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…, "Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak when power to flattery bows? To plainness honor's bound when majesty falls to folly. Reserve thy state, and in thy best consideration check this hideous rashness.(I,i, ln 147-151). Lear ignores this plea and even…

…will be the target of a harsh mockery and degradation keeping in mind the usual stance of Swift against women. The poem can be read as a plea that love should be built on firmer ground than just superficial romantic images. It is an anti-romantic poem that satires…

…the fairness of the drawing. The rest of the crowd is relieved because they get to live another year and her pleas for change are done out of selfishness. She even calls out for their married daughters to draw with them to better her odds; she, not her children…

…mentioned, would themselves have placed curbs on the military possibilities. The point is that the slogan 'First the war, then the revolution' was no innocent plea made from practical necessity. Instead, it was the most vital ideological weapon…

…Distribution Committee responded to pleas of Russian citizens with fervent action; supplying food, clothing and creating soup kitchens. Even though some of this aid was meant to reach the Ukraine it was filtered in Moscow and never arrived in the South (Ukrainian…

…by calling her a "rotten orange"(4.1.32) and a "common stale"(4.1.65) during the marriage ceremony. As a result, Leonato and the court take the word of the men as truth and ignore Hero's plea that she is innocent. Since men during this time are defined…

…; the Guatemalans have made a passionate plea on their behalf for the text books to be altered in order for the morally correct information to be displayed, but it could be said that the Japanese have good reason for rejection. The Chinese have had really hectic…

…to "sad morality". Thus beauty's "plea" is seen to be northing more than futile as it is "not stronger than (even) a flower". By comparing beauty to a flower as well as metaphorically referring to it as "summer's honey breath", the poet alludes to the beauty…

…could sense the nearing of Jaime's warm manor house. She envisaged how different this visit would end out (if it ever did) in contrast to her usual routine. Monica repeated her desperate plea one more time and YES! The rusty Iron Gate was open. The frenzied…

…arrested him. After a physical exam (during which his height was measured at 1.73 m, or 5 ft 8 in) and a contrite plea, he was deemed unfit for service and allowed to return to Munich. However, when Germany entered World War I in August 1914, he immediately…