... stance on self-determinism shows that he believes the animal instinct of self-preservation to be more important than manufactured ideals, and that the only way for a man to be true to himself is to put his own satisfaction above the happiness of others. This attitude is presented most prominently in the line "Since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury ... his actions, as they generally appear to be contrived excuses for courses of action on which he has already decided - even in soliloquies, which by dramatic convention expose the character's true self or sincere views of...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... travels to adulthood are the central conflicts in the story, shown by his "confused adoration" of the girl and his frustrating delay to get to Araby. Being smitten with his friend's sister at the beginning of the story, he is completely consumed by "her image" after speaking with her about the upcoming bazaar: "The light from the lamp opposite our door ... taste excitement, foreign culture, and escape from "the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play" that is the true "purpose of [his] journey". As he travels to Araby, "After an ...

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... , culminating in an address by Cleophila to an unruly mob. Alfred Bill states that despite the "background of forest shepherd and shepherdesses, flocks and herds" political undercurrents make Arcadia "no true pastoral" , this is highly evident in Cleophila's speech. In accordance of the body politic as a concept which embodies "kingship", rather than the actual king, Cleophila assumes "the judgement seat of ... character's his name sake (Philisides, Philanax), then endowing them with grounded advise. From this perspective, one reads a monarch, Basilius, neglecting his kingdom in search o...

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• Grade Level: Graduate