... realizes he has killed himself with poison. She kisses his poisoned lips, and when that does not kill her, buries his dagger in her chest, falling dead upon his body. The watch arrives, followed closely by the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague. Montague declares that Lady Montague has died of grief over Romeo's exile. Seeing their children's bodies, Capulet and Montague agree to end ... her prior social moorings "her Nurse, her parents, and her social position in Verona "in order to try to reunite with Romeo. When she wakes in the tomb to find Romeo dead, she does not kill herself out ...

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... the past. Living for yesterday is the conflict faced by the characters, particularly Gabriel in James Joyce's "The Dead". "The Dead" deals with the following themes: death of traditions, ideals, and complacency. The story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, during a time in which the country is trying to gain independence from Great Britain. The bitterly cold December weather does not infringe on the light mood of the party given by the Morkan sisters. However, the ... snow is mentioned quite frequently throughout the story ... themselves, then they will not ever know who they really are a...

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... and he is trying to accept her being gone forever. In Edgar Allan Poe's works, "Annabel Lee," and, "The Raven," both narrators have lost their beloveds by the hands of angels, but in contrast Annabel Lee's lover is happy and in denial not believing she is dead, on the other hand Lenore's lover is trying to accept her death. There are many similarities in ... the narrating men of these two works by Poe. In both the men are barely described, they only speak of the women they love. In both works the narrators believe that angels above are the cause of the deaths of their lost loves. From ....

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... great tools for Hamlet's motivation to kill him, but yet again Hamlet is torn between killing his uncle and involving his mother. "Feelings of intense jealousy at the sight of her giving herself to another man, a man he had no reason to love or respect" (Jones 84). Now Claudius sees Hamlet's melancholic disposition as ... Laertes dies. Hamlet can only now kill his uncle because his mother is now dead and gone and his sole purpose is to kill his uncle for what he has done. Before he dies, Hamlet forces Claudius to die the same way his mother did because he believes that Claudius is now jus...

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... ," Richard Eberhart uses eloquent diction to reflect the changing perceptions and emotions the speaker has towards the decaying groundhog. Also, his use of vivid imagery allows the reader a greater sense of the actual metamorphosis of the dead groundhog. We follow the speakers many shifts in sentiment as the poem continues. The speaker has stumbled across a groundhog "lying dead" in the ground. He claims his "senses shook" ... to quell the the passion of the blood," and "praying for joy in the sight of decay." On line 29, the speaker shifts to an emotionless state. This is far contradic...

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... of this it relates to real life and how this could actually happen in a more modern setting. The first theme that sticks out if how Mrs. Popov is persistent on staying faithful to her dead husband, locking herself away in the house and never loving anyone else. The second theme is how misogyny takes over Smirnov and his emotions, Smirnov conveys himself as a misogynist ... they both set aside their differences and fall in love. The themes in this play show emotion that relates to real life, the first one being staying faithful, the second being how misogyny can take over a man, and the ...

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... way that he wears his clean, clean clothes. He ends up as a man in a wheel chair, mad and alone at thirty three. He is not the last character who will loose all and end up either dead or wanting to be. To Anthony, Gloria was "a single flower amidst a collection of cheap bric-a -brac. " (p.71). Gloria was used to making men miserable. When ... of life. Fitzgerald seems to be warning us all that dull routines and even duller smoothness of the idle rich will always create people who are bored and dead inside. The problem that faces the beautiful is damning. To work for money is to enter th...

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... embarrassed to be with. The last four lines in the second stanza and the third stanza put an emphasis on the discovery of the dead goose fish that washed ashore at there feet and not the two lovers. They are interested with the goose fish mainly because they are trying to interpret the meaning of its smile. There in the soft light of the moon lays the dead goose fish that was very ... old and "corrupt" and dismal. Neither the man nor the woman knew what to think of the symbol of the dead goose fish or of his large ... smile. They just paused wondering what the symbol meant (19-22). Jus...

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... They want to live their life with freedom and no consequences to their actions 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 ... was unattainable and they couldn't be anything more than friends. She thinks about Vincent's dead body being uncovered which would not be as relatively as well preserved as the sailor. It's almost like she's revealing the dead hopes and wishes they have for life as she thinks about Vincent's decomp...

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"The Dead" by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year's Eve party held by two sisters, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner and dance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out the good emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. All things that are emotionally attached to memories don't always ... someone was involved in a red car hit a car accident and him or her. Every red car that person saw could bring back painful memories. Or if it was raining when the accident happened then every time it rained it could b...

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... affright "with his doublet all unbraced,/ no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled,/ ungartered, and down-gyved to his ankle" (II i 97-90). The reason for this was that if he was going to be able to fool people into believing that he was insane, he would have to convince Ophelia of ... better act for Ophelia if he was going to convince people that he was truly insane. Another clue was at the burial of Ophelia. He could have stayed hidden, yet when he found out that it was Ophelia that was dead, he went out to say good bye to his love one last time. Seeing Ophelia ... dead was a realit...

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... some circumstantially based setting, the more prevalent form within the story is the descriptions of place. D. H. Lawrence makes several references about the dark, dreary, sullenness of the atmosphere. A direct relation to the dreary and sullen atmosphere is Mabel's persona. Mabel is the most dynamic of all characters. It can be concluded from the story that, although she is not, Mabel already feels "dead" because she has not fulfilled ... herself as a woman (she is a loveless virgin, more interested in loving her dead mother than a ... is no purpose for life. She attempts to kill hers...

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... only a fine line that separates life from death for humans. However, Dickinson's capitalization of the word Room helps demonstrate that these rooms actually represent the two separate worlds of life and death. Although the woman is not yet dead, her approaching death has already created a separation from the living world. Dickinson also conveys the attitude that both jealousy and guilt are felt in response to ... the death of a loved one. "A blame that others could exist while she must finish quiet." Through ... her friend to a reed. Death was not hard for her friend who "struggled sca...

