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… Jacques d'Amboise wanted to explain his passion for the art of dance, and why he loved teaching it. He begins by telling the story of his own childhood, when he was forced to attend his sister's ballet classes. He compliments the ballet teacher…

… of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, tells the story of two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who meet and fall in love, and through a series of bad decisions and chance occurrences, end up dead in the course of a week. But who, if any one…

… utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic" (www.famousquotes.com). A dream for a utopian society always exists, but it remains a dream. In the novels Brave New World and 1984, the manipulations and recreations of society cause perfection. Winston…

… Knight Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral…

… as well as biological terms. So put, it is the destructive, the ultimately suicidal character of unregulated passion, its power to carry human nature back to chaos.... The predestined end of unmastered passion is the suicide of the …

… Lady Macbeth A villain is characterized as a fiendish or evil person. With her heart of stone and manipulative mind, Lady Macbeth is the true villain of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is naturally evil as opposed to Macbeth who changed…

… the reader's attention is grabbed by key characters including Huck, Jim, and Pap. The relationship between Huck and Pap and Huck and Jim contrast with each other in a big way. Both Pap and Jim provide for Huck with characteristics of a patriarch.…

… an extremely famous play by William Shakespeare, is an ever challenging piece that begs the fatal question of truth or lies. Shakespeare's characters constantly shift from sanity to insanity and good to evil. By creating shuffling characters, Shakespea…

… evil dominates good and disturbs the balance between the two, the universe becomes a like a wounded animal caught in a poachers trap; it will do anything to break free, even gnaw its own leg off. The universe continuously strives to rid itself…

… the Europeans are cut off from civilization, overtaken by greed, exploitation, and material interests from his own kind. Conrad develops themes of personal power, individual responsibility, and social justice. His book has all the trappings of the…