... wishes. We will do anything and make sacrifices to please a loved one or even a stranger. No matter how free we think, we are we all wish to be freer and escape from this brutal reality that lies here on earth. We all want to fly high and arise over the difficulties that exist here on this planet. We all wish to accomplish a greater understanding of ... can "see all the world, and easily discover whence the white heron flew" (56). As she's climbing down the great pine tree she keeps fantasizing "what he would think when she told him how to find his way straight to the heron's nest" (58)...

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... to marry him. Hermia was not willing to give up her true love and she didn't mind being brought to meet the Duke. She still insisted to the Duke that she would not marry Demetrius. This can be seen clearly when Hermia quotes "..whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty..,. Hermia is saying that she rejects this marriage and that ... is towards Lysander as she had to go through all this trouble. Other than that, Hermia's true love was also put to the test when Demetrius was crazily in love with her. All thorough the play, she was very faithful to Lysander as she kept r...

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Quotes My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the nest moment. Oprah Winfrey I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. Whoopi Goldberg You know, your career is just your career. Your life is your life. Sissy Spacek How many cares one loses when one decides not to be ... is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley Life is too important to take seriously. Corky Siegel The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer It's not true that life is one damn thing af...

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... produced by regretful actions. John Proctor's past actions with Abigail Williams causes jealousy. John had an affair with his maid Abbie. It was due to the coldness he was recieving from his wife, Elizabeth. She soon became aware of their behavior and fired Abbie with great hate. Proctor breaks it off with ... that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a hate and jealou...

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... thing to love, her young son Paul. Her feelings toward her children, especially Paul, are exemplified when her children are around. She feels the centre of her heart go hard. Everyone thought of her as a great mother who loved her children, but only she knew that her heart was a hard little place that could ... not feel love for anyone, not even her children who desperately need it. Success for the mother is acquiring more wealth to hide her inadequacies. Their family was poor, although they didn't appear to be. The mother spent the money that they had and more at times. It is human nat...

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... she meets a young hunter, who is also an ornithologist, whom she soon begins to greatly admire, but is troubled by the fact that he shoots the very birds that she loves. From her experiences with the hunter, Sylvia learns a few things about growing up and making mature decisions. Because Sylvia has a close relationship with nature ... -as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she had never been alive at all before she came to live at the farm- (326). Sylvia feels as though she belongs in the woods. She loves and respects nature as she wanders about, exploring her beautiful world. Since Sy...

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... began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). Because of the death of her husband, Louise starts to realize the "new spring life"(Chopin 5) and all her surroundings she has never examined before. With her new state of mind Louise becomes ... jovial because of the felling of ecstasy. Repeating to herself "Free! Body and soul free," (Chopin 14) Louise ironically likes the fact that her husband has died. By confessing that she had only loved him "sometimes" (Chopin ... liberty and lack of depression was a big achievement for her. Subsequently...

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... despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... is her madness, she be...

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... allaw them to do what they want,however,what they do must not against law and not make trouble to other people.I think the couples who live together before marriage have the right.They do not do anything wrong because they did not make any trouble to anyone. It is about 2 people loving each ... other and want to be together.The law do not say that you can not have sex before marriage.The couples may think that they are mature enough and have responsibility. Live-in relationship is the good way to get to know each other.I think when people love each ... together,they might have to get d...

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... , he is a wealthy jeweller as a result of his hard work. Famous customers seek his help. He is not satisfied with himself because he wants to be accepted and respected in the aristocratic circle. Oliver wants someone to love and show him their love because earned wealth does not give Oliver true satisfaction and happiness. However ... , the Duchess depicts the inherited aristocracy. She flaunts richness by the way she dresses in glitter. She enters the room with aroma, prestige, arrogance, and pomp, which portrays the inherited aristocracy. The Duchess is keeping her gambling habits hidde...

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... no real decorations or anything eye-catching. It just sort-of blends in, much like Professor Rath. The mise-en-scene at the Blue Angel is quite the opposite. The walls are covered in various decorations and posters. Although this film was not in color, I imagine that the actual club would have been very bright and colorful. It appeared to me to be visually loud ... is falling in love with Lola. Another significant silence is when he sees Lola with her new love interest before he is to take the stage as the clown he has become. Faced with his wife's infidelity and his realization that hi...

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... are manipulating love. This is since our minds and hearts are changing along with the times. Because people's concepts of what love is and ideas of what lovers do are greatly degrading over the years, the downfall of love is roughly at hand. Most people back then believe that love is the only thing that is significant in a boy-girl relationship. Now, people deem that ... love is not the only thing that matters. Several other things come into mind of most people when ... , people let love take control of them. They seldom choose someone just because of their physical looks. Today, becaus...

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... Night, is not just about falling in love and making jokes. Beneath all this happiness and laughter lies a considerable amount of hurt and suffering. The Duke Orsino of Illyria suffers from unrequited love. He is in love with Lady Olivia but she has no intention of getting together with him. Duke ... Orsino lives in a fantasy world where Lady Olivia and he are together and happy. Towards the end of Twelfth Night, Orsino feels betrayed by Cesario, his messenger. Lady Olivia is in mourning, for seven years, for her brother. She refuses to have ... with Duke Orsino but cannot reveal this. ...

