A parable is a fictional analogy that intends to teach the audience a moral attitude. ... The parable follows a a linear structure in which the younger son asks for his part of the inheritance, leaves to recklessly spend it in 'wild living', finds himself in hard times without resources, and returns home to find acceptance from his father as well as anger from his older brother. ... The parable's main character is the younger son, whose problems are well represented on how this text is also often called, "The Parable of the Prodigal Son". ... The inclusion of this ph...

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He was brought up under deep moral and religious values. ... There are reminders of other routines "a rooster crows at daybreak, a school bell calls children to school, and a whistle calls workers to the factory. ... - (Wilder 108). ... Early in Act Two the Stage Manager tells us, "The first act was called Daily Life. This act is called Love and Marriage- (Wilder 48). ...

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That's the first paragraph of Jon Krakauer's gripping book Into the Wild (published one year before his best-selling Into Thin Air). ... He gave away his trust fund to charity, he cut all ties to his family, he burned the cash in his wallet, and finally he set off across America on a quest for moral rigor and asceticism (sparked by reading the writings of Leo Tolstoy). ... Krakauer calls his death "a terrible accident- that was not, by all appearances, an eco-suicide but a series of wrong choices. ... Would he still be so forgiving of McCandless' walk into the wild? ... ...

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The revolutionaries back then fed into this and began arguing that fighting England was the moral thing to do. ... If there was a single event that really gave the American Revolution life it was the a little paper written by Thomas Pain called "Common sense". This very short pamphlet spread over night like a wild fire. ... It was called the great awakening. ... The great Awakening was a sort of religious wild fire that swept over America. ...

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As people grow, they go through experiences and make choices that build their moral character over time. ... People would call me a low Ablitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don't make no difference. ... Evidence of Huck's moral development is shown when the king and duke are being tarred and feathered. ... He begins to see the faults in society and no matter how you live, civilized or wild, the cruelties of life are still present. ... He transitions from little knowledge of conscience to developing into an admirable moral character throughout the book. ...

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According to the Oxford English dictionary, a parable is a simple story that is used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. ... It is an extremely rude and disgraceful action in Jewish culture that usually would deserve a severe punishment (Barry Wilder). ... The younger son finally thinks to himself, "I will rise up and go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against the heaven and in your sight, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. ... He has injured his father's love and is not "worthy to be called " a son of his father. ... A party would be frowned upon by th...

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AN INSPECTOR CALLS THE PLOT. The plot of "an inspector calls- involves the Birling family who are an upper middle class family of the 20th centaury. ... He is also wrong headed, everything he say's won't happen, happen he likes to pontificate, " There's a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble."" ... I call it lack."" ... The aspects of his character means that he goes beyond a realistic character and is the moral messenger. ...

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The author didn't show any right or wrong moral to it, so it is objective. ... He wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire. ... His most famous novels are The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and To Build a Fire. An excerpt from one of his finest novels, The Call of the Wild, is,""The primitive beast was strong in Buck and under fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. ... Last of all, I like the way the authors make it objective and don't share their feelings about it and show no moral right or wrong. ...

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Lear is exposed without shelter to the pelting of the pitiless storm, and he gets wilder with its wildness. ... He has experienced that there is no moral values in human life. ... He calls on them to blow and crack  their cheeks, to drown the churches to the steeples; they can never reach the height of his passion. ... Lear's sin is not so great as the punishment he is facing and he cries: "I am a man more sinned against than sinning. " Lear concentrates all his attentions on the moral significant of storm. ...

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AN INSPECTOR CALLS INTRODUCTION: In this peice of work I stated that I was going to answer the course work question by considering who is the most responsible of Eva Smith death?. ... In the play "An Inspector Calls" in Act Three, the Inspector tells the Birling family "The girl killed herself and died a horrible death. ... The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family. ... The idea of the play and particularly the role of the inspector is to try to bring the Birling family to understand that they have a moral responsibili...

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Yet, as Synge identifies himself in the preface, these elements in combination are extremely effective in showing the life of the peasantry; more so than any bleak or so-called "real" story (in the manner of Ibsen) could. ... By featuring a peasant class, it would be redundant to make a movie about their lack of finances, intelligence, or other virtues not usually associated with a so-called "lower" class. ... The fantasy of the tale keeps the story from being one of only hedonism - which, in itself, must always lead to ruin in a "realistic" play by the moral conventions that surround socie...

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Of course, we need food, shelter, water and so on, but so do wild animals. ... A religion is a cornerstone for spirituality which helps us to develop a grasp of moral characters and ethics that animals do not have. ... Everyone cannot judge his action or thought to have a good moral, nor others can judge yours, but the Bible or Quran tells us what's morally right to do or wrong. ... I have a friend called Tod, who was really a violent kid, but now I see him as a totally different person, a polite and respectable guy after he started believing in religion because the belief in god changed ...