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... . Emma at first is portrayed as a sweet innocent girl who lives on a farm, and grew up in a convent. Emma is although unhappy with the life on the farm that she is living. She is a beautiful girl that Charles immediately falls in love with. Charles then spends as much time as he can saying ... married night activities. The next morning Charles is overjoyed and Emma is somewhat disappointed you can tell. At this point they leave the farm which Emma grew up on and head to the house which Charles and his first wife had lived in. Emma inspects the house and makes Charles take down his dead wi...

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... . Emma at first is portrayed as a sweet innocent girl who lives on a farm, and grew up in a convent. Emma is although unhappy with the life on the farm that she is living. She is a beautiful girl that Charles immediately falls in love with. Charles then spends as much time as he can saying ... married night activities. The next morning Charles is overjoyed and Emma is somewhat disappointed you can tell. At this point they leave the farm which Emma grew up on and head to the house which Charles and his first wife had lived in. Emma inspects the house and makes Charles take down his dead wi...

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... as time progresses Ophelia experiences many hurtful and confusing events that causes her to lose her mind and eventually her life. It is made clear from the beginning of the play that Ophelia has feelings for Hamlet and vice versa. Ophelia's father, Polonius, and her brother, Laertes, both advise her to forget about ... Hamlet who killed Polonius. When she found out that Hamlet killed her father she lost all coherent thought and went insane. She did not understand why the man she loved would kill her father. Ophelia began to sing to herself and others were not able to make sense of this...

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... , but rather by leaving little clues of his presence. First, Jake poisons Mutton, the family dog. At this time, he is Sigrid's only companion, and protection. He then poisons John, the night he came back into town. Sigrid was the first person to discover John's dead body and she notified the police. She also told them that it was her former abusive husband who had ... planned John's death. Instead of believing her, the police told her that John had simply overdosed on drugs, and ... there was no way it could have been Jake because he was out of the country. Sigrid, in a state of shock f...

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... Cleopatra asks if he appeared sad or happy, and rejoices when Alexas responds that Antony seemed neither: to appear sad, Cleopatra says, might have contaminated the moods of his followers, while a happy countenance that betrayed "his remembrance lay in Egypt with his joy" could have jeopardised their belief in his ... threatening to kill her for her betrayal. The following scene again shows Cleopatra seeking to have a control over Antony, that only she can possess. Unlike before, she chooses to take Charmian's advice: "To the monument: there lock yourself, and send him word you are dead...

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... she wants 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 ... Demetrius was crazily in love with her. All thorough the play, she was very faithful to Lysander as she kept rejecting Demetrius even thought at one part she thought that Lysander was dead. Hermia was also put to the test when Lysander liked Helena (which is due to the love potion). She refused to give...

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... friend Melanie. Scarlet confesses her love to Ashley who responds by saying he loves her back but that he must marry Melanie. Scarlet is infuriated and marries the first man to ask her. Scarlet's husband ends up going to war and is killed during battle. Scarlet is now a widower and goes to Atlanta ... with her mother. Scarlet barely mourns the loss of her husband and is introduced to Rhett. Rhett is a ladies man who does not believe in marriage. Rhett falls madly in love with Scarlet ... has her baby and then Rhett helps her get away from the devastation in Atlanta. Rhett confesses he lo...

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... continual threats and persecution from Neoptolemus' real wife, Hermione, who "wanted to see [Andromache] dead. Her and her bastard!- (Andromache, Euripides, line 912) Finally, while Neoptolemus proves himself ineffectual in protecting Andromache and their son, since "the one who serves to beget [their son] serves for nothing in the hour of need [being] off at Delphi."" (Andromache, Euripides, lines 49-51), Hektor fights ... the Trojan war, among other reasons, to also try to protect Andromache and his son, as he says in the Iliad "But may I be dead and the piled earth hide me under befo...

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... a complicated emotion to define and people often lie about their feelings, or say things that they do not really mean, for example when Romeo plays the part of the tragic lover in Act 1, scene 4 when he says under loves heavy burden I do sink. Very soon after he has declared his love for Rosaline ... , it apparently disappears and showing us that he never could have been in love with her. There is an obvious change in the language Romeo uses after he meets Juliet, when he is talking to and about her and describing his feelings. When telling Benvolio of his love ... untimely death. In Act...

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... his dream also contributed to his greatness. "Gatsby is great, because his dream, however nave, gaudy, and unattainable is one of the grand illusions of the race which keep men from becoming too old or to wise or too cynical of their human limitations- (Ornstein 60). It may ... five years ago- (Fitzgerald 116). Gatsby, now dead was unable to fulfill his dream of loving Daisy. "With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course ...

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... or not be so attracted towards her. I was really very disappointed, I thought all her talk was very silly. This reinforces the idea that Clegg's love for Miranda is mere physical attraction. He does not care about what she thinks; he does not truly value ... own her and look at her when he wants to, on the same basis as he does with his dead butterflies. This establishes the idea that he wants to own beautiful things; which leads to the questioning idea that if Miranda was ugly she may not have been ... the kidnapping and incarceration of Miranda introduces the theme of the problem of f...

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... one equal pound of his flesh: "If you repay me not on such a day In such a place, such sums as are Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut of taken In what part of your body that pleaseth me." ... She is furious that it will not be her making the decisions in her life. "I may neither choose who I would or refuse Who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed By the will of a dead father." (I, 2,122-123) When it comes to the suitors Portia is certainly withdrawn and unpleased with there appearances ... and back...

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