... , and nave. His sexism was the way he thought marriage should be. Pozdnyshev was as impure as any prostitute, but his wife had to be pure. He had too high of expectations of a woman. He wanted his wife to fit his image perfectly, if she did not, then she was not good enough. His egoism fuels the fact that he never takes any ... proposed to the prostitute. " I must marry her and in doing so I will surely be doing far more good than many of those who marry their housekeepers and often even the most contemptible creatures. - (Gogol 22) He even thinks that he is doing a great deed for societ...

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... , in saying only what is, in talking only about the phenomenal world,"" this belief "deprived the individual of any imperative to action. The only action possible was description, and that was done in heroic despair-(qtd.Griffin). A person who sets to high of expectations for themselves often becomes overwhelmed with life. The disappoint they feel from not being able to live up to ... their own image of what a great existence should be, eventually leaves them unable to act on life and they are paralyzed to only description. Both ... they chase each other all over the land in hopes to de...

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