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Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... This peiod saw brilliant plays such as An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), The Master Builder (1892) and When the Dead Awaken (1900). ... Into the remotest nooks and corners reaches his voice, with its thundering indictment of our moral cancers, our social poisons, our hideous crimes against unborn and born victims." ... It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. ... Benedotto Croce ca...

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The News is personified as wild, out of control, animalistic, monstrous, beastly and therefore, as the reader is positioned to see, both powerful and very dangerous. ... Wild excitement! ... The narrator, who one can assume to be an exemplary investigative journalist, loses the moral high-ground as an objective, consistently reliable reporter when he uses satire to position the reader to engage with his resentment of the authorities. ... He suggests that, since the conversation between Katharina and Gotten has given great satisfaction to the uninvited listener, Beizmenne, the reader too should...

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In my opinion, individuals who experience more freedom of choice will therefore be inclined to make personal moral and ethical decisions. ... Wuthnow calls this "reflective morality" (695). Chris McCandless attempted to call upon reflective morality to find his own spirituality. ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flee, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. ... Then they just slapped new names on it and called it a new unorthodox religion. ...

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Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative. ... You might be acting in accordance with moral law - and that could be fair enough - but if it is to be a moral action, you must have conquered yourself. Only when you do something purely out of duty can it be called a moral action. Kant's ethics is therefore sometimes called duty ethics. ... He believed that man's "practical reason" would force the nations to emerge from the wild state of nature which creates wars, and make a contract to keep the peace. ...

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Just the next year, 1955, he published a second novel called The Inheritors because of the great success of his first novel. Since then he has published many more novels and even a play called Brass Butterfly. ... When all these boys are stranded on the island after the crash, they start out civilized, moral, and discipline; as the novel progresses they move toward the wild, brutal, and barbaric lifestyle. ... Simon also lives a life parallel to that of Jesus Christ; he arrives at the moral truth of the novel and is killed sacrificially as a result of discovering the truth. ...

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They may not be able to match up with our leading characters - they're simply not evil enough - but they sure are a wild, cruel bunch and should be good for a lot of action. ... Iffi is very good in lecturing others about moral and principle. ... Iffi is a righteous person, always trying to do what she thinks the moral thing is. ... Those values will be - meaning: they will be called - the values of humanity. ... And so I wonder if there may be a good enough reason to call the sweet talking Iffi, a descendant of wild men and women, a KIND OF WILD WOMAN herself? ...

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The Great Gatsby's narrator and only moral character, Nick Carraway, saw the illegitimacy of character in this new provincial society filled with materialistic views. ... This was shown through the wild parties at Gatsby's mansion. ... The cards contained their address and phone number and were usually handed out to the opposite sex in order to give them permission to kiss them or to call upon them. ... This was significant in displaying the wildness of Gatsby's parties. ...

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Philoctetes, "the wild man", cut off from civilisation on Lemnos proves, paradoxically, to be, arguably, the most civilised: he is the recipient of the theophany, who alone sees the god and to whom the god's words are addressed. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you going to herd me like a wild animal?... Heaney creates his own version: "oh ahhhhhhh8" and even refers to himself as being like an animal, "I know I look like a wild animal, don't let me scare you9". ... Here we see that Philoctetes suffers both ...

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"The Indians had called it Waken, a reference to the clarity of its waters."" ... In postmodern America, for the most part, ideals are no longer based on a moral compass. ... It is in these lines the stages of moral decline are defined. ... The incident portrayed here symbolizes that both sexes are vulnerable to moral corruption. ... Using an example most teenagers' experience, Boyle spins a tale of youth gone wild without correction. ...

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Each setting is constructed such that it exhibits physical, historical, social, and moral attributes, and resultantly each has a different effect on the main characters of the text psychologically. ... Tasmania, which lies outside of the protagonist Ellen's comfortable setting, is described from Ellen's point of view as being "by turns cultivated and wild" and violent. She describes the landscape as having a cultural feature, "An occasional stone cottage or hut built of wattle-and-daub", which is dominated by a wild feature, "the tiered forests towering above them". ... Similarly, sh...

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Hawthorne's novel is a story of adultery, social judgment, and moral redemption. ... In Chapter 17 Hester tells Dimmesdale about his so-called friend "Thou hast long had such an enemy, and dwellest with him, under the same roof!"... But, with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!" ... By confessing, Dimmesdale redeems himself in front of his own inner moral suffering. ... Whether we are to judge and lay blame on sinners is up to the moral values of each of us. ...

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The audience was drawn to participate with the actor's lines and especially at the end when it was time for the last call for strike. ... Using his political views and understanding of the common man odets gave the world a moral tail mixed with his left wing views and inturn propelled waiting for lefty into the history books of American theatre. ... Odets wrote several screenplays such as The General Died at Dawn, Deadline at Dawn, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Wild in The Country. ...

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"It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her,[ ] " free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being,""and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her,""it may seem marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be...

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