... negative or positive results. Although the plots were complex and the characters very hard to keep straight, each play focused on a certain themes. One of the major themes was marriage and the game of love. However, the couples in these plays show something very dark and sinister about love and marriage. ... and Mrs. Sealand with the complex legal nonsense that "according to the instruction of Sir Ralph, he could not dock the entail and then create a new estate for the heirs general" (III.I) in order to tangle the marriage proceedings between Lucinda and her crass, inhuman suitor. In thi...

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... to arms' when he has to let go of Catherine when she dies, the arms in this meaning signifying love. This shows two of the major themes in the book, love and war. War in this case also symbolizes pain. Ernest Hemingway expresses the relationship between love and pain in A Farewell to ... realism, professes a disbelief in signs, and tells himself that Catherine's vision of herself dead in the rain is meaningless. But she dies in it- (Young, New 40). In this quote, Young tells of the classic symbolism of rain as a sign of disaster. Frederic, in disbelief does not believe in the sign and .....

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