... importance of the chorus diminished and often involved stock characters. It is used to relate to portray the average citizen. "New Comedy accurately reflects the disillusioned spirit and moral ambiguity of the bourgeois class of this period" (Encyclopedia Britannica). The new comedic play, "Dyskolos," is in essence about a young gentlemen's quest to marry a girl in which he has fallen ... of the play shows many different dimensions of Menander's influence as a playwright, the use of stock characters in New Comedy and how these characters represent the disillusioned spirit and moral ambi...

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... Lewis (Modern)ഊs criticisms are similar to Johnsons, in that he believes that the basis of s poetry is pure argument, a display of wit and personal emotions rather than a depth and ambiguity of real experience. s poetry is too simple to satisfy. Its complexity is all on the surface - an intellectual and fully conscious complexity that we soon come to the end of ... nothing but a limited series of passions."œ -There are puzzles in his work, but we can solve them is we are clever enough; there is none of the depth and ambiguity of real experience in him."œ On his love poetry, Lewis cr...

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... still. His love is a fever, a sickness that symptoms is high temperature. The love keeps him sick but yet makes him hot with emotion. The second line in this quatrain uses ambiguity in the word longer. Its dual meaning here is that the disease has and will continue in a prolonged amount of time and its opposite meaning is to long for or ... reason for such a strong desire has no significance. The second line in the use of the word evermore, it could mean ever more, meaning its feeling increases over time. The ambiguity is that it continues evermore, meaning it never ends. His thoughts a...

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... Africa. Africa was his home and that gave him the strenght and pwer to fight for what he believed in. He also had the 'ability to cope with uncertainty and ambiguity' . The reason for this is because he was never sure if he was going to be able to move back to Africa and everyday, he had to live with that ... , she seemed to not really know why they had to leave and never asked any questions. Another one of her power sources was the 'ability to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity'. She was aware that Jay was trying to convince the African Regime to let him and his family back to Africa. ...

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What's in a picture? An expression of one's self can sometimes can be the ambiguity of life. It's a symbol of expression that can be found in the deepest corners of our affection to someone we dearly love. This is what I feel when sometimes, the joys ... ...

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... practice of courtly love did not change women's positions in society or the way they were viewed when all was said and done. Women were still stuck in a position of ambiguity, society could not decide how to treat them and it does not seem as if much thought was given to how things affected them. On one hand, the lover would ... ...

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... average reader. many people may understand the work of Shakespeare, for instance, only because it is frequently performed and studied. The study of Donne is different in terms of the ambiguity encountered in his work. many of his poems will logically support a vast number of interpretations. "Batter my heart," a holy sonnet by John Donne, uses sexual imagery to describe the speaker ... ...

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... theme that is replayed in this passage that also holds true in all the other speeches is the idea of eros being something that is vague and difficult to describe. Ambiguity is perceived in all the descriptions of love because no one speech encompasses all the parameters that pertain to eros, either the god or the action. Also because no one ... ...

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... the word meant to "feed a fire with fuel-, a more current definition of the word is "a personal communication directed by an agent toward a target that includes three components: aggression, humor, and ambiguity- Attachment- a pattern of behavior that defines ones relationship with another. Attachment style affects the way we treat the other person in public situations. Secure attachments are characterized by confident behavior ... ...

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... idea that religious people cannot truly call themselves people of God unless they have found love. In his poem "love is the every only god," Cummings attempts to define the ambiguity of God's identity. To achieve this, his poem melds love and God into one body of power and compassion, and not merely an icon that obligates us to attend mass ... ...

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... of getting caught up in her emotions, she had defeated her obstacles and put me as her aspiration, and I was her priority. I am still at the age and phase of ambiguity, hesitation, and insecurity, but whenever I seek for assistance, I repeatedly turn to my mother. The more obstacles that I encounter in life, the larger my mothers' presence become and I appreciate how much ... ...

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... the fourth stanza the two lovers make the decision to make the goose fish an "emblem" or symbol of their love for one another and their acceptance of the fish's ambiguity and of their own relationship. The goose fish has a big "moony grin" that was "peaceful and obscene" at the same time. They did not know what he would express, maybe ... ...

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... the ability to load layers of meaning into one phrase, simply by the "oddity of his metaphor"(T.Shawcross, 1967, pg XX). Donne has a unique ability on punning and with his ambiguity created through his syntax, though not unusual of a Renaissance text. For example "Until I labour, I in labour lie". The phrase"to lie" with is seen as to have sexual intercourse, and ... ...

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... way to decide is for Shakespeare to influence us by portraying characters in a sympathetic light. He appears to do this by in reality everything in the play is intertwined with ambiguity and we are never sure if one thing means another or something completely different. The only solution is to sit out the rest of the play with a totally open mind ... ...

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... him the villain of the book, Heathcliff never loses his status as a sympathetic character. Although one can hardly condone his actions, it is difficult not to commiserate with him. This ambiguity in Heathcliff's character has sparked much discussion among critics, who debate whether his role in the novel is that of hero or villain. In some sense, he fulfills both roles ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate