... Lucentio, Gatsby realizes at the end that 5 years of his life had been spend trying to aspire to achive something that was unattainable: the past. Both characters' ambitions eventually lead to their downfall as Gastby dream serves as his exectutioner, and Lucentios wife as his humiliator. They both aspired to achieve the unattainable, and became tangled in a mixture of hopes and dreams to the ... point where it was too late. Therefore, it is evident that Money, love and inspiration play a similarly important role in conveying recurring aspects in both the taming of the shrew and the gre...

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... . The key to finding happiness in a nutshell is simply having hopes and aspirations for the future. Jay Gatsby, the namesake of Fitzgerald's novel, is a prime example of such expectations. Throughout his entire life, he holds true to himself and his own dreams; he goes to great lengths in an impressive attempt to reach them ... taken from the second to last page of the novel. In the course of the book, we were introduced to the real Gatsby. We learned of his real past, and the real means by which he had attainted his impressive wealth. In the end, it turned out that the rumors were parti...

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... novel, his dream is to find his true love, Daisy, through wealth and power. Through their appearance there remains an empty space that only love can seal. As dazzling and attractive Gatsby and Daisy may seem, beyond their clothes and wealth lies an unexplainable feeling of love and remembrance. In the passage selected, Gatsby and Daisy encounter a whole new meaning to clothes. Which consumes them into a ... time they have once lost. In this chapter the reunion between Gatsby and Daisy arouses uncomfortable emotions between them both. This ... or gold. Blue can represent the water that ...

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... Daisy from her husband, Tom. The neglect that Daisy feels is overwhelming. At some parts she sounds as though her whole life is tragically falling apart and there is no way to reclaim her life. Gatsby tries to save her from her distressful life but unlike Christ his reasons are merely selfish. His motives are based purely on lust, pride, or on ... the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong" (Fitzgerald 141). The selling of illegal alcohol is the separation between Christ and Gatsby. For where Christ was pur...

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... American Dream. The true meaning of the American Dream is lost by the characters in The Great Gatsby, and leads them to the downfall of their life trying to obtain it's illusionary goals. For Jay, in The Great Gatsby, the interpretation of the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get this happiness, Jay must reach into the past ... Nick at one of his famous parties, Nick agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over" (83). Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger Americ...

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?Winter Dreams,? by Scott Fitzgerald, is a short story about the control of one person over the emotions of another. In this midpoint passage fromWinter Dreams,? Dexter has committed to Judy Jones, a young and beautiful girl he remembers from his youth. Only wanting the best for both of them, it turns out ... to be a nightmare for Dexter. Through the passage Fitzgerald illustrates how Judy has total control over Dexter's actions and emotions. Fitzgerald ... to the highest degree of her physical loveliness? (5). This quote means that Judy flaunted her physicality knowingly. She was a beautiful...

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... . The good tried desperately to break away from the evil that held her with an iron fist. The money, the power and the man proved too much for her however and leave Gatsby with out any thing she did. Daisy was drawn from that man in the middle by one of the three evils, which were coincidently tied in a violent love triangle. The ... come back to her but her good faith was misplaced. Her good turned to be the advantage of the evil. Tom aimed to bring down the successful Gatsby by revealing his misdeeds to the world and especially Daisy. The evil who was Tom had waited to take down the de...

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... only visible when the eyes are closed, when vision is inward-looking. In Act IV, Scene 1, Demetrius comments on the permeability of the barrier between night and day, and the ability of night visions to carry over into the daylight hours. "Are you sure/ That we are awake? It seems to me/ That yet ... we dream" (Act IV, Scene 1). In daylight, the four lovers go on to recount their dreams together, struggling to make sense of the night through the framework of the dream. "And by the way let us recount our dreams." (Act IV, Scene 1, 197) Shakespeare uses imagery to emphasize the significanc...

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... define what Laura meant to him. But soon, Laura begins to appear in the poet's dreams, more beautiful and magnetic than ever. Petrarch's contemplation of true love and spirituality deepens, his inspiration renewed. Although Petrarch's love for Laura remains unrequited, his poems exude confidence and beauty, yet also desperation to some extent. Petrarch believes poetry is the greatest force in the ... mortals. Nevertheless, Petrarch remains a hopeless romantic. He follows his heart, no matter what the emotional consequences. Ultimately, Laura's significance lies in her ability to represent...

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... home. In the novel Animal Dreams, the author Barbara Kingsolver told the story of Codi and her trip back to Grace, Arizona. Codi returns to her hometown where there's nothing to fulfill her restless lifestyle. When she arrived in Grace, she didn't feel at home, she lacked courage and she didn't feel loved. "I"d ... Codi asked the all the townspeople to bring something that reminded them of her to the funeral. As Codi's eyes moved over all of the toys and memories she noticed, "each one of these fifty mothers who"d been standing at the edges of my childhood, ready to make whatever contrib...

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... Wisdom in discourse with her/ Looses discount'nancet , and like folly shewes;/ Authority and Reason on her wait,/ As one intended first, not after made" (p. 2089, ll. 549-55). Even after Eve dreams about eating from the tree he reassures her that she is good and the dream does not make her bad. "Best ... Image of myself and dearer half,/ The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep/ Affects me equally; nor can ... pure of sinful thought,/ Wrought in her so, that seeing me, she turn'd" (p. 2088, ll. 500-07). At the beginning Eve was being modest and restful while Adam ran after her in...

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... with the sun setting from the west. The line, "Sometimes a sail. High, high stars," compares his wife to the sail of a ship and to the stars that are far away, just like she is to Neruda. The "black cross of a ship," according to WikiAnswers.com, means ... and alone that his sweat even dampened his soul. His inner spirit is wet and cold. The "sea sounds and resounds" symbolizes memories gathered in time. This imagery foreshadows that Pablo Neruda's wife is the port. This place is where Neruda's mind travels to that brings along memories and recollections of her, in his dreams ... . Here I...

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... in gold at the very end, knowing that Romeo had preferred to die rather then live without her, makes Montague's intentions true. Furthermore the love between Romeo and his family is so strong that, on realising that her son was exiled, Lady Montague died of grief. Juliet's family, however, is slightly different. Capulet ... caged. It stresses the need for understanding parents who will care properly for their child growing up but also to respect his/her's individual personality and thoughts. Fraternal love is featured very early in the play when Benvolio offers to help Romeo, his very cl...

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... who influences him to take on another assignment, shadowing Gavin's wife, Madeleine. Alfred Gavin believes that Madeleine is being possessed by her dead grandmother and told to commit suicide. Through this assignment, Scottie falls in love with Madeleine but due to his tormented mental state, his vertigo, he is unable ... All her freedom is lost and she is left with an empty feeling inside. All the death in the film gives the movie a very dark and disturbing tone. As is seen in the movie, the police officer in the beginning dies, Madeleine dies, Judy dies and Scottie dreams of his death...

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... spiritual connection. At several stages of their friendship they considered themselves spiritually married, meaning that they met each other through astral travel and in their dreams. In his poem, Ephemera Yeats wrote: Before us lies eternity; our souls Are love, and a continual farewell. During Yeats" association with Maud, each had several different relationships. One of Yeats" affairs with Olivia Shakespear was ... tainted by his love for Maud. He wrote in one of his poems, "The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love": I had a beautiful friend And ... frightening physical beauty. Both M...

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... some degree, the differences lie in the structure of the religion. For the most part, they do not lie in the poems themselves. Between comparing and contrasting the poetry of these two countries, comparing is the easiest. They are alike in so many ways that it would take several papers to fully ... without a doubt written by men. India makes note of the women writers of their religious poems. Greece has many poems that are without an author, and the recorded amount of female religious poetry is numbered. Secondly, while both of the cultures were known to write poems about the gods" lov...

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... and eventually coming to understand people Siddhartha finally understands the importance of love and reaches enlightenment. One of the first ideas Siddhartha has about enlightenment is that only through total separation can he find the inner Atman, and thus reach enlightenment. To separate from the Self, Siddhartha joins the Samanas, a group of ascetics, and attempts to "become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams ... , pleasure, and sorrow- to let the self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an ... emptied heart, to experience pure thought- that was his go...

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... weakness that Iago preys upon. Othello makes up his mind very quickly that he is not willing to be in a relationship that is based on mistrust and makes a decision that the situation must be resolved although he is not sure what this resolution will be. Othello at first doubts the fact that his ... not been strong enough?"(222). Kathryn feels that if she had done something else, been someone else, shown Jack more affection things may have been different and he would have been faithful. The actions that Jack took with his double lifestyle have scarred Kathryn forever. How could she ever t...

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... seen as a sexual object. We see that she can deny physical pleasure, she will not succumb to intense emotion. Rosaline is an allusions to Diana pure and virginal like the Virgin Mary. This contrasts with Juliet as when she is hit by "cupids arrow" she has a relationship with Romeo (forbidden fruit) against ... should marry Paris despite her young age. This shows us that there had been no change in the social order of Verona, as both Lady Capulet and Juliet exemplify obedience to social convention. Lady Capulet believes that marriage is to "share all that he cloth possens" it is not abou...

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... ideals of love, Giovanni was countering that fight by trying to uphold the social norms, which was far more acceptable. There was family, friends, and enemies fighting on each side, all swearing that their statements were true, it was utter warfare in a courtroom. All this was going on just ... do this was disgraceful., ...he must have two reasons for marrying: the first is to perpetuate himself with children, the second is to have a faithful and steadfast companion. (Alberti 1). So, if Lusanna couldnt give Giovanni what every man must have, what use is it to marry her? She tried to .....

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... question is significant because people need to know whether sex will benefit or hinder a friendship. They also need to know the value of themselves and their friendship. Sex brings so many different complications in one's life. I believe that sex in a relationship is acceptable as long as both ... bedroom as well. Friends decide to have sex because of three reasons: sex is easily available; they decide no consequences (no strings attached), and it's just something to do to pass the time. According to Eileen Smith, she believes that "Friends-with-benefits relationships are far more ... sh...

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... band stands out alone for their huge impact on my life as well as other people around me. The Dave Matthews Band, with their songs and lyrics, touched my soul and changed my perspective on how I look at life as they have hundreds across the nation. There seems to be a message in all of Matthews ... this section from "Rapunzel" Matthews shows how he can express his feelings in song by using a classic fairy tale. This song proves his witty sense of music and shows that there are countless numbers of tones one can take in writing a song about love. It basically says ill do anything for my lo...

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... line 25 when Donne compares the two lovers to a compass. At first this seems ridiculous, but yet again Donne finds a way to make it work and express his feelings beautifully. The women is described as the fixed foot because she is being left at home while the narrator goes on a long journey. ... complexity in the next stanza (lines 29-32) as Donne describes that the center foot leans toward the outer foot when it "far doth roam" and when the outer foot returns the center foot "grows erect" again. In the last stanza this wonderful metaphor continues as the narrator talks about the ... in ...

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... Esquirel symbolism plays a vital role throughout the central ideas. In both of these pieces of literature the symbolic objects are a hotel with everything in it and the use of cooking respectively. These objects reflect the families. In the play Blue Beach, the hotel portrays the breaking down of the Garza family, while ... this story represents the imprisoned life of Tita imposed on her from her mother. Throughout the story you learn that her mother controls Tita's life, and until her mother dies, Tita cannot live the life that she wishes to. In the very beginning of the story you lear...

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... 's lust for Gertrude. In addition, she also must be associated with sex. In Paul's case, he saves his mother from her broken marriage to Walter, giving her spirituality and a sense of stability. And, although Gertrude remains virginal in the Paul's eyes, birthing four children speaks otherwise. Thus, as his sexual desire is aroused in his maturity, Paul seeks fulfillment from a lover ... can be identified with is mother. In search of a physical relationship, Paul instead falls into a spiritual one with Miriam Lievers. Often represented by flowers, Miriam resembles Gertrude in purity, inte...

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