... money. The transition from timarchy from oligarchy occurs because these leaders with their own treasuries start bending the laws relating to spending the money on themselves, until the constitution of the Just City is wholly destroyed, and gradually wealth becomes more important than virtue in measuring someone's worth. ... unchanging, ungrowing, etc. The city, therefore, is in a constant state of flux and it's quite inevitable that it should eventually change and fall. This book once again affords us the opportunity to examine Plato's view of property, which is more important to his vie...

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... is not popular with his clients. He also thinks he has good relationships with his family, when in reality he does not. Willy believes his son Biff will "do great things", yet Biff cannot even sustain a job for himself. Biff also comes to lose respect of his father through his affair, and sees him as a failure. He believes his other son ... says, "My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women, and still, goddamit, I"m lonely." He even manages to make his wife, Linda, believe his false dreams, which makes her totally dependent on him. In the end, Willy commits suicide so the family can co...

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... 't envy: Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patent, sleepless eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors . . . ... to switch to what the isolated, hermit-like star is watching: oceans and snow. Again, though, this brief summary leaves out the way Keats presents these things. We don't see impersonal expanses of ocean. Instead we (and the star) see "the moving waters at their priestlike task/ Of pur...

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