... do unto other as they have done unto you", dates back thousands of years to the writing of the Old Testament and the culture of ancient Greece. Medea, protagonist of Euripides' drama of the same name and a woman wronged by her husband, used this idea and evened the score by murdering four innocent ... examine, however, if the ideals of revenge are suitable or if grief blinded this women, causing her to forget reason, as I believe happened. Medea, like so many others who practiced the ideal of revenge, justified her unthinkable doings with her actions of the past and the recent doings of ...

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... , will continue to live our lives in sin and despair. Augustine's view of humans differs in a great extent to that of thetragic sense of like? portrayed in Oedipus Rex and Medea. Augustine thoroughly explains that God chose to give us life and though He guides us and comforts us he does not choose our destiny upon us. We as humans choose ... and prophets told them their futures and they had their lives planned from the get go. Oedipus had no choice in what was destined to happen to him, nor did Medea. Since the Gods chose their lives, they could not escape their divined destiny. Nor, cou...

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... of a mental illness, that depression has the potential to have an immense toll on one's life. In the poem, Plath uses implied metaphors to reinforce this idea. An implied metaphor is a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but does so without mentioning one of them. "Indian pipe" (5). An Indian pipe, also known as the "corpse plant" ... white coloration. The lack of chlorophyll forces the plant to generate its own energy from the sunlight. When touched, the plant turns black and withers away. Plath uses this indirect metaphor to suggest that when life brushes against her...

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... on the subject. In "Meditation 17", John Donne offers his thoughts on death. He presents his thoughts with the use of an extended metaphor, which compares humanity to a book in which each person makes up a chapter. He uses this metaphor to help readers understand the main idea of this work. "Meditation 17" was written to invoke thought upon its central idea. In ... are translated by war and justice. These translated chapters are then joined together to form books in a "library" for everyone to read. This "library" is heaven. By using this extended metaphor Donne tries to convince the re...

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... members of her family. Linda feels dissatisfied because she does not feel that her family respects her enough as a mother. Linda wrote the poem "Marks," whose main theme was the metaphor of school grades. The poem does a great job of showing Linda's true feelings, as well as the possible idea of her dropping out. I think that Linda chose this ... metaphor to describe her family because she feels that her family is judging and grading her performance at home. According to the poem, Linda does not feel appreciated by her family. ... poem is because she wants her family to realize how vi...

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... of the letter "h" show a degree of urgency in her tone, and are an early indication of the evil persona she is starting to adopt. The latter can be compared to a metaphor for venom, illustrating Lady Macbeth's intentions to fill Macbeth's mind with the deepest raw cruelty that she is persistent in making herself possess, through expression. Her fear of his kind ... . She metaphorically predicts the king's death as her soliloquy strengthens, "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements". The raven is the given metaphor, which was known as a bi...

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... through strange avenues of an astonishing city, with green and red lights that burned without fire or smoke, an enormous metal insect that whirred away between his legs". This metaphor shows the absurd traits of the dream that were left out. Only now does the reader realise that the assumed reality was in fact part of the protagonist's subconsciousness. This ... him in the Aztec world are reflected through the motor cycle crash. This is represented though "He detached himself almost physically from the final scene of the nightmare". This metaphor highlights the physical link between the...

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... the "Republic", where we can learn about his beliefs including ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics. The Metaphor of the Divided Line also created by Plato represents the levels of knowledge one can obtain. From this metaphor comes the Forms, and how the understanding of this Forms and applying them will help society. In his theory Allegory of ... ...

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... when he describes his youth as a fire, now going out. Ashes are the deathbed upon his last remaining fuel of life. This creates an image in the reader's mind. Also metaphor use was utilized when comparing night with death, creating an eery but comforting thought of death. The figurative language Shakespeare uses when he extends metaphors of the night and season ... have different ideas about what it truly means, how it feels, how it should be thought of and the way it affects, or should affect people. Word List: 1) Black death: metaphor for death itself. 2) Death's second self: black ni...

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... "A burp perfumed the air" presented the true emotions of the narrator and allowed for the reader to connect to the mind of young Soto. He repeats throughout the excerpt, the metaphor of "shadows of angels flopping on the backyard grass faraway messages in the plumbing" (with whom he thought came from God.) This is a comparison between the noise of an old ... plumbing system and the idea of God sending messages down to earth. He expands on the metaphor later with a simile of the pipes because he hears in them "a howl like the sea." Young Soto believes that since he has sinned, God now ye...

