek revenge on those who in life kept him from her. ... When he sees Catherine's dead body, he feels like he is in heaven and all time the before that his life is complete hell. ...

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Hamlet can only now kill his uncle because his mother is now dead and gone and his sole purpose is to kill his uncle for what he has done. ... His mother and father are dead; his former love Ophelia is dead, and everyone else who ever opposed him is dead. ...

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Haemon's love for Antigone caused him to commit suicide when he found her dead body. ... Juliet does not want to marry this Paris so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that will make everyone think that she is dead. ... Romeo does not receive this message in time and when he hears that Juliet is dead he goes to Juliet's tomb where he drinks poison and dies. ...

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Popov is persistent on staying faithful to her dead husband, locking herself away in the house and never loving anyone else. ... Popov wants to remain faithful to her dead husband, she has no desire to move on. ... Popov is upset and mourning over her dead husband, so he blames it on the moodiness that women have. ...

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It can be concluded from the story that, although she is not, Mabel already feels "dead" because she has not fulfilled herself as a woman (she is a loveless virgin, more interested in loving her dead mother than a living man). ... She attempts to kill herself and. to join herself to the dead love she feels for her mother. ...

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To number the bloody stabs that were there, to look at and judge the dead" (802). ... She can feel the pain and loss he must have felt, having to stand by the grave of his dead love. ... "Where are the people, O Lord...And the dead whom once I knew?" ...

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The potion was supposed to put Juliet into a deep sleep, but to everyone else she would seem dead. The message did not get back to Romeo in time and he also believed that Juliet was dead. ... Juliet then awakes and when she sees her lover dead, she takes the same dagger and takes her own life. ...

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McEwan began "Enduring Love" by telling us "The beginning is simple to mark". It seems that although it is "simple" to mark the beginning of a novel, finding the end is much harder. This is because McEwan believes there is no such thing as an ending. A conventional book, or play, would have thre...

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She had been trapped in a marriage that made her act a different way, making her alone and dead inside. ... This was by far the most unexpected line in the entire story, because her husband is already dead so who would have a latchkey to the house? ...

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I think the author uses the word cemetery as another way of saying that the relationship is dead. ... The first image that came to mind reading that is a dead animal on the side of the road being eaten. ...

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Love is a major theme within Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It is contained in many various forms, namely, familial or kinship love, fraternal or brotherly love, sexual love, romantic and true love, and healing love. All of the characters exhibit at least one of these as the story progresses. F...

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Chacko carried her dead body in a dirty bed sheet, laid out on a stretcher and hired a van to transport it to the electric crematorium. Only beggars, derelicts and the dead in police custody were cremated there. ...

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She says: "It's about time you face the fact that your son is dead. ... " Either way, he's dead! He's dead and it's pathetic you sit here shivering in your own house to suffer for it. ...

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After a series of events Victor finds himself in a rather awkward position after he accidentally proposes to a dead bride Emily. ... Everyone in the town including Victoria is alerted that the dead were in their town. ... There is lots of irony in Lord Barkus`s death because the poison was meant for Victor so he could forever be married with Emily in the land of the dead and he was the reason she died. ...

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However, Romeo employs a certain amount of class here, acknowledging that Paris' love for his beloved may have been genuine and brings Paris into the crypt, rather than leave him dead outside, so that Paris may be buried in a "triumphant grave.... When they are discovered by their parents dead in each other's arms, their parents finally vow to end the feud between their two families. ...

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Unlike before, she chooses to take Charmian's advice: "To the monument: there lock yourself, and send him word you are dead." This drastically backfires, and Antony, in turn has fallen on his sword in attempt to kill himself on hearing word that she is dead. ...

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To him, his lover's dead body still looks very much alive. ... When he looks at her, he still perceives her to have rosy cheeks, which is the complete opposite of what a real dead body looks like. ...

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"What up bro, have you decided with who you are going to prom yet?" Said Dave, Charlie's best friend. "Not yet dude, Ashley seems fine, but Kim's body rocks" replied Charlie, with a tricky smile and an insecure tone. "You shall invite both, one has to accept, hasn't one?" insisted Dave, trying to convince his friend. ...

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"Janie struggled to a sitting position and pried the dead Tea Cake's teeth from her arm" (Hurston, 184). ... She thought that "he could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. ...

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Lawrence uses the narrative device of third person, single character point of view, but he undermines her own thoughts, giving the reader to understand that Lady Beveridge is fundamentally an egotistical person, more absorbed by grieving for her falling status than for her dead sons. ...

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("She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I live dead that live to tell it now." ... The familial love between the Montagues is further strained when the news of Romeo's banishment causes Lady Montague's death due to grief: "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight; / Grief of my son's exile hath stopp"d her breath." ...

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Clegg just wants to own her and look at her when he wants to, on the same basis as he does with his dead butterflies. ... Although, she is a talented, intelligent, beautiful women, she has been moulded to be the victim, the abducted, and, in the end, the dead. ...

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In Act 5 scene 5, Juliet also has an ill-diving soul; Methinks I see thee now as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. ... She has to avoid telling her mother about Romeo and their marriage and yet does not want to lie to her and so, in Act 3 scene 5, says Indeed, I never shall be satisfied with Romeo, till I behold him - dead ".This is extremely clever, as her mother does see anything amiss and the audience does not loose faith in Juliet's purity, which they might have had she lied. ...

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Compare the ways in which poets have used different forms to express a variety of ideas about love. These love poems were all written by men and women expressing a variety of their ideal towards love. The poems are "The beggar woman", "To his coy mistress", "My last duchess", "How do I love thee?...

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