Hugo depicts the true strength of this little girl when he states, "any other child would have long since been in tears.... Fantine, through her struggle shows the reader true strength. ... Fantine is a character that shows true diversity in the feminine character breaking the stereotypical passive role and taking full control over whatever destiny was left up to her. ... Eponine shows true bravery in this scene when she refuses the step down, "she stood with her back to the gate, facing the six men, all armed to the teeth looking like demons in the dark" (856). ... Before she e...

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A friend has also become known as someone who is with another through "thick and thin,"" who would rather have pain caused to themselves than to their friend. ... When Louise witnesses a man attempting to rape her friend, the past rushes back to her and she reacts unlike she normally would, shooting the man. ...

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However, what strikes him most is the betrayal of his friend. ... In retrospect, in ActI, when Polixenes is asked about his relation with his child by Leontes, he answers: If at home, sir, He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter, Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy; My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all: He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood. ... Here we read a balance in their true love. ...

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Frankenstein's wife, brother, friend, and father die by the hands of his creation. ... Even after the death of his brother William, friend Justine and lifetime companion Clerval, he remains so entirely fixated on himself that he cannot even comprehend the possibility that the monster would not target him when given the threat: "I shall be with you on your wedding-night." ...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" The essay explores the themes of colonial subordination, gender oppression and the representation of gender relations of the male dominated early 20th ce...

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