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... and no obligations. Jane starts to look back at the relationship she has with Vincent as she watches a television program about a well preserved sailor's body that has been discovered after being frozen for over a century. She thinks about the ideal and perfect relationship that they both dreamed of when ... Vincent was alive. They crave the carefree lifestyle where they were not judged or criticized and free from obligations. They ... and sad after a loss of a significant friend in her life. Vincent could be taken from her life because Jane did not realize that the lifestyle they want...

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... Taylor's self-confidence decline and her fears of inadequacy and motherhood escalate after turtle's assault. When Taylor leaves Pittman for Tucson, she leaves with the intentions of avoiding motherhood. But as soon as she arrives she is given a young child by a complete stranger. Taylor quickly falls in love ... fears are illusory from the very beginning. Even Turtle's name is a symbol for the dependence and love she feels for Taylor. "From the first moment I picked it up from out of its nest of wet blanket, it [Turtle] attached itself to me by its little hands like roots sucking on dr...

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... character, has three important men in her life. All of whom she looks at differently and has different emotions for. Throughout her life Edna feels the need for attention from all men. This explains why she marries Leonce Pontellier, her deep feelings for Robert Leburn, and her sexual affairs with Alcee Arobin. ... Because her husband spends most of his time away from home on business trips, Edna is left with a great deal of time for herself. Leonce spends little time worrying about family matters. He constantly criticizes Edna and only cares ... children. She longs to be with Robert b...

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... as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage."" We become aware of Léonce Pontellier's attitude towards his wife Edna. He seems not concerned about Robert's attentive behavior towards her, because it is acceptable in the Creole society. He is more concerned about the fact ... think and act differently. It will be very interesting to see how her character will change over the next few chapters. Journal Entry 9 December 4 Chapter 15 page 75 + 76 "For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child...

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... her father was a caring and loving man. The illusion of love created by the speaker's father gains even more bulk when the speaker opens the gift and finds that the big box contains a perfectly fitting "blue shirtwaist dress blue as the side of a blue teal disguised to go in safety on the steel-blue water" (16-18). The speaker remembers the "perfect fit" (19) and how ... [her] father" (36-38). This example shows that the lie, to the speaker, was worth more than the truth. In fact, she even recalls "wanting in those days to appear to have something whether it was true or a lie, [she] did...

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... and her baby alive with no food, no water, and no shelter. Novalee ends up spending night after night in Wal-Mart. She hides herself so that no one is able to see her. During her stay at Wal-mart, she begins a phase of taking pictures of everyone and everything. Her dream was to show her ... Mart. Novalee meets many people during her stay such as Benny Good luck, Moses White cotton, and her savior Forney Hull. Forney Hull aided with the birth of her child, and is the future love of her life. When her baby girl is born, she names her Americus Nation, aiming for a powerful title for her chi...

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... , without love. Gatsby died without achieving his goal in life, to have his true love, Daisy all to himself. Should somebody really die like this? The endings in the novel, "The Great Gatsby", can be changed dramatically. In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", I think Gatsby should have killed Tom, thinking that he would have Daisy all to himself. After Tom was killed, Daisy would disappear ... for. An ending in this book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. Nick is watching them the whole nigh...

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... of food and sleep, hoping to tame her and make her fall in love with him as well. At the end of the play, we figure that Kate has been tamed, but evidence in various quotes suggests that she is only playing a part. "Then God be blessed, it is the blessed sun, But sun it is not when you say it is not, And ... 's treatment of her sister, but her anxiety over this may also stem from feelings about her own undesirability, the fear that she may never win a husband, her loathing of the way men treat her, and so on. Katherine feels out of place in society and is jealous of the fact that Bianca ...

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... John is in love with Arlene, something Hagar does not understand nor approve of. John tragically dies while performing a stunt while drunk. Hagar moves to the coast, buys a house, and ends up living her last days with Marvin and his wife Doris. Shortly before her death Hagar realizes many things about ... lot of pride like her father, and thirdly that she is blind, or in other words she can only see things from one perspective, her own. These characteristics and those of the stone angel, which was made of stone, was erected out of pride, and has no eyes, are strikingly similar. Through...

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... regain" Daisy simply because he pursues her not really as a woman, but as an ideal. As an ideal, Daisy Buchanan--and all she represents--must vanish at the first eruption of crisis. Gatsby is very rich and he uses his money to buy friends. He doesn't have friends that he can trust because as soon as they ... see the opportunity, they"ll stab him in the back. All the people that were at his parties were not there to see him. They just wanted to have fun for free, just like everybody else ... and friendship, but in the end it turns out to be fake. Gatsby wants Daisy to see his house to imp...

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... knew him, trusted by those who came to understand his heart. Today is our chance to thank him for the way he brightened our lives. For I love my father I gladly will announce this speech on behalf of everyone. He was a wonderful man who lived his life upright and honest. Even though he committed ... lechery, it doesn't mean he wasn't a respectable and honourable man. He stood firm and strong in the witch court, while the judge went against him and accused him ... with false implications. And the others were lying by going against God and accused my father and sentenced him to be hanged....

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... bond can be formed into a parent-daughter relationship. The mothers of several friends have adopted me. They treated me as a daughter and I respected them as a parent. This "adoption" method is present in many of the faces. The Sister This face is acquired by one or more of your parents having another child. It ... doesn't matter if the other child is boy or girl; the face of the sister is there. The adoption method is also present here. After a time, close friends ... often claim the role of siblings. I don't know of anyone who hasn ... to our children's friends, or even to our friend...

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