... work, and this has a distortive effect on their whole interpretation, by their insistence on reading "Ireland" through Joyce and Joyce as "Irishman" (Joyce was, instead, an emigrant Irishman). Other themes that run through the story as a whole act like sub-texts to the themes already described. They mainly exist in the form of binary opposites, which each relate to the central theme of paralysis ... knowledge that he himself will probably never experience such a love as this, and always will be "playing second fiddle" to the true love of Gretta's life. It has even been said that the fin...

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... - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. Before it is possible to delve into the aforementioned themes of the futile agonies of war and the perils of Nationalism, it is necessary to understand the political and social climate in which Remarque was writing. ... Hungarian throne, may have lit the fuse of The Great War, but the domino effect that would follow had been in place for some time prior. As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarki...

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... , which allowed him to concentrate more fully upon composition. Although all of those aspects were positive influences upon Tchaikovsky's life; the crisis lay in a sudden and very ill-considered marriage. One of his former students had become deeply in love with him, and swore that if ... key and the contrasting second subject in a related key, normally the dominant. In this symphony Tchaikovsky not only increases the contrasts between the themes and the keys, but also unusually and unconventionally develops thematic and harmonic contrasts. The symphony opens with the Fate theme which is ...

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