... , Elliot's extensive knowledge of a number of fields and his inclusion of this knowledge in his works is a testament to his intellect, not a sign of weakness as some critics claim. His travels also had a profound influence on his writing. Elliot's tour of Germany that ended abruptly due to the emergence of World War I overwhelmed him with feelings of hopelessness and despair and ... this disillusionment can be seen in one of his earlier poems The Waste Land, which became the most widely recognized poem of the World War I era. His later travels to Great Britain and his subsequent conversi...

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... from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. Second, the handsome and polite father has a descent job to support his family. He always wears beautiful suits and travels abroad very often, and the mother takes care everything at their white house. Moreover, in the section "When the Emperor was Divine", the mother traces back to her ... ...

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... psychological effects of the war have impaired Paul and his comrades in such a way that they are unable to return to their previous lives. Paul experiences these effects as he travels back to his home. "I Imagined leave would be different from this [...] At that time I still knew nothing about the war, we had only been in quiet sectors. But now ... ...

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... to unveil the truth about evil within all humans and bases the idea off of the struggle between Christ and the Devil, otherwise understood as good and evil. The book travels alongside the boys into their descent into savagery and reveals underlying conflicts of human behaviour that are covered by civilization. The evil within man is shown through Jack who is ... ...

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