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…from the beginning. Indeed, his behavior is quite peculiar: what kind of man would sit till five in the morning watching others play cards with "feverish tremblings" (page 268)? Hermann has a strong desire to play cards but is unwilling to take risks; he…

…decided was what he was to carry with him in future. Again I shall state that ones desires are not may not always explain what ones heart desires. Self-discovery is not only what we understand by the name "self-discovery"; it is surely a lot more. It does…

…the family bond has been completely devalued, as "No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer."(220) The Junior Spies are an organization in which children have become the police and denouncers of their parents in the name of Big Brother…

…In Toni Morrison Beloved, the main character Sethe must confront the past and Beloved in order to heal the wounds it has caused. The main character Sethe is disturbed by the traumas of racism and slavery, which caused her to kill her first infant name…

…not make it clear. In their case, they don’t feel comtempt for their spouse’s, only desire fo! r one another outside of their marriages. A major difference between the two is the conditions of their love. Tristan and Iseult have no choice. They consumed…

…religions where that is not the case. Buddhism, one of the world's oldest religions, is one such instance. Buddhism, in fact, stresses a more individual approach to spirituality. In 563 B.C., in India, a man named Siddartha Guatama was born into the ruling…

…of a representative democracy. The type of representation desired, however, varied from person to person. Some wanted a constitutional monarchy and some desired a democratic republic. Regardless of how to approach the representative democracy, these ideas stirred fury…

…is that of religion. The traditional Native American beliefs are contrary to the beliefs of Christianity. The second is between her current desires and her traditional sense of duty. The final conflict is caused by her need to have her son, Rocky fit in with the modern…

…, and those long accustomed to the family of their prince…”(Machiavelli, 3) When a country is used to the way things are done by a particular family, any family member can be easily accepted among the people, simple because of his name. Now that Claude has usurped…

…realm of malice and disintegration, namely the witches, and even, his own wife. Inevitably, Macbeth is eventually worn down enough to be pushed into this dark and evil abyss by his wife, Lady Macbeth, who leaps frantically in after him to join the witches…