Do the values represented by the two texts correspond to each other or do you see a conflict? ... The values represented in the "Prologue" of the Thousand and One Nights confirm the ones written in the Koran, "4.Women" because men are represented as authoritative and forceful whereas women are portrayed as beautiful "things", there only to obey, entertain and please the male characters. ... Once again, a wife is represented as disloyal to her husband. ... Evidently the females in the Prologue of the Thousand and One Nights are the cause of all evil and consequently all the women are...

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By giving motherhood strength, Stowe is saying that mothers will be the ones to end the evil of slavery, and the family will be saved through the power of motherly love. ... Stowe represents the mothers in Uncle Tom's Cabin as strong willed, with deeper Christian family values than their husbands because she believes that the reader will identify with these strong mothers who are capable of keeping the family united and overcoming the evils of slavery. ...

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Red is a prominent theme throughout the movie as it represents passion and evil. ... The masks at Nathanson's house, Dominoe's apartment, and at the orgy in Somerton represent a loss of reality. ... The deserted island represents their relationship, and their nudity represents the baring of their souls (the fight they had the night before, when Alice told Bill about her fantasies of the Naval Officer.) ... This represents Bill's attempt to compensate for his wife's desires, as he is running to hookers, and an orgy in order to cover up again. ...

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Eventually, Sula's actions caused her to be labeled as evil. ... After Sula's death, the town soon fell apart because they lacked the evil that pushed them to be good. ... "But while Sula and Nel are represented as two parts of a self, those parts are distinct; they are complementary, not identical. ... When Sula returned to the Bottom she was accompanied by a plague of robins which to the community represented evil. ... When Sula sleeps with Jude, a direct conflict between their different conceptions of evil surfaces. ...

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But he is too weak to resist the pull of evil. ... The metaphor of reason as a viceroy is a way of saying that God is represented in the speaker by his ability to reason. Reason tells him he is sinful, "but it is captived," or in other words, the speaker's reason itself is held hostage by evil and can't help him. ... The enemy is sin or evil or Satan. ...

• Word Count: 750
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"Gods can be evil sometimes."" In the play "Oedipus the King-, Sophocles defamed the gods' reputation, and lowered their status by making them look harmful and evil. It is known that all gods should be perfect and infallible, and should represent justice and equity, but with Oedipus, the gods decided to destroy him and his family for no reason. ... The gods, especially Apollo, are considered evil by the reader because they destroyed an innocent man's life and his family. ... If there is any evil worse than the worst that a man can suffer "Oedipus has drawn it for his lot."" ...

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The truth of Hester's scarlet letter changed; it no longer represented her weakness and evil, instead, she was now seen as a hardworking woman who is kind and humble. ... Are humans born innately good, evil or both? ... " he demanded, looking into her face, and permitting the whole evil within him to be written on his features. ... On the other hand, Pearl was considered to be born evil because she was the product of her mother's sin. ... No one is born completely evil or completely good, their environment shapes them and they choose whether to be good or evil . ...

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Women in Aztec Society In the Aztec society women were fated to a domestic life. Young girls were raised from birth to learn the domestic arts, such as weaving. Weaving was a sacred female art. Weavers that could produce the best designs enjoyed high praise from her community. Another impo...

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The night before the wedding, the bride must bathe in skin nourishing water to cleanse her of evil spirits. ... This is said to ward off evil influences. ... The gifts include as many as nine items representing happiness and fortune. ... A Shinto priest first holds a purification mass to rid the bride and groom of evils. ...

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From the author's perspective, the chest represents a religious point of view. ... "(122, Stigen) Although the author evokes Martha as an evil force, I believe that her behavior is due to Torvald's actions toward her. ...

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The story is even set at Padua High School, to represent the setting of the original play. ... His presence adds a little twist to the storyline, but ultimately seems to represent the age-old cliché of good triumphing over evil. The original play did not have Bianca's suitors actually paying someone to woo Katherine, however this payment could be thought to represent Katherine's dowry to Petruchio. ...

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Absolutely, it represents all the moments of choices in our lives. ... Also, referring to the dialog of the second messenger from the excerpt on page 73, he said "Evil not done unconsciously, but willed. ...

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"The Metamorphosis", "The Thousand and One Nights", and "Decameron" all tell stories within stories which demonstrate a woman's love, deception, and virtue. In "The Metamorphosis" and "Decameron", Ovid and Boccaccio devised stories within stories to demonstrate that women will transform themselves t...

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It is in nature that Romantic characters find the peace and clarity to realize the evils of society that have led them to a false self. ... One of the reasons for this lies in the chronology of the story, for the evils of society are not revealed until the Romantic Journey has already been taken. ... Although she does not realize it yet, these feelings of freedom will drive her to break away from the evils of society. ...

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Two altars, one smaller than the other, have been found at archaeological sites in the Near East, and some scholars believe these represent Yahweh and his consort, Asherah. ... Then Deborah and Barak composed a song about the battle that was sung around Jewish circles for a millennia.Jezebel, one of the evil women of the Bible, and today her name is synonymous with evil, was actually a Phoenician princess from Sidon. ... Jezebel represented a woman with political and religious power not a seductress. ...

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If a sick person publicly confesses his or her evil doings, the ancestors are satisfied and the patient will recover. ... They come and sit by his body throughout the night, blowing trumpets, the squeaky notes of which are intended to represent the cri...

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Jane Austen is one of the most prominent women novelists in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. This novel deals with the politics of love and marriage observed in the transition period when the Augustan phase ended and the Victorian Era began. Though, Austen lived during some ground-shaking historic events like the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; she doesn't mention either of the historic events in her various novels. Her speciality has to do more with portrayi...

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Each character represents the concept that God and earthly possessions are unrelated and that there's a thin line between good and evil; who a person wants to be and who they really are. ... As he traveled the world he faced various spiritual indications of beauty, tranquility, and order as represented by his tattoos; all diverse and in disagreement to the way he was living his life. ...

• Word Count: 1910
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This undying devotion makes the other characters actions (Iago's evil plans, Roderigo's plans to be with Desdemona and Othello's unfounded rage towards his wife) look that much worse. ... Her death is very symbolic as it represents the premature ending of the very principles that everyone's life is based on. ...

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Naylor's description of Nedeed with his "short squat body" and protruding eyes,""(3) conjures up an evil and almost satanic picture in the reader's mind. ... While discussing a possible housing project near Linden Hills, the unfavorable comments coming from everyone seem to represent a great deal of discrimination towards their own race. ...

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Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek- barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the "barbarian", or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. C...

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Women were considered not only intellectually and physically inferior to men but also a source of temptation and evil (Epstein 21:317). ... Although strong voices were raised against this view of women, they did not represent the views by which most men and women were guided in their daily lives. ...

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