A parable is a fictional analogy that intends to teach the audience a moral attitude. ... The parable follows a a linear structure in which the younger son asks for his part of the inheritance, leaves to recklessly spend it in 'wild living', finds himself in hard times without resources, and returns home to find acceptance from his father as well as anger from his older brother. ... The parable's main character is the younger son, whose problems are well represented on how this text is also often called, "The Parable of the Prodigal Son". ... The inclusion of this ph...

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He was brought up under deep moral and religious values. ... There are reminders of other routines "a rooster crows at daybreak, a school bell calls children to school, and a whistle calls workers to the factory. ... - (Wilder 108). ... Early in Act Two the Stage Manager tells us, "The first act was called Daily Life. This act is called Love and Marriage- (Wilder 48). ...

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That's the first paragraph of Jon Krakauer's gripping book Into the Wild (published one year before his best-selling Into Thin Air). ... He gave away his trust fund to charity, he cut all ties to his family, he burned the cash in his wallet, and finally he set off across America on a quest for moral rigor and asceticism (sparked by reading the writings of Leo Tolstoy). ... Krakauer calls his death "a terrible accident- that was not, by all appearances, an eco-suicide but a series of wrong choices. ... Would he still be so forgiving of McCandless' walk into the wild? ... ...

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According to the Oxford English dictionary, a parable is a simple story that is used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. ... It is an extremely rude and disgraceful action in Jewish culture that usually would deserve a severe punishment (Barry Wilder). ... The younger son finally thinks to himself, "I will rise up and go to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against the heaven and in your sight, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. ... He has injured his father's love and is not "worthy to be called " a son of his father. ... A party would be frowned upon by th...

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Lear is exposed without shelter to the pelting of the pitiless storm, and he gets wilder with its wildness. ... He has experienced that there is no moral values in human life. ... He calls on them to blow and crack  their cheeks, to drown the churches to the steeples; they can never reach the height of his passion. ... Lear's sin is not so great as the punishment he is facing and he cries: "I am a man more sinned against than sinning. " Lear concentrates all his attentions on the moral significant of storm. ...

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Of course, we need food, shelter, water and so on, but so do wild animals. ... A religion is a cornerstone for spirituality which helps us to develop a grasp of moral characters and ethics that animals do not have. ... Everyone cannot judge his action or thought to have a good moral, nor others can judge yours, but the Bible or Quran tells us what's morally right to do or wrong. ... I have a friend called Tod, who was really a violent kid, but now I see him as a totally different person, a polite and respectable guy after he started believing in religion because the belief in god changed ...

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Ibsen's early plays were wild concentrating on visions both romantic and poetical of the rebel in search of the truth. ... This peiod saw brilliant plays such as An Enemy of the People (1882), The Wild Duck (1884), The Master Builder (1892) and When the Dead Awaken (1900). ... Into the remotest nooks and corners reaches his voice, with its thundering indictment of our moral cancers, our social poisons, our hideous crimes against unborn and born victims." ... It was not my desire to deal in this play with so-called problems. ... Benedotto Croce ca...

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The News is personified as wild, out of control, animalistic, monstrous, beastly and therefore, as the reader is positioned to see, both powerful and very dangerous. ... Wild excitement! ... The narrator, who one can assume to be an exemplary investigative journalist, loses the moral high-ground as an objective, consistently reliable reporter when he uses satire to position the reader to engage with his resentment of the authorities. ... He suggests that, since the conversation between Katharina and Gotten has given great satisfaction to the uninvited listener, Beizmenne, the reader too should...

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In my opinion, individuals who experience more freedom of choice will therefore be inclined to make personal moral and ethical decisions. ... Wuthnow calls this "reflective morality" (695). Chris McCandless attempted to call upon reflective morality to find his own spirituality. ... No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flee, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild. ... Then they just slapped new names on it and called it a new unorthodox religion. ...

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Kant formulates the moral law as a categorical imperative. ... You might be acting in accordance with moral law - and that could be fair enough - but if it is to be a moral action, you must have conquered yourself. Only when you do something purely out of duty can it be called a moral action. Kant's ethics is therefore sometimes called duty ethics. ... He believed that man's "practical reason" would force the nations to emerge from the wild state of nature which creates wars, and make a contract to keep the peace. ...

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Philoctetes, "the wild man", cut off from civilisation on Lemnos proves, paradoxically, to be, arguably, the most civilised: he is the recipient of the theophany, who alone sees the god and to whom the god's words are addressed. ... Philocetetes says as they are trying to drive him onto the ship, "are you going to herd me like a wild animal?... Heaney creates his own version: "oh ahhhhhhh8" and even refers to himself as being like an animal, "I know I look like a wild animal, don't let me scare you9". ... Here we see that Philoctetes suffers both ...

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"The Indians had called it Waken, a reference to the clarity of its waters."" ... In postmodern America, for the most part, ideals are no longer based on a moral compass. ... It is in these lines the stages of moral decline are defined. ... The incident portrayed here symbolizes that both sexes are vulnerable to moral corruption. ... Using an example most teenagers' experience, Boyle spins a tale of youth gone wild without correction. ...

