Papers 1551-1560 of total 2432 found.
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…extraordinary feats. From his childhood on he showed amazing strength and always seemed to out think some or most of the creatures that he was set out capture. He always managed to slip from Hera's wrath and survive the impossible. Over all Heracles had amazing…
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…acquisition to the gods he wishes to favor him and his role in the war. He prays and sacrifices to the gods to sway them to the Trojan faction. Hector's main purpose in the poem seems to be as the object of Achilles' wrath. To be heroic is said to be acting…
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…that the criminal would be exiled and the same thing could happen to him, Oedipus forced the consequences upon himself. Oedipus was forced out of Thebes and could never return lest the gods show their wrath again. Oedipus also condemned himself to a life of misery…
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…, and lack of concern for the poor as signs that their nation would either have to repent or experience the cleansing fire of God's wrath. The reason why the Puritans have such a bad reputation in modern times is that the Puritans' ideas about the relationship…
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…of nature's wrath upon humanity. Later, upon first spotting the lighthouse, Crane describes it as "a little gray shadow on the sky (1725)," which against suggests a sense of despair, opposed to the true color of a lighthouse, white, which often suggests peace…
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…engagement to the princess of Corinth was depressing his wife. In the end, however, he lost his family and his fortune. He also understood that his second engagement led to Medea's wrath. Had he stayed faithful to Medea, he would never have lost so much…
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…of humanity. The Scarlet Letter's guiltiest group as defined by our modern sense of morality would have to be the Puritan society who observed and judged the main characters remorselessly throughout the novel's due course. The unblinking, wrathful eye of society…
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…drain him dry as hay. / Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his penthouse lid." In the first act, night seems to be quite a frequenter of such cruel deeds, for later on in the act, Lady Macbeth, a harsh and purposeful woman of wrath, pleads…
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…, McCaig invites the reader to consider the problems face by the cops "victims". The word "victim" implies that the person in question is someone who has felt the wrath of someone else to an extent that they have been unfairly treated and it is surprising…
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…incantations in an unknown language. ?The children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath, snatching up stones to fling at them, with shrill, incoherent exclamations that made her mother tremble because…
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