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... which he included Abraham Lincoln into his dialogue was very impressive and motivating. Also, his use of metaphors fit perfectly into how he was trying to deliver his speech. The metaphor that stood out to me the most was his one about cashing the check. The basis of his speech revolved around this ... metaphor. I think that there would be no better way to relate to understandable term than how King did with his use of the Negro as a "bad check." To me, it was ... ...

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... the imagery of towels and linen develop the idea of changing and unchanging elements in the mother's life. Towels and linen, once introduced in the 5th stanza, become an extended metaphor for the mother's life and everything she stood for. When she died she was folding a little towel' typifies the mother's life. She was a person who required cleanliness, and stood by ... each marvel joins to another to make up the whole. Gwen is in admiration of this way of dealing so cleanly and neatly with life. The next stanza extends the metaphor into including that her life has been based on qualit...

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... line between a higher force and chance was blurry in Oswald's eyes. "Everything was taken care of. It's falling into place."(334) In the midst of Oswald's wandering thoughts at the exile camp this is one of his thoughts. This is normal for Oswald, thinking that things are going in a certain direction because of a higher force. It was almost as if he ... ...

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... of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy" (Hemingway 25). Through exile and self-awareness, Santiago learns the true meaning of his artistic integrity from his speech with the marlin to his wise words of the sea, "But the old man always ... ...

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... . The intense personal relationship of Gertrude and Hamlet is constructed in a form in which Hamlet's fixation is provided little context, allowing for the development of speculative interpretations. The established extended metaphor of the "unweeded garden" resonates throughout the princes' cautioning to Gertrude, "not to spread the compost on the weeds". The carefully constructed sentences lack an explanation ... ...

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... is strived for by all, to escape the cave and go somewhere better and become something better. He expresses this theory with three approaches: his allegory of The Cave, his metaphor of the Divided Line and the Simile of the Sun. Each theory is connected; one could not be without the other. The shadows are produced by men, walking in front ... ...

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... are Granny's feelings about the loss of her child, Hapsy. Even while thinking about the jilting she received from George, "it was Hapsy she really wanted- (1297). Porter used a great metaphor in describing Granny's desire to see Hapsy writing, "She had to go a long way back through a great many rooms to find Hapsy standing with a baby on her arm- (1297). That ... ...

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... good. (3) What made them think The worlds room was so small? (14-15) These three lines are written to represent that the prey has an advantage in the hunt. The metaphor used by stating: "the world's room" gives a sense of how large a space one can flee. This poem gave me feelings of excitement at first with the thought of action and ... ...

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... most of the paper so you can't put me back." It's as if she sees her self trapped in the wall paper, just trapped in general. Maybe the wallpaper is a metaphor for something she feels is trapping her. If she tears away the thing that is confining her, she can get away and be free. I didn't mind this story at all ... ...

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... heron in Siddhartha. For example, at a point in Fight Club, a character questions his safety. The reply from the character, Tyler Durden, is, "You"re as safe as a Hindu cow", is a metaphor that since the cow is very respected in the Hindu religion and is not harmed. This may be mere coincidence, but other information gives reason to believe otherwise. Other than ... ...

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... that filled it previously, Dimmesdale looked on. Pondering to himself whether or not he was diluted from a higher hatred, or if his independence has been brought forth by this natural metaphor. His ambiguous psychological queries nearly brought uproar to the secret anomaly imbedded in his heart, deep in his soul. His mental compass figures Panay directly in it's sights. Manginess flirted ... ...

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... picture these people at the funeral in the narrator's Brain. Instead, this poem is best understood by the sounds she describes it by. In the first stanza, Dickinson utilizes the metaphor of a "Funeral, in my Brain- (Ln. 1) and specifically uses capital letters to emphasize important nouns. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it ... ...

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... of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. It is an extended metaphor full of symbolism. All of the objects in the story mean something, and can be applied to the world we live in. Socrates starts his story by describing an image ... ...

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... as its picture. In the third fact, Emerson believed nature is the symbol of spirit. The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor to the human mind. The relation between mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and is therefore free to be known ... ...

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... all the Souls that stand create At Half Past Three Themes: I felt a funeral in my Brain The poem deals with intense anguish and suffering, using the funeral procedure as a sustained metaphor which eventually destroys the sanity. The Soul Selects Her Own Society Dickinson is dealing with the theme of renuncitaion. She is dramatising the moment of selection. This is a very cryptic ... ...

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