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Each setting is constructed such that it exhibits physical, historical, social, and moral attributes, and resultantly each has a different effect on the main characters of the text psychologically. ... Tasmania, which lies outside of the protagonist Ellen's comfortable setting, is described from Ellen's point of view as being "by turns cultivated and wild" and violent. She describes the landscape as having a cultural feature, "An occasional stone cottage or hut built of wattle-and-daub", which is dominated by a wild feature, "the tiered forests towering above them". ... Similarly, sh...

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Hawthorne's novel is a story of adultery, social judgment, and moral redemption. ... In Chapter 17 Hester tells Dimmesdale about his so-called friend "Thou hast long had such an enemy, and dwellest with him, under the same roof!"... But, with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!" ... By confessing, Dimmesdale redeems himself in front of his own inner moral suffering. ... Whether we are to judge and lay blame on sinners is up to the moral values of each of us. ...

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The audience was drawn to participate with the actor's lines and especially at the end when it was time for the last call for strike. ... Using his political views and understanding of the common man odets gave the world a moral tail mixed with his left wing views and inturn propelled waiting for lefty into the history books of American theatre. ... Odets wrote several screenplays such as The General Died at Dawn, Deadline at Dawn, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Wild in The Country. ...

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"It may seem marvellous, that, with the world before her,[ ] " free to return to her birthplace, or to any other European land, and there hide her character and identity under a new exterior, as completely as if emerging into another state of being,""and having also the passes of the dark, inscrutable forest open to her, where the wildness of her nature might assimilate itself with a people whose customs and life were alien from the law that had condemned her,""it may seem marvellous, that this woman should still call that place her home, where, and where only, she must needs be...

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The overriding theme of the novel is the conflict between two competing urges that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group on the one hand; and the instinct to gratify one's immediate desires, act violently to obtain superiority over others, and enforce one's will on the other. These two natures may be called "the instinct of civilization" and "the instinct of savagery," as one is devoted to values that promote ordered society and the other is devoted to values that threaten ordered society. ...

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Creon calls the rotting of Polyneices' body an "obscenity- because he believes that burial of the dead is a necessity of human law and not of a citizen. . ... Haemon calls Creon stubborn and proud. ... In consistency with his pride, he insists on staying with his views, so that he would not be called a liar. ... Both Antigone's and Socrates' argument discuss and uphold moral goodness in the eyes of the gods. ... Her accusations are wild and reckless, and she seems to be trying to seize the glory in her "heroic- actions. ...

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Mitchell, Freud and Beyond) He recognized that each person is born with various natural drives that he called instincts, such as the need to satisfy sexual desires and the need to be aggressive. ... The Superego is the moral part of one's self. "It develops with the moral and ethical restraints taught to an individual by their care givers." ... (Golding, Pg 125) In an absence of popper moral institutions such as the church or family, the boys made their own society. ... It became apparent to him that the social values of British society had been forgotten and replaced...

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Although Emil felt content dwelling within the realm of light with his family, the realm of darkness constantly called to him, tempting him to forsake his innocence. ... These boys were forced to survive alone in the wild without civilization. ... The emergence of this concealed, basic wildness is the theme of the book; the struggle between Ralph, the representative of civilization with his parliaments and his brain trust (Piggy, the intellectual whose shattering spectacles mark the progressive decay of rational influence as the story progresses), and Jack, in whom the spark of wildness burn...

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For example, early signs of Tilikum's behavior occurred at a park called "Sealand" where his aggression began due to tight confinement and punishment enforced training; after his first incident of drowning a trainer the park closed down and Seaworld then purchased Tilikum (Blackfish). ... Seaworld advertises false knowledge of their whales in order to protect their multi billion dollar company, stating false information to their visitors to disguise the truth behind a happy orca in the wild compared to the captured whales in Seaworld's pools. It is a known fact that Orca...

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They were the ones who would call people to go to the pardoner to have their sins removed and forgiven. ... This author is in agreement saying, "O what a shameful thing it is when a priest is like an ass, unversed in moral and lawlessly wild! ... Also with the wife of Bath, she talks about her moral values and views upon marriage but she doesn't to follow through with them. ...

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A British organization call Oxitec has been investing the genetically modified mosquitoes. ... Enable to keep the first batch of male mosquitoes mature and release into the wild and pass on the gene. An antibiotic called tetracycline is given to the male mosquitoes. ... The moral concept is what really concerns the scientist. ... There are a lot of environmental and moral issues facing human with the treatment of Dengue. ...

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During his youth before he was crowned King, Henry was known to be wild and reckless. ... At the English camp of Agincourt, two soldiers are discussing the war and if it is being executed for the correct moral reasons, "Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which breaks yonder? ... During this speech, Henry calls his comrades his "band of brothers", implicating that he considers himself equal to his common soldiers. ... By being called the king's equal, the soldiers feel more encouraged and confident to continue with their fight. ... An important part of being a king...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is profoundly feminist in its implications because of the opinionated female characters that voiced their beliefs and showed moral superiority over their male counterparts. ... Spinning round, clapping her hands, knocking her knees together, in a wild, fantastic sort of time and finally, turning a summerset or two, and giving a prolonged closing note, as odd and unearthly as that of a steam-whistle, she came suddenly down on the carpet (260). ... Bird were portrayed as holding moral superiority over their husbands. ... Sam he said der was one of dese yer perfectioners, d...

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