... well, with hard work and faith, and the land which touches all who touch it. In Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, the heroic ideal whose definition began with Moby-Dick is again viewed. Father Lour is clearly seen as having an elevated status, concern and understanding for the people, and a desire to make a lasting mark on the land that becomes ... ...

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... the archetypal "evil genius": the highly gifted but ultimately degenerate individual whose fall is the stuff of legend. Kurtz is related to figures like Faustus, Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost,Moby-Dick's Ahab, and Wuthering Heights's Heathcliff. Like these characters, he is significant both for his style and eloquence and for his grandiose, almost megalomaniacal scheming. In a world of mundanely malicious men ... ...

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