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…and Juliet's tragic destiny. Romeo, the only son of old Montague, is a lovesick young boy who is looking for true love, but he has been rejected by young lady Rosaline. Romeo's heavy heart is full of darkness and depression. His cousin Benvolio attempts to cheer him…

…689). The Victorian writers often exposed the industrial slums and darkness of the industrial age. The writers encompassed the brutal factory conditions along with the slums that led to the poverty and diseases in London. Poverty was something…

…the heart in the days of our distress" (123). Kumalo finally admits to Msimangu after his sermon that he has been touched by the strength that Msimangu had that allowed him to lead Kumalo out of the darkness that he had fallen into. Paton believes that even…

…descended into the Underworld. My lyre and my voice charmed Cerberus, the three-headed dog who guarded the Underworld, and he allowed me to pass. I then faced Hades and his cold Queen Persephone. I played for my sorrow at the loss of my love. The heart…

…of the tiger's eyes by stating "the fire of thine eyes." Blake wonders who would twist the sinews for the tiger to have a heart. He also questions the function of the tiger's brain. Blake was interested to know if the creator of the tiger was proud of his work when…

…Old friend, the glimmer of light you shone upon us is gone, as we lay, cloaked in darkness now, devoid of your warmth. Your friends, your associates, your country, your passing has us confined to mourning, you left us far too soon. You are now free…

…it gives a light when there is all darkness. Asher makes light-hearted points in this story. Rosemary was a girl who was chosen to be a new giver. But then she found out the awful truths and the lies that she was told and couldn't handle the pain of it all. She…

…references to blood, "clot", "summer's blood", big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes", foreshadowing the unpleasant turn in the second stanza. The poet's hands were "sticky as Bluebeard's" (whose hands were covered with the blood of his wives). The second…

…, they must drive a wooden stake through her heart. After doing so, the Dracula is very upset. They had taken from him, the love of his life. Since Jonathan had been the one to do the stabbing, he seduced his fiancée, Mina into joining him in the dark side. Who…

…. In modern mysteries, it is less simple because the detectives are becoming much more complicated and more psychologically interesting so that within the detective you get the dark and the light. He is no longer just a figure representing the good part of man's…