Throughout Shakespeare's many tragedies, a plethora of female characters are introduced and represented in unique ways, none of which are as strong and bold as the females of "King Lear." ... Completely unlike her two evil, selfish sisters, Cordelia is representative of purity and authenticity. ... Her return can be seen as a symbol of triumph over her sisters, of good conquering evil, and balance being restored. ... While Goneril and Regan's lives run on an evil parallel, Cordelia is the good force that intersects them. ... Representing a schemer, a woman of pure evil or a girl of h...

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The truth of Hester's scarlet letter changed; it no longer represented her weakness and evil, instead, she was now seen as a hardworking woman who is kind and humble. ... Are humans born innately good, evil or both? ... " he demanded, looking into her face, and permitting the whole evil within him to be written on his features. ... On the other hand, Pearl was considered to be born evil because she was the product of her mother's sin. ... No one is born completely evil or completely good, their environment shapes them and they choose whether to be good or evil . ...

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But he explains desires, love, evil and the human nature in his speech, which is a remarkable feat for a comedian. ... He speaks of two different loves, the good and evil kind. ... While he makes a nice distinction between the two kinds of love, represented by two versions of Aphrodite, he also says that the love of boys and men is the greater love, characterized as the heavenly Aphrodite. ... He claims that love is parent of delicacy, luxury, desire, fondness, softness, grace; regardful of the good, regardless of the evil; in every word, work, wish, fear - savior, pilot, comrade, helper; glo...

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Some of the most prominent conflicts that shape Yvain's story are the ones between love/hate, love/duty, madness/wisdom, honor/dishonor, good/evil and chivalry/impoliteness. ... This struggle, which nearly kills Yvain, is symbolic of the conflict between good and evil. ... While everything that was regarded as important and right is bestowed on Yvain, his enemies represent the opposite of these values. ... Without his conflicts, he represents the ideals of his time: courage, honor, compassion, strength and great military knowledge. ...

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Hagar's death represents how rather than being a blessing, love had the power to enslave her based on Milkman's reaction to it's expression. ... After receiving the letter, Hagar's passion remains intact, however, it morphs from good to evil as her anger drives a suicide attempt and provokes a violent characteristic in her. ... Evidently Hagar represents the malicious angle from which love can work. ... Hagar's final moments illustrate how the cause of her death can be attributed to the evil that surfaces with love going unreturned and one's emotions remaining sup...

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The central hero is expressed as representing the values of his or her society. ... Jack tells one of his callers that all women are evil and to stay away from them. ... In the end Jack represents the spiritual values of society by having friends and loved one's. ... Gillian uses sagacity with Jack and Anne to help represent the theme that nothing is more important than true friendship and love. ... The Holy Grail actually only represents true friendship with no strings because Jack is risking everything, not for himself, but for Perry. ...

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Wilde uses Mrs Erlynne to represent the women that are capable of being strong and independent. ... (Pg. 178) The Nightingale represents Wilde's cynicism on self-sacrifice and true love. ... The Nightingale is one of the few female characters in the works of Oscar Wilde that is without evil. ... The plot represents Wilde's life in many ways. ... (Pg. 44) Like the Nightingale, Sybil represents true love and compassionate love, again this love only results in her own death. ...

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The preachers would see her walking down the street and stop her and gather a crowd around her and preach that she did an evil thing. ... Hawthorne's strategy in The Scarlet Letter is to enclose his human dilemma between the extreme positions represented by the black puritan and the fair puritan and to investigate a range of consequences within those boundaries. ( Stubbs Caldwell) The day that Dimsdale confessed he was filled with energy and was ready to tell the world what he had done. ... They could not believe that a priest so holy as he could do an evil sin. ...

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" The psychological, technological, physical, and social dangers of totalitarianism and political authority represented in "1984" perhaps could be seen to compare to the restrictions on women during the 18th century. ... The most obvious one is the telescreens - everyone has one telescreen in the dead-center of their homes that constantly expresses a running stream of mindless propaganda, brainwashing the average man to be unable to recognize the evil nature of the totalitarian party. ... Annabella Milbanke challenges this, however, saying that this represents the changing nat...

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Jews became evil villains of Elizabethan drama. ... The fact that Shylock wishes to cut of a pound of flesh from the part of the body closest to the heart, this seems to be evil. ... Shylock is not strictly evil though. ...

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Kane wears a pair of tinted sunglasses and a straw hat, which represents the day about to be had. ... I feel this music represents the relationship between Susan and Kane nicely, and the distance between them is felt. ... With Kane standing his eyes cast an evil and overbearing shadow shot in a low angle, glare down and an eye-line match shows a high angle shot of Susan's face. ...

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These are Jealousy (this involves Iago and Othello), Love (Othello and Desdemona represent this) and Friendship (Once again this concerns Iago and Othello). ... Due to Iago's evil ways she ended up being murdered by her own husband. ...

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This undying devotion makes the other characters actions (Iago's evil plans, Roderigo's plans to be with Desdemona and Othello's unfounded rage towards his wife) look that much worse. ... Her death is very symbolic as it represents the premature ending of the very principles that everyone's life is based on. ...

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The physical world that the eye can detect can accordingly hide its evils with physical attributes, and thus clear vision cannot result from the eye alone. Lear's downfall was a result of his failure to understand that appearance does not always represent reality. ...

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There are two main couples representing this theme and these are Claudio and Hero, Beatrice and Benedick. ... Though this didn't end up taking place, the chance that it would have could be a terrible event because these two were both very close friends and Don John's evil plot would be in fact ruining even more relationships. ...

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